The Mysteries of Table Tennis The ball comes toward me fast, faster than I expected, and I flail the paddle, hoping to connect and return the ball successfully. The ball smacks into the rubber, and the ball shoots back over the net. Right after the bounce, my opponent slices the ball, making it float slowly back to my side. This ball looks vulnerable and easy to hit, so I put all my energy into one drive, and the ball barely bypasses the net. There is topspin, and the ball curves downward. I mentally scream in joy, but that is short lived. With all my energy put into that drive, I am left unbalanced, and my opponent is able to return the ball. This time I’m not so lucky. The ball streaks past me like an orange shooting star. The point is his. “Do you enjoy table tennis as much as I do? I hope so, for it is certainly one of the fastest, most exciting and diverse sports around.” This quote by Timo Boll, a world class player describes perfectly what table tennis is. Some may think that it’s just a basement game of pushing a small, light ball over the net, but there is much more to it than that. Just for starters, it’s the sixth most popular sport in the world. As with any good sport, there are a few major components that make up the game. For example, in basketball, there’s dribbling, passing, and shooting. For baseball, catching, throwing and hitting. In table tennis, also known as ping-pong, the pieces that dictate its gameplay are spin, speed, placement and serving. Spin is a huge factor of table tennis. Because there are so many benefits to using spin, all of the top modern players are using it. Spin in table tennis is what the player puts on the ball, and it’s created with a brushing motion. Topspin is where the player makes... ... middle of paper ... ...every rally. It’s astonishing how many factors are in a simple game of ping-pong. There are many variables that are hard to see, but once a person sees them, he will realize how amazing table tennis truly is. Works Cited Geske, Klaus, and Jens Mueller. Table Tennis Tactics. Maidenhead: Meyer and Meyer Sport, 2010. Print. Hodges, Larry. Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers. 2013. Print. Hodges, Larry. Table Tennis: Steps to Success. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1993. Print. Larcombe, Ben. "The Four Basic Table Tennis Strokes."Expert Table Tennis. N.p., 6 11 2012. Web. 29 Jan 2014. . Letts, Greg. "Spin in Table Tennis/ Ping-Pong." About.com Table Tennis / Ping-Pong. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014. McAfee, Richard. Table Tennis Steps to Success. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2009. Print.
Years of playing the game and not improving, Gawande incidentally finds himself play tennis with a young man who is a tennis couch. The young man gives Gawande a tip about keeping his feet under his body when hitting the ball. At first he is uncertain, stating, “My serve had always been the best part of my game….. With a few minutes of tinkering, he’d added at least ten miles an hour to my serve. I was serving harder than I ever had in my life” (Gawande, 2011, p.3).
The innovations in the material of the tennis racquet — the strings and the frame — have changed tennis throughout the years; thus, fundamentally changing the game by allowing players to hit with more power, spin, and racquet speed. Many star professional tennis players in the past and present use new technology to help take their game to new levels. The change from a wooden racquet to a carbon-fiber tennis racquet and the change from cow gut strings to non-gut synthetic strings have changed the way tennis is played.
Jimmy worked like a demon to make up for the difference. By age 8, Jimmy was skillful enough to enter into tournaments, and he made a good showing in them. Jimmy did not win his first tournament until he was in the ten-year-old competition. The losses only gave him determination and the wins only gave humbleness. Jimmy Connors, a paragon of all sorts, had an unconquerable spirit. Jimmy knew that he had to be himself out on the tennis courts if he wanted to succeed. At times in Jimmy’s career, he was known as a spoiled brat for his cocky attitude. He was often called “mouth”. He had this spirit ever since he was a young boy. Being the smaller kid of his age group, he had to have something to hold onto.
Racquetball is a competitive game in which a strung racquet is used to serve and return the ball.
...ackyard party game. It is a real sport and isn't difficult to understand. Throughout it's progression, Croquet has changed a lot. Creativity and new rules have made the game better through the years. There is a great future for the game as a competitive and well known sport. It has weathered the test of time and crossed many borders.
To sum things up, the teacher showed a lesson towards the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” has more than the lesson of playing tennis. This book show the process of having the basics thing done and just continue to evolve your skills with it. Techniques and skills that are the key point is very important in life involvement. My teacher told us that keeping this mentality will help you continue to have a successful life if you keep this
As we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve is the primary offensive weapon used I tennis, because it is the only time when a player gets to put a ball into play. The player controls the speed, the placement, and the spin of the ball. With proper procedure, the serve can win many points and games for the server. The technique I will demonstrate is used by most professional ten...
All of what has been in my paper has been the basics of coaching tennis. I have covered how to hit the ball with your forehand and backhand, how to serve, the rules of tennis, and how to keep score. After you learn all of that you will know how to play tennis.
Investigating How the Height From Which a Table Tennis Ball is Dropped Affects Its Bounce. When a table tennis ball is dropped onto a surface, it bounces. The height of the bounce depends upon a number of factors: the pressure of the air in the ball, the height from which it is dropped, its. material, mass and temperature; the type of floor surface, its temperature and its angle and the acceleration due to gravity. temperature and the air resistance of the air that the ball will pass.
The tennis seen as typical tennis today wasn’t truly how tennis began. The variation that everyone knows is known as lawn tennis, while the original variation is known as “jue de paume,” which means “game of the hand.” There is not a bit of information that helps prove the actual date of creation for the game, although it is sometime past the year 1000 AD as well as having a high potential of being created in France. Later on, racquets came into play and this beca...
Tennis is a sport that many people love to play. It is not the hardest sport in the world to learn. When playing against someone, it is called a match. Tennis can be played one on one or a doubles match. The main object of the game is to hit the ball over the net, inside of the lines so that the opponent can't get to it. There are two lines about two feet parallel to each other that outline the court. In a singles match, the inner line is the out of bound line, while the outer line is out of bounds in a doubles match. If you want to play, take a look at my two favorite tennis players because they are masters at serving and scoring, a few key aspects of the game.
Hearing the loud “thump” as the ball hits the racket is extremely satisfying, especially if your life now revolves around this fast-paced and exhilarating sport. Tennis is an outdoor game played by two individuals or pairs of players on a clay or grass court that’s divided by a low net. Each game is played with tennis rackets and small, yellow elastic balls. Tennis was first introduced in Wales and the United Kingdom in 1873 by “Major Walter Wingfield” (tennistheme.com). While most sports are easy to pick up, tennis takes extreme dedication to learn how to play the game, to perfect the amount of technique it takes, as well as its great impact on one’s personal life.
In a one hour match of tennis, a male can burn as many as 600 calories and a female can burn up to 420 (Groppel); tennis also raises optimism and lowers risk of depression and anxiety (Ogoen). Tennis improves cardiovascular health and mental health as well as encourages social behavior. Tennis includes many different grips and techniques that enable the ball to have different types of spin. Tennis is also great for children and the community. Tennis is a sport that improves the community through being more physically, mentally, and socially active.
...spinning the ball. Therefore, the serve that has the minimum time in air is struck when the volleyball is hit with topspin towards the end line. In addition, if the server likes to serve cross-court, even though this does not affect the overall time, it can be utilized to serve the ball harder and perhaps catch off-guard the opponent players, resulting to a pass.
I 'm going to compare tennis to golf to reveal the similarities and differences between the two sports. I think you will be surprised how similar they are. They both depend on the swing of your body; grips of your hands, the strike zone of the ball and both are a mental game. Tennis and golf are also very different in many ways. The types of balls used to play the game, materials used to make the balls and equipment used to hit the balls. Tennis is a team sport and an individual sport. But golf is primarily a single player against the golf course. The exertion level differs by sport. Both sports are challenged by weather and attire. I 'm writing this essay because I had played golf for many years before I switched