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Battling method and racket configuration

Table tennis can be said to be a very technical competitive sport. Its complexity is mainly reflected in the diversity of its winning factors. superior. As far as an incoming ball is concerned, its speed, strength, spin, length of landing point, and arc trajectory can all be the winning factors that put the opponent in a difficult situation, not to mention that almost all of these winning factors are based on The way the combination appears in front of people makes it difficult to judge, move, and control the shot. The reason for this complicated state is, in a sense, that everyone chooses rackets with different configurations and uses a variety of different hitting methods. There is a very subtle relationship between users and equipment. One type of racket will create a type of playing style. The positive rubber sponge racket creates a close-to-table fast-break style of play, and the reverse rubber sponge racket creates a fast loop attack. type of play. However, in the process of using the same type of racket, different users can change some of the configurations to create different "stunts".

It can be said that without a rubber sponge racket, the first generation of Chinese table tennis elites such as Rong Guotuan, Zhuang Zedong, Qiu Zhonghui, Xu Yinsheng, and Li Furong could not be created. However, Rong Guotuan is in front of him. Against the resourceful and in-form Hungarian veteran Sido, who lost at the beginning and then boldly changed his routine, he changed to a rubber sponge racquet that usually focuses on impact. In order to increase friction, he pulled out an attack ball with side topspin. Destroying the opponent's rhythm and making it impossible for Xiduo to develop his special corner counterattack skills, he finally realized the Chinese's first dream of winning the world championship at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships. From then on, his famous saying "Life can "A few strokes" spread like wildfire in China, and everyone knows it; but they also use a rubber sponge racket, and Zhuang Zedong chooses a "bad sponge" with almost no elasticity, but this racket and such a sponge help He pioneered the pen-hold close-to-table fast break with unique characteristics of bounce power. With the "little tiger style", he became the first person in history to win three consecutive men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships. Someone once followed the linear thinking method and suggested that he change to a harder sponge, which could increase the speed of the attack. The result was counterproductive, proving that this was a "bad move";

China's No. 1 Jiang Yongning, a generation of pen-hand-grip chipper who came back from Hong Kong, is one of the best in the face of powerful smashes. But it was Zhang Xielin who truly became a "magic master" in pen-holding. It was a piece of "long rubber" he obtained by chance that caused the ball to "reverse spin" and inspired him. The ball would actually produce "topspin". On the contrary, "backspin" will occur when pushing the gear, and the ball will "spin more and more" when the ball is cut. These were all unbelievable things at the time. In order to keep this "secret", an ordinary rubber racket was specially made for him during the world competition (there was no racket inspection system at that time). If anyone wanted to see his racket, he would take out this ordinary rubber racket, and it was only during the game that With that long rubber racket, the racket must be put into the bag immediately after a game to avoid "leakage", so Zhang Xielin's reputation as a "magic master" is truly worthy of his name. Former world champion Liang Geliang, who also used a "long rubber racket", invented the "backhand serve" to make full use of the different properties of the reverse rubber on the front and the long rubber on the back (there was no limit on the color of the racket surface at that time), using the same action to create a spin gap The huge serve creates many opportunities for attacking. Many famous players in the game have nothing to do with him. I remember that he only lost one game in a national competition, and the winner was an old member of the Guangdong team. Everyone was busy trying to "learn from his experience," but the secret of his success revealed by this old man was really jaw-dropping: "Don't look at the serving action. , keep an eye on the rubber model.” Later, the Chinese team took this "invention" to the world competition and used it invincibly, and further improved it to the point where they could hide behind their backs to "backshoot" and suddenly serve; they also used the "stomp" sound to cover up the noise produced by different rubbers when serving. Sound differences and so on. This kind of serve makes foreign players at a loss. In order to crack this kind of serve, they try their best. It is said that some foreign players sent their teammates behind our server to observe and give secret signals. One-on-one singles unexpectedly changed. It became a one-two "double". It should be said that the changes in long rubber rackets have been used to this extent, but Baijitou goes further. Deng Yaping changed the way that long rubber rackets are mostly used for slow-paced hitting such as cutting, rubbing, blocking, etc., and created a new ball-hitting skill of using 1mm thick sponge with long rubber to play fast breaks. She did not just rely on long rubber rackets. The rotation of the rubber changes performance, but more plays the "rhythm" characteristics of the long rubber racket. The long rubber racket has a short attack arc and a "floating" flight trajectory. The 1mm thick sponge is really a bit "thief", and it is not easy to use force. It is very different from the rapid forward movement of the reverse rubber racket. Deng Yaping has a very good performance With her unique footwork and sharp forehand smashes, her long rubber attack often forced her opponent to slow down her hitting rhythm. She took the opportunity to sideways and smash her opponent continuously, making her opponent breathless. The long rubber racket featured changes. She thickened the sponge and changed the way she hit the ball, and she actually played "domineering";

The reverse rubber racket was first invented by the Japanese, and then they used it The reverse rubber racket invented the loop ball and established the offensive model of using friction to hit the ball, making a significant contribution to modern table tennis.

China's first anti-glue world singles champion is Xi Enting. He was originally a fast-break player with positive rubber. His three skills include concealed movements of one hand, different rotations of turning and non-forwarding balls, powerful explosive push blocks and positive rubber loop balls. stunt. However, the positive rubber loop ball can only be used to deal with backspin balls, and it has no power in the attack. Switching to the reverse rubber sponge racket makes him even more powerful. The serve is more spinning, the pull is more powerful, and he can continue to pull the ball. , coupled with his strong push and block, achieved a more perfect combination of friction attack and impact attack. He had never been able to win in major competitions and finally got his wish in the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships, winning The men's singles champion became the first Chinese to use a reverse rubber racket.

In the 70s, anti-rubber rackets have shown great potential for development. However, in the traditional Chinese environment at that time, the use of anti-rubber rackets was promoted, changing the habitual hitting method, and comprehensively learning the arc. The ball-circling technology has always been controversial, causing us to miss the opportunity to take the lead in reform and innovation. Until the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships in Montreal in the Swaythlin Cup final, Sweden's three Musketeers - Waldner, Persson, Appeylen defeated their opponents with their convincing looping fast attack skills. The Chinese team, which had been chasing, blocking and intercepting for many years, the three best near-table fast breakers in the world using rubber sponges, Jiang Jialiang, Chen Longcan and Teng Yi, finally lost with a big gap of 0:5. The fact finally made it possible The Chinese table tennis community, which is wandering between "inheriting tradition" and "innovation" and "change", understands that "development is the last word". The skill upgrade brought by the anti-rubber sponge batting method has changed the world of table tennis. Sports trends. The current loop ball attack technology is no longer just a simple "lob" and "forward". The integration of "friction" and "impact" has developed the loop ball offensive technology into a rich range of pumping, pulling, punching, hanging, etc. Tear, belt, draw, skim, split, twist, pick, flick, smash, buckle and other skills and techniques. The emancipation of the mind has enabled the outstanding groups of Chinese table tennis to suddenly regain the great creativity of the overall advantage of "national sports". It only took six years to create another spring for Chinese table tennis. Since the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships held in Tianjin in 1995, the Chinese table tennis team has used the modern concept of loop fast break technology to re-establish its own world championship phalanx - Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang, Liu Guozheng, Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and other stars are shining.

With the development of loop ball technology, our concept of racket configuration has also undergone great changes. The first is the blade. Focusing on "impact", even the assault backspin ball only emphasizes the combination of "hit and friction", thinking that too much friction will affect the speed. At that time, people felt that a harder and heavier thick soleplate was more useful, because the fast attack near the table was a shot that mainly pursued rhythm and speed, and retreating was considered to be a loss of "speed" and being passively beaten. In training at that time, we often saw coaches placing a block behind the athletes to block their retreat and cultivate their awareness of fighting to the front and never retreating. At that time, the pursuit of fast breaks near the table was to improve the hit rate under the premise of improving rhythm and speed. The ball was hit at the rising point and the highest point near the table and on the table. The arc was not very important for the batting during this period, so it was often used. The impact method is mainly used to hit the ball with force, and the ball that can hit a low and flat arc is more lethal. The harder base plate holds the ball for a shorter time, and is more efficient in converting the hitting force into the rotation speed of the ball. Low - it is not easy to rub the ball to create an arc. These characteristics just meet the requirements of fast breaks near the table. Furthermore, the batting force of fast breaks near the table often requires the batter to use "resultant force" (commonly known as medium force), that is, While relying on the rebounding force of the incoming ball, plus your own hitting force, the two form a combined force to quickly hit the incoming ball back near the table or on the table. This is a very technical way of hitting the ball with the help of force. Using this method of fast break often leaves the opponent with no time to obtain sufficient distance to return the ball. At the same time, he often cannot borrow the rebounding force of the ball, so that he is trapped in a trap. passive. Therefore, hitting the ball in this way requires the blade to produce a higher rebound efficiency when the ball hits the ball. A harder blade can also meet such requirements. When using a harder blade, athletes can use less force to achieve a higher rebound efficiency. A faster return speed can be obtained in a short distance; in addition, the distance of the hitting arc near the table is short, and the swing speed is required to be fast, so the range of the hitting action must be relatively small, and the force must be often used close to the ball. method. In order to improve the power of hitting the ball at a small range and close range, athletes need to choose a heavier blade. The harder wooden base is naturally heavier. At the same time, thickening the base can also increase the weight of the racket and move the center of gravity forward. At that time, many players added a layer of 2mm to the back of the already 6 or 7 mm thick base. The thick Paulownia wood increases the "potential energy" of the racket when hitting the ball and increases the power of the ball. Even though we have now entered the era of arc fast breaks, for fans and enthusiasts who have come from that era, there are still traces of the era in the requirements for the blade. Recently, a golfer in his fifties came to our specialty store. He introduced himself as a two-sided looper. As usual, everyone recommended him the Chaojie-B, which is suitable for two-sided loopers. : The thickness of the board is 5.7mm and the weight is 90g. However, after a few days, he found it and reported: This blade has no speed.

Everyone checked that there was nothing wrong with the blade. I had never heard of this kind of reaction before. I thought maybe he just accidentally pulled the loop ball to transition or was playing more fast breaks. Since this is a zero-risk service, as long as it is not stained, it is fine. I changed it, so I gave him a harder piece of Super-B. He tried it and took it away when he thought it was ok. But two days later, he came back and reported: Although this board is good, it is a little hard, and the ball pull feels a bit lacking. Can I change it to a blade that is between this board and the previous one? This time I asked him to loop the ball a few times, and then I discovered that his looping shots were all hit close to the table using force-added reverse pull and reverse driving movements. They were not the off-the-table shots that everyone imagined. Pull and punch. So I recommended Chaojie-A to him: the plate thickness is 6.2mm and the weight is 95g. As a result, he left very satisfied this time. This incident gave everyone a revelation: among the fans, due to different ages, different playing backgrounds, physical fitness and batting habits, although everyone said that they have mastered some looping skills, but The thickness, softness, hardness, and weight of the selected ball boards should also be different. With this experience, a young golfer who claimed to play fast break and loop ball came to the store that day and chose a Super-A horizontal board, so we suggested that he choose a lighter, thinner and slightly softer board. Super-B type, he was very satisfied after trying it out.

It is no accident that the blades in the loop ball era have become thinner (except for single boards), lighter, and softer. Because of the changes in hitting methods, friction and impact have become one. A national team player When explaining the difference between the forward loop shot and the "explosion", the coach said: The force of the forward motion is friction, while the force of the exploding shot is friction. This shows the development and progress of modern loop balls. Elasticity talks about deformation and recovery. Most of the batting elasticity shown by a thick and hard ball board is the deformation and recovery of the sponge and the ball. The elastic efficiency he shows should mainly be the conversion efficiency of the ball's rebound force, not the efficiency of the batting force being converted into the ball's flying speed or rotation speed through the sole plate. The base plate of the loop ball needs to hold the ball for a long time at the moment of hitting the ball - a deeper impact deformation, and a faster recovery speed from the deformation - at least greater than the rebound speed of the incoming ball, in order to integrate the moment The resultant force of friction and impact, so a thinner and softer ball plate with reasonable design is more suitable for looping the ball. Furthermore, the loop ball is basically a completely independent hitting method. When hitting the ball, you need to try to overcome the problems of too short ball control time or insufficient friction caused by the rebound force of the incoming ball. Therefore, the rebound efficiency of the loop ball is too high. A taller blade is not as easy to hit as a blade with more power efficiency. There is no doubt that a thinner and softer bat may not bounce a few times when used to weigh the ball in a static state, but it has better power conversion efficiency under dynamic swing forces, allowing you to feel the force of your pull and the ball. It's a direct ratio. However, a strong bat will feel that the force efficiency is not high when hitting the ball hard. In the early 1990s, most athletes were still playing with harder and thicker traditional blades. In a match between China and North Korea, Chen Zhibin could not beat North Korean player Kim Sung-hee's backhand half-lobs from far away. Chen Zhibin was a member of the national team at that time. One of the best athletes with explosive power. Watching this game was chilling. Xu Yinsheng, chairman of the Table Tennis Association at the time, asked: Why do many of our players tilt their rackets too forward when hitting the loop? However, foreign players only tilt the board slightly forward when hitting the ball, and can easily pull and buckle it together. We also tried to improve in training, but it was okay to pull one or two boards with the upper hand. When we continued to pull, we felt the ball falling downwards. In order to ensure the arc, we had to increase the upward force and sacrifice the flying speed; in order to pursue speed, we had to tilt the racket forward. Increase the depth of the sponge rubber holding the ball when the ball comes. You can't have both, not to mention that simply relying on the elasticity of sponge rubber on the CORS is far from being able to generate the energy required for greater speed. Later, after using softer and thinner ball boards, the above problems were solved.

Due to the force characteristics of the arcing circle and the large running range, there are more batting periods to choose from, and the range of action is obviously larger than that of the fast break near the table. If you use big movements and strong force to hit the ball, you will naturally choose a lightweight bat, which not only saves effort, but also increases the swing speed. Therefore, since the 1990s, no one in Europe likes cricket boards above 90g. Now the younger generation of Chinese fans are also beginning to like lightweight cricket boards.

In contrast, with the development of the times, the configuration of sponges has not changed as much as the bottom plate. In the past, players who played fast breaks close to the table preferred soft sponges. Double Happiness No. 12 sponge is most suitable for use on a rubber racket that plays fast breaks close to the table. Japan TSP's raw rubber sponge is world-famous. Their hardness is below H40, and the index indicated by the Shaw hardness system used by Double Happiness will be even lower. Fast attackers near the table like soft sponges because of the way they choose to hit the ball - mainly impact. They need to give full play to the precise impact of the hard impact of the blade at the moment of hitting the ball, so as to quickly apply the batting force to the ball through the bat and control the speed, arc and landing point of the ball. However, a sponge that is too thick and too hard will directly affect their ball control feeling, making them feel that they have no control over their hands. This is the reason why Zhuang Zedong, who was known as the cutting-edge force-generating mechanism at that time, could not switch to hard sponges no matter what, and why Deng Yaping, who later became famous for her rapid-fire smashes, only used 1.5mm thick sponges.

We also have experience in this regard. Once, a middle-aged golfer drove from Zhuozhou to our store to buy a racket. He chose a lighter weight (85g) three-layer carbon Super Speed-B pen-hold racket. Because he introduced himself It is a combination of fast break and loop ball play, and we chose a lighter blade, so we equipped him with a sponge with a hardness of 46 degrees and a thickness of 2.1mm, and attached anti-adhesive glue. But two days later, he came back and said that he couldn't hear the "pop, pop" sound when hitting the ball, so he couldn't find the feeling of hitting the ball. At first, everyone thought that the blade was too soft, so they replaced him with a harder blade, but it still didn't work. When he tried playing, I found that his attack action was a traditional pen-hold fast-break impact attack. He still had something to do urgently and had no time to continue trying, so I suggested that he only replace a 40-degree, 2.1mm sponge. After changing it, he left in doubt, and our staff was not sure either. It wasn't until the evening that we received a call from him. He happily told us: Now he has found the feeling. At this time, everyone's hearts dropped.

The sponge used to pull the loop ball has always been relatively hard and thick. The thicker sponge deforms deeply when pulling the ball, making it easier to control the ball. In addition, the harder and thicker sponge deforms and stores more energy. It is bound to have higher resilience and can meet the simultaneous requirements of rotation and speed when hitting the ball. Just since switching to 40mm balls, in order to adapt to the slower speed and softer ball caused by the increase of the ball, the athletes have adjusted their sponges to appropriately increase the thickness of the sponge (above 2.2mm) and reduce the thickness of the sponge. Hardness (below 46 degrees) is currently the only choice for many people. Of course, when thickening the sponge, the thickness of the reverse glue must also be considered. According to the ITTF rules, the total thickness of the sponge rubber cannot exceed 4mm.

In short, the racket is material, and material is the basis. A properly configured racket can of course allow people to play with ease and express their style to the fullest. But people also need to be spirited, learn advanced techniques, study and master various skills, techniques and tactical changes in hitting the ball, so that the racket in your hand can become your real "sharp weapon". This is also the reaction of spirit on matter according to dialectics.