batting style and racket configuration
Table tennis can be said to be a very skilled competitive sport, and its complexity is mainly manifested in the diversity of its winning factors. As far as an incoming ball is concerned, its speed, strength, strength of rotation, length of landing point and trajectory of arc can all be the winning factors that make the opponent in a difficult position, what's more, almost all these winning factors appear in front of people in a combined way, which makes it difficult to judge, move and control the stroke. In a sense, the reason for this complicated state is that people choose rackets with different configurations and adopt a variety of different hitting methods. There is a very subtle relationship between the user and the equipment. One type of racket will create a type of play, while the positive rubber sponge racket will create a fast attack type of play, and the reverse rubber sponge racket will create a fast loop attack type of play. However, in the process of using the same type of racket, different users can change some configurations and create different "stunts".
It can be said that Rong Guotuan, Zhuang Zedong, Qiu Zhonghui, Xu Yinsheng, Li Furong and other first-generation table tennis players in China can't be created without a positive rubber sponge bat. However, in the face of the resourceful and in good condition Hungarian veteran Sido, Rong Guotuan boldly changed the routine, changed the positive rubber sponge bat's usual hitting method to mainly hit the ball, and pulled out the ball with side spin to increase friction, which destroyed the opponent's rhythm. China's first dream of winning the world championship was finally realized at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships. Since then, his famous saying, "How many times can a life have" has spread like wildfire in China. However, the same is true rubber sponge racket. Zhuang Zedong chose a "bad sponge" with almost no elasticity, but it was this racket and this sponge that helped him to create a precedent of fast attack on both sides of the table with the unique characteristics of hitting force. The "little tiger style" accompanied him to become the first person in history to win the men's singles triple continuity in the World Table Tennis Championships. It has also been suggested that he change a sponge with a higher hardness according to the way of linear thinking, so that the attack speed can be further improved. As a result, it backfired and proved that this was a "cruel move";
Jiang Yongning, the first generation master of backhand chopping in China, came back from Hongkong. In the face of strong smash, his rescue of the ball in a haystack is a must. However, it was Zhang Xielin who really turned the backhand chop into a "magic master". It was an accidental piece of "long glue" that inspired him to hit the ball with an "anti-spin", and the ball was turned into an "up spin" instead of a "down spin", and the arc-cut ball was turned more and more. These were incredible things at that time. In order to keep this "secret", an ordinary rubber racket was specially made for him in the world competition (there was no racket inspection system at that time). Someone wanted to see his racket, so he took it out, and only used the long rubber racket during the competition. After a game, he had to put it in his bag immediately to avoid "leaking secrets", so Zhang Xielin's reputation as a "magic master" really deserved its name. Similarly, Liang Geliang, a former world champion who used a "long rubber racket", invented the "backhand serve", which made full use of the different properties of the front reverse rubber and the back long rubber (at that time, there was no limit on the color of the racket face), and served with the same movement with a great rotation gap, creating many opportunities for the attack. Many famous players can't do anything about him in the competition. I remember that in a national competition, he only lost one game, and the winner was an old member of Guangdong team. Everyone was busy to "learn from the scriptures", but the secret of his success was really jaw-dropping: "Don't look at the serve, but stare at the rubber model." Later, the China team took this "invention" to the world competition and was invincible, and further improved it to hide behind it and "reverse the racket" and suddenly serve; Use the sound of "stomping" to cover up the sound differences caused by different rubber serves and so on. This kind of service makes foreign players feel at a loss. They have tried their best to crack this kind of service. It is said that some foreign players send their teammates behind our service players to observe and signal that one-on-one singles have turned into one-on-two "doubles". The change of long rubber racket has been used to this extent, which should be incisive, but it has gone further. Deng Yaping changed the slow-paced hitting method that the long rubber racket is mostly used for cutting, rubbing and blocking, and created a new skill of hitting the ball with a 1mm thick sponge and sticking the long rubber on the fast break. She didn't simply change the performance according to the rotation of the long rubber, but gave more play to the "rhythm" characteristics of the long rubber racket. The long rubber racket has a short arc and a "floating" flight trajectory. In addition, the sponge with a thickness of 1mm is really a little "thief", and it is not easy to borrow money, which is very different from the fast forward attack of the anti-rubber ball. Deng Yaping has excellent footwork and fierce forehand continuous smash. The long rubber ball often forces the opponent to slow down the hitting rhythm, so she takes the opportunity to smash sideways and continuously make her opponent breathless. The long rubber racket characterized by change was thickened a little by her sponge, changed the way of hitting the ball and even played a "domineering";
The anti-glue racket was first invented by the Japanese, and then they invented the loop ball by using the anti-glue racket, and established an offensive start-up mode of hitting the ball by friction, which made great contributions to modern table tennis. China's first anti-glue world singles champion was Yun Enting, who used to be a real fast attacker. His three unique skills were his hidden one-handed action, the different rotation and non-rotation of the serve, the powerful explosive push block and the real loop ball. However, the positive glue loop ball can only be used when dealing with the backspin ball, and the power of opposing attack is totally useless. After using the reverse glue sponge racket, he is even more powerful in serving and pulling the ball, and he can continue to pull the ball. Coupled with his strong push, the friction attack and the impact attack have achieved a perfect combination. He has not won the championship in major competitions, and finally got his wish in the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships, winning the title of men's singles.
In the past 7 years, the reverse racket has shown great development potential. However, at that time, in the traditional environment of China, there was always controversy about promoting the use of reverse racket, changing the habit of hitting the ball and learning the loop ball technology in an all-round way, which made us miss the opportunity to take the lead in reform and innovation. Until the swaythling cup final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Montreal in 1989, Sweden's three swordsmen-Waldner, persson and Apeyilun defeated the China team who had been chasing, blocking and intercepting them for many years with convincing fast attack skills, and the world's three best near-Taiwan fast attackers, Jiang Jialiang, Chen Longcan and Teng Yi, who were shot with genuine rubber sponge, finally lost by a big gap of : 5. The fact has finally made the China table tennis circle, which has been hovering between "inheriting tradition" and "innovation" and "change", understand that "development is the last word", and the skill upgrade brought by the way of hitting with anti-rubber sponge has changed the trend of table tennis in the world. Nowadays, the attacking technology of the curling ball is not only simple "hanging high" and "rushing forward", but the combination of "friction" and "impact" makes the attacking technology of the curling ball develop into a variety of skills such as drawing, pulling, rushing, hanging, tearing, paddling, skimming, splitting, twisting, picking, bouncing, smashing and buckling. Emancipation of the mind has made the outstanding table tennis groups in China glow with the great creativity of the overall advantages of "national ball". It took only six years to recreate another spring of table tennis in China. Since the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships held in Tianjin in 1995, China table tennis team has re-established its own world champion phalanx with the modern concept of loop fast-break technology-Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang, Liu Guozheng, Marin, Wang Liqin, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and so on.
With the development of loop ball technology, great changes have taken place in the concept of racket configuration. First of all, in the era of fast attack near the table, because people's hitting methods are mostly "impact", even the sudden backspin only emphasizes the combination of "hitting and wiping", thinking that too much friction will affect the speed. At that time, people felt that the harder and heavier thick floor was better to use, because the near-table fast break was the pursuit of rhythm and speed, and retreating was considered as losing "speed" and being passively beaten. At that time, in the training, the coach often saw a baffle behind the athletes-blocking their retreat and cultivating their consciousness of decisive battle at the front desk and never retreating. At that time, the near-table fast break pursued the hit rate under the premise of improving the rhythm and speed, and grabbed the rising point and the highest point of the incoming ball in the near-table and on-table. The arc is not very important for hitting the ball in this period, so it is more lethal to hit the ball with impact, and the ball with low flat arc is more lethal. The hard floor holds the ball for a short time, and the efficiency of converting the hitting force into the ball's rotation speed is low-it is not easy to rub the ball to make an arc, which just meets the requirements of the near-table fast break. Furthermore, the hitting force of the near-table fast break often requires the batter to use the "resultant force" (commonly known as medium force), that is, with the help of the rebound force of the incoming ball and his own hitting force, the two can form a resultant force and quickly hit the ball back near or on the stage. This is a very skillful way of hitting the ball with the help of force. In this way, the fast break often makes it too late for the opponent to get enough distance to return the ball, and at the same time, it often fails to borrow the rebound force of the ball, so that it is passive. Therefore, this way of hitting the ball requires that the bottom plate can produce higher rebound efficiency when the incoming ball hits, and the harder bottom plate can just meet this requirement. When using the harder bottom plate, athletes can get faster return speed in a shorter distance with less force. In addition, the hitting distance of the arc near the table is short, and the swing speed is required to be fast, so the action range of hitting the ball must be relatively small, and the method of approaching the ball must be often used. In order to improve the hitting power in a small range and close range, players need to choose a heavier base plate. The natural component of the wooden hard bottom plate is heavier, and at the same time, thickening the plate body can also increase the weight of the racket and move the center of gravity forward. At that time, many athletes added a layer of paulownia wood with a thickness of 2mm to the back of the already 6 or 7mm thick ball board, which improved the "potential energy" of the racket when hitting the ball and increased the power of hitting the ball. Even if we have entered the era of arc fast break, there are still traces left by the times in the requirements for the bottom plate for fans who have come from that era. Recently, a golfer in his fifties came to our exclusive store. He introduced himself as a horizontal racquet and a double-sided loop ball. According to the routine, everyone recommended a super-Jie -B suitable for double-sided loop ball: the thickness of the board is 5.7mm and the weight is 9g, but after a few days, he found it back and said: this floor has no speed. Everyone checked that there was nothing wrong with the bottom plate, and they had never heard such a reaction before. They thought that maybe he just pulled the loop ball by accident or played more fast breaks. Since the service here is zero-risk, as long as it is not stained, it can be replaced, so he changed it to a harder Super -B, and he tried it and took it away. However, after two days, he found it back and said: Although this board is good, it is a little hard, and it feels a little lacking in pulling the ball. Can you change a bottom board between this board and the previous board? This time, I asked him to pull the loop ball a few times, only to find out that his loop ball was all hit by the reverse pull and reverse belt action with the help of strength near the stage, not the pull and rush that everyone imagined. So I recommended Chaojie -A to him: 6.2mm in thickness and 95g in weight. As a result, he left this time with great satisfaction. This incident has given us a revelation: among the fans and friends, due to their different ages, the background of playing ball is different, and their physical fitness and habit of hitting the ball are also very different. Although everyone says that they have mastered some curling skills, the thickness, hardness and weight of the ball board they choose should also be different. With this experience, that day, a young golfer who claimed to be a combination of fast break and loop ball came to the store and chose a Super -A crossbar, so we suggested that he re-elect a lighter, thinner and softer Super -B type, and he was really satisfied after the trial.
It is by no means accidental that the bottom plate becomes thinner (except for the single board), lighter and softer in the era of curling, because the way of hitting the ball changes, friction and impact are integrated. A coach of a national team explained the difference between curling and "explosive impact": the force of forward impact is friction, while the force of explosive impact is bounce. This shows the development and progress of modern loop ball. Elasticity is about deformation and recovery. Most of the hitting elasticity shown by the thick and hard ball board is the deformation and recovery of sponge and ball. The elastic efficiency he showed should be mainly the conversion efficiency of the rebound force of the incoming ball, not the efficiency that the hitting force is converted into the flying speed or self-rotating speed of the ball through the bottom plate. The bottom plate of the loop-pulling ball needs a long holding time at the moment of hitting the ball-deep impact deformation and fast deformation recovery speed-at least greater than the rebound speed of the incoming ball, in order to combine the instantaneous friction and impact force, so a reasonably designed thinner and softer ball plate is more suitable for loop-pulling ball. Furthermore, the loop ball is basically a completely self-propelled hitting method. When hitting the ball, it is necessary to try to overcome the problems of short ball control time or insufficient friction caused by the rebound force of the incoming ball. Therefore, the ball board with high rebound efficiency when pulling the loop ball is not as good as the ball board with higher strength efficiency. Undoubtedly, the thinner and softer ball board may not be able to bounce a few times when it is used to balance the ball in static state, but it has better power conversion efficiency under the dynamic swing force, which makes you feel that your pulling force is directly proportional to the speed of the ball. However, an excellent ball board will feel that the force efficiency is not high when hitting the ball vigorously. In the early 199s, most athletes were still playing hard and thick traditional baseboards. In a match between China and North Korea, Chen Zhibin couldn't kill the semi-high ball that Jin Chengxi, a North Korean player, put in by backhand. Chen Zhibin was one of the best players in the national team at that time. It was chilling to watch this game. At that time, Xu Yinsheng, chairman of the Table Tennis Association, asked: Why do many of our players lean forward too much when they rush the loop ball? However, when foreign players hit the ball, the board is only slightly forward, which can be easily combined with zipper. We have also tried to improve in training, but it is ok to pull one or two boards by hand. When pulling continuously, we feel the ball fall. In order to ensure the arc, we have to increase the upward force and sacrifice the flying speed. In order to pursue speed, we have to lean forward the racket to increase the holding depth of the sponge rubber at the moment of coming. You can't have both, what's more, it is far from being able to generate the energy needed for greater speed by simply relying on the elasticity of sponge rubber in COSCO Taiwan. Later, the above problems were solved after using a softer and thinner ball board.
Because of the self-powered characteristics of the pull loop and the large running range, you can choose more hitting periods and the action range is obviously larger than that of the near-table fast attack. It is natural to choose a ball board with light weight when hitting the ball in the fast counter attack, which not only saves labor, but also improves the swing speed. Therefore, since the 199s, no one in Europe has liked the cricket board above 9g, and now the younger generation of China fans and friends have begun to like the cricket board with light weight.
in contrast, with the development of the times, the change of sponge configuration is not as big as the bottom plate. In the past, players who used to play near-table fast break liked soft sponge, and Double Happiness No.12 sponge was the most suitable one for playing near-table fast break. TSP's raw rubber sponge in Japan was world-famous. Their hardness is below H4 degrees, which is a double happiness.