Amateur table tennis enthusiasts often have two tendencies to differentiate after mastering certain table tennis techniques. One is that they are unwilling to practice the basic skills hard, and they are keen to play various competitions every day, which is called "using the race as a substitute for training"; the other is to go out to play a game once in a while, and every day is still mainly to train the basic skills. Whether these two ways are to improve more by practicing instead of racing, or whether to improve faster with training is worth discussing.
First, let's talk about "practicing with Sai":
Around me, there was a big brother who learned table tennis after the transfer of the army, and the horizontal board forehand anti-glue, backhand raw glue. The movements are extremely irregular or very collapsed, unwilling to practice, and the east and west movements when practicing the ball are unbearable. But his will quality is very tenacious, and every point must be fought for in the game, and every ball must be saved. Once the game starts, most of the golfers who are practicing very well will not be able to complete him. It can be said that it is the representative figure of "using sai as a substitute for training".
Such a golfer, if you play according to his rhythm in the game, it is really difficult to deal with. But as long as you press his backhand with the ball, hang up and spin up at the right time to play the ball into a phase, you will find that it is just so, it is easy to deal with.
These golfers who have learned some rough technical movements and began to call "playing instead of practicing". Often unconsciously develop some bad playing habits in the game. If you want to correct these bad habits in the future, the cost of time and effort is very large.
The "play instead of practicing" approach seems to improve quickly in the early stages, and it can win some golfers who could not play before. Over time, the improvement of the ball skill becomes slower and slower, or even stagnant. The most fundamental reason is the lack of systematic basic skills training!
Let's talk about "taking the lead with practice":
Almost all teenagers who study table tennis take the "practice to lead the race" path. In the first few years of practicing the basic skills, the coach does not allow them to play games, or even play with each other, the purpose is to form a solid basic skills. Only standardized technical actions can improve the stability and quality of the shot, and can we better execute technical tactics.
Play with such "band-in-band" golfers and you will find a common pattern. In the beginning, they will eat serves, will not choose reasonable tactics, make all kinds of mistakes, and win them easily. But as the number of fights increases, they will become stronger and stronger. Once they beat you once, it will be difficult for you to beat them again.
Speaking of which, amateur table tennis enthusiasts should have a conclusion on how to choose. On the whole, "practicing with the game" is more in line with the development law of things, which can enable enthusiasts to reach a higher level of table tennis technology and go further.
But amateur table tennis enthusiasts don't have to play for years like teenagers. As long as it is mainly training, it is still beneficial to go out and play games occasionally. The shortcomings and deficiencies in the training can be found in time, so as to improve and strengthen them. As for the bad habits formed during the game, they can be corrected through training.
There is also the training of amateur table tennis enthusiasts, which is also different from the training mode of teenagers. It should be based on actual combat needs, such as rubbing the ball, serving, receiving the ball, forehand and backhand attack and pulling the ball must be trained in a planned manner. In this way, the virtuous circle of training with the purpose of actual combat, finding deficiencies in the game and improving in training is more conducive to the improvement of table tennis level.