Nowadays, the backhand of high-level straight board athletes is basically a straight-and-shoot technique. The straight-shot and cross-punch technique is one of the most advanced techniques for straight-shooting players, and it is also a powerful weapon against the cross-board backhand. Compared with the straight-shot push block, the straight-shot cross-attack technique is more offensive, and the performance at both ends of the attack and defense is satisfactory. Therefore, the direct shooting and pushing technology has basically disappeared among professional players, and even Xu Xin, the world's first continuous shooting player, has changed the backhand pushing and blocking technology to a straight-shooting horizontal shooting technology.
However, the use of direct beat push block technology in the majority of amateur table tennis enthusiasts is still the mainstream. Even if you usually practice the straight-and-shoot horizontal playing technique, once you start a game, you can't make it out or make frequent mistakes. How to add the straight-shooting and horizontal shooting technology to the original straight-line system and achieve a seamless and integrated complete direct-shooting technical and tactical system is the goal that every straight-shooting player hopes to achieve. Let's focus on this:
When a straight-shot player masters both cross-punch and push-block techniques at the same time, he often faces difficulty in choosing in actual combat. When dealing with a backhand ball, whether to use a horizontal shot or push the block will cause hesitation, resulting in missing the best time to hit the ball and causing mistakes.
In addition, for amateur table tennis enthusiasts, although the technology of straight board horizontal play is advanced, it has a major disadvantage compared to pushing and blocking. That is, the forehand and backhand conversion needs to be changed, that is, the forehand hits the ball with the front of the racket, and the backhand direct pat hits the ball with the back of the racket. The forehand and backhand shift of the push block does not need to be changed, and it can be hit head-on with the racket. This distinction makes it more reasonable to use push blocks in some fast, knee-jerk responses.
Therefore, it is necessary to set a clear goal for yourself, and it must be clearly distinguished what ball is used for cross-play processing in the game and what ball is handled with push blocking. In general, the active offensive return ball is suitable for direct slapping and horizontal, and the passive defensive or holding ball is suitable for pushing and blocking.
Xu Xin and Marlene gave us a good example at this point:
After Xu Xin swung the short control, he used the backhand straight slap to rotate the ball from down to upward, and then used the backhand straight slap to attack and score. After Marlene spins the ball from down to up with a backhand straight-pat, the opponent attacks first, and Marlene's backhand is changed to push the defense to control the landing point score. Both of these direct-hitting styles are more reasonable, taking into account the threat of active attack and the stability of defense. Perfectly integrate the straight-shot and horizontal shooting technique into the original technical and tactical system.