When I was chatting with my golfer not long ago, my golfer asked me such a question -
A person who already knows how to play table tennis, trying to use his non-dominant hand that can't play ball, and a novice who learns table tennis from scratch, who progresses faster?
At first, his view was that novices learn faster, for the simple reason that the gap between non-dominant hands and dominant hands is too large, whether it is the size of absolute strength or the ability to control in the hands.
Admittedly, if you are a right-handed person, almost all difficult actions in life will be done with the right hand, the left hand to assist, even if it is just a simple act of twisting a bottle cap, it will be very awkward to twist with the left hand. That is to say, the innate feel gap of non-dominant hands is huge.
However, as a sport that is very technically demanding, while requiring certain physical fitness and experience, innate feel is not the most important factor. For a person who already knows how to play table tennis, he has a lot of experience and experience that fans who started from scratch do not have.
For example, the completion of an action seems not difficult, and there are many key details in it, which are even more important than the action itself.
For someone who can play table tennis, he is well aware of what needs to be paid attention to in every detail, where to hit the ball, how to use the strength of the fingers and wrists, how to use the strength of the waist and legs, how to use the body to find the ball, how to control the center of gravity conversion and so on. Coaches can point out these contents, but there is still a long way to go from coaches pointing out to what they really experience and can do.
In addition, experience is also a key factor in the outcome of the game. Although people who can play the ball do not use their dominant hands, the prejudgment of the rotation and landing point of the ball and the awareness of footwork can be completely migrated. If you start learning from scratch, this part is mastered from the beginning, I am afraid that it will take many years of work precipitation, not in a short period of time.
In this way, people who can play ball want to practice non-dominant hands, and the speed of talent will be significantly higher than that of beginners with zero foundation.
In fact, many professional and even national team athletes are not dominant hands, but also quite "can play", sometimes in the game can occasionally use the advanced technology of changing hands. They can't spend a long time practicing, most of them play occasionally, but the level may be higher than many ordinary amateurs.
In fact, for people who are already good at playing, practicing non-dominant hands itself may be a good thing. We all know that the sport of table tennis is good for the overall coordination ability, running ability and comprehensive quality improvement of people.
But table tennis has a natural disadvantage, that is, imbalance - holding the clapping side, playing a decisive role in the sport, which makes our training highly unbalanced. Under the premise of avoiding injury, properly and reasonably practicing the other side can make your exercise more comprehensive to a certain extent.
Specifically, by practicing non-dominant hands, we can exercise not only the control ability of the non-dominant hand itself, but also the footwork in another direction, as well as the ability to predict. Through practice on both sides, we may also be able to improve our overall perception of the space, which in turn promotes the improvement of table tennis. Maybe after practicing for a while, you and I can change hands in the game!