Table tennis is called the national ball because it has a deep mass base and can be played by anyone who picks up the racket. Today, a brand new tournament has become a new favorite for table tennis enthusiasts. Recently, the 2021 "ZGL Cup" Sandboard Table Tennis World Cup Direct Pass Competition was held in the Ping-Pong Hall of the Jing'an District Gymnasium, and 96 sandboard table tennis enthusiasts from East China competed for the direct quota. This is also the third consecutive year that a high-grade sandboard table tennis tournament has settled in Shanghai.
Sandboard table tennis can be said to be a "primitive" table tennis play, which was widely used at the beginning of the development of table tennis. Later, with the emergence of rubber rackets, especially in the 1950s, the popular use of sponge rackets in table tennis, sandboards gradually withdrew from the history of modern table tennis.
Yan Weihao, a young man from Nanjing, became a star in the arena, and many players pulled him to sign autographs and ask for photos. After the reporter learned about it, he learned that Yan Weihao was the double champion of the 2017 Sandboard World Championship and the World Cup. Although he has been playing table tennis since he was a child, Yan Weihao has never entered a professional team, let alone a national team, but with his enthusiasm for table tennis, he broke through from sandboard table tennis and realized his dream of being a world champion.
In recent years, with the vigorous development of table tennis national fitness activities, sandboard table tennis as a retro and emerging sport, has been re-recognized by table tennis enthusiasts, as a derivative of table tennis, its characteristics are that the cover of the racket is only thin sandpaper, the effect of friction and energy storage is not as good as rubber, but there are more batting rounds, more ornamental, lower dependence on equipment, and participants are easy to get started. At the same time, the Sandboard World Competition also came into being.
Sandboard table tennis has re-emerged from the first World Sandboard Table Tennis Championships held in London, England in January 2012, and the World Championships have been held once a year since then. Since 2017, the Sandboard Table Tennis World Cup has come into being. In the world-class sandboard table tennis competition, the whole arena is full of literary atmosphere. Accompanied by different colors of lights and music, the sandboard competition becomes a happy sports feast.
Yan Weihao told reporters that the World Championships he participated in in 2017, no grouping, no gender, all the way up to quite thrilling, "compared with the rubber playing style, the techniques and tactics of playing sandboard table tennis are still quite different." The motion frames are similar, but the ratio of friction and impact distribution at the moment of receiving the ball is different. Playing sandboard table tennis has lower requirements for physical sensitivity and flexibility, and more requires the qualities of strength, speed and endurance. ”
Small sandboard, a lot of knowledge. Yan Weihao, who is studying for a master's degree in physical education and training at Nanjing Hohai University, takes sandboard as a research topic, "At present, there is no systematic research on sandboard, if the future development of sandboard is getting better and better, it is necessary to have a set of teaching and training system." I'm doing this now, hoping to provide a reference for the way sandboard table tennis is played. ”
Xu Yinsheng, honorary life president of the International Table Tennis Federation, also introduced sandboard table tennis at the scene, "Table tennis is both competitive and entertaining, if you want to popularize, sandboard is easy to get started." Now there are many types of rubber, and many people can't understand the positive and negative pastes. For beginners, the round can not be played is boring, always pick up the ball, sand board can increase the back and forth ball. Xu Yinsheng admitted that he now plays less table tennis, and he really has to choose a sandboard to play.
Since the sandboard World Cup Pass-through Competition was first settled in Shanghai in 2019, it has attracted many experts to actively participate. The Sandboard World Cup Express Competition held in Shanghai has won the 2019 Shanghai Table Tennis Association Innovation Competition, the 2020 Shanghai Table Tennis Association Best Event Organization Award and the 2021 Excellent Event Innovation Award.
Chen Yiping, chairman of the Shanghai Table Tennis Association, told reporters that the sandboard table tennis competition, as an innovative event, will help to gradually promote the project in Shanghai and provide more independent choices for table tennis enthusiasts. With the boom of amateur table tennis in Shanghai, the demand for coaches has increased. In order to improve the overall level of amateur table tennis coaches in the city and standardize the training market for social amateur table tennis coaches, the Shanghai Table Tennis Association and the China Table Tennis Academy jointly hosted the Shanghai Amateur Table Tennis Coach Assessment and Training (Grade B) class.
It is reported that coach training includes the interpretation of the latest competition rules of the International Table Tennis Federation, so that amateur table tennis coaches can also keep pace with the times. At the same time, it increases the teaching of practical courses and improves the difficulty of assessment. Chen Yiping said that he hopes that through such assessment and training, an atmosphere of "no training, no training, no teaching" will be truly formed in the city's amateur table tennis industry.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Qin Dongying
Source: Author: Qin Dongying