Straight-up pats, a magical technique.
No matter what others think, at least I know that when the Japanese invented the straight grip of the racket, they took it for granted that the straight shot did not need two sides, and the structure of the straight shot could be seen. If you have a straight day in your hands, you may wish to try to play horizontally, it must be very sour!
But have you ever thought of such a question: if the first horizontal shot is played on two sides, then the people who invented and first used the straight shot should also think of such a thing: Can we hit two sides of this grip?
I think it's entirely possible, because a lot of people, like Quanyan, have tried to hit the ball with the back when they first hit straight shots — I didn't have a straight-hitting friend around me, and I've never seen a table tennis game.
Therefore, it may not be unusual for straight-shots to be played horizontally, and it may have been used since the birth of straight-shooting.
However, we all know that this so-called "use" does not have the meaning of "invention". If a technology is not popularized, it does not matter whether it is invented or not: Columbus had traveled to the Americas from the Old World or Oceania long ago, but if it had no impact on history, this discovery would be worthless.
The question we are going to discuss now is: What is the existence value of the backhand of the direct shot?
This is a super long proposition, which we will tell in several segments, in the growth experience of several direct-pat representatives who appeared in "Twenty-Four Years of Table Tennis". Ok, let's start the first paragraph, Liu Guoliang.
According to the teacher Cai Meng's explanation, a long time ago, some people in northeast China began to try to shoot horizontally; according to some netizens on the Internet, he began to use straight slaps to hit the ball very early on, when it was still the seventies and eighties - I forgot the specific id of this friend, but I believe that this is entirely possible.
At that time, they were all treated like freaks.
The so-called freaks are just non-mainstream. If all the people in the world had three eyes, you and I would be freaks.
The real athlete level uses the horizontal play, I know is Jiang Jialiang. In the 90s, Jiang Jiahao played for Singapore for a while, using a straight-pat cross-punch in international competitions, but...
Judged to be a violation!
It can be seen that not only In China, but also in foreign countries, it is difficult to accept the awkward action of shooting the ball directly on the opposite side.
So the question is: where is the awkwardness of the straight-pat and horizontal beating? What's the hard part of practicing it?