Modern table tennis: strokes, trainings, strategies

Artyom Utochkin

Ivan Zhdanov

Vasilii Zhdanov

The book describes modern strokes, strategy and trainings in table tennis.Basic strokes paradigm shift is considered: the forehand topspin (loop), the backhand topspin (loop) and the serves. Variations of these strokes are given in detailed drawings: how to hit in a particular game situation.An analysis of the game strategies by the top athletes. Recommendations to physical training.The book will be useful for table tennis fans, as well as professional athletes and coaches.

Modern table tennis: strokes, trainings, strategies

Artyom Utochkin

Vasilii Zhdanov

Ivan Zhdanov

© Artyom Utochkin, 2018

© Vasilii Zhdanov, 2018

© Ivan Zhdanov, 2018

ISBNВ 978-5-4493-3190-8

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AВ word from authors

Hello, dear reader! If you keep this book in your hands, then you are interested in table tennis, and especially you are interested in its modern state. In this book, we’ll talk about the development trends of this fascinating Olympic sport.

We promise that the journey to modern table tennis will be interesting for you, and most importantly, useful. We are sure that you will learn a lot from the pages of the book, in which we consider the basic strokes paradigm shift: the forehand topspin (loop), the backhand topspin and the serves. We will tell about different variations of strokes in detailed illustrations. You will become more aware of how to strike in a particular situation. Drawings are simple and understandable and you can easily repeat it at home. Let’s go deep into the psychological training of athletes in table tennis and touch on powerful and effective approaches that will be useful for a coach and an athlete.

We tried toВ put our coaching experience into this book, as well as our research and knowledge ofВ table tennis. We encourage you toВ share the information you liked about this book with your friends-athletes, so you will further strengthen the new knowledge that will eventually evaluate into playing skills. Whether you are aВ recreational athlete, aВ professional or aВ table tennis coach, inВ this book everyone will find something for themselves.

Artyom Utochkin

Vasilii Zhdanov

Ivan Zhdanov

Chapter 1. Modern table tennis

Table tennis is constantly and actively developing. New approaches and methods are introduced into the training process; the style of the game today is very different from the style of ten or twenty years ago. Table tennis is becoming a gloving and high-speed sport: the main purpose of the rally is to seize the initiative. There are players with versatile styles as opposed to one-sided style directions. Masters begin to add ball’s maximum spin, as well as speed; and ball possession stability and the ball accuracy increases every year. Attaking actions are carried out both from the near and the middle zones, while the zones change occurs without loss of initiative. The strokes are becoming more sharp and unexpected, as well as with constant sidespin. The psychoemotional preparation and stability in the matches comes to the fore. It is about these new trends we are going to talk in our book.

The prehistory ofВ the forehand topspin, or how we came toВ aВ modern version ofВ the stroke. History ofВ the paradigm shift

Before discussing the forehand topspin technique and features of its tactical use, let’s take a look at the history of table tennis and see how the forehand topspin was born and transformed before it obtained a modern look that you can see at major tournaments or browsing matches of any of the strongest athletes of the world on YouTube.

In the 20—30’s of the last century, the rackets that were used to play table tennis were differed from the modern ones, just as the computers of the 70’s differ from today’s personal laptops.

And if the shape ofВ the racket has not undergone global changes, its playing characteristics have changed dramatically. At that time, pipped rubber was