Evaluation of receiving ability of teenage male table tennis players in Taiwan

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the forehand rmiving ability of teenage male table tennis players. Thirty-nine male players consist of skill levels from junior to senior high school students and national squads were selected. This assessment involves three tests: basic control, judgment, and match-like condition simulation. We found under the basic control test, the junior high school players performed poorer in downspin and left-side downspin in the aspect of accuracy (P<0.01). As for the judgment test, the junior high school players showed less accuracy in all kinds of backspin typs, compared to national squads level players (P<0.01). In the test of match-like condition simulation, Junior high school players showed that their ability in handling all kind of spins to be relatively weak compared to senior high school and national level players.
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:sport games
Published in:ISBS - Conference Proceedings Archive (Konstanz)
Language:English
Published: Tsukuba International Society of Biomechanics in Sports 2016
Online Access:https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/view/6921
Volume:34
Issue:1
Pages:795-798
Document types:congress proceedings
Level:advanced