Table tennis is the 2nd
sport most complete in the world, it defies the physics gravity laws, involves
the use of brain and more than the 80% of the muscles. Table tennis is a complete and
popular sport in the entire world, everybody knows about it and how to play it
in a basic way but in reality almost anybody knows about its complexity and
benefits in mental and physical attributions. When most of people play in their
houses they think that this sport is very simple, not so fast to play and that
they only need to play with the hand, but this is not correct, table tennis
uses almost all of the muscles, also a complete use of the brain in order to
form strategies in each point and finally the reasons why this sport is so
amazing when you look it at a high level, this are the sciences of table
tennis.
Table tennis is an awesome sport in which
physics play an important role, and it has developed so much that scientists
are wondering how this sport defies the gravity laws. Table tennis games are
very complex because of the spin, rotation, acceleration, gravity play and the
Magnus effect, that make some phenomenon’s in a match, for example: a ball
crossing down the net and reaching to the next part of the table; or a ball
with almost no elevation being smashed when the logic and gravity laws say: the
minimum of elevation of the ball, the most of spin and rotation given, so it
could cross to the other side of the table. All these features play an
important role during a point, that’s why is so amazing when you watch it in a
professional level, with a very few seconds combine all of this scientific
factors.
Table tennis isn’t a sport in which the
one who smashes the ball faster wins the point; it principally needs the use of
many brain structures. One basic example is when you normally play with the
right hand and you start training with the left hand the result is that the
other hemisphere start working and you become more skillful. The main thing in
table tennis are strategies and these strategies should be done before playing
each point or even the match. Another strategy is watching how your opponent
plays so you could make the correct decision in order to win the match. Finally
the concentration is fundamental in order to become a good table tennis player,
even in professional players is very important to be a moment alone and imagine
how your match is going to be. Mind training in which you apply the strategy to
your opponent and see if it’s correct or not; all of this might be done before
the match or tournament in order to be prepared. That’s why this sport is
called an intelligent sport.
Many scientific studies said that table
tennis is the most difficult sport to practice because of its complexity in the
use of muscles, more than the 80% from feet to neck. These involve a strict
type of diet in order to have a good physical condition; this includes a plan
in which each kind of food is appropriate according the preparation for
trainings or competitions. Finally, this meal plan doesn’t work if there is not
a good and correct physical preparation that is focus principally in legs for
power and fast reaction, and in arms for power in order to give speed and of
rotation to the ball. Table tennis is such a complete sport that is catalogued
behind swimming in its complexity because of its sequence in the use of each
muscle and how each one complements the other.
