Pe Table Tennis Reflection

Friday, 28th September 2018

PE Table Tennis Reflection

Table Tennis, also known as Ping-Pong, is an indoor sport in which 2-4
players hit a small and lightweight ball back and forth across a hard
table divided by a horizontally long but vertically short net using a
small paddle.

On the first lesson on table tennis, I struggled to bounce the ping pong ball on my paddle
consecutively, and I didn’t know any of the game rules in table tennis. My partner and I
weren’t able to move up to the queen’s court and stayed in the middle court for the entire
lesson practising to serve a ball and hitting the ball back and forth.

After a few lessons, my partner and I developed improved skills in our
footwork and shots and came up with a variety of different useful
tactics to use in attacking our opponents. For example, we try to keep
our returns low over the net, since the lower our shots are, the less of
an angle our opponents could use and the harder it is to hit them back
with more power. During our matches, we also aimed at hitting the
ball towards the edges of the table. However, this is a quite
challenging skill since you would have to aim very precisely and it has
to be combined with speed. Other than that, we also tried to play table tennis with no
consistency, where we mixed up all the lengths and speed of our shots, which makes the
opposing team confused and have a higher chance of messing up their shot by returning
deep, short, straight, or curved shots at a fast speed, or even adding a spin to the ball. This is
a very useful strategy because our opponents wouldn’t know what our next move would be,
decreasing the chance of our opponents returning the ball in power.

I think that I am quite good at the forehand drive and the backhand flick because I find it
easy to control my paddle and the direction of the ping pong ball. The forehand drive is one
of the most basic and important techniques used in table tennis. It is played with a topspin
and a flat hit but it could be very powerful when it comes to an attacking shot. While playing
table tennis, it is important to have the right timing of acceleration when you attack or
return the ball and to hold the paddle correctly. When the opponent returns the ball with a
topspin (or without a spin), or a light backspin at a larger angle, it would be ideal timing to
return it back to your opponent. When your opponent returns a low ball with a heavy
backspin, it wouldn’t be a good idea to play a driving shot as it isn’t a really good angle to hit
the ball over the net effectively. Instead, the forehand topspin or the backspin stroke would
work really well in this situation.

Another important technique that I have learnt in this unit is to return a spinning ball by
adjusting the angle of my paddle. If I am returning a ball with topspin, my paddle should be
facing down and hit the ball above the centre of the paddle. If I am returning a ball with
backspin, my paddle should be facing up and hit below the centre of the paddle. This
technique is effective when your opponent isn’t prepared for it and it could easily limit the
chance of the opposing team to return the ball. I should also improve on my footwork as it
is important to stand in a convenient and comfortable position so that I could always be
ready and relaxed at all times as I have to be prepared to move in different directions
anytime since my playing arm must be targeting to aim at hitting the ball.
I think that I could improve on practising my side spin technique as well because it allows
us to hit the ball hard by putting a heavy topspin on it, which is able to make the ball hit
towards the table in a faster speed in an upwards direction, which is a really useful
technique to make my opponent lose the ability to return the ball back to me and misguide
them to the type of spin that I put on the ball. For example, if I fake a move and make them
think that I have put a light side spin on the ball when I have actually put in a heavy
backspin, my opponent would most likely fall for it and return the ball in a different way. In
order to improve more on my table tennis techniques, I should be able to observe the
different techniques that my opposing team uses to attack, as it is very important for us to
learn from our mistakes and improve upon observing the strengths and weaknesses of
other people. In professional competitions, we often see the players cover themselves with
their other hand so that their opponent wouldn’t be able to see how they are serving, and
making their shots unpredictable for the other team to react quickly enough. It is also very
important to have good coordination of your arms and legs and always be flexible and have
faster reactions.

In conclusion, some of the ATL skills that I did the best on in this unit are my collaboration
and critical thinking skills. This is because I am able to communicate effectively with my
peers and to create and come up with my own practical and successful strategies during
each game. This ATL skill helps me a lot as they are some of the most important skills to
learn in order to think reflectively as an individual and being able to work with different
people to make better and strategic decisions. One of the ATL skills that I should work on is
to be able to transfer the knowledge that I have learnt in class, on the internet, or in the
books and be able to use it in real life. For example: after watching videos of the professional
sports players’ games, I should be able to learn their techniques and apply the skills into
actual games.

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