HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS The origin of table tennis has never been exactly pinpointed‚ even though it’s a relatively young sport‚ younger than lawn tennis and not much older than basketball. The earliest known form of the sport‚ called indoor tennis‚ was played in the early 1880s by British army officers in India and South Africa‚ using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine bottles as balls‚ with a row of books set up across the middle of a table to form the net. Other versions
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The sport of tennis has multiple opportunities in which the study of physics can go in depth. The sport’s court‚ racquet‚ ball‚ and even the player contain unlimited amounts of physics in which a person can go more into detail with as they study. While it is true that these all contain some form of physics‚ the racquet and how it interacts with the ball is where most of the physics is apparent. Starting with the racquet a person is able to see four main areas of focus. These focuses consist of the
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Reflection 11-31-05 I feel very fortunate to have grown up in the home that I have. I am upper middle class‚ white‚ male‚ making me the most privileged in the education system. Most changes in my life based on class and geography‚ race‚ or gender would have had a negative impact on my quality of education and self esteem. I attempt to guess what my life would be like if these were to change‚ but because of the area in which I grew up I find it difficult to see myself in such situations because
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energy within the chemical bonds that hold the molecule together” (Exercise Physiology: Tennis Physiology). ATP results from energy being produced from either an aerobic system or anaerobic system. The production of ATP can come from systems such as ATP-PC and glycolysis‚ which is what tennis players use predominantly during a match. Tennis uses different types of intensities for different lengths of time. Tennis requires constant movement‚ running side to side‚ back and forth. The muscle force
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Sports Mechanics Of Tennis The hitting and subsequent motion of a tennis ball in playing a forehand topspin Abstract The forehand topspin is one of the primary techniques that is utilised in modern day tennis. It has been used to enhance a player’s overall forehand skills that result in the maximising of a players groundstroke power output. This report will analyse the motions the tennis player and tennis ball undergo‚ the forces acting on the player and the ball and lastly‚ the force transformation
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Table tennis is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve‚ players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. Spinning the ball alters its trajectory
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THE HISTORY OF TENNIS The sport of tennis has been played for hundreds of years‚ but the game as it is known today is about 130 years old. By the 1850’s different versions of the game appeared. The eairlier version of the game was called "Sphairistike" invented by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield and first played by him on a grass court in Wales. It was called "Sticky" at first and in books about history of tennis and in popular usage came to be known as "lawn tennis". Eventually the game was played
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re-discover the pleasure of reading especially when I find a book –or an article- that captures me. This has been the case of Christiane F.- Wir kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo‚ an extraordinary book I read twice (never happened before) that I can consider my favourite book at all. Christiane is a girl who lived the crazy Seventies in Berlin; in this autobiographic book she tells her unregulated life from the difficulties of the childhood to the age of twenty‚ when she had just came out of the tunnel of drug. Her
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My Favourite Personality In my world‚ one of the most important person in my life is my mother. My mother is my friend as well as an advisor. She always used to said "It makes no difference when you say it won’t be easy" it is only for teaching me not to give up when things get hard. She is not my whole life‚ but she is still a big part in my heart. I can’t imagine world without her. When I was school boy ‚I was weak in some subjects. I tried to practice again and again‚ but it still useless
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Table Tennis Table Tennis is an Olympic Sport which is played indoors – although it can be played outdoors as a recreational sport. The game was invented in the late 1880’s when game makers tried to emulate the popularity of lawn tennis by developing indoor versions of it. Around 1898 the English sports company John Jaques & Son were manufacturing the first table tennis sets and popularizing the game. They used rackets (bats/paddles) with velum stretched over an outer casing (similar to small drum)
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