The author of this article basically asserts that whether a person be playing chess or tennis‚ the brain is utilized in a similar manner between aspects that require knowledge and the ones that seemingly don’t. In the article‚ elite athletes are used as examples to show how they easily use just as much brain power as the champion for professional checkers does. In athletics‚ the players need to be able to keep their A game‚ and get in the “zone”; in entering their zones‚ the brain manipulates a part
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HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS Ping Pong Anyone? The sport got its start in England towards the end of the 19th century when‚ after dinner‚ some upper-middle class Victorians decided to turn their dining room tables into miniature versions of the traditional lawn tennis playing field. Several different every-day objects were employed in constructing the sport. They used a line of books as the net. Rackets were lids from empty cigar boxes‚ and a little later‚ parchment paper stretched around a frame. The
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Topic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher‚ Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival‚ which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia‚ I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign‚ of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat‚ ox‚ tiger‚ rabbit‚ dragon‚ snake‚ horse‚ goat‚ monkey‚ dog and
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Cricket‚ my favourite game‚ is one of the most popular games all over the world. Though many people of the world have been playing cricket‚ very few players have made their mark in cricket. Many of them are admired‚ but my special admiration goes to all-time-great Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar‚ the name itself strikes terror in the hearts of bowlers and captains all around the world. The Star of Indian Cricket‚ more like a GOD in India‚ is the best player ever gifted to the game of
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Jack Wilcox This picture was taken at the Gonzaga tennis courts. The picture depicts a tennis player in the motion of serving the ball. The purpose of the serve is to get the ball from the baseline‚ where the server stands‚ to the crosscourt service box. The goal of the server is to strike the ball in a way that makes it difficult for the opposing player to return it after one bounce in the opposite service box. The difficulty of the serve return can be increased through a combination of spin
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Does cleaning a table tennis racket and keeping it in a case preserve its power and spin? Introduction: Spin plays a large part in most‚ if not all‚ ball sports. In no sport is the Magnus Effect more conspicuous than in the sport of table tennis. The small‚ light ball can spin up to 150 revolutions per second in a match situation. (Qun‚ et al.‚ 1992) This is due largely to technique‚ but the level of spin has greatly improved since the 1950’s‚ due to the invent of “sandwich rubber”‚ or “Inverted
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year winning the Australian titles‚ where she won 4 doubles titles. She was the top women’s tennis player in the world in the late 1990s. She finished with 43 titles in singles and 37 in doubles. Hingis also led Switzerland to its only Fed Cup final in 1998 before losing to Spain. Martina Hingis used a Yonex RD‚ Pro 70 Long‚ 105‚ and the blacked out Babolat. Teenage Martina Hingis was the top women’s tennis player in the world in the late 1990s‚ but ankle injuries and a cocaine scandal cut her career
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History of lawn tennis: Predecessors While the modern game of tennis originated in late 19th century England‚ most historians believe that the game’s ancient origin lay in 12th century France‚ where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand. Louis X of France was a keen player of jeu de paume‚ which evolved into real tennis‚ and became notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. Louis was unhappy with playing tennis out of doors and accordingly had indoor
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authors such as‚ Charles Dickens‚ Tolstoy‚ Dominique Lappiere‚ Rabindranath Tagore‚ R. K. Narayan‚ Arundhathi Roy‚ Salman Rushdie‚ etc. have always charmed and thrilled me‚ giving waves of delight‚ leisure‚ relaxation and mental refreshment. My favourite book is ‘City of Joy’ written by Dominique Lappiere. The book is a touching description of the lives of the slum-dwellers of Kolkata. The street-urchins‚ cycle-rickshaw pullers‚ city-vendors‚ coolies‚ pimps‚ ordinary men and women are the heroes
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My favourite place There are many interesting places in this world. Most of us will prefer beautiful place as Coliseum in Italy or Taj Mahal in India as their favourite place but I choose a tree house that I call “Kassim’s Palace”. It takes its named after the name of my late grandfather. This place is very meaningful to me because I have many memories with my grandfather at this place. The Kassim’s Palace is situated in the trees behind my grandfather’s house. The Kassim’s Palace was built
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