Table Tennis Table tennis‚ also known as ping-pong‚ is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight‚ hollow 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
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Article 92 The Importance of Article 92 and the Uniform Code of Military Justice The military’s form of law is known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The UCMJ officially began May 31‚ 1951. It was signed into existence by President Truman. Congress deemed it necessary to create the UCMJ due to the lack of transparency and fairness previously provides to the military populous during WWII. The UCMJ allows for personal jurisdiction over all members of the uniformed services of the
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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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South Africa who brought it back with them. A row of books were stood up along the center of the table as a net‚ two more books served as rackets and were used to continuously hit a golf-ball from one end of the table to the other. Alternatively table tennis was played with paddles made of cigar box lids and balls made of champagne corks. The popularity of the game led game manufacturers to sell equipment commercially. Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame‚ and the sound
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Tennis The history of tennis is said to date back several of thousands of years. The game was created by European monks. It began as a game for “entertainment purposes during religious ceremonies. To begin the game of tennis one was too hit the ball with their hand‚ soon the leather glove came into existence. This now replaced ones hand with a more effective way to hit and serve the ball‚ and so the first “racquet” was created. With a new way to hit the tennis balls‚ then the ball went under reconstruction
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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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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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