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- Herausgeber: Editorial Autores de Argentina
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
Oscar Roitman gives us an approach of a new way of teaching Table Tennis and throughout this book – which used a very didactical and clear narrative – he describes the teaching process of Table Tennis through up to day pedagogical and methodological tools. The foundation of all these tools are the author's own experiences as a Table Tennis player and as a coach. He has given a large number of lectures along Argentina, always showing a ludic way of teaching, not only centered on "recipes", but giving "keys" to develop the student´s/athlete´s own way of playing or teaching and all its variants. He also gives more than 100 activities and specific games that he has found useful along his 20 years as a coach of beginners and of high performance players. The author has a great amount of experience as a coach and as a coach of coaches. And is eager to do research about new approaches. This book was originally written in Spanish, because this topic was very poorly developed in the Spanish speaking world, however this English version will allow an even broader audience to get to know this sport through Oscar Roitman´s views.
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TABLE TENNISA Breaking Method
Roitman, Oscar
Table Tennis : A Breaking Method / Oscar Roitman. - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Autores de Argentina, 2021.
Libro digital, EPUB
Archivo Digital: descarga y online
ISBN 978-987-87-1764-7
1. Deportes. I. Título.
CDD 796.346
EDITORIAL AUTORES DE ARGENTINA
www.autoresdeargentina.com
Queda hecho el depósito que establece la LEY 11.723
Impreso en Argentina – Printed in Argentina
PROLOGUE
After being related to table tennis from different roles such as a player, technician and leader for more than 50 years, I have the great honor as well as the responsibility to write this prologue for teacher Oscar Roitman's book. Before referring to the book itself I want to make some considerations about its author.
As few sportsmen Oscar Roitman is the appropriate synthesis of effort, intelligence and professionalism to the service of this sport. I had the opportunity to give him many tasks of responsibility, especially when I was the president of the Argentinian Table Tennis Federation. He fulfilled all the expectations regarding his job in relation to the institution as well as in other issues audited by the National Entity of Sport High Performance by the Sport Ministry of the Nation among others. Undoubtedly the author of this book has a lot to do with the development of table tennis in Argentina, leading the process related to the discovery of the Argentinean representatives in the Youth Olympic Games held in Buenos Aires and with the improvement of the Argentinean team players.
Oscar devotes the first pages to describe his initial step as a beginner table tennis player until he reached his best level in the national team or when he took part in international competitions such as the World Senior Championship held in 1993. In those pages the author shows nostalgia, excitement, pride and thankfulness to the sport that had marked his whole life.
The next pages, with different contents and experiences, are attractive from the human point of view and enlightening from the professional view. He presents his many and rich experiences as a table tennis technician and coach in our country as well as in other countries such as the USA or Spain.
The following chapters explain the author's knowledge, information and experiences obtained in those different roles.
Thus, the author goes from the very first steps of learning how to play table tennis until high sport performance, developing all the levels related to training, tactics and strategies as well as everything related to the appropriate elements. The author shows his pedagogical way of training and his authentic devotion to ethic principles and values about the sport and in relation to the effort leading to sport success.
It is worth to mention that the book exceeds the sport and it pays attention to the importance of the parents' role and their influence on the athletes' development.
In summary, teacher Oscar Roitman's book is an excellent vehicle to describe his relationship with table tennis as well as to show the great input he gives to the professional aspect of it, showing great passion and encouraging others to share it.
Nestor J. Tenca
ITTF Executive Vice president (2017….)
Lawyer
President of Argentinian table tennis Federation (1998-2002, 2006/2016). -
President of South American table tennis Confederacy (2011-2017). -
Member of the Olympic Argentinian Committee (2001-………). -
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The most difficult part of writing this book was to overcome the emotion that every remembrance arose in me. I do not want to forget any person who was present in my life because they are a lot but, at the same time, very important. I will not exceed in mentioning all of them, I will try to find an equilibrium, and just mention the essential pillars, those who were always there, those who believed in my decisions and those who criticized me because, in that way, they helped me to improve.
By no doubt, the basic and fundamental foundation of my life is my family. My parents Mario and Aidana never questioned my vocation and supported all my decisions. I am so sorry my mother is not alive because she did not have the opportunity to enjoy all those aspects she cheerfully motivated in me and I had to go through but fortunately could achieve. My younger siblings Fernando and Alejandra helped me by playing table tennis enthusiastically. Both followed my steps as near as they could till high performance. And my eldest sister Gaby, when she was alive, was always very close to me, although in her own way.
I would also like to mention those who believed in my project and motivated me to be better. Nestor Tenca, whom I will mention several times in this book, for betting in my formation, always supporting my crazy ideas and, what is more, giving me his personal friendship. Antonio Lasen and Fernando Montero from Narón, Spain, Tim Titrud, the table tennis family from Portland, Oregon, USA, Norman Veiga and all the table tennis family from Lugo, Spain.
I also want to mention my friends from life who supported me on each of my personal developments being happy with my successes and lending me a hand after my failures: Darío Gallardo, Mariano Greis, Sacha Barrera, Raúl Gómez, Pablo Bertani, Gabriel Feld.
Besides, the world table tennis family who helped me to build my present life: Alberto Pires and Carlos Palomo, my teachers in Mendoza, Gustavo, Pablo y Franco, David Soler from Spain, Tom Wetzel from Germany, Peter Teglas y Pisto from Hungary, Jerome Feneche from France, Fran Camargo and Marles Martín from Brazil and many, many more who influenced me positively to be a better coach and a better person.
All my students who, in one way or another, demanded my best efforts and thus, they became and become my motivation.
Federico Aguero helped me writing this book and Emilse Berlanga who designed its cover. I am very thankful to both of them.
And, last but not least, who is the sum of all the previous ideas, who believed and believes in me because she is happy with my successes and she supports me in my failures, because she is the most critical of my decisions and pushes me to improve, because she encourages me to go on learning, and because she is always with me: my life partner, my family, Gabriela.
INTRODUCTION
Table tennis, better known as “ping pong”, is a highly popular game-sport because it can be practiced at anytime, anywhere, at a very low cost, it is excellent as an element of social integration since it is inclusive because it can be practiced by the thin, the obese, men and women among themselves, tall, short, people with different capacities, people of all ages and allow the integration of different age groups. But, as the game is highly popular - sport is a fact that it does not attract people to its usual practice. A handful of hundreds practice it in our country distributed in a few training places in each city or province. The same happens in Spain and increasingly in the rest of Europe, where it loses ground compared to other more popular sports. The exception is Asia, where it is a highly popular sport, especially in the world's leader, China, where table tennis is in excellent health with 27 million members and nearly 70 million people who practice it regularly.
It is clear that it is a sport that you like, since wherever you go and you comment that you are linked to table tennis, everyone is quick to say that they play or have played ping pong, in a garage, in a campsite, a parish, to the outdoors, in the schoolyard, wherever. They have all played, but they do not practice it.
So, you may wonder, what is the reason why people do not come to practice table tennis? I think there is never a single reason, the answer is always poly causal, but I am going to dare to launch a theory about one of the possible causes for which I understand, it is not practiced regularly nor do people who like it join the federated structure. of this sport.
The proposal
The project that I lay out here is from the pedagogical and methodological point of view.
Usually, a table tennis fan goes to a club or to an association to learn how to play the sport or to improve his/her pre-existing skills. There he/she meets a coach who proposes him/her a series of activities which in the short time are found tiresome and he/she decides to abandon.
Let me explain all this better. For example, in the case of young children, they go to a class and the coach explains to them quickly how to take a racket and they must go to train on the table immediately.
It is not always this way, but most often. As soon as he/she goes to the table he/she receives a concert of technical explanations about forehand and backhand drives, slices and so on. The only exercise is to "repeat", repeat and repeat until the technique comes up properly.
I agree that repetition is the base of automatism and part of the process of learning the technique, but it is not the only way. There are many other possibilities which are less boring, less dull or non-motivating. The mere repetition leads students to abandon quickly. Furthermore, some coaches, without considering the players' maturity process, want to prepare successful players in a very short time thus, taking a shortcut to achieve the target quickly. In the case of adults, it is practically the same. The difference is that, sometimes, adults complain about it and try to change the activity according to their own will. Children never do that. This book tries to show something different. I am absolutely convinced that there is a possibility of learning in another way: having fun, doing a great variety of activities, giving real importance to the ludic aspect and connecting table tennis to the competitive aspect through different and specific games.
As table tennis has been my passion since very young and during that time I have built up a wealth of knowledge I would like to share with you through this project. The challenge is to present something different to get players out from their "comfort zone" that gives them confidence, which, at the beginning, may seem easy, but, in the long term, it is complicated. The challenge is also to be creative, to reinvent table tennis, to let you discover your own method, your own working philosophy that will be rewarding for all people related to table tennis. And, what is more, that ensures a long life in the sport to those who want to practice it regularly.
THE WAY
The player
When I began playing table tennis in the early 80's, the training method that my coach applied was coherent with the methods applied at that time for almost every teaching process. And these were according to the historical moment we were living at. We must remember that democracy in Argentina was returning after a military government, a very strict and authoritative one, full of rules, where dialogue was impossible. The same happened in different areas and, sports were not the exception.
My coach, Alberto Pires, was very well organized. He numbered the tables orally (the numbers were not written on the tables). For example, he said: "table number one" and immediately we knew which table we should go to. The best players were supposed to go to table number one, those having a lower level should go to table number two, up to table number five as I remember. On table number one there were only two players regardless if there were 40 more players wanting to play. On the other tables, there were two or four players and we played "crossover" repeating the exercises he gave us or those previously learned and that we knew by heart, even its sequence: forehand drive cross, backhand drive cross, backhand push, a bit of mobility and few games. When the game began the best players used the tables and the beginners, like me, had to wait for our turn sitting till the best finished and gave us the opportunity to play.
The base of training was repetition. We had to exercise a hundred forehand drives without failing, then a hundred backhand drives in the same way. If we failed, we had to begin again from 0. If we had to learn a specific stroke, repetition was the only way to get it.
When we misbehaved or when we failed doing the exercises, we were punished. For example, the children had to run around the nearby basketball court for a long time and in the case of more advanced players, they had to run around a lake. The club where I trained is very near an artificial lake of about three kms long. If we could not do an exercise in the expected time we had to do push-ups and arm extensions or abdominal crunches. The same occurred if we lost a match or a challenge.
I never wondered if I liked it or not. It was that way and I followed the rules to improve without complaining with the desire to change from table six to table five and the hope of reaching table one someday.
Little by little I improved. I could strengthen my stroke and I got good results. I became one of the best in my category in my city and I began convincing myself that I was playing very well. I trained more and more often. I reached table four and even table three, and from time to time I gave a scare to one of the best players winning a match against him or just losing near the end. This motivated me even more and I made a great effort to go beyond myself. I was rewarded representing our country in an international event. That event changed my sporting life.
In 1985 I ranked to play with the National Team in a South American competition for children, juveniles, youth and "white" what is nowadays known as under 18, under 15, and, at that time, under 12. I belonged to the "white" category. A Chinese coach was introduced to train us for that event for two months. He changed the rules, the methods, the order of the exercises. He even changed the number of the tables! I did not know those rules could be changed. I did not know that there were a lot of other exercises. I did not know that there were "multiballs" and I did not know that there were many types of effects. It was very hard for me to learn all that, but I was very pleased to do it. I wanted to be accepted, to be taken into account by my coach, who was Chinese and as I knew at that time, the Chinese people were the best. When the South American competition finished, the Chinese coach returned to his city and everything returned to "normality" for a short time.
For personal reasons, the coach who formerly trained me left to a foreign country so he put an end to table tennis activities in the club where I had trained all my life. Most of my partners abandoned the sport, some decided to practice other sports, some others stayed there "pingponing" without a formal training and very few, I was among them, went to another club where there was "table tennis" with a coach in my province. In that club, every child played very well and I was sure that that coach would help me to improve. His way of organizing the trainings was totally different from what I had lived before. There was no organization, every child practiced what he/she wanted, the length he/she wanted and as he/she wanted. Meanwhile the coach chose a player and, with great patience, helped him/her improve his/her deficient techniques again and again in a very strict form until the expected stroke appeared. After that he chose another player and helped him/her in the same way. He helped me to improve many of my technical problems, although I lost part of my rhythm because my new partners did not train systematically.
Hard working, dedication and intense preparation compensated many of my technical deficiencies and good results started to appear timidly. I took part in my first national championship in Mina Clavero, Córdoba in 1991. I played in the same level as the best players in my country.
The fact of being amongst the best players in the country motivated me a lot and I doubled my training effort adding specific physical preparation to the usual exercises. By that time my former coach came back from abroad and gave me a great number of technical exercises which brought out the best of me. It was the second year I was in the maximum category and during the Argentinian championship, which was held in Misiones in1992, I went beyond myself. I won all the matches in that competition. I defeated players who I had admired since childhood. I won the long-desired and always dreamed tittle of "champion" together with my partners. Nevertheless, I could not keep my level in the individual competition. Although I went far I wanted more. Again I redoubled my effort training very hard and achieved the best dream any sportsman has "to take part in the National Team" and represented my country in the World Championship.
I went to live to the High Performance Centre which was, and still is, in the capital city of the country, Buenos Aires, 1000 kms away from my home. There, the best sport specialists prepared me and my partners from different provinces for that event: they trained us technically and physically. Some nutritionists taught us how and when to eat properly. Some psychologists helped us to manage our anxieties and fears, to concentrate more and more, to visualize aims, among other aspects. Some doctors measured weighed us several times to follow our development. All of them got the best of us and that improved our performances.
Very well prepared and full of dreams we went to Goteborg, Sweden in 1993. I was completely sure that there I would have the opportunity to show why I was and I would put my country in the highest place. But reality appeared and I was slapped with my guard really down. I could not win any match, not even a set. I was severely beaten without the possibility to compete in many of the matches and I saw how my partners, specially my young fantastic partner - the only 15 years old Pablo Tabachnik did his best and was the only one able to win several games.
My ego and my esteem were beaten and my conviction that I was the best player began to stumble. I decided to pay close attention to the best players of the world who were just a meter away from me. It was a great opportunity to analyze what they did that I could not do. I saw Waldner, Persson, Saive, Gattien, Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Grubba among others, the best players in action, close up. I could realize that I did not know almost anything of what they performed wonderfully. I was confused and hesitated about being able to be as good as them any time, nevertheless I was sure I wanted to try.
