196 1 year, China held the world table tennis championship for the first time and won the first men's team championship, which triggered a nationwide table tennis craze. In fact, as early as two years ago 1959, Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship in the World Table Tennis Championships, which was also the first world champion in China. Even from 196 1 year, table tennis in China has flourished for nearly 60 years. I don't want to show off how much I know about table tennis here. What I want to say is that I was born in the mid-1970s, and I began to like table tennis at least in the early 1980s, but I also caught up with many stories about folk table tennis.
It is said that people in China liked table tennis in the 1960s. If there is no table tennis table, the gate will be removed. If there is no wooden table tennis table, use cement instead. If there is no table tennis table, there will always be a brighter concrete floor. Draw a horizontal line on the floor and start playing. If there is no concrete floor, there must always be a wall. Play against the wall. I want to say that I have done all these things.
Now our partner's rackets, together with the bottom plate and rubber, are all bought in the market, specially made, and cost several thousand yuan, which is no different from the rackets of international athletes' Olympic champions. At that time, I also used a pure wooden racket. I remember I even used a three-layer racket. I can write an article called "The Story of Racket". I still remember all the rackets I used for more than 30 years. I can write down the years of youth, affection and sadness, the development of science and technology in China, the soaring economy, and my struggle and endeavor under the theme of the great era.
I also remember the arena where I used to play. Now the conditions in the arena are very good, whether public or private. I have many places with very good conditions to play, and I can also play at home. I also have a desk in my office. One of my childhood dreams was to have a table at home. I had it a long time ago and didn't cherish it, but I still remember my vision and mood. At that time, I also had the experience of walking a long way to play ball. I have had the experience of playing ball over walls and windows in my room. I have had the experience of playing ball with my hands frozen and my clothes hot. I found a place to play ball. There is a table with no net (not bricks), no balls (not paper balls), no one to play with (pick up the balls by themselves) and no electricity (light candles). All these are very common. I can write an article called My Stadium, my stadium, the places and homes where I played football in the first half of my life. With the change of my life, banging, noise and laughter resounded through dawn and dusk.
There are others, of course. I have made many friends because of playing tennis, such as hungry scholars, senior officials or wealthy businessmen, celebrities or scholars, childhood friends, and too many people like playing table tennis. My table tennis friends are big people, small people, world champions and people who are not as good as me. Many people are my table tennis teachers, and I have had special "coaches" to help me. Yes, I can write an article called My Ball Friends, and I can write biographies for them. They have different tempers, and I spent a lot of fun with them. Because of table tennis, they played with me and grew up with me. They taught me to be a man, and I ..
Having said that, it seems that I must be a good table tennis player. In fact, I can be a good table tennis commentator, because I only know a lot of table tennis history and anecdotes, but I'm obviously not suitable for being an athlete, because I really play badly, very badly, my skills are not good, my calculations are not good, I have no tactics, my psychological quality is poor, my physical strength is poor, and my table tennis career is more negative than winning.
Speaking of winning or losing, let's talk about life.
When I was young, I never received orthodox table tennis training. I play by myself, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. In fact, Rong Guotuan and Xu Yinsheng, their generation of table tennis veterans, couldn't afford a racket, so they became workers and became world champions. When they are young, they have no time for special training. With the development of the times, the times of table tennis in the 1980s have changed, so we can't play blindly. Life seems to have a good background. We low-level amateurs often say that as long as we are amateurs trained since childhood, we can't play at all. Life is divided into so many levels. The so-called foundation and the so-called starting line actually exist. In table tennis, there is basically no so-called counterattack. In other worlds, there are too few counterattacks.
One morning I got up to play ball. Once in a gymnasium at Zhongshan Gate in Tianjin, I heard a conversation between two old people. They joked that it seemed impossible for us to win the world championship. Later, they gradually narrowed down their ideals to champion in China, champion in Tianjin, champion in Hedong District, champion in a certain district and amateur champion over 60 years old. They talked nonsense while playing. Finally, they stopped and said nothing.
Yes, it's too difficult. It is not easy to surpass others. In any community in China, in any gymnasium, and in many institutions and units in China, there are table tennis experts. In those brightly lit stadiums, many people play beautifully, beautifully and have strength, while many people's balls look too ordinary and ugly. Many people are eager to try after reading it, thinking that they will win, but they lose as soon as they go up. On the court, some people rely on strength, some rely on cleverness, some rely on luck, some rely on crooked ways, and there are many crooked ways on the court. If you can't play, it's no use talking. If you can play, I don't have to say it. Although you can't play ball, you are born human, so you can feel the hardships on the court. You always think you can win, but you may not win. On the court, a player can win many people as long as he improves his skills a little, and then you will find that there are still many people in front of you who are desperate.
When I was a teenager, I also wanted to improve my skills and work hard. Then I was in my twenties, and then I was in my thirties. My ball has hardly improved. My time is spent on making a living, and my ideals are always forgotten. When I think of playing ball games, it is often a few years, five years and ten years, all in a flash. Now I'm suddenly in my forties, and table tennis life is so similar to life. By middle age, I began to find that many of my dreams were impossible to realize. I also found that time can't stand such a sudden passage, but it can't be stopped. Now I don't want to win the game. I just want to have fun in sports. People can't enjoy life if they have the heart to win or lose. But I also found that in the world of amateur table tennis, my age is still good, and there are at least twenty or thirty years of good times. Many of our veteran comrades are very good at the game, and there are many masters in their seventies. Although many good times have passed, there are still many things to grasp. The flowers are beautiful and the fruit smells good. From now on, it is not too late to improve the technology. Nowadays, young people play too many games. In my generation, table tennis is not only a feeling, but also a skill to keep fit.
There are not many lawyers who play well in Tianjin, so even if I am so poor, I sometimes represent lawyers in Tianjin political and legal system competitions, or go to other "competitions" with my ping-pong friends. There is such a rule in life. Once I enter the competition, it will always be the worst time for me. I sometimes concentrate on playing a section of the ball, and proficiency is the highest level. When I was relatively familiar with the ball, I could also hit one or two good balls, but there was no game at that time. My table tennis life has been abandoned too much, and my racket often stays there for a long time. When I hurried to the competition, I remembered that I hadn't practiced for a long time. In life, only when you are ready at any time can you play your game well. You can get nothing without talent.
To cope with all kinds of competitions, table tennis plays include long glue, straight horizontal version, arc fast attack and strange ball splitting. You are ready, you must be ready. Often you are good at chopping, and you will encounter chopping. You've finally practiced everything, and you may not have hit your opponent's left hand. On the other hand, all kinds of strange ways of playing are ineffective in the face of absolute strength. In this sense, don't move so much, don't think so much, just practice the ball. Any weird move will be shrouded in strength. People live by real skills.
I have also seen people who lost from professional athletes to pure amateurs. The layman has no choice but to be familiar with his own hands. The problems of professional players generally lie in underestimating their enemies, carelessness, carelessness, and so on. The world is not static. If everything is static, then the struggle is meaningless. No, no. The weak will still fight back, and the strong may make mistakes.