MAPEH TABLE TENNIS DECK

• Table tennis


  Also known as ping pong, a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using a small bat/paddle
• How table tennis is played

  The player must allow a bounce off on his/her side of the table before returning the ball
• First names of table tennis

  • Whiff Whaff
  • Gossima
  • Flim Flam
  • Pingpong
• Equipment in table tennis

  • Ball
  • Paddle/Racket
  • Table
• The ball


  • Weight - 2.7 grams, with 40 m (formerly 38 mm) diameter ball
  • Made of high-bouncing gas-filled celluloid ball, colored white or orange, with a matte finish
• The table


  • (9ft long) and (5 feet) wide, and (30 inches) high with a masonite or similarly manufactured timber, layered with a smooth, low-friction coating
  • Table or playing surface is divided into two halves by a 15.2 cm (6 inch) high net
• The racket


  • Players are equipped with a racket composed if a wooden blade covered with a rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player
  • Materials incorporated into table tennis blades include keylar, titanium, arylate, aramid, and aluminum cork, glass fiber, and carbon fiber
  • The wood portion of the racket is often referred to as "blade"
  • The average size of the blade is about 17 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide
  • Its parts are: Handle, Blade, Rubber, Sponge
• Kinds of grip


  • Penhold grip
  • Shakehand grip
  • Seemiller grip
  • V Grip
• Penhold grip


  One grips the racket similarly to the way one holds a writing instrument, popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, traditionally use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play
• Shakehand grip


  The racket is grasped as if one is performing a handshake, also referred to as "tennis" or "Western" grip, shows simplicity and versatility, used by many world class European and Asian players, generally accepted as easier to learn than penholder
• Seemiller grip


  Named after the American table tennis champion Danny Seemiller who used it, achieved by placing your thumb and index finger on either side of the bottom of the racquet head holding the handle with the rest if your finger
• V Grip


  When the forefinger and the middle finger sandwiches the blade
• The sport got its start in England towards the end of the 19th century when after dinner, some upper-middle class Victorans decided to turn their dining room tables into miniature versions of the traditional lawn tennis playing field
• Several different everyday 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 ball would be either a ball of string, or perhaps more commonly, a champagne cork or rubber ball
• Table tennis


  Also known as ping pong, a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using a small bat/paddle
• How table tennis is played

  The player must allow a bounce off on his/her side of the table before returning the ball
• First names of table tennis

  • Whiff Whaff
  • Gossima
  • Flim Flam
  • Pingpong
• Equipment in table tennis

  • Ball
  • Paddle/Racket
  • Table
• Ball


  • Weight - 2.7 grams, with 40 m (formerly 38 mm) diameter ball
  • Made of high-bouncing gas-filled celluloid ball, colored white or orange, with a matte finish
• Table


  • 9ft long and 5 feet wide, and 30 inches high with a masonite or similarly manufactured timber, layered with a smooth, low-friction coating
  • Divided into two halves by a 15.2 cm (6 inch) high net
• Racket


  • Composed of a wooden blade covered with a rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player
  • Materials incorporated into table tennis blades include keylar, titanium, arylate, aramid, and aluminum cork, glass fiber, and carbon fiber
  • The wood portion of the racket is often referred to as "blade"
  • The average size of the blade is about 17 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide
  • Parts: Handle, Blade, Rubber, Sponge
• Kinds of grip


  • Penhold grip
  • Shakehand grip
  • Seemiller grip
  • V Grip
• Penhold grip


  Grips the racket similarly to the way one holds a writing instrument, popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, traditionally use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play
• Shakehand grip


  Racket is grasped as if one is performing a handshake, also referred to as "tennis" or "Western" grip, shows simplicity and versatility, used by many world class European and Asian players, generally accepted as easier to learn than penholder
• Seemiller grip


  Named after the American table tennis champion Danny Seemiller who used it, achieved by placing your thumb and index finger on either side of the bottom of the racquet head holding the handle with the rest if your finger
• V Grip


  When the forefinger and the middle finger sandwiches the blade
• 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 everyday 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 ball would be either a ball of string, or perhaps more commonly, a champagne cork or rubber ball