Designing and Calibrating Specific Tests for Counter-Attack Skills in Junior Table Tennis Players Using Modified Electronic Ball Canon (Table Tennis Robot)

Fathy Saleh, Sherif

doi:10.21608/jass.2011.84910

Designing and Calibrating Specific Tests for Counter-Attack Skills in Junior Table Tennis Players Using Modified Electronic Ball Canon (Table Tennis Robot)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Sherif Fathy Saleh

Faculty of Physical Education, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

10.21608/jass.2011.84910

Abstract

Table tennis has evolved greatly during the last decade of the twentieth century and the third millennium opens up new horizons for this evolution through investing modern technologies that can be applied to help developing training programs that aim at higher levels of performance to elevate the physical, technical and tactical levels of table tennis players to the world class level. The current research aimed at designing specific tests to measure the ability of counter-attack in table tennis juniors less than (18) years using the Table Tennis Robot and identifying standardized levels and percentiles for these tests. The researcher used the descriptive (survey) approach on a sample of (112) junior table tennis players. Most important findings of this study are the design of theses tests besides deriving their standardized levels and percentiles.

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