Deng Yaping As the first female Grand Slam winner in table tennis in my country, it is well-known in the international table tennis world. In recent years, she has been invited to serve as a commentator for table tennis events many times, and the easy-to-understand commentary is also very popular among fans. As a mother example, Deng Yaping also guided her children to use table tennis as one of their hobbies. Perhaps because of inheriting the sports genes of his parents, his son Lin Hanming won the first place in the men's group C singles last year in the 2020 Beijing Youth Table Tennis Championships! Deng Yaping said: "My son won the singles championship for the first time, why are he happier than me winning the championship!"
But an old saying came true: I can't help but my mother. Although Deng Yaping, as a mother, led her son to the road of ping-pong. But his son himself does not plan to take the path of professional athletes. Recently, when Lin Hanming was recording a program, he answered the host about "I have thought about how far the road to table tennis goes", he admitted: "I think that table tennis can control me in high school and college." The host didn't understand how table tennis "controls" him in high school and college. Lin Hanming further explained that if he played table tennis well, he would conduct special recruitment in high school because of his good grades.
Lin Hanming said that table tennis is his hobby and he really likes it. When the host asked him, is table tennis also considered a "tool"? Lin Hanming thought for a moment and said, "It's all right!" The host then asked, if you go to your ideal high school or university as you wish and no longer have the need to go to school, would you continue to play table tennis? Lin Chaoming said frankly that it is more related to his future development...
It is understood that Lin Hanming will take the high school entrance examination as a specialty student in table tennis this year. His favorite Beijing Normal University Affiliated High School is a well-known key high school in Beijing. Last year, in Beijing urban area, the school only admitted one table tennis student. During this winter vacation, he was specially sent to the table tennis training team by his family, and the training time was 8 hours a day.
As a mother, Deng Yaping did not talk about her thoughts on the topic of her son in the show. But Deng Yaping also said bluntly that she had no expectation of her son to win the world championship. I just want to use table tennis to cultivate my son's will quality. For future development, we fully respect our children's own choices.
In fact, more and more parents, like Deng Yaping, regard table tennis as a hobby to cultivate their children's growth. They know that table tennis is full of talents in China, and the path through top players is extremely narrow. The reason why many parents ask their children to choose table tennis during their spare time is mainly to exercise their physical fitness, prevent myopia, or to improve their opportunities for further studies... Behind the change in parents' concepts, it has also triggered a crisis of the future development of the national table tennis team.
Anshan City, Liaoning City was once regarded as the cradle of table tennis, but a grassroots coach admitted in an interview with a reporter from Table Tennis magazine that in recent years, fewer and fewer children want to engage in professional table tennis. Because of not being obsessed with professional training, even if you participate in table tennis training, the time and difficulty of the training are greatly reduced. "There are fewer and fewer good seedlings, and some are talented, but parents do not have this idea and give up halfway."
In contrast, the Japanese Table Tennis Association, which has grown rapidly in recent years, has started the "Primary School Student Table Tennis" program since 2000, and has cultivated young players on a large scale. From training to competitions, it has created a youth table tennis growth system in all aspects such as manpower, material resources, and financial resources. Zhang Tomohiro , Ito Mima and other young players benefit from this plan. Once the national table tennis team has a talent gap, there are more possibilities for Japanese table tennis to overtake and become the overlord of the international table tennis world.
People will have immediate worries without long-term expectations. The youth national team advocated and promoted by Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, has been officially formed this year. And in January this year, the training camp was held in Weihai . As a national football, table tennis needs more support from all walks of life. I also hope that more parents are willing to let their children participate in this sport. As a parent, what do you think about this?
