History of Table Tennis

Sport News 197-Table tennis is a sport that knows no boundaries of age, children and adults can play together. Can be regarded as a recreational event, can also be regraded as an athletic sport that must be addressed earnestly. But if we want to control ping pong as a sport, then inevitably we have to learn and understand the various stroke, which is, we must master a variety of styles also the main game, it was impossible to play ping pong with a well without knowing the basics.

Starting from a recreational game, ping pong or table tennis becomes a serious sport that also competed in the Olympics. Demand was not limited to the table tennis athletes, but extended also to the clubs or informal gatherings in the community.

Table tennis history itself originated in England. Pongworld website mentions that the ping pong started as a social pastime in England sticking late 1800's. Dining table and balls made of cork became the first device to use. Perhaps they refer to it as gossima, flim flam, or ping pong.

When changing the century, the game underwent a number of changes in the UK. Later, there were introduced celluloid balls in the game, while others add rubber to the racket made of wood. However, as reported recently geocities.com sites, the sport is also popular in the United States (US) around the 1900s.

Unfortunately, this game began to lose popularity. But at the same time appeared a simultaneous movement which started from a number of regions of the world seeking to revive ping pong as a serious sport in 1922.

As a result, formed the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), which consists of 140 member countries in 1926. The ITTF also sponsors individual and team who play in the world championships held every two years.

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