If you have a love for the game and want to learn how to hit every ball like a god, the best way to go about it is to find some practice partners and get started. It’s also important to make sure you have the right equipment, including ping pong balls and paddles. You’ll need a table, of course, and then you’ll need to figure out what stance is best for you and how to hold your paddle. Then, it’s just a matter of practicing your swing until it becomes second-nature and you can hit every ball perfectly.
Ping pong is a recreational activity that originated in England and spread across the world, becoming an Olympic sport for the first time in 1988. It has since become one of the most popular indoor sports in the world and is played by millions at work, school, community centers and even on the side of roads. The top players of the game have become national heroes in China and enjoy pop star statuses.
Despite being officially called Table Tennis, the sport is commonly known as ping-pong. The name derived from the onomatopoeic sounds created by the contact of the ball on the table, with ‘ping’ sounding like a bat hitting a ball and ‘pong’ sounding like the ball bouncing. Over the years, as the sport has grown in popularity, the term ping-pong has become synonymous with the game. The International Tabletop Federation standardized the thickness of rubber on ping-pong paddles in the 1950s, and this gave expert players more control over the ball’s spin and trajectory.