Oscar Roitman - Table Tennis

OSCAR ROITMAN

Roitman, Oscar

Table Tennis : A Breaking Method / Oscar Roitman. - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Autores de Argentina, 2021.

Libro digital, EPUB

Archivo Digital: descarga y online

ISBN 978-987-87-1764-7

1. Deportes. I. Título.

CDD 796.346

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Index

COVER

INDEX

PROLOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

The proposal

THE WAY

The player

The coach's life

INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING

The coach

Types of coach

What do players expect from a coach?

Clues to lead a training session

The coach's goal

DIDACTICS AND METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING

Didactics of teaching

How to teach?

Methodology of teaching

Behavior in the training sessions

Tactical Intelligence

The technique

BASIC TECHNICAL ELEMENTS AND SPORTS ELEMENTS

Basic technical elements

Equipment

Anticipation, Automation and Repetition

Initial position, balance, equilibrium and multi balls

OFF TRAINING

Advices during the game

Parent's role

What do you see when you see me? Videos

LUDIC, LEISURE AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

After being related to table tennis from different roles such as a player, technician and leader for more than 50 years, I have the great honor as well as the responsibility to write this prologue for teacher Oscar Roitman's book. Before referring to the book itself I want to make some considerations about its author.

As few sportsmen Oscar Roitman is the appropriate synthesis of effort, intelligence and professionalism to the service of this sport. I had the opportunity to give him many tasks of responsibility, especially when I was the president of the Argentinian Table Tennis Federation. He fulfilled all the expectations regarding his job in relation to the institution as well as in other issues audited by the National Entity of Sport High Performance by the Sport Ministry of the Nation among others. Undoubtedly the author of this book has a lot to do with the development of table tennis in Argentina, leading the process related to the discovery of the Argentinean representatives in the Youth Olympic Games held in Buenos Aires and with the improvement of the Argentinean team players.

Oscar devotes the first pages to describe his initial step as a beginner table tennis player until he reached his best level in the national team or when he took part in international competitions such as the World Senior Championship held in 1993. In those pages the author shows nostalgia, excitement, pride and thankfulness to the sport that had marked his whole life.

The next pages, with different contents and experiences, are attractive from the human point of view and enlightening from the professional view. He presents his many and rich experiences as a table tennis technician and coach in our country as well as in other countries such as the USA or Spain.

The following chapters explain the author's knowledge, information and experiences obtained in those different roles.

Thus, the author goes from the very first steps of learning how to play table tennis until high sport performance, developing all the levels related to training, tactics and strategies as well as everything related to the appropriate elements. The author shows his pedagogical way of training and his authentic devotion to ethic principles and values about the sport and in relation to the effort leading to sport success.

It is worth to mention that the book exceeds the sport and it pays attention to the importance of the parents' role and their influence on the athletes' development.

In summary, teacher Oscar Roitman's book is an excellent vehicle to describe his relationship with table tennis as well as to show the great input he gives to the professional aspect of it, showing great passion and encouraging others to share it.

Nestor J. Tenca

ITTF Executive Vice president (2017….)

Lawyer

President of Argentinian table tennis Federation (1998-2002, 2006/2016). -

President of South American table tennis Confederacy (2011-2017). -

Member of the Olympic Argentinian Committee (2001-………). -

The most difficult part of writing this book was to overcome the emotion that every remembrance arose in me. I do not want to forget any person who was present in my life because they are a lot but, at the same time, very important. I will not exceed in mentioning all of them, I will try to find an equilibrium, and just mention the essential pillars, those who were always there, those who believed in my decisions and those who criticized me because, in that way, they helped me to improve.

By no doubt, the basic and fundamental foundation of my life is my family. My parents Mario and Aidana never questioned my vocation and supported all my decisions. I am so sorry my mother is not alive because she did not have the opportunity to enjoy all those aspects she cheerfully motivated in me and I had to go through but fortunately could achieve. My younger siblings Fernando and Alejandra helped me by playing table tennis enthusiastically. Both followed my steps as near as they could till high performance. And my eldest sister Gaby, when she was alive, was always very close to me, although in her own way.

I would also like to mention those who believed in my project and motivated me to be better. Nestor Tenca, whom I will mention several times in this book, for betting in my formation, always supporting my crazy ideas and, what is more, giving me his personal friendship. Antonio Lasen and Fernando Montero from Narón, Spain, Tim Titrud, the table tennis family from Portland, Oregon, USA, Norman Veiga and all the table tennis family from Lugo, Spain.

I also want to mention my friends from life who supported me on each of my personal developments being happy with my successes and lending me a hand after my failures: Darío Gallardo, Mariano Greis, Sacha Barrera, Raúl Gómez, Pablo Bertani, Gabriel Feld.

Besides, the world table tennis family who helped me to build my present life: Alberto Pires and Carlos Palomo, my teachers in Mendoza, Gustavo, Pablo y Franco, David Soler from Spain, Tom Wetzel from Germany, Peter Teglas y Pisto from Hungary, Jerome Feneche from France, Fran Camargo and Marles Martín from Brazil and many, many more who influenced me positively to be a better coach and a better person.

All my students who, in one way or another, demanded my best efforts and thus, they became and become my motivation.

Federico Aguero helped me writing this book and Emilse Berlanga who designed its cover. I am very thankful to both of them.

And, last but not least, who is the sum of all the previous ideas, who believed and believes in me because she is happy with my successes and she supports me in my failures, because she is the most critical of my decisions and pushes me to improve, because she encourages me to go on learning, and because she is always with me: my life partner, my family, Gabriela.

Table tennis, better known as “ping pong”, is a highly popular game-sport because it can be practiced at anytime, anywhere, at a very low cost, it is excellent as an element of social integration since it is inclusive because it can be practiced by the thin, the obese, men and women among themselves, tall, short, people with different capacities, people of all ages and allow the integration of different age groups. But, as the game is highly popular - sport is a fact that it does not attract people to its usual practice. A handful of hundreds practice it in our country distributed in a few training places in each city or province. The same happens in Spain and increasingly in the rest of Europe, where it loses ground compared to other more popular sports. The exception is Asia, where it is a highly popular sport, especially in the world's leader, China, where table tennis is in excellent health with 27 million members and nearly 70 million people who practice it regularly.