From "Undefeated Winner" to "Cry Wolf" -On the Impact of the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) Reform on the Chinese Table Tennis Team and the Countermeasures

The Chinese table tennis team has long been outshining rivals over the years. Since 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has launched a series of reforms aiming at saving the global table tennis industry. Since the previous reforms were not thorough enough, they were basically halfway resolved by the powerful Chinese team. Instead, the Chinese team grew stronger! However, the ITTF's 40+ plastic ball reform has moved the real thing, which weakens the lethality of the Chinese team at the cost of limiting the "dynamic element" (the "rotation" factor in particular) and risking technique regress, the great impact force is beyond our envision! The author makes an in-depth analysis of the core technology and non-core technology of 40+ athletes based on the principle of 5 elements of table tennis competition, pleading for countermeasures of the adverse effects brought by the "falling spot" in exchange for "rotation", "tactics element" improvement and "technique element" compensation, and providing a reference for the Chinese team to step out of the dilemma.