22/02/21 – 5 Hours: Online Sessions, Table Tennis Needs Analysis & Risk Assessment
Jumped on this fairly late and ended up with Table Tennis as all other teams were taken. I has no idea Table Tennis was even really a sport but vivki advised a quick search and I would find plenty of literature that I would use for the needs analysis. I led the needs analysis, which took longer than I would’ve liked however, this sport was entirely new to me so required a lot of reading. Sadly we were unable to reach the team directly so was only able to so a sport analysis, not player. In reviewing the below papers, I learned that table tennis is a far more demanding sport than I realised.
Cullen, the year 2 who is working with me on this. He seems like very diligent and did a great job with the risk assessment.
Ebadi, L., & Günay, M. (2018). Analysing Of The Types Of Injuries Observed In Table Tennis Players According To The Some Variables.
Ebrahim, H. (2010). The Mechanical Contribution of the Arm Movement During the Performance of the Back Hand Topspin Table Tennis Players (Doctoral dissertation).
Kondric, M., Furjan-Mandic, G., Kondric, L., & Gabaglio, A. (2010). Physiological demands and testing in table tennis. International Journal of Table Tennis Sciences, 6, 165-170.
Kondric, M., Matkovic, B., Furjan-Mandic, G., Hadzic, V., & Dervisevic, E. (2011). Injuries in racket sports among Slovenian players. Collegium antropologicum, 35(2), 413-417.
Kondric, M., Zagatto, A. M., & Sekulic, D. (2013). The physiological demands of table tennis: a review. Journal of sports science & medicine, 12(3), 362.
Zhang, Z. (2017). Biomechanical analysis and model development applied to table tennis forehand strokes(Doctoral dissertation, Loughborough University).
30/03/21 – 1 Hour: Programming
Annoyingly, the team were not particularly engaging with S&C. As a result it took weeks to get them all together to do the testing. When we finally did I was unable to attend so the year 2 did it and recorded it for me. Based on this I created the attached programme. I planned to run weekly group sessions and provide individual plans where required.
On 2 occasions I had joined a teams call to deliver the session and no one turned up. For now I have decided to send them the programme and not pursue anymore sessions with them. It was a shame as I was looking forward to working with a new sport but unlike contact sports I assume supplementary training is less of an attraction.