Sports Science Behind Table Tennis

The Sports Science videoclip exams the skills used by the Olympic player, Erica Wu, from team USA.

Table tennis can be rather unpredictable with the fast moving ping pong ball moving at high speed during a match.

She was able to have a rotational velocity of 3000 RPM during her serve.

Table tennis is played at a short distance so prediction of moves can be very difficult without proper training.

It is interesting to know that professional players would relay on the sound since it is really hard to see the ball in high velocity.

Research shows that audio information reaches the brain faster than visual information.

Find out more about the skills used by professional table tennis players used in the videoclip above.