Let’s Learn to Play Ping-pong--Training of Basic Ping-pong Footwork

Translated by Li Zongming

随着乒乓球活动月的展开，同学们对乒乓球这项运动的热情空前高涨，可是在乒乓球运动中，步伐至关重要，对于业余选手，好多人在打球的过程中忽视了这一点，总是“先伸胳膊，后动脚”，这样就会错失好球的机会，而正确的应用应该是“先动脚，后做动作”。今天学校的一批乒乓球爱好者便上台用讲解和现场演示的方法让同学们了解乒乓球的步伐。

With the commencement of the ping-pong month, the students have shown their unprecedented enthusiasm for this sport.  But for the sport of ping-pong, the footwork is essential, which has been ignored by many amateur players, who will al-
ways “extend their arms first but move their feet later”, which will make them miss the boat.  The correct approach should
be to “move your feet first while do the movements later.”  Today, some ping-pong enthusiasts of the school have come
to the stage to make an explanation and give a live demonstration to let the students know the footwork of ping-pong.

乒乓球运动的步伐大体上分为五种：
单步、并步、跨步、跳步、交叉步。
The footwork of ping-pong mainly consists of the following five steps:
single-step, sliding-step, striding-step, skipping-step and cross-step.

乒乓球爱好者现场演示动作
Ping-pong enthusiasts giving a live demonstration of the movements

体育老师为同学们讲解乒乓球比赛规则
A PE teacher explaining for the students the competition rules of ping-pong