Took me so much time to dig these up.
2019/4/29
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韓国は今大会、張本智和を破った世界ランク１５７位の安宰賢が銅メダルを獲得したのを筆頭に力を見せつけた。目を引くのは日本選手にはないパワフルなフォアハンドの決定力。宮崎強化本部長は「日本は全部バックハンドでやろうとしているが、それだとパワー不足。もう少しフォアで決めきる育成をしないと」と指摘した。
昨年ジュニア世代で日韓交流合宿を行った際、韓国の厳しいフットワーク練習などに驚いたという。「（日本より）２０年遅れているが、逆にそれをいまだに貫いているのかと。男子にはパワーが必要なので、見習わないと」と“韓流”のフィジカル強化に日本男子の未来を見いだした。
South Korea showed its power at this tournament, as An Jaehyun, 157th in the world, earned the bronze medal, defeating Tomokazu Harimoto along the way. What is eye-catching is the powerful forehand decisive power that Japanese players do not possess. Miyazaki of Development Headquarter pointed out that “Japan is trying to do everything with backhand, but that's not enough power. We need to train the forehand a little more."
I was surprised at the harsh footwork drill in Korea when I was at the junior exchange camp last year. “It's 20 years behind Japan, but I wonder if they're still carrying it out. The boys need power, so we have to follow the example,” anticipating the "Korean wave" physical enhancement in the future of Japanese men.
https://www.butterfly.co.jp/takurepo/interview/detail/011824.html
Development Frontline 15 Japan-Korea Joint Development Camp 1
In September, the Japan Table Tennis Association held a joint training camp for Korea's top-level athletes under 15 and under 12 in Korea. This time I would like to talk about what I felt at the joint camp.
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The joint training camp was held at the National Training Center in Korea, which was just a short drive from Seoul. This facility is positioned in the same way as the Ajinomoto National Training Center in Japan, and there are not only table tennis but all sports enhancement facilities. The table tennis ground of the Korea National Training Center is about 1.5 times as large as the Ajinomoto National Training Center. Japanese cadets and top players from Hopes sweated together with top Korean players of the same generation for about a week.
At this joint camp, I strongly felt the difference in teaching methods between Japan and Korea.
The difference was clearly apparent when the players worked on a drill called “after a backhand drive, turn around the backhand side for a forehand drive.”
In Japan, when going around the backhand side, the common instruction is to drive a forehand without stepping on the left foot (for right-handed players). This is to quickly return to cover the empty forehand after hitting.
But in this drill, the Japanese players went around without stepping on the left foot, but after a while, the Korean coach came to the Japanese players and began to teach eagerly with gestures. When I listened to it carefully, the guidance of the content was that "When you turn around, step on your left foot and put out as much power as possible on the ball."
When I looked at the Korean players, they were going around stepping on their left feet and hitting powerful forehand drives. After the coaching of the Korean coach, the Japanese players also tried to forehand drive by stepping on their left feet, but they couldn't do it because they'd never done it before.
Looking at this situation, it is very interesting to see there is such a difference in the teaching method between Japan and Korea, which are close to each other in the same Asian region and recognized as strong countries by the world.
Next time, I would like to talk about the joint training camp between Japan and South Korea with consideration of the difference in the relationship between coaches and players in both countries.
(Interview = Kenji Hirose)
https://www.butterfly.co.jp/takurepo/interview/detail/012017.html
Development Frontline 16 Japan-Korea Joint Development Camp 2
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First, let's talk about the merits and demerits of whether or not you step in your left foot when you go around and drive forehand.
The advantage of forehand driving by stepping on the left foot is that it is easy to hit the ball. On the other hand, if the next ball is returned to the vacant fore side, the possibility that it will not reach is high.
On the other hand, if you do not step on the left foot, you can not expect the power of the hit ball as much as you step on the left foot, but because the fore side is not big enough, it is an advantage that it is easy to respond quickly wherever the next ball is returned.
Based on these merits and demerits, I think that the question of how to step in the left foot can be replaced by the argument “whether“ power ”or“ pitch speed ”has priority”.
Thirty years ago, when I was an active player and representative of Japan, the theory was to step in the left foot as much as possible and get as much power as possible to hit the ball. However, Japan eventually lags behind China's front attack and Europe's two-handed attack, paying attention to the speed of the pitch rather than its power and trying to find a way out there. It can be said that the fact that the left foot is no longer depressed when turning around is a sign of Japanese willingness to emphasize the speed of the pitch. This model change worked, and now Japan is approaching the top of the world.
South Korea, on the other hand, is now a powerful country like Japan, but it is the difference that the two countries have followed, as I witnessed the sight of the development of players with an emphasis on power just as I was active now. There was something to feel.
Although this training camp revealed the difference in direction between Japan and Korea, I cannot say which teaching method is correct. In order to become stronger, "pitch speed" and "power" are equally important.
Even in training camps, Japanese players were superior in the variety of skills and the speed of the pitch, but in terms of the power of the ball and physical (physical ability), Korean players surpassed, and the wins and losses were almost equal.
Looking at the current results of seniors, girls are better than Korea, but the boys lost to Korea at the World Table Tennis 2018 Halmstad in May, so the total power of both countries can be seen almost equally Let's do it.
The Korean practice menu that emphasizes power was a hard content that seems to be taken as “Shigeki” from the current Japanese trend, but I think the Korean culture is also having a great influence on it.
In South Korea, Confucianism that respects the order of the upper and lower relations has permeated widely, and the relationship between the coach and the players seen at the training camp was inevitably high. I think that coaches can impose strict menus for the players because they have a straight line, and players try to meet the coach's demands.
I felt that the hard practice of Korea I saw this time is effective not only in physical but also in mental training.
Table tennis is a sport in which mental plays a major role in winning or losing. One of the ways to overcome the severe practice is to get the mentality of fighting without giving up and getting nervous even in severe situations.
The Korean players of the past are generally persistent, and there are many players who demonstrate their power on the big stage, but I convinced that the reason is that mental is being trained in daily severe exercises.
Japan's guidance is based on the idea of enhancing competitiveness while respecting the individuality of the player, so it would be difficult to incorporate hard practice as in Korea. I think we should pursue rationality.
Regardless of nationality, what style you aim for is up to you.
I think that some Japanese players who participated in this training camp were attractive in their harsh Korean practice, where their physical and mental skills were improved. On the other hand, some Korean players would like to pursue the speed of the pitch rather than the power as in Japan.
I think this Japan-Korea joint camp was very meaningful in that children could feel the different teaching methods and cultures with their skin.
(Interview = Kenji Hirose)
