The technical-tactical component in Table Tennis. Need for your evaluation

Abstract

The technical-tactical evaluation in Table Tennis has been treated in some works on the preparation of the athlete in this sport as an important part of the process, however they are insufficient, mainly due to their poor adaptation to the current Table Tennis; especially with regard to indicators and evaluative criteria regarding technical-tactical actions, given by the tendency towards subjectivity that characterizes the evaluation of this component of the preparation. The purpose of this work was to diagnose the current state of the evaluation of technical-tactical performance in Table Tennis; for this purpose the methods and techniques were used: analysis-synthesis; observation of national competitions of the 2016-2017 course, the controls of the preparation of the Table Tennis team of the provincial EIDE “Héctor Ruiz” of Villa Clara; Documentary review to know the treatment given to the technical-tactical component and interviews and survey of sports specialists on the subject. Main results: a characterization of the particularities and manifestations of the technical-tactical action in Table Tennis was achieved and the needs of the evaluation of the technical-tactical performance in this sport were determined.