Mavropulo O.S.
Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don;
Agafonov S.V.
Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don;
Trufanova S.N.
Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don;
Chub S.A.
Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don.

Objective of the study: To theoretically and practically substantiate the effectiveness of the methodology for improving the speed abilities of athletes in table tennis.

Methods and structure of the study: The experiment was carried out at the Rostov-on-Don municipal budgetary institution of additional education, Sports School No. 3. An analysis of literary sources, pedagogical observation, pedagogical testing, pedagogical experiment, and methods of mathematical statistics were conducted. Direct participants in the pedagogical experiment were 20 young tennis players aged 9-10 years from the initial training groups in the sports school (NP 3), 10 of whom were included in the experimental group and 10 players in the control group.

Results and conclusions: The results of the experiment confirmed the effectiveness of the developed method in the process of forming speed abilities in the educational and training process of tennis players in the experimental group. It was found that the use of special sets of exercises and game tasks had a positive effect on the indicators of all speed abilities of the participants in the experimental group, who began to significantly surpass their classmates who trained according to the traditional program.

Keywords: table tennis, speed abilities, physical training.

References:

1. Agafonov S.V., Mavropulo O.S., Zavodnyy N.A. Nastolnyy tennis [Table tennis]. Study methodological guide. Rostov-on-Don: Donskoy gosudarstvennyy tekhnicheskiy universitet, 2022. 37 p.

2. Serova L.K. Teoriya i metodika izbrannogo vida sporta. Nastolnyy tennis [Theory and methodology of the selected sport. Table tennis]. Textbook. Natsionalnyy gosudarstvennyy universitet fizicheskoy kultury, sporta i zdorovya im. P.F. Lesgafta. St. Petersburg, 2013. 232 p.