Investigation On The Present Situation Of The Actuality Of The Old People's Playing Table Tennis In Shanghai

After China's entrance into a senile society at the beginning of this century, the population in our country is aging more quickly from these years on..Our country has always been highly concerned about the living conditions and health problems of the aged.As to aged people,health becomes a key to a high standard life,to some degree, health is every thing.It is not necessary to stress the role that physical exercises pay in keeping fit.However,senile people have to be espacially careful in choosing sports and controlling the intensity of exercis.according to their own physical and psychological characters,and social community they face.Pingpong.as our national ball game,is fit to be popularized among aged people because of its advantages given as followings:Besides its savour,simple equipments and sport fields for preparation,and low injuries during exercise,people can also adapt the tensity to their own physical capabiliy,which testify pingpong's universal suitabilit.Meanwhile,pingpong demands cooperation between upper and lower extremities;regular exercises make one person sharpper and quicker in response,and better at balancing one's body.In adition,people who often play pingpong can enhance the validity of their cardiovascular system and develop mentally healthy.But researchs focus majorly on the athletic competition minorly on popular amateur games,resulting in a gradual decline of pingpong's popularity among common people,espacially aged people.This thesis applied methods of providing documentary evidence,doing questionaire suvey,reporting mathematical statement and doing logical analysis,etc.A survey was included,which was about the situation of aged people taking in pingpong game,their value judgement towards sports,and the dimensions of social spport for their activities.The thesis analysed all these three problems from respective persepectives of people in different age groups,with distinct educational levels and different incomes,etc.Espacially with factors that will effect aged people taking part in pingpong games under detailed analyses,this thesis aimed at providing theorical evidence and reference countermeasures for carrying out and popularizing pingpong game among aged people.The main points are as follows:1, The majority of aged people participating in pingpong game gain support from their families.Because regular exercises help to boost vitality,enhance health,enrich spare-time life and promote harmonious relationships between others.2, The aged people's pingpong games are organized in forms of aged people's clubs whose main activities include drills and competions.These matches among the aged.however, are mostly high ranked,either the ones between home and abroad for communication or the ones among respective communities or clubs for strenghtening friengship.There are few matches aiming at pingpong's popularity.3, In shanghai,most of the senile pingpong activities are carried out in pingpong clubs or community centres.people consume,on a large proportion, by paying club fees and buying sports equipments.Mainly self-financed or sponsored by enterprisers,aged people gain relatively few supports from Senile Sports Association,Municipal Pingpong Association or other offical departments.4, Through participation.aged people value sports more and more.They not only consider pingpong's advantage according to its benefit on health,but also gradually associate the game with spiritual civilization.And aged people with high income hold a more positive attitude 5, towards sports.comparing with the low-incomed ones.6, Main obstacles in carrying out pingponggames among the aged lie in relative governments'neglect and few supports.the insufficency of sports fields,and poor management over the activity.etc.7, Factors preventing aged people in shanghai from jioning in activities are large distance between sports field and home,no guidance over exercise and poor knowledge about pingpong,etc,among which not knowing how to play results failure to reach the preliminary goal of doing exercises.Consequently.the arbitrainess in participation arises.