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Due to complaints and the fact China are now so dominant in Table Tennis, China are now going to help train the Europeans it seems. European table tennis players will be able to en-role on a 4 year educational course that combines TT with Studies, even if your not professional they will prove they can make you a pro! Read on 
China to train foreigners in ping pong
by Malcolm Moore, Shanghai 6:00AM GMT 27 Dec 2010
China is to train foreign ping pong players after complaints that the country's dominance in the sport was making international matches look one-sided and ridiculous.
From next September, foreign ping pong players will be able to enrol for four-year courses at a new Chinese Academy of Table Tennis in Shanghai.
Yang Peifang, the vice party secretary of the new academy, said that since China was at the top of the ping pong pyramid, it had to take foreign "lambs" and "breed them into wolves" to encourage competition.
"If the foreign student is already quite good at the table, we will teach him ping pong theory. If not, we can improve his skills at the table too," said Mr Yang, who said the secret of China's success over the years has been a mastery of both technique and ping pong strategy.
Eventually, Chinese officials said, the 300 students at the academy would be split half-and-half between Chinese and foreigners.
Coaches at the academy include Liu Guoliang and Shi Zhihao, who trained the all-conquering Chinese men's and women's teams at the Beijing Olympics.
China's clean sweep at the Olympics saw it take gold, silver and bronze medals in both the men's and women's competitions and gold in both team events. It was the first time a country has won every available medal at the games. At the time, the Chinese public joked that ping pong was "the game with the most certain result".
Foreign players may have to adapt to a Chinese regime however, which usually involves up to seven hours of training each day and fewer than two weeks holiday a year. Chinese Olympians also boost their skills by playing one against two.
The Shanghai government will underwrite the £13 million start-up cost of the school and is eventually hoping to establish branches overseas to train more players.
Ping pong became China's national sport under Chairman Mao, who once called upon Chinese players to "look at a ping pong ball like the head of your capitalist enemy". He added: "Hit it with the bat of socialism, and you will win a point for the fatherland".
Mao eventually moderated his stance, however, and "ping pong diplomacy" helped China thaw its relations with the United States in the 1970s after a friendship emerged between Glenn Cowan, of the US ping pong team and Zhuang Zeding, the legendary Chinese player.
A handshake between the two men at the World championship in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 persuaded Mao to invite the US team to China, the first time an American team had stepped foot in the country since the Communists came to power in 1949.
The success of that trip, during which many of the Chinese players threw their matches to allow their US rivals to win, paved the way for Richard Nixon's surprise visit to Beijing in 1972, the start of China's re-engagement with the world.
However, the idea that China will share its prowess has not been universally welcomed.
Jin Shan, a sports specialist at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences asked if this "meant that Brazil should train Chinese football players?"
As Boris Johnson declared after the Beijing Olympics, ping pong originated on the dining tables of British aristocrats in the 1880s when it was known as wiff-waff and played with champagne corks and cigar box lids.
Source: www.ittf.com
Chinese table tennis players lift the men's Olympic team crown Monday after dowing European powerhouse Germany 3-0 in the final on Monday, August 18, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua] @ http://en.cnci.gov.cn/HtmlFiles/News/2008-8-19/5407.html
What are your thoughts on this?, just because of dominance does one nation need to help the rest of the world out... or is it merely because Europe hasnt quite grasped the funding that it needs if they want to produce the players they are after. Or are Europeans just not capable of excelling table tennis abilities to the levels of the Chinese. As Jin Shan did state, "does this mean that Brazil should train Chinese football players?"
China to train foreigners in ping pong
by Malcolm Moore, Shanghai 6:00AM GMT 27 Dec 2010
China is to train foreign ping pong players after complaints that the country's dominance in the sport was making international matches look one-sided and ridiculous.
From next September, foreign ping pong players will be able to enrol for four-year courses at a new Chinese Academy of Table Tennis in Shanghai.
Yang Peifang, the vice party secretary of the new academy, said that since China was at the top of the ping pong pyramid, it had to take foreign "lambs" and "breed them into wolves" to encourage competition.
"If the foreign student is already quite good at the table, we will teach him ping pong theory. If not, we can improve his skills at the table too," said Mr Yang, who said the secret of China's success over the years has been a mastery of both technique and ping pong strategy.
Eventually, Chinese officials said, the 300 students at the academy would be split half-and-half between Chinese and foreigners.
Coaches at the academy include Liu Guoliang and Shi Zhihao, who trained the all-conquering Chinese men's and women's teams at the Beijing Olympics.
China's clean sweep at the Olympics saw it take gold, silver and bronze medals in both the men's and women's competitions and gold in both team events. It was the first time a country has won every available medal at the games. At the time, the Chinese public joked that ping pong was "the game with the most certain result".
Foreign players may have to adapt to a Chinese regime however, which usually involves up to seven hours of training each day and fewer than two weeks holiday a year. Chinese Olympians also boost their skills by playing one against two.
The Shanghai government will underwrite the £13 million start-up cost of the school and is eventually hoping to establish branches overseas to train more players.
Ping pong became China's national sport under Chairman Mao, who once called upon Chinese players to "look at a ping pong ball like the head of your capitalist enemy". He added: "Hit it with the bat of socialism, and you will win a point for the fatherland".
Mao eventually moderated his stance, however, and "ping pong diplomacy" helped China thaw its relations with the United States in the 1970s after a friendship emerged between Glenn Cowan, of the US ping pong team and Zhuang Zeding, the legendary Chinese player.
A handshake between the two men at the World championship in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 persuaded Mao to invite the US team to China, the first time an American team had stepped foot in the country since the Communists came to power in 1949.
The success of that trip, during which many of the Chinese players threw their matches to allow their US rivals to win, paved the way for Richard Nixon's surprise visit to Beijing in 1972, the start of China's re-engagement with the world.
However, the idea that China will share its prowess has not been universally welcomed.
Jin Shan, a sports specialist at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences asked if this "meant that Brazil should train Chinese football players?"
As Boris Johnson declared after the Beijing Olympics, ping pong originated on the dining tables of British aristocrats in the 1880s when it was known as wiff-waff and played with champagne corks and cigar box lids.
Source: www.ittf.com
Chinese table tennis players lift the men's Olympic team crown Monday after dowing European powerhouse Germany 3-0 in the final on Monday, August 18, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua] @ http://en.cnci.gov.cn/HtmlFiles/News/2008-8-19/5407.html
What are your thoughts on this?, just because of dominance does one nation need to help the rest of the world out... or is it merely because Europe hasnt quite grasped the funding that it needs if they want to produce the players they are after. Or are Europeans just not capable of excelling table tennis abilities to the levels of the Chinese. As Jin Shan did state, "does this mean that Brazil should train Chinese football players?"
