Yes I've noticed that young players don't particularly like feeding m-ball and many deliberately don't do it well. It's for a variety of reasons including some feel that they are giving their 'competition' too much help. Even when I see videos of those Chinese young players doing m-ball, their faces say that they are not really into it.
They will feed by blocking all day long, but multi-ball...maybe not.
But having said that, I have been to a German training camp where the multiball session was treated as part of a big end of day event. This went down a treat with all the youngsters
From the TT training environement I've been in, the child feeders are already great enough - even though they like it or not, it is working for overall improvemen通
And thats a culture i'm trying to introduce locally here.
A culture of high quality training - meaning you need to be loosing lots of calories, just like any hard work out in any other form of training or sports.
We have a huge shortage of top level coaches, have plenty of ITTF approved tables (thanks to Lotto funding), I have some balls (2000-3000), and but when i'm not there, people just fooling around and think that is training. They think playing a few matches, or some warm up rallies, totally 6 hours a week is called training........#hopeless, and that goes to our top players here too - kind of start training 10 hours a week, 1 or 2 weeks prior to international trips.
South Africa is very far behind, as you can see, they didn't even make the Commonwealth Games
As today is apparently World Lazy Day, I will let them get away with it, so I will stop my rant now
will continue tomorrow lol
But just imagine if you are a coach, with 20 students, on 10 tables, and each of them feeding to each other.
Coach can make adjustments to technique, walk around all the tables and step in when ever required
Now that is coaching like the Chinese (so much easier for the coach, and more improvement for the players)