Is it alot of private training in the USA? I think that need to change if the tabletennis is going to become better in the USA. In Sweden and other countries you dont need to spend so much money to be part of organized training. Please correct me if im wrong
Another thing one has to ask, is if there is to be meaningful training for very little dollars, how and where is it gunna be done? Who is gunna do it for next to free? What venue is gunna let TT happen for hours for next to no money? Where are the Nordic invading hordes of kids that are gunna train this week?
Almost zero USA cities do not have city owned gyms with possibility to partition off 4-6 areas of all these sports at same time. The electricity for these gyms are not paid by the city. The coaches who would train people need money for a job. (Yet, there are some retired players who would coach for free)
The only possible existing currently workable infrastructure in USA is schools. Then you got the same problem getting TT into the schools. There are no 50 plus count of kids in each school eager to do a TT team. (Although TTD Member AGold did it and got a hundred to show up first day.) Then you got the problem of the school administration allowing a stranger they do not know to come to their school and be with kids. The schools do not care how much Safesport vetted an adult (there is not much vetting with that) if a school doesn't know anyone, they do not trust them, ESPECIALLY if they approach the school and offer to work for free... that is a big warning sign to them.
The national association does not have a few dozen boxes of 10 Million USD each stashed away somewhere to kick a portion of this off in a small way. There is no corporate or private donor who would donate to TT that would even approach one half needed to keep a homeless person's soul and body together.
The school districts actually have so much money coming to them through property tax money, it is silly ridiculous, but they mismanage it so much that teachers are paid not even a living wage and kids are pretty much overall getting a much lower level of academic achievement. Really, the schools are wasting the big dollars on facilities, harassment lawsuits, building maintenance, poor equipment decisions and big time sports programs, like American Football. I could run a school district using tents, 3x the teachers and money for comps for way less than 1/2 a typical school board runs its district, but USA is a lost cause on this one.
These are some of the facts on the ground in USA that is a challenge to get stuff rolling.
The key is to get pressure from kids in schools and young adults in meetup halls. Our national association has potential to work this angle right... but look at all the years of time and data we have on the subject and we can see what we got.