Recent content by CluelessTTDad

Hi all, We'll be in Bormio for a few weeks this summer... by any chance does anyone know of any clubs or training facilities in the area ? Thanks !

... and start competing at 6....

No secret to being that good at 14, you just have to start at 4.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqHx5rEFvI&ab_channel=DigitalEvolution

Going back to my plumber, he's definitely pulling in more than 100k euros a year and it didn't take him 10000 hours of practice to get there.

10000 hours is the bottom line... I tend to agree with Matthew Syed when he said talent is nothing, hard work is everything. At 6 hours a week you should be elite level by the time you're approaching 50 years old. Even at 18 hours a week you'll be late 20s. And as an elite player the reality...

I think Donic own Newgy now if I'm not mistaken ??? Also, they've been pretty responsive when I've had questions.

I bought the 3050xl for my son's xmas present last year... he uses it at least half an hour every day at the moment telling himself every ball he hits is a ball that most of his competitors won't ;) To be fair he uses it every day in the normal world when he's not playing or practicing with his...

My son had the Applegren for a couple of years and was a perfectly good bat before moving on to a Nittaku Acoustic. He had Xiom Vega on both sides, this was also good for developing his strokes. Personally I'm not convinced about having different rubbers on BH & FH whilst still developing...

Interesting that someone mentioned Bjorn Borg as the zen type.... if you watched that movie "Borg v McEnroe" you would know that as a teenager he was far from zen but his coach gave one piece of advice that I try to drill into my son which goes something like.... It's not a match, it's not a...

I have to agree 100% with this. I was watching my son at a training camp last week where he was working on playing loops flatter on both the bh & fh sides and it needs excellent timing and wrist speed. He has been looping both bh & fh for a while with a much more open bat, a bit like Tom Lodziak...

Agree with the above post... I take my son to this one... https://www.zugbruecke.de/tischtennis-schule/tt-angebote/ ... a couple of times a year, he loves the training and the coaches are really helpful and know the wider German TT scene very well. They have training sessions every week and...

This sounds about spot on to me... I kind of think he's like a flat-track-bully, fine when he can hammer it past kids but lacking ideas when that doesn't work... that's what I was looking for... ideas he can work on.

He doesn't even like me videoing him for our viewing, let alone public consumption ;) To give you a broad idea... I watched a video of the UK under-13s boys final on youtube.. he'd give either of them a game. He also does a training 2 or 3 weeks a year with a bundesliga club in Germany... the...

I swear by compressport... great for old tired legs.... but then I am a runner and not a table tennis player.

- Work on his footwork so that he can play fast-fast-fast at the table. I see that "machine-gun" style more from promising girls, see for instance Dan vs Anna Hursley. But they rarely fully commit / lose their shape for a shot, sometimes even for the kill shot.) This is an interesting...