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I do not know what an average coach makes. I do know that at some clubs if the club charges $75, the coach keeps $35-$50 depending on what club it is. However there are quite a few people who coach on their own and charge $100 moving from place to place to teach lessons during the day. They...

I know examples of fighters, runners, motorcycle racers, football, basketball and baseball professionals who started late. I can also give examples of guitar players and science types who are world class who started very late in the area they ended up. In table tennis I know of one person...

Do not go abroad unless your parents go with you. I will not go into why but the adults on the forum can guess why. Some clubs in Germany are bad news. Some places in China are bad news. I don't mean bad training either. Once you are 15, send me a DM and I can suggest some places but...

What level of professional? And from what country? Many top 10 players from various countries don't make any money outside of coaching locally. If they want to play internationally, it is like setting money on fire. Even if they want to play in their own country, it is like setting money on...

I was talking to a friend today about a popular club on the East Coast and I was shocked to find out that it is nearly impossible to find people even 2100-2200 rated to practice with. The higher rated players all coach and basically do not practice at all. This has nothing to do with the OP...

I should have been more precise. The point I was trying to make is there is still some small hope of getting to 2600 even if you cannot afford a live in coach. You do need as much top level coaching as possible. Also even if you get stuck, good things occasionally happen through sheer...

This cuts both ways. When I was training in China, a random player walked up and started telling my coach how much I sucked. What irked me was that constantly in China I was talked down to, even by this guy I knew I could spot 10 to in a game of 21 and beat. I then got pissed off and...

After hearing more about your coach and circumstances, I have a few more things to say: 1) I have seen kids whose parents hired live in coaches and budgeted 100-200k a year for training get stuck at 2200. 2) I have seen kids who didn't have the best training background, who seemed hopelessly...

Some advice: 1) Practice as much as you can. 2) Do not worry about your rating at all. Look at your opponent and try to beat them. They are an opponent, not a number. 3) Work on what you are bad at now. You want to be able to do everything reasonably well. Because if you are 2600 and...

Why don't manufacturers just release these super versions of the rubber for sale? They probably cost a lot more to produce and have much higher quality control. Also for some teams the rubbers are finely tuned directly for the individual athlete. But if you want to believe the top...

The service rules need to be completely rethought and rewritten. For example the ball has to be visible to the receiver from the start of the toss until the contact of the ball with the racket. I always ask "What if the receiver turns his back to the table to stands to the extreme side of the...

Yes the rubbers are very different. I once got some H3 "national" from someone associated with the CNT and it was much better than what is normally available.

I thought calling fault was ridiculous. If you gave me 5 minutes, I could find 5 other people playing in the same tournament whose serves are illegal yet nothing is done about it. Umpires are picky about some players and let other players get away with highway robbery. This is one of the...

If I were your coach, I would work on your technique and not your fitness. Furthermore if you didn't play for six months, I would wonder how committed you are to going from whatever your level is to whatever level you want to go to. I would also comment that any time in the gym is wasted and...

Also the level in some of these Chinese events are insane. You would need to be in the upper upper tier of Euro players to go to these events and have a chance of winning. There are a lot of ex-CNT players and people who refused to join the CNT for whatever reason, who do well in these events...

You will not like this comment, but you just need to play A LOT MORE. If you play for hours and hours, you will eventually figure out ways for your body to apply power to the ball and your hand feeling and instinct will allow you to make the shot more often. However, that is not what you want...

I stand corrected. I have friends in mainland China making 150k a year playing locally and in the super league. In America coaching is the way to go for pure profit. Still the people I know making money in China are ridiculously good players. I know many "reasonably" good players making 6...

If your home organization/country doesn't foot the bill for WTT events, you better have a large fortune to finance yourself with the goal of ending up with a small fortune. The easiest way to earn a living from table tennis is through coaching unfortunately.

I tried to explain to you where the 2% number came from. If you want to be nit-picky, it is 2.5%. Let me try again. Suppose someone has a rating of 2200. He plays someone whose rating is 2400. Their rating difference is 200 points. The USATT has decided that if the lower rated player...

OMG I cannot believe people are still claiming a 2200 player has a 20% or 25% chance to win against a 2400 player. Have you ever seen a 2400 player play a 2200 player? It is usually a massacre. Forget that though. The rating system is designed to be stable in the sense that if an 2200 player...