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Unless you are very high level by the time you are 15, think 2600+ at the least, you will have to pay out of pocket in order to train at a high level club. Unless you are much higher level than most of the people you are training with or bring something extremely valuable to the table, no, you...

Using the info provided by KTT, one can pretty easily identify (at least one of) the juniors he is referring to here. That is a 14 year old who had similar early progress as KTT at a similar age (0-1800 in about a year or so) and then he has only gone from 1800 to 2000 in the last two years...

I'm trying to be patient as we all should be with a 12 year old, but it is starting to feel like that.

We're going in circles here. You can call it "very good", but the simple fact is that he has no experience in coaching someone to the top USA junior level. Or beyond that, which you've stated is your goal. Coaching experience matters, and training someone to high amateur level is very different...

I didn't say your coach isn't good, but I addressed this in my first comment on this thread. I did my research of the website before commenting as I also said before. Reality is that 5 years is enough to develop players beyond 2000 and to even start sending them to national team lower age...

Not possible to pay your way into the training program at 888

A lot of repeating of things happening now but also a lot of important points that haven't been addressed by @KTableTennis yet. To try to move this along, one very important point I haven't seen KTT respond to yet is that he needs to be practicing with the best and being coached by the best if...

This entire thread was peak TTD

Often it is earlier than 16-18. 13-15 is most commonly where big progress is seen as players grow into adult bodies and gain power and physicality to add onto the fundamentals they have been building for years at that point. That is part of why I stressed the importance of building the right...

Maybe it isn't how you meant it, but anybody reading this exchange will interpret it as "I work harder than all the other kids I'm competing against". No big deal though. If it is too expensive I definitely understand that, it may actually be cheaper long term to go overseas than pay for...

Comments like this show that you don't fully grasp the magnitude of your goal. The difference between the 100th and 50th ranked player in the world is not much. The biggest difference is getting from top national level player (for countries that aren't top TT countries) which is around 2600...

Stay humble. Although your early progress in the sport is nice, you are still new and there is clearly much you do not know. There are kids your age from the USA, much higher level than you are now, who left their school and home and moved continents to access higher level training. There are...

No disagreements here, I think we can all agree that an 1800 11 year old is not going to be a future WR50 player but it is a nice dream to have and he seems to be making good progress in his one year in the sport. A realistic but still highly ambitious goal would be to reach 2500 or 2600, making...

Not sure if this is in response to the advice to get himself in a top training program as soon as possible. But these cases are incredibly rare. Getting surrounded by a top coach who develops your fundamentals early, along with high level and well trained training partners, is basically a...

I didn't say he didn't need to sacrifice anything, I said it is possible to do without sacrificing school for 3x per day training sessions. It has been done before. Not easy, but doable. But all of the people who did it, did it with the help of elite coaches and clubs.

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Again, he has extensive tournament history on USATT from nearly every year from 2005-2025. He has no record at any time in these 20 years of being anywhere close to 2700 or even 2600. Even if he was playing in Europe, he has tournament records in the USA from nearly every year in the last 20...

Your coach has an extensive USATT tournament history and he has been consistently around 2400 since 2005. His peak rating was 2445 around 2023. So no, he was never beating 26-2700s at his peak. I am rooting for you and your progress but there seems to be some delusion here.

According to their website, it was opened in 2014 and taken over by your current coach in 2020. That is enough time to start sending at least a few players to the national ranks, at least for lower age groups.

You could, but will be very hard. As said before do nothing besides for school and table tennis for the next 4 years, work with coaches and players who have proven experience in getting players to 2450, and see what happens. As mentioned before though, 1800 to 2450 is roughly 1000x harder than...