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Yes and that question has been answered pretty extensively now - there is a chance but a very slim one that would require full dedication at an elite training center with elite coaches, which KTT has said he is unable to do. So that makes a slim chance even slimmer. I agree everyone can be...

Basically a perfect example of hitting the benchmarks around ages 14 (2400 minimum, probably 2500) and 18 (2650+) that I and others have suggested for KTT... lol, that backfired.

I do know - the top coaches in the USA make good money. They can clear 6 figures a year easily especially in the Bay Area. If a club tries to take too much of the private lesson fee they will just go to another club that will offer a better percentage, so, most clubs in competitive areas can't...

This is most likely correct I wouldn't say 0 to 1800 in a year is easy, that would be a discredit to KTTs progress so far. But it has definitely been done before by many people, many of who didn't end up 2500, or top 50 in the world. And it is MUCH easier to go from 0 to 1800 in a year than it...

Why?

You are thinking way too far ahead. You should worry about getting to 2500 at the minimum in the next 3 years. If you don't do that, and as you learned in the last thread, you have a long road ahead to reach that...then you can forget about playing in any high level table tennis center in Europe...

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...