TableTennisDaily Podcast #5 - Simon Gauzy

What’s going on everyone, this is the 5th episode of the TableTennisDaily podcast with current world number 34 and French National Team player Simon Gauzy. Simon currently represents Ochsenhausen in the top division in the German League where he trains and competes full time. Simon is only 21 years old and already has a French national men's singles title to his name as well as a European Mens Team Medal. We look into many different aspects of his game such as his current training methods, competitions, greatest achievements and much more.

We would like to thank Simon for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.

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Breakdown of the podcast

00:40 How it all started.
02:30 How important is it to start table tennis at a young age?
03:46 How good Simon was when he was very young.
04:35 Simons thoughts on talent.
06:35 How playing tennis at a young age helps with table tennis.
07:30 Thomas compares himself to Simon Gauzy ????
08:13 Playing in Ochenhausen.
09:45 Rivalries.
10:26 How much training Simon does.
11:55 Backhand Banana flick and Simon's famous trick shot.
13:55 Playing against Xu Xin and how Xu Xin makes him feel like a "small kid".
15:00 How are the Chinese so good?
16:00 Chinese national team hurricane that no one else has access to.
17:10 Multi-ball.
20:20 Simons thoughts on the plastic ball and how there are too many variations at the moment.
23:10 Strength and conditioning, squats and deadlifts.
25:15 Playing matches.
27:15 Thinking too much about ranking is bad.
28:45 Differences between playing for club vs reprinting country.
30:00 Coping with nerves.
31:58 Music before matches.
33:00 Best career moment so far.
34:16 Serve practise.
36:37 Simons current goals.
38:35 Instagram questions from TableTennisDaily followers.

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Thanks for listening!
 
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I've finally found the time to listen to this amazing interview. Outstanding job. Very insightful. Thanks a lot.
Kinda interesting that everybody's complaining about the Hurricane rubbers though. I mean if people would have started playing with Hurricane from the beginning then there wouldn't be a reason for complaints. So why not blame the coach who taught them to play with Euro/Japanese Rubbers instead of blaming the Chinese for using chinese rubbers. I mean: c'mon...
But the other points of the interview are very interesting. Especially the one about playing tennis, since tabletennis has become more athletic.
Thanks again. Great job.
 
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