table tennis tips "Increase Spin in table tennis by Chinese coaching"
NextLevel has presented some really valuable info. One thing I will say about NextLevel is, until I played against him, I never really knew how good he actually is. It is hard to tell from video. But when you hit with him and train, or play matches with him and get into it you realize there is more than meets the eye to what he is doing. He has also explained the context within which his coaching has value. Not many people know how to work with adults and help them improve at this sport.
There are many things I have heard from EmRatThich that are decent pieces of information. Sorry Archo, he is different than you. My suggestion to you would be to stop arguing because you are only making yourself look bad.
However, what NextLevel has said about the false distinctions and the setting up of a false dichotomy--Chinese Secrets=Good, Europeans and others=THE WRONG WAY--does make me question a Vietnamese man who lives in France and his motives for presenting that he is a coach who has the Chinese secrets.
But NextLevel brought up something hugely valuable: CONTEXT FOR INFORMATION.
A coach who is telling a player whose arm IS relaxed, to relax his arm is giving information that is beside the point because it is already happening.
A coach who tells a student to turn his hips on an FH when the student is already doing it, but isn't doing something else may not be seeing the student and may just be parroting information.
When I used to teach yoga teachers how to teach I used to explain what I think teaching is:
Teaching is a problem solving issue around a subject. You have a person who doesn't understand something, and the problem solving is a process of figuring out what exercises or information will help that specific person go from not understanding to understanding.
A lot of how many people think of learning is as an intellectual process. But with something like TT, you can understand something very well and yet, you are still not able to do it. So, for physical learning, it is more than that. And a person who is able to take someone from not being able to loop, to being able to loop, could be good at coaching that and maybe not so good as a coach overall.
There may be other people who are good at coaching very high level players and not as good at coaching fundamentals to someone newer to TT. There are many versions of good coaching. In some fields what I am talking about could be called specializing. One coach good at teaching fundamental techniques; another coach good at teaching game skills, a third good at teaching game strategy.
The main thing here is that a good coach is able to be creative, problem solve whatever issue is causing the particular player to not be good at a certain skill, and implement a strategy to try and get that player to improve and work past whatever is holding him back on a particular issue.
These videos, on many levels, are presenting fine information, that for some players will be ground breaking, for other players will be useful but not so special, for others the information will be totally beside the point. Because the information is just principles without a player who needs to work on a specific issue.
But it is hard for internet information in video form to be specific to a person's actual needs without something like what Brett does where he gets a person to send him video and then says: "try this, see if it helps."
So the information about TT techniques I don't have much problem with. But the comments that simple information about biomechanics for table tennis fundamentals somehow come from one specific race or nationality....I could live without that. Mechanics are mechanics.
But all this being said, I would really like to see EmRatThich coaching and the range of players he is effective at helping.
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