Ok, this might become a longer post. Mightaswell get yourself a cup 'o tea first.
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Just for heck of it.
I am actually bit interested in this matter.
I will appreciate your honest thoughts.
As SOME might know, XIOM EUROPE is located nearby Frankfurt. (Somewhat fairly close to Wiesbaden)
In Korea and Japan, there are many coaches that offer great coaching.
Meanwhile In Germany it is very hard to find any coaches that can offer such service.
I've seen coaching service nearby Koln, but I think it is very very rare.
If XIOM is interested investing in table tennis sport hall, and invite coaches from Korea, Japan, or China to coach adults in Germany. Do you think people will be interested? IF so, how much do you guys feel is reasonable pay?
Well there are already japanese and chinese coaches here.
Afaik Fulda's coach is Meng QingYu. His son Meng FanBo is also a promising talent.
Frickenhausen's coach is Qiu JianXin. His sons Qiu Dang and Qiu Liang are also pretty good.
In Braunfels (Oberliga Hessen) there is Gao Xiaojun.
In Bad Königshofen the headcoach is Itagaki Koji
So the market is there but it's no easy biz. To be honest some coaches are looking for employment too. Best thing would be to contact the club managers and/or TT'assosciations like HeTTV, BTTV and such.
Actually Xiom player and TTD member the TTR-Hunter Simon Sangals should be able to help Isaac on this. Victas/TSP and the japanese website "shakehands" raised their output and PR-campaigns too.
http://www.shands.jp
So no need for Xiom to hold themselves back here.
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I have been living in the area for almost two years. Just started getting into table tennis again and currently playing at TuS Eintracht. Aiming to figure out the whole Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz tischtennis scene but it can be difficult since mein Deutsch ist schlecht. If anyone is interested in playing or offering coaching services in the area please let me know. Thanks
I have been playing table tennis for over two decades in South Germany and I have not met a single adult amateur player yet that gets personal coaching. I think this is a bit different to USA, at least from what I have read about that in this forum. It sounds like it is quite common to find a coach there and pay him for some lessons.
In South Germany it is quite easy to get good training and coaching as a decent kid. As an adult however, you are either lucky that there is a training partner in your club with coaching experience who you coudl ask for advice or you play on such a high level that your club provides a trainer for an adult group. It is quite uncommon to get professional coaching as an adult regularly at an amateur level. You have to be really lucky to find someone near your area who is willing to do that for a bit of money.
The situation isn't as dark and depressing as Xylit has described though he's close to reality.
However, because of this i've organised a coach who's a friend and used to be a former working mate who comes to our club once a month to coach us adults. If you like to i can send you the dates via pm.
Their website is:
http://www.ck-tischtennis.de
He, his wife and his team also coach at other clubs like TTG Bingen/Münster-Sarmsheim from the Damen-Bundesliga (highest female league) and from my Information also more frequently than just once a month. Two of them are in your area. One is in Mainz Nieder-Olm the other in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim.
At some clubs you don't have to be a member to participate at the lessons, but you might have to pay a bit more than if you were a member.
But it's still affordable.
Club coaching is something around €10,- for 2h for external players. One on One coaching is around €30,-
Einzeltraining
Anzahl der Spieler Trainingdauer Preise pro Spieler
1 Spieler 60 Minuten 30 €
1 Spieler 90 Minuten 45 €
2 Spieler 60 Minuten 15 €
2 Spieler 90 Minuten 22,50 €
zzgl. Fahrtkosten 0,30 €/km
Not sure how good they speak english though, so in case you need translation mightaswell just join our club.
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These are just a few options.
There are more coaches that come to clubs:
like
https://www.loris-tischtennis.de
You can also book some pros/ former pros like Thomas Keinath.
Or you can visit TT-Schools
https://qiutts.de (who's also coaching 2nd Bundesliga team Frickenhausen. The coach his son is German National team member Qiu Dang)
Or
https://www.topspin-sport.de in the very south of Germany.
The Butterfly TT-school in Grenzau
https://www.zugbruecke.de/de/Wellnesshotel-Zugbrücke-Grenzau/Butterfly-Tischtennis-Schule/4/
Or the Andro tt-school in Düsseldorf
https://www.borussia-duesseldorf.com/tt-schule/kurstermine-anmeldung/
Just to name a few. Certainly there are more.
Sorry for the novel...