Tischtennis - Dresden

TischTenniser · Oct 5, 2019

Hello everyone,

I will be in Dresden for a month starting from November 2nd week. I googled "Tischtennis Dresden" and few clubs showed up.

- TTC Elbe
- TTV Dresden

I checked in the TTC Elbe website for the training timings .

I would like to play in the mornings before work say around ( 6-8 AM) . Can someone explain how generally people play in the clubs in Germany? Are only members allowed in the club?

Are the timings flexible?

Cheers

karupinkun · Oct 5, 2019

I cant speak about TTV Elbe as you have to ask them directly, but most gyms in Germany are
school-gyms. That means you cant use ther gym in the mornings.

Just go to a regular training and speak with the people. Im sure they will be happy to have some training guests.

TischTenniser · Oct 7, 2019

Any one from Dresden here or who plays in any clubs in Dresden ?

Shifu · Oct 7, 2019

You won’t find a club that has practice in the morning. All clubs are usually non-profit organizations which use the school gyms after school. Most clubs start at 7 pm for adults.

TischTenniser · Oct 8, 2019

Fabian said:
You won’t find a club that has practice in the morning. All clubs are usually non-profit organizations which use the school gyms after school. Most clubs start at 7 pm for adults.

Ok.
What about tournaments? Can i play any tournaments.. Are the tournaments generally open for all ?

mart1nandersson · Oct 8, 2019

The term "club" is probably the most misunderstood on this forum when (mainly northern) Europeans interacts with rest of the world and vice versa.

The V in "TTV" stands for "Verrein" which probably could be translated to something like society or union. It's basically a team. The focus is not on the individual player. Probably quite socialist to most Americans but it's a fantastic model. It's a non-profit like Fabian stated which will arrange trainings for a fairly low fee (typical an annual fee) and will also enter teams into league play. Some will have paid full/part time coaches and some will have coaches who do it for free. Some won't have coaches.

The standard of the players in a fairly big city like Dresden will most likely be very very good especially compared to India.

thomas.pong · Oct 8, 2019

mart1nandersson said:
The term "club" is probably the most misunderstood on this forum when (mainly northern) Europeans interacts with rest of the world and vice versa.

The V in "TTV" stands for "Verrein" which probably could be translated to something like society or union. It's basically a team. The focus is not on the individual player. Probably quite socialist to most Americans but it's a fantastic model. It's a non-profit like Fabian stated which will arrange trainings for a fairly low fee (typical an annual fee) and will also enter teams into league play. Some will have paid full/part time coaches and some will have coaches who do it for free. Some won't have coaches.

The standard of the players in a fairly big city like Dresden will most likely be very very good especially compared to India.

Exactly, same in France and in probably just about all European countries.

Furthermore, since OP asked, he'd need to join a club to play nationally sanctioned tournaments which don't happen all too often during the regular season because team competitions prevail during that time.

My guess is that he could maybe pay a partial fee to play at a club during regular practice hours or open play, but he might even need a federation membership to do that for a month for liability/insurance reasons. I'm part of the management team at my club, and that's what we'd ask if someone would want to train for more than a week. We'd also only allow them to attend open play and not team practices with our coach.

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