Sorry for digging this thread, but I hope I can give some general information and clear some questions that were asked in this thread.
General:
At WSA we have two different fields: The professional groups and the Table Tennis School.
The professional groups practise almost every day with 2-3 sessions per day. In the last year we offered practise at 362 days. There are numerous players from many different countries who practise at WSA.
The Table Tennis School offers training according to the course schedule (not every day!). The schedule can be checked here:
http://www.wsa-tt.com/table-tennis-training.html. The Table Tennis School training can be attended by everyone.
Table Tennis School or Professional Group?
This just depends on the player's level. If you are not sure how good your level is, it is the best to provide us an uncut video that we can get an impression of your level. The level of the Professional Group starts with German 5. league or Austrians 3. league. Unfortunately I cannot compare it with leagues in other countries because I do not know how strong they are.
We try to find the best solution for every player and if we realize on-site that a group does not fit to the player we are flexible enough to change it.
Accomodation at WSA:
Unfortunately WSA does not have it's own hotel. We can offer players a stay at WSA Appartment which has a kitchen for self-catering, free WLAN and is only 3 minutes walk away from the hall. A supermarket is besides WSA hall.
We also cooperate with some hotels in Schwechat and can help you with the booking because we can get reduced WSA prices. Usually the stay at the hotels includes breakfast.
For meals (dinner, lunch) there is a restaurant open during the week (but not at the weekend) and there are some other restaurants within 5-10 minutes walk. You can also order food, e.g. Lucky Food - which is an asian restaurant.
Contents of a Table Tennis School course:
The usual contents are technique, footwork, coordination, service and return etc. It always depends on the players' wishes. From my experience especially topspin technique and service and return are hot topics for most participants.
We offer some special courses regularly which deal with a special topic most of the time (e.g. service and return course in March 2014 with Werner Schlager or pimple course in September 2014).
Included in every course is a multiball practise which is adapted to the player's wishes. The specific time for multiball depends on the group size.
Our aim is to have a player-coach ratio of 1 coach for maximum 8 players.
Sparring partners and course participants:
With every new course the level of the participants changes. When the group is big enough we can usually divide the players by their level and give every player the possibility to practise with players at their level. Sometimes this is not possible, e.g. when the group size is very small. Then we try to include with more multiball and robot practise, that every player can improve his level.
Sometimes sparring partners also join the course but we cannot guarantee it for every course.
Head Coaches at Table Tennis School courses:
Starting in 2014 we introduced a program for the Table Tennis School courses that includes the visit of a WSA head coach - Dirk Wagner, Richard Prause, Werner Schlager - or WSA professional player at every course! It will be at least 30 minutes that you have time to ask questions and learn from the head coaches about any topics in table tennis, e.g. Q&A with Dirk Wagner or service practise with Richard Prause.
It is our aim to have a WSA head coach or professional player at every course!
Video Analysis, free tables in the break:
Of course you can use the tables - if they are free - in the breaks and before / after the courseas long as there is WSA staff available.We also offer free test rackets to try out new materials in the breaks.
Short videos can be made during the regular practise, just to show a specific mistake / movement etc.
For a longer and intensive video analysis we use multiball and camera. The video analysis is usually one hour with multiball practise and discussion about the videos. As this is an additional offer please note that it is not included in the course prize.
If you have any open questions you can ask here or (better) per mail at: [email protected]
. It would also be fun to meet some of you TT-freaks that hang around here!
