Do people still wonder why china dominates the table tennis world? I think with that kind of training anybody can make it to the top.
Yep, with that kind of training - anybody can make it to the top.
But then, not everybody goes through this kind of training, because of culture and structure issues.
In terms of culture issue, ie Western folks tend to spoil the kids more than Chinese ones.
Give you one real life example
Chinese kid - Coach shouted at kid for misbehaving. Mom saw this, called the kid over, and slap the kid on the face and shouts don't disobey the coach ever again.
Western kid - Coach shouted at kid for misbehaving. Mom comes over and shouts at the coach and wants to sue the coach.
Yes - I know a lot of you will say, this is human right, or what ever. So the weak parents must drop out they kids now.
But once we can filter out those types of parents, we still left with some fully commited parents and kids, the hours of hardship is another problem. Some countries will say - our kids can't take that much of hard work. They also need time to play, to do this, to do that.
Okay, so once we filter out and keep the ones that can take all the hardship, then we have a national structure issue - on how one can grow in the ranks and then have chance to play internationally. At this same stage/level the kid will also required to be in a improved environment for training. An environment that can weigh out academic and table tennis eveningly.
Next comes international travels, and lots of funding, sponsorships etc.
In otherwords, having a coach, training partners is the easy part.
Having a table tennis culture and table tennis structure is the near impossible task. Here I will link structure with funding.
The Chinese are willing to share everything - including paying the coaches to come and coach in all countries!