GB Chinese Training Partner

[Dan]

The Great British Team have had a new Chinese training partner for a while now but know one is to sure of his standard of play until now . In the video below, includes the Chinese training partner 'Hao Peng' vs Darius Knight, Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford. Hao Peng is training with the England team to help the players prepare for the London 2012 Olympics!

 

[rahul]

cool... very lucky...!

 

[moriguchi2]

I just find it funny how a chinese training partner is better than a countries national team

 

[Mr. RicharD]

I think I've probably over stated this, but their training system just makes them better athletes. GB is one of the biggest falls from grace as they helped to start the invention of the Sport, but have failed to evolve with it. The training facilities and coaches in GB are just too old fashioned and this won't help them produce athletes at the top world class par. All you have to do is look at the Top Euro players and you'll notice that they all practice in China whenever they can.

The really funny thing is that Hao Peng isn't that high in skill level when compared to China's A team. He seems to be at a lower B to C range of skill. Not to mention that you really can't tell how good he is as he's a lefty.

 

[dici]

From the video, I can't see whether Hao Peng is putting all the effort or not. Looks like in some of the match type play, he just slack around...

If you compare the way he play at 0:33 and 0:44, he just abit lazy for the play at 0:33 >.>