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my parents say for china I will need a personal escort because they don't like how things work there
Smart idea. Also, you have mentioned cost before, I hope you know how expensive training at 888 long term will be unless you are maybe 2500+. Or whether it will even still exist by the time you hit the minimum rating required.
 
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Smart idea. Also, you have mentioned cost before, I hope you know how expensive training at 888 long term will be unless you are maybe 2500+. Or whether it will even still exist by the time you hit the minimum rating required.
You're not joking. The prices there are pretty high.
I pay $80 a month here in Chicago
 
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my parents say for china I will need a personal escort because they don't like how things work there
It’s not just that, it also makes it easier to arrange things, translate and make sure you are taken care of. I have some good connections for places with english speaking coaches for players over 2200 if you need when the time comes.
 
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You have 10 hours of private lessons a week? Nice! If you can find a way to play more it would be very helpful. Every professional player from China who has trained at the club I am at has said they played 6-8 hours a day, 6-7 days a week as a kid.

With that being said, I would strongly advise you not to go to China to train. When they hear you are playing only 2-4 hours a day, they are going to think you are a clown (and to be clear they would think this of anyone training 2-4 hours a day) and then try to extract as much money from you as they can. They also might have you train with other kids from overseas or absolute beginner players. When I went to China, I paid money to practice with people who I could spot 10-15 points in a game to 21. It was an utter waste of time and quite depressing. One of my 2500+ friends went to China, beat everyone at his training center and the coaches felt bad for him. They would try to play with him and he beat all of them as well. He agreed it was also a waste of time and money. Another guy came to the same training center I was at, got so sick he was in bed for months and as soon as he was healthy enough to fly, he immediately flew back home.

Sweden might not be much better. Two best friends I know went there to train over the summer and ended up spending almost all of their time training against each other. They could have stayed stateside and saved money.

The only way I would go overseas for training is if I could train 6-8 hours a day with a Chinese province team. You will need connections to arrange this and it will cost you a ton of money.

There is nothing magical about training in China, Sweden or Japan. They practice 36-48 hours a week. Putting in the time is the magic.
 
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Great serves and FH loop, but the BH is a liability and will place a serious hard ceiling on progress later on. There are too many ways to punish bad BHs these days.

Major areas on BH that require fixing: use of fingers to generate huge topspin - understanding of hip+body usage in BH, BH chiquita is an absolute must to be a pro and best to start earlier. Once BH spin production and stroke structure is good then there are a lot other things to add including transitions, BH loop receive of long serves (all 7 spin archetypes!), BH counterloops, aggressive BH down the line switches (learn from Harimoto!).

There are just too many kids with insane BH on the tour that they will just bully OP hard on BH-BH.
 
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It’s not just that, it also makes it easier to arrange things, translate and make sure you are taken care of. I have some good connections for places with english speaking coaches for players over 2200 if you need when the time comes.
yes that would be great. when i get there I will talk with you
 
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