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Making a beautiful shot is most important; winning is...
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Making a beautiful shot is most important; winning is...
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I wish to start a talking point. Let me start by giving a context. Last week during my coaching, I had a conversation and I showed my coach a random video of Ma Long's powerful BH, something like this:
And being the fan-boy that I am, I was cooing how marvelous and wonderful the Chinese BH is and hinted to him I wanted to have something similar like that. Instead of expecting an, "OK, I will teach you my young Padawan response", instead I got a converse response.
My coach said, No! This Chinese style will not do for you. You do not have the built nor time nor strict training to do that. For that you need special training and being an amateur that you are, your legs will tire out too fast to learn this style like Ma Long.
However, to my wonderful surprise, the conversation with my coach did not end there. He continued, I want you to look at Harimoto's BH. It would suit you more with your equipment set up and play style. NB: I have been with him about ten lessons or so far, hence I would agree that he roughly know and understand my playstyle. He then continue to give me pointers on how to improve my BH which I will not list down here for brevity purpose.
This brings me to this point:
Why you should have a table tennis coach - PingSunday
The author of the above article brought a very pertinent point, if I do not have a good coach, I would still be in the dark searching on how to get a good BH. There are so many ways to skin the cat and without a mentor, I would have still been wasting my time looking for a technique that suits my built & equipment set-up etc etc.
My coach said, No! This Chinese style will not do for you. You do not have the built nor time nor strict training to do that. For that you need special training and being an amateur that you are, your legs will tire out too fast to learn this style like Ma Long.
However, to my wonderful surprise, the conversation with my coach did not end there. He continued, I want you to look at Harimoto's BH. It would suit you more with your equipment set up and play style. NB: I have been with him about ten lessons or so far, hence I would agree that he roughly know and understand my playstyle. He then continue to give me pointers on how to improve my BH which I will not list down here for brevity purpose.
This brings me to this point:
Why you should have a table tennis coach - PingSunday
The author of the above article brought a very pertinent point, if I do not have a good coach, I would still be in the dark searching on how to get a good BH. There are so many ways to skin the cat and without a mentor, I would have still been wasting my time looking for a technique that suits my built & equipment set-up etc etc.
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