Juniors in South Africa

Continuing from Yogi_bear thread - Table Tennis with a Heart (thought of starting a new thread to put all these link in one thread), http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28261&PN=2&title=table-tennis-with-a-heart

http://imageshack.us/g/1/9768616/
This is from 18 Sep - club training, with some juniors (2 of them provincial) and 19 Sep - private training, with 4 national juniors (3 went to Dortmund) and 1 provincial 13 year old. As the national champs is 10 days away, so the focus is more around the competing juniors. There was also a tournament in the background.

Popperlocker - how you like my penholder? She is only 13 years old and she didnt want to give back my racket lol. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/407/dsc07445.jpg/

I have around 170 balls left (from 220 earlier in the year), need to buy more for next year.
Alot more players have ask to train with me. I think I need to teach some of them to feed, otherwise the rotation between the players is going to take long.

I prefer to work with max 2 players at a time, but right now it is around 4 to 8 at a time.... abit tough and not putting enough quality into the players. Any advices?


Edited by ZApenholder - 09/19/2012 at 7:09pm

Thanks Popperlocker

Your youtube video link is a good idea, so everybody is moving, and no one resting (I don't like those kids resting hehehehe)

regarding trimming of a shakehand racket, one of my practice partners actually said we can do that (apparently he is a decent craftman too)..... how did you know we were discussing it????

popperlocker wrote: Does she have small hands? If she has big hands, would the handle be too thin?

Well, she is still a 13 yr old, and at present - small hands.
Well, I told her she can try out my penhold racket after the nationals. Didn't want her getting use to some other blade/rubbers for "fun" while the tournament is 10 days away.