Most club players can’t train 40 hours per week due to family commitments, school, job, etc…  However, most players can dedicate around 10 hours per week to improve.  For my personal students, I ask them to work hard to produce the best possible 10 hours that they can do.  I ask them to do 4 hours of matches, 1 hour of serving practice, 1 hour of physical training, 1 hour of video analysis, and 3 hours of training with the Newgy Robo-Pong 2050 robot.
 

Dear Tournament Participant,
 
Thank you for entering the Newgy Cincinnati Open!  Your participation is what makes this event possible. There are several news items that I would like to share with you...
 
#1 Player Listing
Please check the list and make sure that you are entered in the correct events http://omnipong.com/T-tourney.asp?t=102&r=91&h=  If you know someone else who has mailed the form and is not on the list, please have them contact me asap.
 
#2 Payment

Bible Verse of the week
 

1Timothy 4:8  For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
 
I am training very hard to reach my table tennis goals, and I really believe that it is a good thing.  However, I must keep the right perspective that tt is temporary.  Serving and loving God has major spiritual benefits in this life and also in the life to come. 
 
 

In a recent tournament, Shreyans Bafna and I were able to upset a very strong doubles team – Cheng Li (rated 2590) and Yi Chi Zhang (rated 2580).  I’m writing this article, not to brag about our win, but to show you some of the problems that they encountered.  You might encounter some of these exact same problems when playing a lower-rated opponent.
 
Problem #1 Lack of Focus