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Topic: table tennis university
Posted By: capablanca8
Subject: table tennis university
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 12:30pm
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What do you all think of this new training program?
http://www.tabletennisuniversity.com/ - http://www.tabletennisuniversity.com/
I believe it is sponsored by those who produce the Table Tennis Master DVDs, which I have found quite helpful. http://www.tabletennismaster.com/ - http://www.tabletennismaster.com/
I imagine any feedback on this online training program would be helpful to members of this forum.
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Posted By: LobbedYoud0wn
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 12:43pm
What bull sh!t |
Posted By: shaolinTT
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 12:50pm
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"University"? Come on. I don't think they have seen those ordinary Chinese "kindergarten" kids trained in that youtube video.
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Posted By: chris.b40
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 2:20pm
| Poor marketing headline, no more time to waste |
Posted By: kenneyy88
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 2:30pm
| I think it could be useful if you have the money for it. |
Posted By: linn
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 6:54pm
| I prefer to go to a club and train with a coach or even practice with someone whose skill is better than me. There is no short cut in table tennis. |
Posted By: Bennybenny
Date Posted: 12/05/2010 at 10:33pm
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There's no real way to learn table tennis effectively through online instruction unless you're already getting coached and want some supplemental material, and even that is questionable. This course sounds ridiculous. Get a good coach instead and get ready to WORK... ------------- Tibhar Stratus Power Wood FL Friendship 729 Higher Transcend 2.2 Black Gambler Outlaw 2.15 Red |
Posted By: LobbedYoud0wn
Date Posted: 12/06/2010 at 9:36am
how is the professor going to correct you when you're doing something wrong 
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Posted By: capablanca8
Date Posted: 12/09/2010 at 12:17am
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Well, not everyone can afford (or has access to) face-to-face coaching. I enjoyed their looping and serving instructional dvds and felt they were put together quite well. Granted their marketing is cheesy.
But I'm wondering if anyone has gotten instruction from TTU and can report back.
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Posted By: TableTennisMaster
Date Posted: 12/11/2010 at 8:08pm
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Hey guys, just came across this thread here and wanted clear up some questions/concerns...
We never said there was shortcut. In fact, we make it very clear that in order to improve you need to be 100% committed and ready to put in the hours of training.
Again, we make it very clear that one needs to be ready to work if they want to become a better player. You imply that online instruction is not effective. Then what good is this forum? Many people here ask for advice and get help, so is that no good? Not everyone has the luxury of a coach to train with one on one.
The same way people here get help and advice when they need it. With that said, in the future we'll be offering personalized feedback for people who wish to submit videos of themselves playing.
We've just launched and the feedback so far has been very positive. I'm sure as students proceed through the curriculum there'll be someone around here able to give a report.
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linn wrote:Posted By: capablanca8
Date Posted: 12/11/2010 at 9:07pm
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Posted By: Anton Chigurh
Date Posted: 12/11/2010 at 9:35pm
It's easy to be overly critical when sitting behind a keyboard. I have been guilty of it on more than one occasion (see my Brian Pace T-05fx review comments.  )Personally, I can say that I found the "Table Tennis Mastery" DVDs to be the most helpful instructional tools since my coach went back to Korea. Assuming this "Table Tennis University" will be of similar (or perhaps better) quality, I think it's potentially a great resource. Video instruction is not the be all, end all of learning the game, of course. An experienced, high-quality personal instructor will obviously always be superior. But for those of us who do not have access to personal coaches for whatever reason (and I would presume that would be many of us in the U.S.), I think the Mastery series is a beneficial substitute (and perhaps even a good supplement to "real" coaching). The fact that they perhaps go a bit far in their superlatives is simply incidental to marketing, IMO. Hell, many of the people on this forum throw thousands of dollars at Butterfly products without Butterfly even bothering to blow the corporate smoke up their heinies, and without their products making any substantial contributions to their improvement. Here is a company actually trying to sell people ways to improve, and not just sell products that feed one's imagination. If only Timo Boll would pose for the website...   ------------- Neo H3 40D| Offensive S | Tenergy 80 |
Posted By: sahiggs100
Date Posted: 12/11/2010 at 9:46pm
If these are the same people that did the mastery dvds and those dvds had practical value to them then I think that it would stand to reason that this program if you will, would also have value. How much value always remains to be seen though. I would be very interested in learning more about this program. And you have to consider this: If you try out this program for a month and dont like it then you cancel and at the current price you lose about thirty bucks. A lot of people pay more than that for a single sheet of rubber (I know I have  ). What do you have to lose?------------- Blade: Nexy Lissom FH: Gambler Outlaw Black BH: RITC 802 Short Pips Red Please Don't feed the EJ's! |
Posted By: Jonan
Date Posted: 12/11/2010 at 10:03pm
| I can see this as being useful for people who already have a table in their house, a laptop to look at while at it, and a robot and/or training partner to play with, yet lack a coached better player who will devote their time for money or interest to coach them, in other words, people who have no better alternative. |
Posted By: kenneyy88
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 12:05am
| This is great if you cant afford $50-$80 per hour coaching or you do not have coaching available to you in your area. Or you have a practice partner. |
Posted By: sahiggs100
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 2:01am
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I signed up with TTU a little earlier. I haven't had much opportunity to explore their site fully but this is what I can tell you so far. The videos are of excellent quality and clarity and the coach obviously knows what he's talking about. They provide you with free access to the mastery videos so you can make use of those and all videos can be downloaded onto your computer although I have not tried this yet. It has what i guess you could call a forum so you can discuss things with other members about the lessons or other things as well. The instruction videos don't come all at once, you get one per week which I think is a good idea but at the same time if you already have a grasp of certain things then it will probably be a little frustrating to wait for the next one so you can learn but I don't mind myself. The only thing so far for me is that it can be little hard to understand the coach sometimes because it is obvious that english isn't his first language. Thats about all for now except I should mention that TTU offers quarterly prizes for people who improve the most during that time period. You have to take a video of yourself at the beginning and then the end of the quarter and send it in. Although the only thing with that, what if someone is already pretty good and they pretend to be a lower level inorder to appear to make more progress so they have a better chance of winning? Its possible, but hopefully no one would stoop to that level. I'll try to give more info on this as I make use of it in the coming weeks and months. ------------- Blade: Nexy Lissom FH: Gambler Outlaw Black BH: RITC 802 Short Pips Red Please Don't feed the EJ's! |
Posted By: Anton Chigurh
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 2:14am
Thanks for the info. How much does it cost? ------------- Neo H3 40D| Offensive S | Tenergy 80 |
Posted By: kyle90
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 6:38am
| way to read the thread and website anton. it's $29.95 a month according to the website |
Posted By: Anton Chigurh
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 6:41am
Thanks for the pricing... and your condescension. Unlike your obviously superior brain, I don't read all details and retain them fully at all times. I truly apologize. ------------- Neo H3 40D| Offensive S | Tenergy 80 |
Posted By: sahiggs100
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 11:26am
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29.95 is the price right now, but they say that that price will not last for too long. It will probably go up once they get more well known and develop a reputation with players. ------------- Blade: Nexy Lissom FH: Gambler Outlaw Black BH: RITC 802 Short Pips Red Please Don't feed the EJ's! |
Posted By: LeeMc
Date Posted: 12/12/2010 at 12:05pm
I love this bit: "But know this... the $29.95 price won't last. It's an introductory offer, meaning we're going to raise it whenever we're ready, without warning."  In all seriousness though, this TTU is interesting and will no doubt do good for some people. And with the internet being what it is nowadays I suppose something like this was bound to happen. But I'm not kidding myself, I know it's unlikely I'll ever be an "elite" table tennis player because I'm not "100% committed", so I'll stick to being one of the "wanna-be table tennis players clogging the bottom rungs of the food chain" and being "counter-productive" "jerking around, hitting loops and smashes." But I don't take all the above quotes to be a personal attack on me (I do really  ). |
Posted By: BLADERUNNER
Date Posted: 12/28/2014 at 9:05pm
| Did anyone get a redirect error when trying to login to table tennis university ? |