How much do you pay for coaching?

I think you need to develop a relationship with your coach, bc if you just take a few lessons and want a coach to, say, show you to do a BH loop, then yes s/he can show you how to do BH loop, but knowing how to do it, does not mean you can do it correctly.  You need to practice it for hundreds of hours, if not thousands, and every now and then you still need feedback and correction from coach.

In general, if a coach see that you want to improve, and have a long term commitment. s/he will work hard to help you.  I have work with several coaches, and I find all of them interested in helping me.  They never want to spend too much time doing drills where they think I can do with other partner, bc they think it would be a waist of time and money... 

mhnh007 wrote: I think you need to develop a relationship with your coach...

Haha , Yea it is pretty cramp in there. I've always wanted to play some where with a lot of space to play and lob .

I pay 40$ a year @ my club. 2 hours a week with maybe 8-10 other peepz.
Sadly, you're only allowed to play @ trainings :s

780$ a year? That's a lot of money, what all does that get you?

tomas.gt wrote: when you say 20 usd, 40 usd, 60usd.. per hour, I cannot imagine how much it is. Here, 10 USD/hour is more than avarage hour-wage. And coaching cost around 10usd/hour.   However more important than coaching is to have somebody, who will play the ball that way, you need to.

Wow 12$ a day?! thats pretty awesome. Mine is 8$ an hour a person so for one hour for 2 people its 16$

 

Edited by HyperThyroid - 09/05/2010 at 12:55am

I pay 2 $ a month, 2 hours 5 times a week. I play with other players, sometimes with coach, coach always giving tips and saying which drills should we do, but it's only available for juniors. 

Edited by tablet92 - 07/08/2010 at 2:21pm

flyingmachine wrote: $8/hr?  $12/day?!  no wonder table tennis level can't go up in the states.  Can't imagine many young people being able to afford that on their allowances unless their parents are serious about the sport as well.  At the club I play at in California, it's $20/month (Wed/Sat), and the resident coach charges $40/hr.  A couple of clubs within driving distance also have group lessons for $20/hr.

My experience in coaches in the Pacific Northwest (USA) fits with all lot of prices listed here.  You can get coaches in the 2200-2400 range for around $40/hour and in the $2400+ range for $60 and up.  My recollection is the Stellan Bengtsson, the former world champion and one of the great coaches of the world who now lives in San Diego, charges $80/hour for private lessons.

Oh, and just to be fair, we do have another Stellan camp coming up (http://www.wtabletennis.org/stellanCampSummer2010/) and, with any luck, we'll have one next March, too.  However, everything I said here would still be my opinion even without the Stellan camps.

Takadigi wrote: I can tell your camp is not filled up yet. This is very blatant.

APW46 wrote: benfb wrote:  a quote from Sean O'Neill....  I would guess the 5 days of intense training would be the equivalent of probably 8-10 months of weekly lessons."    I have to strongly disagree with that, I have been running training camps for 15 yrs and coaching players on a weekly basis throughout that time, and I can assure you there is a limit to what can be absorbed in 5 days, whereas the opportinity of practice/ training presents itself for six days in between weekly sessions, with the opportunity for a coach to monitor progress and adjust and mentor his protege.  If he's stating that the time spent with a coach is equal over the two periods, I would agree, but to propose that the BENEFIT to a player is the same in order to sell places, is IMO missleading, and a sales pitch.

5 days=8-10 months of weekly lessons???

Seeing how I have played for roughly 5 year, 8-10 months a year, with out any camps at all, I would be at the same level with a 25 day camp? Highly unlikely!

All though I do believe a camp can be a very good thing to step up in level, I don't think it can replace weekly training and the biggest benefit would probably be a short boost in level, that might be possible to with hold with weekly practice.

APW, nice to see you posting again, it's been a while since the last time I saw you here.

I live at Houston, TX and play at Houston Table Tennis club right on Boone St. Coach Wang's rating is +2600. A lot of people like the way she teach. She show and correct all your weakness, she teach from FH, BH, push both side, return service, foot work and more for just an hour and the cost is $35 only. She doesn't care the money, she doesn't care you will come back or not, she show and teach you everything at once. Our club are very lucky to had a coach like that. She coach a lot of kid in the club included my daughter. Anne Deng, Judy wang, Richard Deng are cardet player and they were coach from her. hopefully, you will see her soon.