How much do you pay for coaching?

i'm paying US$21.50 per session

A typical rate for club membership that allows unlimited club play is around $50-60 USD. Add another $60 a month to that and you get 20-30 minute lessons 3 times a week for the month. Our club has an ex-national player and a younger female coach. Both are easily over USATT 2400. This is pretty common in Korea. All kinds of players at or above that rating coaching or playing. The price for coaching at an average club is a veritable bargan and each club has netted off area for the multi-ball training, some clubs like ours having two netted off areas. I would probably pay many times thiis price in US plus the cost of time and travel if you are not in a TT strong area. My club is a 5 minute walk away.

I dont charge, but I only train clubmembers.

i get coached by the national team coach, he is employed by the school so i dont have to pay when playing in school . in the club where he coaches, i just pay the club $5 a month and thats it

I don't pay for coaching, we just pay membership fee for the club and can join a training group with a coach for free. private coaching is not very popular over here. although I think I would improve heaps if I had my own coach who could spar with me.

in our club you have to pay 20USD for mothly membership. It means unlimited playing on thursdays and tuesdays. Coached trainings costs 14-20 USD/hour.

I commend you APW46.  

Seems to be ur costs to play tabletennis are much bigger then mine, I have a fellow coach and we give eachother tips when playing vs eachother for fun.

Thomasson wrote: Seems to be ur costs to play tabletennis are much bigger then mine, I have a fellow coach and we give eachother tips when playing vs eachother for fun. But we play about 70 euros a year to play from Monday Evening - Saturday, (closed wednesday). We can play as much as we want, we have trainings groups on Mondag, Tuesday, Thursday and competition for seniors on Friday and on Saturday for the youth.

you are soooo lucky!!!  70 euros a year??  where i play, it's 10 times that much!!!

i wish i lived in SAN DIEGO, cuz i hear they have a great club there and they pay 40 bucks a year, which would be half what you pay!!

In the Silicon Valley Bay Area (northern California), the rates for good private coaching varies between $35 to $65 an hour. E.g., A 2400+ rated player like Truong Tu would charge $35 + $3 for an hour while someone like Stefan Feth (National team coach) would charge $65 an hour. Those in between (like Hailong Shen, Jitendra Gidla, Anal Kashyap --> all 2500+ rated players) would charge $40 plus any drop-in fee for the club (club members don't have to pay the drop-in fee).

Group lessons are cheaper. But you get what you pay for.

My coach, coaches me and my friend for 3 hours and all we do is buy him lunch. Which never goes over $10. at most like $9. xD

DreiZ wrote:   i was thinking of getting few lessons but none of the coaches ive seen really attract me that much. it seems like alot of them are focused on making money...

ain't that the truth!!!

yeah, those "coaches" can make a lot of money here.

if you charge $50/hr. and you work 5 hrs./day and 5 days/week, that comes out to $60,000 a year!!  and, if you're smart, you won't report it to the IRS, which means you won't lose any money (around 30-35%, depending on where you live) to taxes.

so, it behooves them to seek out totally clueless people and teach them nothing, yet keep them coming as often as possible to fork over the money.

if you are 1500-level and you are taking, say, 2-3 lessons per week, you should see some real improvement within 4 months, cuz the basic strokes and footwork are relatively easy to learn, so long as the coach knows how to teach you. 

but the complicated thing about this game is tactics, which involves the serve to a large degree, and that takes much longer and requires learning a way of thinking.  and that's what generally trips people up, coaches and players alike.


Edited by takaaki - 07/05/2010 at 9:47pm

I pay $10/month to the club, and play 4 days/week. In the club, advanced players teach me a lot. I am a beginner/intermediate, so, over 1500 players who know the basic skills are good enough for me. I always try to practice with them rather than play a match.

DreiZ wrote: I live in NY, the club that i play in has few coaches and one of them offers lessons for around 40-50$ for an 1 hour.  Higher ranked coaches 2500+ that come once in a while teach for about 60$/hour (one of them is Atanda Musa). The cheaper coaches are mostly chinese (their rating ranges 2200-2400) and charge less for indvi/group lessons and if your a member of the club. We had a 2600~ player from france (Damien Provost) and i think he gave few lessons for 60$/hour.   i was thinking of getting few lessons but none of the coaches ive seen really attract me that much. it seems like alot of them are focused on making money...

I know I live in Ny also and the coaching price is ridiculous... I would love to take some lessons but its just too expensive.

How many lessons would you have to take to improve your game noticeably?