Private Table Tennis Lessons
Private Lessions
Since opening his first Table Tennis Center in 2004 Robert Chen has been coaching table tennis players of all ages.
In 2005, Robert traveled to Guangzhou Ersha Tao in China, where Table Tennis Olympic and World Champion Ma Long was training. The purpose of his trip was both to improve his personal play and learn the best teaching skills.
In 2009, Robert returned to China for more training and coaching. While he was visiting, he played on the first seeded team in his age group at the Tianjin national tournament (CCTA) and placed third out of 500 players.
Guest Coaches
For Begining Players
Sometimes people are introduced to table tennis in someone's small basement, by a person who isn't a very good player and doesn't understand that table tennis form and techinque are just as important as proper form and technique are in tennis, golf, and other sports. A good coach will teach you how to do things correctly, improve your game, make table tennis much more enjoyable for you, and help you avoid injury
Some of the elements of table tennis are:
- Holding the racket
- Forehand Drive: Backswing, contact, follow-through, recovery
- Backhand
- Return of serve
- The Serve
- Spin
- Footwork
- Strategy
- Doubles Play
- Drills
- Physical Conditioning
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He Zhi Wen |
Yijun Feng 2020 US Olympic Team Member |
NYTTF periodically features very highly ranked players as guest coaches, like these two above.
Are you familiar with multiball practice?
Robert Chen and our other NYTTF trainers use multiball practice in nearly every lesson they give. The student gets to hit more balls because they don't have to stop to pick up that single ball they would normally be playing with. The trainer can precisely serve every ball to the location, at what speed, and with what spin they want to. You certainly will get a good workout.
Above: A demonstration of multiball practice.