Table Tennis Coaching – Stephen Hirst

Experience dedicated coaching from Stephen Hirst, former New Zealand representative and professional player.

Stephen has coaching accreditations and experience in England, Germany and New Zealand at beginner level through to International level.

Stephen is available for:

• One on Ones
• Club Visits
• Schools sessions
• Group Coaching
• Demonstrations
• Training Camps
• Coaching for all abilities

From just $30/hour
 

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• A previous NZ International Player with over 10 years coaching experience at National and International level.
• Experienced in the development of players from all ages and ability in a single focused session or as a group.
• Whether you require to fine tune your technical game, or to gain more enjoyment from the fast – paced sport. The coaching sessions are tailored for maximum success.

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To Book please contact Stephen:
 Home: 04 5896257
 Mobile: 021 655 100
 Email: Stephen290879 [at] yahoo.com

Ref attached: Stephen Hirst Coach (pdf)

Interesting new PingSkills articles

Check out the PingSkills blog with a couple of new entries with particular NZ interest in particular a wide-ranging interview with Richard Lee – 3 Time New Zealand Open Champion.

Maybe some new ideas for you to try out in the upcoming Composite Teams!

(thanks to Paul Griffin for the link)

Parafed have-a-go day

 

19 people attended the Have-a-go day held on June 20th at the Empire Table Tennis stadium. The event was organised by Parafed Wellington sports co-ordinator Michelle Laurenson.  TTW  was represented at the event with Secretary Stephen Hope setting  up and TTW Chairman Bruce Northover assisting throughout the day.

TTW coach Andrew Hubbard commented ‘ there were 7 disabled athletes, wheelchair athlete 11 year old Catherine Pot showed a lot of potential and is keen to continue.  Working with Parafed Wellington we plan to follow up on this day with regular coaching sessions for a number of wheelchair athletes who we hope may go on to represent Wellington at the NZL Parafed Championships being held in North Harbour 22-25 October.”

A special thanks to Empire Table Tennis Club  Building Convenor John Kane who spent many long hours making the bathroom facilities at Empire wheelchair compliant for this event.

How to achieve victories in modern table tennis

At a recent European coaching conference held in Zagreb, Croatia, LI Xiaodong who is a highly profiled expert and coach from China made a presentation to 60 participants from the  23 European Associations who took part took. LI Xiaodong is the coach of former 3 times World Champion Wang Liqin and many, many other World and Olympic Champions. To enjoy the full story please go the following webpage: http://www.ettu.org/level2.php?id=7&id2=59

To download the full presentation please click on2_LI XIAODONG_Victories_Modern_TT

Reading 4 to 5 times may assist to absorb this fasinating insight into Chinese table tennis.