Tiredness and frustration ....

vito memoli Asked 12 years ago

Hi Alois,

this is an unusual question. I've been "seriously" playing table tennis in a club for almost one year now and I'm very passionated of this sport. The passion appeared for the first time when I was about 15 and played just for fun with my cousin. After almost 16 years, now I'm 32, the passion showed up again and I decided to learn how to really play. I really don't mind to win at the moment. I just want to learn table tennis technique and be spectacular.  Unfortunately, despite of all my efforts (I practice TT about 9 hours a week) sometimes the frustration takes over me when I see the ball going to the net or off the table, or when the ball doesn't go where I want it to go. 

After all this introduction, I just wanted to know what you would tell your students or athletes when frustration and tiredness starts growing and you feel that maybe it's too late to learn and you lost a chance ?

Hope you will understand

Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago

Hi Vito,

This is really normal.

I think every sports person goes through this at some stage, yes even the champions. Everyone wants to be better than they are right now.  The main thing is to keep going through that frustration and just see where you can get to.  Keep putting in the concentrated hours on the table and see what happens.  You will get to where you get to and as long as you are putting in maximum focus then that will place will be where you should be.