MDTTC Christmas Camp
The camp started yesterday. Our summer camps are all five days long, with a morning (10AM-1PM) and afternoon (3-6PM) sessions. However, our Christmas camps are a bit different. They are six days long, with the first day a half day (3-6PM on Dec. 26), and the last day also a half day (10AM-1PM on Dec. 31), with the four days in between all regular days (10AM-1PM, 3-6PM). So yesterday we only had an afternoon session. However, since we introduce new techniques and give lectures in the morning sessions, and we want to start the camps off that way, we always treat day one at our Christmas camps as a morning sessions, with the morning session on the last day treated like an afternoon session.
I gave lectures to the camp yesterday on the grip, stance, and forehand. (I do all the lectures.) As I've done for the past three years, I then took charge of the beginners. We did lots of multiball training, sometimes in one spot, other times moving. We also did a lot of service practice. There's a wide range of skills among beginners, and they ranged here from some who couldn't even serve at all, to those who were ready to learn to serve with spin. The ages ranged from about 7 to 12, with most under 10.
There were about 35 players in the camp on the first day. Coaches are myself, Cheng Yinghua, Jack Huang, Wang Qing Liang ("Leon"), Chen Bo Wen ("Bowen"), and Chen Jie ("James"). Raghu Nadmichettu may join us later. Players range from beginners to a number of high level juniors, including Crystal Wang, Derek Nie, and Nathan Hsu.
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