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Joze Urh is an energetic and innovative coach, constantly developing advanced coaching techniques. Currently, he is the Slovenia National Coach & Head Coach of the Slovenian Training Center, who led the Slovenian Men's Team to the Bronze Medal in the European Table Tennis Championships in 2017.

A former Yugoslavia National Team Player, he started coaching in 1986. During his career he coached in Italy & Slovenia, and successfully led table tennis players from all levels, helping them win medals in Cadet, Junior, U21 & Senior competitions.

During this lecture, that he gave during the ITTF Rough Diamonds Training Camp in Otočec, Slovenia in 2017, he focuses on the importance of footwork and balance for a player, to make successful ball contact.

In Part 1:

- how aside from hard work, luck is also a factor in an athlete's success (0:00-1:15)

- how coaching mistakes that are made at a young age sometimes cannot be fixed later on & the proper technique needs to be learned from the start of players career (1:15-4:30)

- what makes a good coach & how tough it is to fix bad technique habits (4:30-6:50)

- distance, time & obstacles - factors that influence players movement (6:50-7:55)

- specific movement in table tennis & how it is influenced by the game itself (7:55-9:47)

- example how the quality of a players technique influences a match, how taking risks means making many mistakes (9:47-10:54)

- each player can be classified into 3 categories depending on their basic table tennis position, how body weight and a players center of gravity is essential for a high level table tennis player, if it isn't correct - no chance for success (10:54-14:00)