He has much better form than the rest of us, and more experience. He's a good person to learn from. O'Neill credited his father with introducing him to the sport at an early age. It was a very family-oriented sport, so we played within the family. Training for table tennis is like training for any other racquet sport, only faster.
Players have little time between shots.
In addition to playing practice games, competition demands players weight train and run patterns, sequences and drills. O'Neill said table tennis is a form of athletic chess. At higher levels, competition can be tougher. For the U.S. Olympic trials, players compete in a tryout where only six are chosen in the first cut. These six play Canadians, and the top two players from that competition represent the North American team.