Ahhhh...

I'm at my first tournament, and predicablely, I'm getting shit on. That in itself is no surprise and no big issue. I'm a little bit frustrated that I'm not even approaching being competitive (I haven't won a single set so far, and tbh it hasn't even been close), but that would be alright as well, aside from one thing.

I just don't see how I can grow or learn from this or really, any thing I do with TT here.

After a lot of googling, emails and talking, I've basically come to the conclusion that one to one coaching is an impossibility in this town - which would be fine, expect for the fact that I really don't think I'm at a level where I can manage my own improvement, so to speak - I've only been playing the sport properly for five months, of which only four I was actually coached. To put it simply, my fundamentals aren't there, and I'm certain that trying to learn on my own will basically give me impossible to break bad habits which will keep me down in the long term.

And even if I did want to try and improve by myself, I not only don't have access to a robot/balls, but the table tennis set ups at my uni's gym are only set up for the scheduled session.

I'm up a creek without a paddle in my mind, and maybe I'm just tilting to hard, but literally the only way I can think to improve is to wait until I visit my family in Hong Kong next year, and try and find a coach there. But for obvious reasons, I'd rather not do that.