How low could you go with 10,000 hrs practise

[Ethan]

the book suggests that hand eye coordination is developed through the hours of practice. They had a table tennis player, supposedly the fastest reacting player in the world. They put him on a hand eye reaction machine and he scored lowest of all the team. They all said the machine was faulty and the results wrong but they were not. His lightning reactions were specific only to table tennis. Apparently he grew up with a table in a shed with no room to back away. Constant hours in these conditions finely honed his ability to read the shot direction early and react quickly. If it was built in to his genes he would have those same reactions and fast twitch muscles for all tasks.

That is an anecdote. Of itself, interesting but doesn't really tell us much about skilled table tennis players in general.

You could identify a range of different issues in a range of players. Some of the training issues in table tennis may be rather specific to that sport and may not translate to golf or playing the harpsichord.

 

[Jimbooo]

the book suggests that hand eye coordination is developed through the hours of practice. They had a table tennis player, supposedly the fastest reacting player in the world. They put him on a hand eye reaction machine and he scored lowest of all the team. They all said the machine was faulty and the results wrong but they were not. His lightning reactions were specific only to table tennis. Apparently he grew up with a table in a shed with no room to back away. Constant hours in these conditions finely honed his ability to read the shot direction early and react quickly. If it was built in to his genes he would have those same reactions and fast twitch muscles for all tasks.

Yes I remember reading that in the book (Bounce iirc), however that's more to do with honing/training reaction times I believe, not so much hand-eye coordination, which I believe each of us possesses to some degree innately.