Dirk Wagner is currently The Sporting Director and Chief Coach at Grenzau Table Tennis School.

He was The Head Coach at the Werner Schlager Academy from 2010 to 2016, Chief trainer at Borussia Düsseldorf from 2006 to 2010 where he won The German Cup and German Championship in 2007, European Champions League Winner and German Championship Winner in 2008, European Champions League Winner, German Champion and German Cup Winner in 2009 (the first federation that won a triple).

He studied at the Academy of the German Olympic Sport Federation in Cologne.


During this lecture he talks in detail about the profile of a contemporary Table Tennis Coach, everything he has to know, do and think about.

In Part 2:
- How to be a businessman and a table tennis coach & when to and when not to delegate (0:00-5:10)
- How to organize your working environment & how to make a good structure, a good plan for your player so that you can focus on the day to day training (5:10-9:20)
- How being a table tennis coach is a 24/7 job and why a table tennis coach needs to be proactive & how to make positive long term changes and effectively work with associations, clubs, parents, and players at the same time (9:20-13:46)
- Why you need to promote table tennis & how to deal with various types of media 13:46-17:39

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