PingPod #10 - An interview with Simon Gerada of Health Wellness and Table Tennis

In this PingPod I interview Simon Gerada about his career and his latest business venture Health Wellness and Table Tennis. Simon is an Australian Open Champion, Oceania Champion, Olympian plus more. Listen to him talk about his career and some advice he gives along the way.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Table Tennis
• Ping Pong
• PingSkills
• Jeff Plumb
• Simon Gerada

[extremetabletennis16]

it is long but simon has a big story the questions were great jeff covered everything (well everything relevant)

[pingskills]

@extremetabletennis16 thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[houndy90]

Simon gerada is a pretty grungy kent

[pingskills]

@mctwistism Good to hear you are getting back into it. It certainly is a fun sport.

[pingskills]

@mctwistism I'd love to interview Brett Clarke but he unfortunately he is not interested at the moment. It is interesting to hear that you played against Rodney Carlyle, he was a very good player. Do you still play much Table Tennis?

[pingskills]

@mctwistism

1. Jeff Plumb, Mark Smythe, Russell Lavale, Brett Clarke all stopped training after the 2000 Olympics for a period of time and were not part of the squad looking to play at the 2001 World Championships.

2. I don't think it was just the coaches decision but a Table Tennis Australia decision.

3. I'm not sure of all the players in the squad

4. Good question, I'm not sure how much schooling he ended up completing

5. Simon was born in 1981

[pingskills]

@80pirt thanks for your thoughts. It is good to hear what people think.

[80pirt]

@pingskills Well my only explanation for that would be...Lets say a player with great natural talent started playing at upper level competitions without having the 10,000 hours in. By the time he becomes well known enough for people to care, he will already have his 10,000 hours in. But who knows...

[pingskills]

@80pirt I love this debate. It really interests me. You may be right but I can't find an example of an awesome Table Tennis player who hasn't trained close to 10,000 hours.

[80pirt]

@pingskills I personally think innate talent is just as important as putting the hours in. So sure, 10,000 hours seems reasonable for the average person, but some people could probably get away with fractions of that and be amazing.