[Meatex]

Well if i'm not mistaken I was the first person to get coaching from aLtPiG and a few people told me coaching was a waste of money. So I thought I would post up a bit of a review of my experiences. I wish I had the money to do so for other coaches and as such I won't be drawing comparisons with other SEA coaches until I do get the opportunity to experience other coaches. So lets begin ^^

First off coaching is not for everyone - if you know your weakness and know what you need to work on, whether it be injects or just doing a build order smoothly then coaching is not for you most likely. But if you are like me and at a point where nothing you seem to do works or you have nfi how to deal a particular strategy or just feel like you are stuck then coaching can be very helpful.

I did 2 hours with aLtPiG and have have the VOD available on my stream (ww.justin.tv/meatex) so should you be curious you can check it out.

First hour was ZvP
Given that I was looking for some general help on the matchup we worked mainly on a smooth opening with 15 pool 15 hatch (something I never considered) against an AI. I would have liked more opportunity to play with human opponent but at 2pm on a Tuesday not many of my practice partners were on TT
We worked on basically roach hydra but didn't go into much depth. Again it was mainly focusing on smooth opening
Also I didn't come with any replays to go over which I wish I had done so I wasn't able to get any feedback or tips for the style of ZvP that I liked other than some theorycrafting about the style. He did have a link and some info prepare on ZvP which was cool.
The hour went by pretty quickly and looking back we didn't seem to cover that much but I did get some golden tips which will help me a lot.

2nd hour was for ZvT
Now this is currently my weakest matchup and expressed that I have trouble dealing with those marine tank contains / slow pushes. So he took the opportunity to teach me Losira style (outlined in this forum ^^) and again working on a smooth opening was the main focus. We finished up with aLtPiG playing T against me while I practiced trying to deal with his opening harass and the first marine tank big push following that. Again, looking back, it felt like we didn't cover much but I did get some good tips.

Overall coaching and style
I like that he, shall we say, set the theme of the coaching session - trying to improve the opening and emphasized making it as smooth as possible. His coaching gave some very helpful tips. I would personally like to play more against a person while practicing but given it was my first session and was trying to get the opening BO down I can understand. Replay analysis is part of coaching but I did not take advantage of that TT
aLtPiG is an extremely friendly and easy going guy and it was a pleasure just to chat to him (I probably shouldn't have spent so much time chatting and practiced more ) So the atmosphere was relaxed and very quickly got comfortable.
And there is certainly no doubting that at $15/hr he is the best value coach I have seen, at least for zerg

Conclusion
★★★★☆

Pros
Being friendly and relaxed is a big +1 for me
He came fairly prepared given what I told him about what I needed help with
Got some golden tips
Set a good theme

Cons
felt like we didn't quite cover as much as we could have (could be just me not having coaching experience or more likely me being too chatty )
Would have liked more vs player coaching

*He also offered to look at replays should I need him to (for free) though I think this would be subject to his time and I would assume for just a few replays ^^

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	Deserving coaches really need testimonials like this, thanks for letting everyone know how it went:)
	Sixth:	GJ Writing this up man
	Crankenstein: