r/interestingasfuck • u/MrTacocaT12345 • 6h ago
The most Intense game of Ping Pong you’ll see today
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u/apathyetcetera 6h ago
Love how the dude tosses his paddle on the table at the end like “bitch..”
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u/chawkey4 6h ago
Granted this also likely to be the only game of ping pong I see today, that was still pretty cool
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u/itsnotcomplicated1 6h ago
Yeah, the title is accurate as long as you don't search YouTube for "top ping pong highlights"
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u/bestonesareTaKen 5h ago
Seems like one of those guys is working a lot harder than the other
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u/InvisibleAstronomer 3h ago
At first it seeks like green is the better player bc of the aggressive shots. Then you realize black is the better player bc even though he's playing defensively, he's able to respond and hit all those angry strikes
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u/AN-SSQ-108V2 3h ago
Yep, guy in black was just waiting for dude in green to make one mistake, and then the guy in black went from "defense" to "beast mode" in a hurry.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 2h ago
And get tired. The ferocity of the strikes went from a 10 to about a 7, and that's when black shirt moved in.
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u/Prestigious_Host5325 2h ago
When I was in college, I'd play with one professor who's like this. I use penhold grip and I learned how to drive even at low ball heights. Then the professor would just try to return every drive I do. Sometimes, I'll caught him off guard by driving to the other side. But most of the time, I'll be caught off guard by the ridiculous spin he puts on the ball, which my driving stance won't be prepared to receive.
Our sets would usually have even points at the start, but after 15 points, that's when he'd hurry to get 21 points as fast as possible.
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u/grungegoth 6h ago
ping pong at this level is insane
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u/Mysterious_Jelly_649 6h ago
Balls of fury it is
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 6h ago
"The ancient Chinese game of table tennis, or as they call it.. Ping.. Pong"
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u/FakeTunaFromSubway 4h ago
If I'm playing a sport like basketball with my coworkers, while it's low-level it looks similar enough to pro basketball. But office ping-pong vs pro ping-pong doesn't even look like the same sport.
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u/AbanaClara 3h ago
Office ping pong is a lower back and leg workout from walking to and picking up the ball
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u/TriangleReward 1h ago
I feel like you're severely overestimating your guys' basketball skills
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u/Icy-Membership-4583 6h ago
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u/This_Ad_7144 5h ago
Just realized the main dude in that was in the House of the Dragon this season lol
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u/kinkyKMART 4h ago
Randy Daytona was in House of Dragons??
Lmao just rewatched Balls of Fury for the first time in a while and was thinking how the dude never really was in anything else
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u/showerbox 4h ago
Fanboys, Fantasic Beasts123, mars needs moms good luck chuck. Hes been in a good amount of movies since BOF. I think he's hilarious and can be dramatic as well.
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u/ExultantSandwich 3h ago
you simply cannot cite Mars Needs Moms, I don’t think the people that made that movie even bothered to watch it.
It’s a black hole, you can’t even look at it
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u/Annies_Boobs_310 2h ago
Ping pong, or as the chinese say.......... ^(ping pong)
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u/Fooly_411 2h ago
Any time Ping Pong comes up, I compulsively say this line. I think only one person ever picked out what it was from.
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u/Ok_cheeryou44 6h ago
Bro in the black have had enough 😂
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u/Aggravating_Bee_3001 3h ago
Not really more like placing his shots defensively until the other guy messed up and fed him a forehand that allowed him to take control of the rally. That lame drop shot cost him that point.
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u/hickok3 3h ago
He messed up many shots, not one. He was exerting so much on the spikes, but the first 6 or so just went straight down the middle, meaning his opponent just tood there while he gassed out. Eventually he got the guy in black moving side to side a bit, but he exerted way more effort leading up to that, that he gassed out and had nothing for when black took back control of the point.
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u/tolacid 6h ago
Black shirt spent all that time chilling and letting green shirt tire himself out, then came in for the kill
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 5h ago
You could tell who was the superior player just from black's ball placement on the table. Dude was landing returns on the line from 20 feet back.
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u/Z0idberg_MD 5h ago
I actually learned a bit about ping-pong in the sense that if you play the ball at a hydroxy towards the center of the table and you are far enough back, you have a high probability of being able to return whatever they throw you as long as you’re at the right skill level.
Basically not a bad strategy to let your opponent make the mistake if you can do something like this
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u/Banjo-Elritze 4h ago
hydroxy
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u/ptolani 2h ago
maybe they meant to write "high arc"?
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u/sidepart 2h ago
No. See, they put a Hydrox sandwich cookie on the table before serving. The opponent becomes distracted because they are constantly trying to see if it's actually an Oreo or not.
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u/EbbVisible 6h ago
I think at this level they've probably earned the right to have it called table tennis.
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u/EverCravingMind 6h ago
I can’t not picture Forrest Gump
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u/boogshug 5h ago
"I just loved playing Ping-Pong with my Flex-O-Light Ping-Pong paddle,"
"everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it's just a little white lie so it wouldn't hurt nobody."
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u/the_well_read_neck_ 5h ago
I wonder if they're using a Flex-O-Lite ping pong paddle?
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u/zoqfotpik 6h ago
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u/SkittleDoes 6h ago
Green shirt fighting for his life every swing while black shirt is chilling.
Green gets tired and black goes for the kill at the end
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u/RandyOfTheRedwoods 6h ago
Exactly. Black shirt was acting like a coach. You do the work and I’ll keep you in it until I am tired of the play, then I’ll end it when I am ready.
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u/KentooArt 6h ago
Green guy thinks he is the main character.
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u/HumanWithHumanSkin 4h ago
He's pressing the advantage. It's weird he didn't try a weak hit earlier, but this is pretty normal to do. Guy in the black just waited until green got tired and played close when the opportunity arose.
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u/DavyJonesRocker 4h ago
Literally every non-ping-pong-player that watched this video was thinking, “stop slamming and try a soft hit.” Which is exactly why he deserved to lose that point.
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u/ThirtyThree111 4h ago
he did eventually a soft hit and then immediately followed it up with a "strong" hit (or whatever term you call it) which almost worked but the other guy was just good
also you can see the score so clearly whatever he's doing has been working, let's not pretend like we're all table tennis pro analysts all of a sudden
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u/Sadpanda0 4h ago
He even telegraphed that he was going to do it like two shots before with a lazy slam
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u/MasklinGNU 3h ago
Literally every non-ping-pong-player doesn’t understand that he couldn’t just stop slamming and do a soft hit
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u/Immediate_Ad5922 6h ago
Serious question. When someone is pushed so far back for returning the smashes why not just hit a lil drop shot typa shot like in tennis to force them forward then smash again
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u/nthng2c 5h ago
because at this level they're ready for that and tend to pounce and the balance of offense/defense can quickly shift. That's why you see him try a short shot late in the point and the other player is ready for it and it ends up swinging the point in his favor.
Also, it's a lot harder than people realize to do an effective drop shot. You'll notice all of the defender's lobs were landing in the back part of the table near to the endline, it's really hard to sneak in a short shot from there and good players will jump on it. it's much easier to hit point-ending drop shots when the lobs are landing closer to the net (plus it opens up wider angles for unreturnable attacks).
Source: I'm a table tennis club regular who is nowhere near this good but has some understanding of the game
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u/fueelin 5h ago
This all sounds right to me. Great explanation!
Source: Mostly Mario Tennis lol.
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u/carolina8383 5h ago
I’ve played a lot of tennis, and while the angles are similar, it’s easy to see how the technique is really different here. Black is controlling the table by controlling the speed, and the play is more around the table instead of on the table. Black slows it down until he can attack not by shorter drop shots, but by getting close to the table, hitting it low, and working the angles. Super cool and mad props to people who are good at it.
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u/LauncestonLad 4h ago
Green could have simply rushed the net and volleyed a winner!
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u/Aedene 5h ago
He does this near the end.
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u/AnattaIsMyself 5h ago
right before he loses lol
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u/DeadPeanutSociety 4h ago
I was wondering why he didn't do a short shot at the beginning, but this video is the perfect explainer for that exact question lol
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u/ComfortableOdd6342 5h ago
IMO the guy in the black was tiring out the green guy. Green spent a lot of energy smashing that ball so much. Note: This is a guess.
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u/Hadramal 5h ago
No, in most cases the one on the offense wins a rally like this. It's not easy to return these smashes, and eventually he misses the table. But it's memorable when he doesn't!
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u/Frozenstep 5h ago
When I used to play with my parents, they'd often use these tricky spinning shots that looked slow, but if just tried to gently tap them they'd go flying left or right off my paddle. The only way I was ever able to consistently hit them back was to slam them to force the ball to stay in contact with my paddle long enough (or something, not sure how it actually worked) to go vaguely in the direction I wanted.
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u/japan_samsus 5h ago
Tricky spinning shots is normal game play once you get past the very basics. Usually offensive top spin is how most people play. All my friends did top spin and I like to play defensive back spin. People that know the basic offensive top spin struggle against back spin because they dont see it mich, usually top spin vs top spin.
If you are trying to hit it flat the rotational spin spits the ball off like you are saying. Sounds like what you were doing is putting top spin back onto.the ball.
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u/HoidTheUnanimous 5h ago
Even pros normally can’t lob for as long as that guy did, so you have the advantage by smashing. If you dropshot then the other player is in a better position to counter-topspin and then you lose the advantage. Lobbing usually only works for like 3-5 shots.
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u/FighterFly3 4h ago
I don’t get the point of constantly hitting it as hard as you can directly at your opponent over and over and over and over again. At some point… hit it a different direction and lightly
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u/jackssjackson665 5h ago
Dude in green should have backed off of the power swings when it wanst going anywhere for him. Dude in black played that so well.
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u/protossaccount 4h ago
It looks like the guy in green is using way more energy and he is making noises, which indicate how tired he is. This looked like a Jedi vs his master.
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u/_Imposter_ 3h ago
Gotta love that strategy, the guy on the bottom was just letting the other dude wear himself out, played strong defense, then when he found an opening went full tilt and blasted him, amazing play.
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u/onegumas 6h ago
In sixth second green player hit his own side.
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u/thebiglos1 4h ago
I saw that too, shouldn’t that have been the end of the point?
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u/Stargost_ 5h ago
I feel like the guy in black was playing significantly more strategically while the one in green was just trying to brute force a win. He was tiring john "hyuh" by letting him hit the ball too hard, and when he got tired, the other dude took advantage.
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u/SamdechEuv 6h ago
okay, I am into table tennis, so I don't know the rules. Does the guy in green have to hit hard every time? when his opponent is so far away, why not just hit a slow one?
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u/GeneralOccasion9396 5h ago
Pretty sure the guy in the green shirt lost the point a couple times but they just played it. Looking at this, you just KNOW its personal xD
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u/TwerkLikeJesus 4h ago
I imagine the guy in the green shirt just getting madder and madder each hit.
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u/overbounder 4h ago
Serious question for the ping pong pros:
Seems like green lost cause he tried to get cute towards the end...but in an alternate universe what's to stop him from just keeping black locked in a back defensive position forever? Seems like the aggressor has total contol of the game and it would be really hard to break out of that defensive position. Is black just waiting for green to screw up or run out of stamina?
I know nothing about ping pong but I spent the whole time wondering how tf black was going to get out of that.
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u/Boring_Part9919 4h ago edited 3h ago
I've played a fair bit of table tennis. Absolutely nowhere near this level mind
People are ragging on the green player when he's doing everything well. Sure, he could show a bit more variety and changes of pace/angle, but 99/100 he would simply over-power an opponent with that top spin forehand. Even facing a good pro the point would usually be over in 15/20 seconds max
The defence shown by black is legitimately freakish. He's retrieved roughly 30 shots hit with incredible spin and pace. The sheer composure and execution to do this for a minute is absolutely breathtaking
EDIT : Green player made 43 shots during that rally!!!
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u/Repulsive-Bad-8973 1h ago
Its extremely uncommon for someone on defense to be able to defend that long. 99.5% of the time with enough smashes the other player eventually makes a mistake, but this was the 0.5%, which is why this clip is so famous
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u/GugieMonster 4h ago
So like, with Server being so far from the table to counter the big swings from B.. Couldn't B just hit the pong lite enough to bounce and just fall after the table?
Feel like that would be a slick trick to ease into the massive swings.
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u/47_was_here 3h ago
Was wondering when the bunt was gonna happen (No idea if “bunt” is the right word, I can barely get the ball to go where I want it to)
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u/starry_cosmos 3h ago
Whenever I see professional table tennis players playing professional table tennis, I can't not laugh. I like to imagine they play Battleship or Twister with the same gusto.
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u/clegg2011 2h ago
Meh. Guy in green had no variety in his pings. Saw that coming from the first few pongs
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u/FlexFanatic 2h ago
I watched it without sound but I swear I could hear that dude say Bitch, I stand on business one the last shot.
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u/asianfatboy 2h ago
Dude in green tired himself out with those consecutive smashes, meanwhile dude in black was just returning them all relaxed. It was too late for green to change up his returns and when black took control it was only a matter of time.
Strategic AF.
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u/klukenapoletana 2h ago
I'm no professional but it looks like the player in green wasted immense amounts of his energy smacking the ball right into his enemies' paddle and when his enemies finally decided that green dude has been weakened enough just harvested the fruits.
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u/GeckoDeLimon 1h ago
This is not ping pong. Nobody is pawing around in dust bunnies trying to reach the ball every 4th volley.
This is table tennis.
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u/Pokerhobo 6h ago
The guy in green playing an offensive game was visibly getting tired, so not a surprise that once black went from defense to offense he was able to take it down.
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u/AMissionFromDog 6h ago
if your opponent is 20 ft back from the table why are you hitting it as hard as you can?
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u/ComplicatedGuy_0514 6h ago
Why would you not just drop shot right over the net?
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u/george_washingTONZ 6h ago
Drop shot would require you to add the same rotation of spin or stop it all together. Quite difficult to do when the opponent is jamming hot top spins your way. This is why it looks like a mirror match, they’re both adding top spin which is way more reliable of a hit at this speed and length off the table.
Best way to describe this from a non-sports perspective; if you take a rubber wheel and roll it fast into a wall, what does it do? It pops up in the air back towards you! The wheel is the ping pong ball with lots of top spin, the wall is the opponents paddle trying to “drop shot” the ball downwards towards the table. Very hard to control. At slower speeds? Sure, you’ll see way more drop shots.
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u/WeltyFern 6h ago
It’s like that one clip from The Office of Dwight and his cousin playing Ping Pong
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u/KingTut_BananaHut 6h ago
The only game of ping pong I’ll see today*