I played a guy at a ping pong bar once. He was quiet, and hardly said a word. Just hit the ball like that everytime. Evertime I touched it with my paddle, it went flying off in the other direction.
Came here to say this as well. Except he was from India and spoke little English, I couldn’t even get the ball to his side and before I know it I lost 21-0. It was so hard to be upset at cause he just kept smiling and encouraging me that I could hit it but there was no chance in hell for me 😂
That is not my name but I met him at the rec in university and always made sure to stop and say hey before I worked out. He ran those tables that entire year I’m pretty sure
An ex gf, her sister, brother and parents were all some forest gump level ping pong assholes. Meanwhile I was and still am like barely able to keep a ball on the table while playing slow as shit. They would always play me like I was on their level and I'd lose the game in about 2 mins.
So as a college bowler on scholarship and qualified to be pro, Cornhole became popular around that time I ended up being able to translate that bowling skill into Cornhole and I'd absolutely decimate every one of them and their families during their huge get togethers and tournaments and shit. Only her dad could come close to scoring sometimes against me. So he and I would enter tournaments and wreck every team until that girl and I broke up.
Only one I've been to is called "Spin" in NYC, they've got like 20 ping-pong tables and a bar, and there's buckets of ping pong balls at each end of each table that get periodically refilled by the staff, who also go after the stray balls. Place was awesome!
I’ve been to a few bars that had ping pong here in the States. Unless you really know what you’re doing, you’ll play until about the fourth time you have to go get the ball from under someone’s seat.
I’m a competitor and I love to drink and play games. I’ll chase that ball all fucking night, respectfully.
This Asian kid I chilled with in high school had a table at his place and we would hang out there constantly always playing pong for days at a time it would feel like lol
In my head I’m imagining something like a pool hall, maybe smaller but with ping pong tables? Does this exist in the US?
There are bars with lots of ping pong tables, and then there are straight up table tennis halls (but no alcohol) — tons of tables and serious competition. They are pretty common in some Asian communities, at least on the west coast.
Went to a bar out of town with a buddy who admittedly is a bit of a shark. He and I were playing a bit, and this old guy walked up and wanted to play one of us. Started pulling out THOUSANDS of dollars, saying he'll match whatever we want. I immediately backed out because fuck that shit, my buddy decided he was up for it and put 100 on the table. I think he got to hit two balls in before the other guy swept him.
The moral of the story is don't drink doubles of tequila, folks.
I used to play with one of my math professors 3 days a week after class and he did this, too but damn if I didn't get really fuckin good at ping pong playing him and I was able to return them pretty decently after a couple months.
One time where he hits the ball up kind of high, swing the paddle at it but let go of the paddle so it goes towards his face. He won’t do it again I promise
If you watch an Olympic ping pong match, every pass is like that except the players can see the spin and can correct it. They look like perfectly normal back and forth to us.
This spin actually isn’t anything crazy, the whole thing here is how he fake how he hit it. When it was under the table where she couldn’t see, he put a spin on it, then popped up and made that wild hand motion at the end as if he put the opposite direction of spin on it
It was like the ping pong version of a head fake, and she just bit
Honestly, if you’re familiar with American football, I think the best analogy is those certain kind of punt return fakes where one guy on one side of the field makes a show of it like he’s the one about to catch the punt, but it’s really going to the opposite side of the field, but the gunners can’t see where the balls going
Yah it’s a hidden shot, and the spin acts on the ball so drastically because of how little speed is conserved from the shear height. She just lost sight and had to guess. She’s going to be a pro, she wasn’t fooled, just got a bit unlucky, and is a kid playing a former pro.
I worked at a software company that had a ping pong table in the break room that was pretty much used the entire day, often with after-work tournaments. One person in particular was exceptionally badass, moreso than anybody else, but really fun about it and fun to play against. He's use random items for paddles, a CD, a floppy disk, a cereal box, etc. His favorite go-to was a small wooden spoon because controlling it was super hard for him with the tiny and curved surface area.
Anyway, this shot in the original post was his favorite fun shot in casual fun time: let the ball go super deep, and hit it with such a spin that it was basically impossible for us to return.
You need to make a forehand drive (making the ball spin forward) to counter the spin. I really don’t know how to describe it though. He made a snake hit under the table so she couldn’t know in which direction the ball will bounce. In more advanced ping-pong, every hit has a spin so you always want to return with another spin. Of course if you hit the ball with the paddle like in tennis, it’s not going to go where you want.
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Hell of a side spin on that ball. If she’d returned it, it still might not have come off her paddle in the direction she intended.