I have finally started taking advantage of the presence of 2 ping pong tables out on the back deck of my place of employment.
I am hooked, but I am also terrible. I am trying to use this "pen hold" grip, and so far my results are mixed.
Around here we have extremely casual players who just take their beer outside, set it on the table and just volley back and forth while they chat with each other. There are other people who feel the need to turn it into a drinking game and attempt to hit each others glasses and force the opponent to drink.
Then there are people like myself and friends who really enjoy this and are trying to get better but aren't too good and don't really take it seriously.
Further up the scale, there are
those people who have been playing forever and just destroy you, but it makes you feel better if you get some points at least.
OFFICIAL RULESWikipedia, just because, y'know...
Basically, this is the closest thing to an outdoor "sport" with "rules" that I have participated in since high school.
Is anyone else into this? Do you play on teams for sport and fun in the summertime? Year round?
GIVE ME ADVICE AT BEING BETTER AT TABLE TENNIS.
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We invented table tennis, it was called Wiff Waff.
It also turns out that I am related to a number of ping-pong sharks.
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Sports? I run in a circle as fast as I can. I am decent at it.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
But noooooooooooooooooooo.
I never got the whole 'play-for-serve' thing though, and if someone insists on doing it, I usually purposely fail to return it. I just odn't think it gives that much of a strategic advantage.
I was like wait what
that was the game
I won
...that said outdoor fun is the best kind of fun! I do a lot of hiking and jogging around here, because I live on a fucking mountain and what else do you do on a mountain, after all. Also riding my bike was bitching rad when I was six and is still bitching rad twenty years later, so I do that as often as I can.
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no wait, beer darts. Beer darts is better
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I think that those are the ITTF official rules, or something.
You alternate serve every 2 points as well.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Sometimes people will play and set their drink on the table somewhere.
Then my strategy changes to aim for their drink, because they will second guess themselves and not want to spill their drink.
8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh8rBaerzOs
i am also good at it which makes it 2x better
how do you respond to that videos accusations
*point microphone at you*
no sir, not at all, this interviewer is not challenging you
please sir, i am not one for ping pong
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
and that is all it says
"i play hockey and i love it"
and we will just quote each other quoting the other one
into forever
or one of us finishes
The yelling is the best part and should become an official rule of ping pong games everywhere.
Also we should play again soon.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Basketball seems so fun.
shit was rad
Street hockey, huh?
CAAAAAR.
GAME ON!
Well Kevin Smith likes hockey so
dangit now I gotta watch it over and over THANKS A LOT
It's my job. Everyone forever watching Wayne's World 1 and 2 as often as they can. That is my goal.
that's how you win
spin serves
Oh shit, that was my birthday back in June.
I, um... may have been, er, FUCKING POLLUTED. I think that was after about 8 shots of Rumple Mintz.
Luke you are a glorious asshole for posting that, and I heart you.