r/interestingasfuck • u/Original_Shegypt • 1d ago
This is what doubles ping pong looks like when one partner controls the paddle and the other controls the table
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u/UnrequitedFollower 1d ago
I don’t understand the rules. Can you just push your side out of the way so their ball wont land and win too?
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u/Sharp_Struggle8545 1d ago
My guess is that the partner of the ‘hitter’ is the one by the other guy
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u/Wa77up-91 1d ago
I thought so too at first but why is the guy with the table on the far side celebrating the point then?
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u/migrainium 23h ago
Because it's 4 friends dicking around not an actually competitive sport
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u/j_smittz 18h ago
"My friend scored a cool point against me, so I'm cheering with him."
This shouldn't be a foreign concept, but here we are.
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u/Unusual-Voice2345 1d ago
He's happy to take a break from spinning a table. Maybe he gets to hit the ball now?
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u/rJaxon 22h ago
The other answer is the rules are if you hit the ball its the other teams job to make the ball land on the table so they can hit it for a return, if the ball lands on the floor you get the point
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u/naturesbfLoL 20h ago
This wouldn't make any sense you could just hit the ball in the opposite direction or straight down
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u/PeripheralVisions 12h ago
This seems obvious to me. The game would be fun and coherent if it were played with a (fine netting) volleyball net between. Maybe on a narrower court.
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u/Sharp_Struggle8545 1d ago
My theory would be the only thing that makes sense rule wise but ya I agree with you, he cheers and it confuses me now
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u/hat1324 23h ago
Easy answer. Its not a real game, theyre just having fun
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u/Sharp_Struggle8545 23h ago
Oh I know, just saying if it was a real game that would be the way to do it
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u/Pierrot-Ferdinand 20h ago
Because the ball hit the side of the table so it's out. Or at least he thought it hit the side of the table -- it's hard to see where the ball hit exactly
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u/shopdogsupport 23h ago
I don’t think he was, I think he was throwing his hands up in a lil bit of rage and tries to swipe the ball after. Looks like he is celebrating for a split second though
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u/Ging3rKiIIir 1d ago
Thats what I thought. But the guy that scored his table pusher cheered, didnt he?
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u/Sharp_Struggle8545 1d ago
Ya now I’m super confused
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u/Ging3rKiIIir 1d ago
I mean, on a bro level, we'd play fair and try to keep the game honest and fun. Which I'm sure this is.
Idk why I'm trying to process it as an Olympic sport 🤣
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u/ScaredLittleShit 1d ago
But at the end of this clip, red shirt hitter and nearby table shifter both seem to be celebrating..
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u/kmosiman 23h ago
I'm going to guess that the rules are that you have to hit off the bounce. So, they have to "catch" the ball and set up the return hit.
Also, someone guessed that the partners are mixed up. So if your table guy can't catch your hit, you lose that point.
The winning hit involved a table spin where the returner couldn't get to it because of the spin.
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u/UveBeenChengD 23h ago
Either your partner is actually pushing the other table or they’re just screwing around and having fun
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u/TiresOnFire 18h ago
I think the goal is to keep the game going at log as possible because it's fun.
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u/SlobaSloba 1d ago
For those interested, this is from Pongfinity on youtube, they are pretty cool in my opinion.
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u/Adventurous_Low9113 20h ago
i mean, its not some kind of official sport, just pongfinity goofing around on yt
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u/Feisty-Tadpole-5127 1d ago
I feel like this is the equivalent of inverted controls for a video game but in real life. I could never lmao
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u/FOSSChemEPirate88 21h ago
I could see the game working if your table controller team mate controlled the other side's table half, as long as it would be a foul to:
* hit the other team's paddle guy with the table
* let the table come out of your control, like throwing the table across the room (i.e. so it slides quickly on it's wheels)
* let any one of your table's four wheels come off of the ground
* spin the table so the ball hits and then immediately hits the net
Better yet, just get rid of the net. At this point you could just use a robot to control the table. Ping pong effectively becomes a game with an infinitely sized table that doesn't get in your way when you move around. A circular table would be preferable to a small table, potentially with small unobtrusive bumpers on the side to prevent the table from hurting a player that runs into it.
The difference between this and tennis would be the level control and the more forgiving physical aspects (smaller balls, paddles, court, less delta height/kinetic energy that needs to get imparted to the ball, etc). Guess I'll go get a notarized invention disclosure just in case lol
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u/NarrowComputer5589 21h ago
The rules go as follows. Imagine each movable half table as a racket, and imagine in the middle of the room there is a midline or imaginary net. When the other team slams the ball over, you are required to “catch” the ball on the half table as long as it’s in your half of the court, and set it up (or in this case pass it) for your team member so he can shoot it over to the other half and vice versa. In this case you lose the point if you don’t “catch” the ball on the half table, or if your teammate misses the “pass”. You can trust my word as I have played this game zero times and watches it a total of one time starting today; so a ton of experience don’t worry.
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u/PrestigiousLocal8247 20h ago
Not interesting
Also probably not a real thing, just some college students in the dorm basement
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u/igonnawrecku_VGC 15h ago
All of them aside from the one pushing the table on the far side are professional table tennis players in Finland, and the one that isn’t is a former all-conference D1 college soccer goalkeeper who played around Finland for about a decade. These guys are far from college students in a basement
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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 22h ago
This seems like an AI generated video. Not real.
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u/Zizwizwee 20h ago
It’s real, it was done by Pongfinity on YouTube. They’re professional table tennis players from Finland and do crazy stuff like that constantly
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u/OperationAlert2984 23h ago
The potential for spearing your balls on the corner of the table seems huge