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Armless Ping-Pong Player, Trust Fall Fail, and Line-Flubbing Older Couple — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:00:03 +0000

[onescreen item="4992943"] Here’s another back-to-back-to-back dosage of Internet gems. Playing ping-pong reasonably well is hard enough already, what with that tiny little ball moving so fast, but this impressive gentleman does it without any arms. Second is why you should always make sure that you actually trust your partners in a trust fall. And last, [...]

Ping Pong Legend Breaks Cigarette In Half With Ball

Patrick Bateman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:03:04 +0000

Ping pong has made a comeback in the past half decade or so with a bunch of table tennis ‘bars’ popping up around the country. But who said this is a young man’s sport? In this super slow-mo video created by Insanic Workshop, 82-year-old legend Marty Reisman (who was just profiled by the New York Times) decided to [...]

McDonald's Billboard Hosts Giant Game of Pong [VIDEO]

Jackie — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:45:00 +0000

A giant McDonald's video billboard in Stockholm, Sweden is hosting a game of pong that just about anybody with a smart phone can join in, without having to download any new software.

Instead, potential players use their smart phone to log on to a website associated with the promotion. After the phone's geo-location device confirms you are close enough to the billboard, the phone's touch screen can be used to control the game.

See the Greatest Ping Pot Shot Ever [VIDEO]

95.7 KEZJ — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:34:42 +0000

In America, we play ping pong, usually hunched over the table in some basement rec room. In the rest of the world, they play table tennis, sometimes in front of large, cheering crowds.

If you want to see an example of the difference between the two games, check out this mind-bending shot by Swedish professional Mattias Oversjo.

It's so amazing, you get to see it three times.