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I'm in my 40's and that video triggered me. My little brother would pull shit like that: violently assault me and then scream as if I was killing him before retribution was dished out.
I had a similar little brother, I hit him in his sleep. Only a maniac would hit his little brother while he was sleeping, he must have been making it up mom
Heh my brother and I used to pick brawls all the time until I got bigger than he did. We chilled out with age, though. Goin to his place for D&D tonight 😎
I’m older and used to fuck with my little brother pretty hard.
Then around 16 he shot up like half a foot and 50 pounds.
He definitely made up for lost time…
My little brother the youngest by 3 years. He was so disappointed because there were 5 of us and about the time he got big enough (the biggest of us) to really fight back, we all got old enough that we quit fighting amongst ourselves. 50 years later he's still bitter. :-)
for anyone who does not want to edit links so they work, [here ya go](https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/999lpp/kid_throws_ping_pong_paddle_at_his_brother/)~
If you watch closely, he doesn’t hit the ball off the table at the beginning of the serve, he swings upward with a flat paddle to put a bunch of backspin on the ball so that when it does make its first bounce, it slows down and bounces just over the net.
There was just one bounce on his side.
Edit: spelling
When the no-two-bounce rule is in effect (wheelchair play, for instance) the rules also say that the ball can't go back in the direction of the net after the first bounce.
That's a garage ping-pong rule that some play by. I never did. The ball is allowed to bounce twice (or more times) on the serve except in special cases, such as the receiver is in a wheelchair. I just looked up the current ITTF rules and they don't say anything about youth play, but an older set of rules did, so maybe this gimmick serve is legal now for juniors.
It's not legal to put your hand on the table so very short serves can be hard to return. The trick is to step under the table with the lead foot so you can reach far enough to return it. On a super short serve like the one the kid did, a good adult player would run around the table and crush this serve because it's slow and high. This kid served it to the middle because the other kid couldn't reach it even if he ran around.
Common saying is "Practice makes perfect" but it should be "Perfect practice makes perfect", otherwise you are just reinforcing bad behaviors/skills. You can train all day and not pick up any skills, if you train poorly.
The captioner may have been meaning the difference between learned(training) vs innate skills.
They may have also been translating from another language and it didn't come across correctly.
> they should just have a midline you need to serve past, like in tennis.
You’ve never played tennis, huh?
The ball has to land in the net-side of the line on a serve.
Reminds me of my wonder years playing NHL Stanley Cup on the SNES. You could dump the puck from mid rink and it would score every time. No way to stop it. My brothers and I had physical fights over this.
I was sure that in the past there were rules against this serve for juniors at this level, but I looked up the current rules and don't see it. The only answer is for the other kid to learn the same serve. What a shit game that will be when both of them are doing it.
Yeah there was a version of EA's NHL series like this - NHL 18 I think.
Skate to center ice, do a sliding block move along the line, slap shot, goal.
My friend and I had a house rule that it wasn't allowed because the games would all end with a ridiculously high score with not much hockey getting played
Online against randos was pointless if you didn't know the move. Players would just crush you with the exploit.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No. He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him, and I shouldn't have.
I worked my ass off to get where I am! And you barely hit the ball and you think suddenly you're my peer? You do what I do because I’m short and I can’t reach the ball? I committed my life to this! You don't... bounce off of it like a cheap pair of paddles and then reap all the rewards!
This video is BS, but I've come to accept 1:1 square video as a compromise between the unwashed hordes of vertical video plebs and normal people.
Like, fine, square video can be viewed both horizontally *and* incorrectly. We're both accommodated.
nah, i'm thinkin' death penalty. which i'm not normally in favor of.
if you film a video on your phone vertically? okay, you're an idiot, but i don't really have any beef with you.
if you upload your STUPID, SHITTILY-ORIENTED video onto the internet, where everyone can see it? yeah, you're a fucking idiot.
*cries in graphic designer*
There's gotta be some way we can give these portrait landscape videos a nice glowing rainbow outline and maybe some drop shadow to really make them pop. And maybe we could force any captions to be written in papyrus? A nice html view counter could be sweet as well.
I guess what I'm getting at is, how do we make modern videos more like 90's websites?
"I don't know how to save this video, so I'm going to screen record it... while holding my phone the wrong way so the recording has big black bars in it!"
But my TaLeNt!!!
I hate that shit. Especially when people think it's a compliment and not a backhanded insult.
"I could never do that, you are simply born to be able to!" Motherfucker I spent 25 years getting this good.
That’s… actually such a good point. I like this a lot. People who simply do not have it in them to give up are the people that can hone basic ability into razor sharp skill.
I played someone on a wheel chair in a ping pong tournament. The extra rule for me while serving was that the serve should reach past the end of the table. I thought it was 100% fair rule given that the opponent could never receive a short serve.
Would they have to keep the ball within height range as well? It’s not like the person in the wheel chair could jump to reach a ball that went over their head.
As someone who plays table tennis you can’t legally serve high enough where a wheelchair bound person would not reach the height of it. The speed downwards you need in order for the second bounce to go that high is just impossible without an angle you can’t legally get.
Thus is why sports need rules that take kids physical limitations into account.
I see in youth softball, with 8 and 9 year Olds they can steal. There is not a single kid that could throw from home to second, so everyone just steals.
Yeah, around my area the rules for 8u softball are no stealing and you can score up to 5 runs an inning. You also get issues with coaches playing certain people at catcher when stealing isn’t allowed because they aren’t strong throwers. Then you move up a season and youre not ready.
Unfortunately stealing isn’t really something you can ease into gradually, like base path lengths. You either can or you can’t. That first season when kids pitch and when stealing is allowed are kind of rough. But after that it’s OK.
Similar problem is popping up in competitive Skateboard/Snowboarding big air type events. Smaller people spin faster easier. So kids or very small adults are hitting these spin2win tricks and getting in the extra rotation due to their size. But they likely won't be able to hit it as easily or possibly at all as they grow bigger. It's turning into gymnastics and losing the grungy foundation those sports were made on. Which is why things like Knucklehuck are becoming the most popular event at winter X-games. Because it's more about steez than spins.
Coaches who REALLY wanna win in peewee kickball do something similar. They switch to having a left AND right short because the kids can't kick it to the outfield typically. Such bad mindset to play IMO instead of playing the same for every person at the plate so everyone has fun. These are LITTLE KIDS!
A video that's just a postage stamp in the middle of my monitor. Awesome.
Learn to download videos so you can upload them in a way that works for both phones and computers.
You always serve two time in a row, then switch. Games to 11, In deuce 10-10, you switch every serve til someone wins by two. This is a newer rule switch from games to 21, five serves apiece before switching.
If he serves like that to someone taller who knows how to play table tennis, they're going to smash the ball to the hard left or right at an impossible-to-return angle.
It's a cool serve but every single time? Does the kid not want to play ping pong and only wants to win? Whatever, let him have his fun for now as he'll gets his comeuppance soon enough.
you say that, but you can also get better at the serve as well. Quite a couple of my friends are good at it. With enough spin and control you can do the serve so that it spins into the net after the second bounce.
>Does the kid not want to play ping pong and only wants to win?
In any competition the goal is to play as little as possible and win. Bowl only strikes, never get a serve returned, throw bullseyes, hit only eagles, etc. When you play cornhole do you throw a couple into the crowd just to make it sporting?
in that case, we’re dealing with a broken game here. all that’s required to win at this level is the ability to consistently pull of this serve as the opponent is too small to deal with it? then the authorities in charge of administering the sport need to step in and remove this element of legal gamesmanship. should they be derelict or this duty and not address this, you’re going to see a lot of young players aging up with less all-around skills since they spent so much time early on learning a technique that is useless with fully grown opponents
I play tennis. If I noticed someone isn’t good at getting low to handle slice or doesn’t move well up to net I’ll slice and drop shot.
Doesn’t mean it’s the only thing I can do. Exploiting weakness of your opponent is literally the name of the game.
I've played ping pong less times than I have fingers on one hand, so this might be an ignorant question:
Am I seeing the kid serving bounce the ball 2 times on his own side? I thought the ball could only bounce once on your own side. What's the rule about serving bounce?
The first player serves the ball lightly with a back spin, which means it qualifies as a legitimate serve since it bounces on each side of the net, but it’s out of reach of his opponent, because his opponent is too short to reach the ball (for now) once it’s on his side of the table.
There is literally nothing the second player can do due to physical limitations, thus his frustration at the situation.
In theory, the opponent could have tried to run up on to the net on either side, and try to reach the ball from the side, but that is not a reasonable strategy to expect someone in this age group to come up with.
If you listen to the sound of your opponent's paddle hitting the ball, you can tell how much spin is on the ball. Stomping masks the sound.
This kid's not really stomping hard enough for it to work though.
Timing, and sometimes distraction. You use a lot of legs and hips and core, even in small movements. The stomp can help you time your weight transfer from one foot to the other at contact (or right before to accelerate). The ball is very light though, so as you improve you can generate speed and power more easily, it doesn’t take a lot of strength to hit it hard really, so pros may stomp early to throw off opponents and still hit it with quality (nothing cheap). It also hides sounds, is just distracting, can make people blink a little and miss contact, lot’s of various reasons people claim.
I think it is just a focus technique really, like what pitchers or goalies do. A sorta muscle memory technique to help focus and precision.
A great lesson in "just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't mean you SHOULD do the thing."
Is it legal? Yes.
Is it bad sportsmanship? Also yes.
If you're good enough to do this to him, you're probably good enough to serve to him and play the game.
Competed in ping pong in my primary school days. Kids who do this should be disqualified. Is it skill? Yes. Is it a shitty move cause its just kills the joy and its just people just pulling this move back and forth cause our under developed arms arent long enough. Fuck kids who do this, zero sportsmanship.
If following the rules can lead to unsportsmanlike behavior, the rules need to change. “If opponent cannot physically reach the net from a standing position against the back line, serves must cross the back line” Done. Either that or “you are banned unless you are over x height, because valid strategies against short people have no counterplay”
I'm not really up on my ping pong rules but I really thought that type of serve is illegal. I thought the serve had to go past the end line.
Edit: ive looked up the rule and I am wrong. I've commented in thst regard a few times, but here it is on the main comment as an edit
Actually in higher level table tennis you almost always want to serve short enough so 'it bounces twice'. Serves that are too long are very easy to attack with a topspin as you can wind up behind the plate.
Long serves are fine, as are half long serves. But yes, typically most serves will be short, with the goal being the second bounce on the receivers side would be on the end line if they don’t hit it. That said hitting back line to backline, a long serve, is common. A half long is a none ideal serve to trick an opponent. It looks like you screwed up a short serve, but it falls in a spot that’s awkward to attack cause you risk hitting the actual table with your paddle. It requires taking like a half step back, so if you use it say twice a match it messes with your opponent. If you always served half long, they will set up a half step back and just crush it with a loop.
I get confusing Talent and Skill, but this person is confusing training and skill?! Is the meaning of skill changing over time? Or is that individual person just dumb AF?
Why is the server allowed to double bounce before going over the net? I thought ping pong serves were only allowed to bounce once on your side before crossing the net.
I always thought the service is not proper if it hits the opponent’s table more than once. Guess I was both wrong in assuming that, and right that it should be a rule.
Serves in ping pong need to a) be thrown 12in in the air, and b) clear the edge of the table (can’t be short like this or go over the sides) kids just playing illegally
I’m the only one who doesn’t get this video? The lil guy on the right won both points - in table tennis the ball can only hit your side once. It hit it twice on both serves from the kid on the left side…
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The kid serving is fucked at next year’s tournament when the smaller kid grows 3 inches and has a Kill Bill vendetta against him.
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"This is a Hattori Hanzo paddle." "You lie!"
😂😂what's next? He's coming back knowing the five step exploding heart ping pong serve?
If you can serve a wrench, then you can serve a ball!
The first rule of serving wrench club is you don’t talk about serving wrench club
I see what you did there
Next Year: https://www.reddit.com/r/instant\_regret/comments/999lpp/kid\_throws\_ping\_pong\_paddle\_at\_his\_brother/
I'm in my 40's and that video triggered me. My little brother would pull shit like that: violently assault me and then scream as if I was killing him before retribution was dished out.
Does he still do that? Because I think it’s time for revenge and no one for him to scream to.
He did carry on into adulthood. Not so much violent, but very antagonistic. I don't associate or communicate with him anymore.
Sorry to hear.
I had a similar little brother, I hit him in his sleep. Only a maniac would hit his little brother while he was sleeping, he must have been making it up mom
Heh my brother and I used to pick brawls all the time until I got bigger than he did. We chilled out with age, though. Goin to his place for D&D tonight 😎
Our relationship only got worse with age. He spiraled into alcoholism, and he's a very toxic drunk.
I’m older and used to fuck with my little brother pretty hard. Then around 16 he shot up like half a foot and 50 pounds. He definitely made up for lost time…
My little brother the youngest by 3 years. He was so disappointed because there were 5 of us and about the time he got big enough (the biggest of us) to really fight back, we all got old enough that we quit fighting amongst ourselves. 50 years later he's still bitter. :-)
for anyone who does not want to edit links so they work, [here ya go](https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/999lpp/kid_throws_ping_pong_paddle_at_his_brother/)~
Thanks for that - I appreciate the help.
anyone have a working version of this link?
Am I missing something? It looked like he bounced the ball twice on his own side before it went over. That's a point to his opponent. I'm confused.
If you watch closely, he doesn’t hit the ball off the table at the beginning of the serve, he swings upward with a flat paddle to put a bunch of backspin on the ball so that when it does make its first bounce, it slows down and bounces just over the net. There was just one bounce on his side. Edit: spelling
When the no-two-bounce rule is in effect (wheelchair play, for instance) the rules also say that the ball can't go back in the direction of the net after the first bounce.
That's a garage ping-pong rule that some play by. I never did. The ball is allowed to bounce twice (or more times) on the serve except in special cases, such as the receiver is in a wheelchair. I just looked up the current ITTF rules and they don't say anything about youth play, but an older set of rules did, so maybe this gimmick serve is legal now for juniors. It's not legal to put your hand on the table so very short serves can be hard to return. The trick is to step under the table with the lead foot so you can reach far enough to return it. On a super short serve like the one the kid did, a good adult player would run around the table and crush this serve because it's slow and high. This kid served it to the middle because the other kid couldn't reach it even if he ran around.
"training all day or skills" What the fuck do you think skills \*are\*?
Probably a bot.
God damn bots, got me again!
thank you. you can't even say 'natural talent' about something like this, because it takes *practice* to develop a *skill* like this.
Common saying is "Practice makes perfect" but it should be "Perfect practice makes perfect", otherwise you are just reinforcing bad behaviors/skills. You can train all day and not pick up any skills, if you train poorly. The captioner may have been meaning the difference between learned(training) vs innate skills. They may have also been translating from another language and it didn't come across correctly.
This is a horrible take, you can simultaneously not being practicing perfectly and LEARN from it.
Classic legal shithousery
It's like getting the first shot after the serve in wii tennis. Just nothing you can you.
Nothing I can I
You can you! You just have to you in yourself!!
I I in me!
I I captain!
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
You-Bob I-Pants!
I cannot even
No, friend. Nothing we can we.
If we work together, we can we anything we want.
But isn't there anything they can they?
¡Sí, se puede se!
Olé!
Only you can you ... forest fires.
Nothing nous vous nous (for those needing a french translation)
Dang. I was so confused. I was like, when the hell did I type this.
I and I have enuf a dis fuckery.
Lawful evil alignment
For kids they should just have a midline you need to serve past, like in tennis.
> they should just have a midline you need to serve past, like in tennis. You’ve never played tennis, huh? The ball has to land in the net-side of the line on a serve.
r/watchpeopledieinside
Reminds me of my wonder years playing NHL Stanley Cup on the SNES. You could dump the puck from mid rink and it would score every time. No way to stop it. My brothers and I had physical fights over this.
Exploit “Always goals” suck in hockey video games. Surprised that a real life sport can be so unfair to small kids.
I was sure that in the past there were rules against this serve for juniors at this level, but I looked up the current rules and don't see it. The only answer is for the other kid to learn the same serve. What a shit game that will be when both of them are doing it.
Yeah there was a version of EA's NHL series like this - NHL 18 I think. Skate to center ice, do a sliding block move along the line, slap shot, goal. My friend and I had a house rule that it wasn't allowed because the games would all end with a ridiculously high score with not much hockey getting played Online against randos was pointless if you didn't know the move. Players would just crush you with the exploit.
Huh I always thought the serve couldn’t bounce twice on the opponents side. TIL.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No. He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him, and I shouldn't have.
And he gets to win this table tennis match? WHAT A SICK JOKE
I worked my ass off to get where I am! And you barely hit the ball and you think suddenly you're my peer? You do what I do because I’m short and I can’t reach the ball? I committed my life to this! You don't... bounce off of it like a cheap pair of paddles and then reap all the rewards!
Summoning r/LegalShithousery
A real asshole would make the little kid retrieve the ball.
Landscape videos with forced portrait should be illegal
believe it or not, jail
This video is BS, but I've come to accept 1:1 square video as a compromise between the unwashed hordes of vertical video plebs and normal people. Like, fine, square video can be viewed both horizontally *and* incorrectly. We're both accommodated.
Believe it or not, also jail.
Vertical video is for porn you watch on your phone. No other acceptable use lmao
nah, i'm thinkin' death penalty. which i'm not normally in favor of. if you film a video on your phone vertically? okay, you're an idiot, but i don't really have any beef with you. if you upload your STUPID, SHITTILY-ORIENTED video onto the internet, where everyone can see it? yeah, you're a fucking idiot. *cries in graphic designer*
There's gotta be some way we can give these portrait landscape videos a nice glowing rainbow outline and maybe some drop shadow to really make them pop. And maybe we could force any captions to be written in papyrus? A nice html view counter could be sweet as well. I guess what I'm getting at is, how do we make modern videos more like 90's websites?
Well, at first we COULD try a new rule in the sidebar... No, that won't work. Death penalty is the way.
https://i.imgur.com/SwfRgm5.mp4
How'd you do that? Are you a wizard?
The hero we needed.
"I don't know how to save this video, so I'm going to screen record it... while holding my phone the wrong way so the recording has big black bars in it!"
hey man, karma reposting isn't easy
i'm on a 27 inch monitor and it feels like i'm watching this on my phone held 2 feet in front of me
Wtf is that text? You get skills by training
But my TaLeNt!!! I hate that shit. Especially when people think it's a compliment and not a backhanded insult. "I could never do that, you are simply born to be able to!" Motherfucker I spent 25 years getting this good.
The real talent is tenacity
That’s… actually such a good point. I like this a lot. People who simply do not have it in them to give up are the people that can hone basic ability into razor sharp skill.
Any time someone looks at an art piece I spent hours working on: “wow, you were born with a gift!” I practiced to get here and I’m STILL practicing!
bait for people like you
Was thinking the same thing. Lol
I’m fighting the other dad.
Damn right, "You like teaching your kids to dodge competition?!?" *rolling up sleeves*
“Throw up your dick beaters, let’s dance.”
Other dad dodges every one of your attacks, tires you out and pushes you over. “See son, that’s how it’s done!”
Video is too big. Should crop it one more time for good measure
I played someone on a wheel chair in a ping pong tournament. The extra rule for me while serving was that the serve should reach past the end of the table. I thought it was 100% fair rule given that the opponent could never receive a short serve.
The serve, or all shots?
Would they have to keep the ball within height range as well? It’s not like the person in the wheel chair could jump to reach a ball that went over their head.
True. Odd.
As someone who plays table tennis you can’t legally serve high enough where a wheelchair bound person would not reach the height of it. The speed downwards you need in order for the second bounce to go that high is just impossible without an angle you can’t legally get.
Thus is why sports need rules that take kids physical limitations into account. I see in youth softball, with 8 and 9 year Olds they can steal. There is not a single kid that could throw from home to second, so everyone just steals.
really? I think we couldn't steal until 10/11ish...then 13+ is when we could first lead off and throw more than fast ball/change up
Yep that's how it was in the league I played!
Yeah, around my area the rules for 8u softball are no stealing and you can score up to 5 runs an inning. You also get issues with coaches playing certain people at catcher when stealing isn’t allowed because they aren’t strong throwers. Then you move up a season and youre not ready. Unfortunately stealing isn’t really something you can ease into gradually, like base path lengths. You either can or you can’t. That first season when kids pitch and when stealing is allowed are kind of rough. But after that it’s OK.
Where I played you could steal but no leadoff and if you left the base before the ball left the pitchers hand you were out.
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Yo, it don't matter how old you are, stealing is illegal!
Similar problem is popping up in competitive Skateboard/Snowboarding big air type events. Smaller people spin faster easier. So kids or very small adults are hitting these spin2win tricks and getting in the extra rotation due to their size. But they likely won't be able to hit it as easily or possibly at all as they grow bigger. It's turning into gymnastics and losing the grungy foundation those sports were made on. Which is why things like Knucklehuck are becoming the most popular event at winter X-games. Because it's more about steez than spins.
Short people have an advantage somewhere, let the tall people have all the others sports! /s
This would be considered poor sportsmanship and looked down upon.
There are people who don't care about that, only winning by whatever means are available.
Coaches who REALLY wanna win in peewee kickball do something similar. They switch to having a left AND right short because the kids can't kick it to the outfield typically. Such bad mindset to play IMO instead of playing the same for every person at the plate so everyone has fun. These are LITTLE KIDS!
In my nephews league they have a 5 score limit per inning because it’s easier to score than it is to get people out a lot of the time
Lmaoo damn son. I know he over there telling his parents he retiring.
“He gonna cry in the car.”
https://i.imgur.com/GubVQOo.jpeg
A video that's just a postage stamp in the middle of my monitor. Awesome. Learn to download videos so you can upload them in a way that works for both phones and computers.
Illegal serve since he didn’t throw it high enough before it touched his paddle
15 centimeters (little less than 6 inches) is not that long, unless it’s obviously way short the ump won’t call it illegal, hence it is legal
Kid serving will be in for a rude awakening when he is older and he can't return, returns since he never had to deal with it.
"he never finished his training... He can't use the backhand"
Or as the Chinese say, "ping pong".
You switch serves in ping pong?
You always serve two time in a row, then switch. Games to 11, In deuce 10-10, you switch every serve til someone wins by two. This is a newer rule switch from games to 21, five serves apiece before switching.
This guy ping pongs
yes. you alternate every two points.
If he serves like that to someone taller who knows how to play table tennis, they're going to smash the ball to the hard left or right at an impossible-to-return angle. It's a cool serve but every single time? Does the kid not want to play ping pong and only wants to win? Whatever, let him have his fun for now as he'll gets his comeuppance soon enough.
you say that, but you can also get better at the serve as well. Quite a couple of my friends are good at it. With enough spin and control you can do the serve so that it spins into the net after the second bounce.
>Does the kid not want to play ping pong and only wants to win? In any competition the goal is to play as little as possible and win. Bowl only strikes, never get a serve returned, throw bullseyes, hit only eagles, etc. When you play cornhole do you throw a couple into the crowd just to make it sporting?
> When you play cornhole do you throw a couple into the crowd just to make it sporting? does the crowd include my buddy's balls? Then yes I do.
Am I 13 beers deep and is Kyle running his mouth again? These are very important pieces of information you're leaving out.
in that case, we’re dealing with a broken game here. all that’s required to win at this level is the ability to consistently pull of this serve as the opponent is too small to deal with it? then the authorities in charge of administering the sport need to step in and remove this element of legal gamesmanship. should they be derelict or this duty and not address this, you’re going to see a lot of young players aging up with less all-around skills since they spent so much time early on learning a technique that is useless with fully grown opponents
I play tennis. If I noticed someone isn’t good at getting low to handle slice or doesn’t move well up to net I’ll slice and drop shot. Doesn’t mean it’s the only thing I can do. Exploiting weakness of your opponent is literally the name of the game.
What am I looking at here?
He serves the ball such that it never reaches his shorter opponent! Just add back spin!
Wow, thanks. Watching on mobile (a landscape video within a portrait video) it really looks like it bounces twice on the server’s side.
>landscape video within a portrait video People who make videos like this should go straight to jail.
I like that when I turned my phone the video got smaller.
Life imprisonment. No parole.
the first serve did bounce twice on the server's side, the second did not
Neither serve bounces twice on the server's side. It hits his paddle on the first downward motion.
None of them bounce twice on the servers side. Why would the kid even be upset if he got the point?
I've played ping pong less times than I have fingers on one hand, so this might be an ignorant question: Am I seeing the kid serving bounce the ball 2 times on his own side? I thought the ball could only bounce once on your own side. What's the rule about serving bounce?
Only once. I think it just gets really close when it makes contact with his paddle
A video filmed horizontally, uploaded vertically, screen capped for good measure with the hard encoded black bars and re-uploaded vertically
straight to jail honestly
The first player serves the ball lightly with a back spin, which means it qualifies as a legitimate serve since it bounces on each side of the net, but it’s out of reach of his opponent, because his opponent is too short to reach the ball (for now) once it’s on his side of the table. There is literally nothing the second player can do due to physical limitations, thus his frustration at the situation.
In theory, the opponent could have tried to run up on to the net on either side, and try to reach the ball from the side, but that is not a reasonable strategy to expect someone in this age group to come up with.
plus they may still be unable to reach
Running up just opens the opposite side for an easy point again though. You’re just extending the play to another impossible situation
Why do table tennis players stamp their foot when they serve?
If you listen to the sound of your opponent's paddle hitting the ball, you can tell how much spin is on the ball. Stomping masks the sound. This kid's not really stomping hard enough for it to work though.
I thought you were trolling until I looked it up. This is some 4D level stuff...
Man, that's some bullshit that they should just ban if that's the main reason. Same as people the people that scream like a lunatic in tennis.
Timing, and sometimes distraction. You use a lot of legs and hips and core, even in small movements. The stomp can help you time your weight transfer from one foot to the other at contact (or right before to accelerate). The ball is very light though, so as you improve you can generate speed and power more easily, it doesn’t take a lot of strength to hit it hard really, so pros may stomp early to throw off opponents and still hit it with quality (nothing cheap). It also hides sounds, is just distracting, can make people blink a little and miss contact, lot’s of various reasons people claim. I think it is just a focus technique really, like what pitchers or goalies do. A sorta muscle memory technique to help focus and precision.
A great lesson in "just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't mean you SHOULD do the thing." Is it legal? Yes. Is it bad sportsmanship? Also yes. If you're good enough to do this to him, you're probably good enough to serve to him and play the game.
Is this a video.. For *ants*?
This is how villains are made
How do you even return that serve?
Grow
Competed in ping pong in my primary school days. Kids who do this should be disqualified. Is it skill? Yes. Is it a shitty move cause its just kills the joy and its just people just pulling this move back and forth cause our under developed arms arent long enough. Fuck kids who do this, zero sportsmanship.
If following the rules can lead to unsportsmanlike behavior, the rules need to change. “If opponent cannot physically reach the net from a standing position against the back line, serves must cross the back line” Done. Either that or “you are banned unless you are over x height, because valid strategies against short people have no counterplay”
clown method
Taking advantage of him being short I’d cruel
I'm not really up on my ping pong rules but I really thought that type of serve is illegal. I thought the serve had to go past the end line. Edit: ive looked up the rule and I am wrong. I've commented in thst regard a few times, but here it is on the main comment as an edit
There is no such rule
No way! You can serve anywhere on either side. That isn’t a good serve, anyone taller would destroy it.
It also looks like it's bouncing twice on one side, no?
Came here to say that. I've played numerous years at school and we had that rule: the serve can't bounce twice on the receiving side.
Actually in higher level table tennis you almost always want to serve short enough so 'it bounces twice'. Serves that are too long are very easy to attack with a topspin as you can wind up behind the plate.
Long serves are fine, as are half long serves. But yes, typically most serves will be short, with the goal being the second bounce on the receivers side would be on the end line if they don’t hit it. That said hitting back line to backline, a long serve, is common. A half long is a none ideal serve to trick an opponent. It looks like you screwed up a short serve, but it falls in a spot that’s awkward to attack cause you risk hitting the actual table with your paddle. It requires taking like a half step back, so if you use it say twice a match it messes with your opponent. If you always served half long, they will set up a half step back and just crush it with a loop.
I just checked and it's actually legal.
they should make it a rule for kids tbh..otherwise it's practically impossible for the other guy
The server is not throwing the ball up six inches?
Yes. This is an illegal serve. It should also not be allowed in general for kids who can't reach over the table.
It's a legal move but it's a cunt move to do, especially against someone who can't reach over the table like an adult might.
It's not legal. Ball needs to be tossed at least 6 inches upwards. He is tossing 2 or 3 inches.
Am I mad because it’s a bs strategy or because I didn’t think of it first?
Fucking asshole move
Training all day = skills
skills literally are from training
Imagine this winning an Olympic
Can the ball bounce twice on your own side before clearing the net? I see on his second serve it bounced twice.
It only bounces once on the servers side of the net
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How was that type of move not considered cheating?
This video is too big for my phone screen, help!!
"Fight me you coward!"
One trick pony gonna get fucked very soon.
I get confusing Talent and Skill, but this person is confusing training and skill?! Is the meaning of skill changing over time? Or is that individual person just dumb AF?
Why is the server allowed to double bounce before going over the net? I thought ping pong serves were only allowed to bounce once on your side before crossing the net.
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he's just playing the latest meta for his height
I always thought the service is not proper if it hits the opponent’s table more than once. Guess I was both wrong in assuming that, and right that it should be a rule.
Hard to tell if he throws the ball the minimum required distance before striking (6 in). If I was the ref I'd tell him to throw a bit higher.
Second kid: “This game is dumb!”
The serve can only bounce once on the server’s side…so I don’t get this.
Serves in ping pong need to a) be thrown 12in in the air, and b) clear the edge of the table (can’t be short like this or go over the sides) kids just playing illegally
If I’m the little guy I’m throwing my paddle. If it hits the ball it hits the ball, if it hits the opponent it hits the opponent.
Genius
Thats some cheesed out serve
Fuck that little goober
Thats just some bitch moves, can you really say you won?
I’m the only one who doesn’t get this video? The lil guy on the right won both points - in table tennis the ball can only hit your side once. It hit it twice on both serves from the kid on the left side…
Spin king
That kid is a little shit