Ping Pong Humor (or not)

I am normally very serious about the game of ping pong, but every now and again I take a break… but I’m still thinking ping pong full time. 

I eat, sleep, and think ping pong. Drives my girlfriend crazy. LOL!

I was watching some videos on the Internet about some ping pong games when I was tempted to click on a training video. So I thought I was up for a special, top class, and Olympic-caliber training, but instead of learning something to improve my drives or maybe footwork (which I expected to be aching after the practice), I just ended up with a stomachache because of endless laughing.

The video has a title of Extreme Ping Pong Training (which made me believe it was for real). The training started with the ping pong master talking while a ball floats between a racket and his hand. After that, the training commenced with the tune of “Eye of the Tiger” in the background.

That training was seriously hilarious. Each trainee was given a ball and ordered to run lapses around the campus. They did jumping jacks while being slapped with ping pong racket on their faces, push ups with ping pong balls under their nostrils, and driving practice ala Matrix (complete with slow motion cinematic effect).

The muscle toning section was my favorite part. Trainees lift weights while being blasted with ping pong balls. One ball even went inside a trainee’s mouth. There was also a nutrition program in which ping pong balls were added to their morning cereals. I think that was supposed to help the trainees absorb the energy of the ping pong balls. 

At the end of the program was a competition and it was not without its own share of crazy humor. Every now and then, a ball coming from nowhere enters the game scene.

Everything was really exaggerated and funny. That was the most entertaining ping pong training I have ever seen – I don’t know if I should feel bad or good after watching it.  I think every so often even people who train full time in this game need to let off a little steam and that’s where bizarre videos like this come from.

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