If this article is describes you to a tee, it’s time to join a table tennis club or find a coach and erase the title of basement player.
You know you’re a basement player when…
- You believe Butterfly’s marketing department when they say your premade racket has characteristics of Speed = 95/100, Spin = 95/100 and Control = 100/100. Numbers haven’t been this inflated since Germany’s currency before World War II.
- You call the sport “ping pong” and don’t understand why your Chinese friends keep ranting, “It’s TABLE TENNIS!“
- You’ve never tossed a ball higher than 1 foot when serving.
- You think Brian Pace actually uses the “Butterfly Brian Pace” premade racket.
- You visit a real table tennis club and every time you step 3 feet away from the table you’re surprised that you haven’t bumped into a wall yet.
- You’ve never broken a sweat playing ping pong.
- You brag to all your friends about how good your “spike” is in ping pong.
- You burst into laughter every time you hit a net or edge.
- You drool over the newest 7-star ******* racket.
- You don’t believe that table tennis is an Olympic sport.
- You think 3 rotations per second is a lot of spin.
I hope I haven’t offended you. If I have, then it’s about time you went to the next level. Check out the Coach Wiki and Videos section to pick up your game.
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Your average basement player has never heard of Brian Pace
Here are a few more
1) you think you play better after having four beers
2) you think blue jeans and a wife beater shirt is proper Ping pong attire
3) you think a guy who is built like Tom Hanks could really be a world class table tennis player
4) you brag that you put “alot of English” on a ball
5) you think it is illegal for a serve to bounce twice on the receiver’s side of the table
6) you think Playing “with pimples” means your doubles partner is a teenager with acne
7) you think ANTISPIN is a control on the warp drive of the starship Enterprise
[...] in 5 years the ITTF will have rectified some of these issues and table tennis will no longer be a basement sport played by drunk college students that have run out of cups for beer [...]
This is funny… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHnQ5ImpdBc