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My epic ping-pong match

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TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
January 29 2012 03:31 GMT
#1
My saturday began around noon today, watching Sayle's rebroadcast of proleague. Which was a pretty good time, then baked potatoes and bbq chicken for dinner. But then I realized, it was Saturday. Saturday is the day when the gamers club meets, including chess, magic the gathering, pool, ping-pong, and various console games.

I'm pretty good at ping-pong, I'm no top player, but I consider myself quite good. But I ended up facing my friend Josh, who is someone who routinely DESTROYS me. Now I haven't played since before Christmas, so I thought I would be rusty. But I just decided, I was going to play the best fucking ping-pong that I could. And I did. I was doing moves that I hadn't even practiced. I remember thinking in my subconsious at one point where he left it only a few inches above the table "I'm gonna spike this at the corner, and its going to land there, and he's not gonna hit it." And I did. I was hitting the ball faster than I ever did, hitting spikes that I didn't think was possible for me before hand. My prime achievement during our was when he spiked to my left corner really fast than spiked to my right middle and I had to run four feet to get to it.I remember thinking "NO! I'M NOT MISSING THIS" And I returned it in a way that he couldn't hit it. I even gave a huge grunt when I hit it like a tennis player. I ended up beating him 2-1 in our bo3, it was easily the best ping-pong I have ever played, and by the end, it was clear that I was the better player. Without practice for some time, I was able to dominate someone who I couldn't even touch before. It wasn't like he was having an off day either, he told me that he was playing close to his best and that he didn't believe me when I told him I hadn't played in some time.

Now I'm feeling like a total champ. I beat someone who I couldn't beat before doing techniques that I couldn't do before. I just decided that I was going to be incredible, and I was. And now, fuck yeah I'm awesome, so I'm getting Dominos.

****
Eve online FC, lover of all competition
iGrok
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5142 Posts
January 29 2012 03:40 GMT
#2
Last sentence makes it. 5/5, would read again.
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BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
January 29 2012 03:43 GMT
#3
that happens to me too. when not doing someone for a while and picking it up, you just see things differently and mostly play much better than before. it's weird.
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
January 29 2012 03:49 GMT
#4
Good deal...except...you are feeling good so you are getting Dominos? Come on man, don't destroy yourself with cardboard pizza. You just acomplished something. Splurge on some flavor! =)
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
January 29 2012 03:50 GMT
#5
On January 29 2012 12:49 TheAmazombie wrote:
Good deal...except...you are feeling good so you are getting Dominos? Come on man, don't destroy yourself with cardboard pizza. You just acomplished something. Splurge on some flavor! =)


so fuck yeah olive garden?
Eve online FC, lover of all competition
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46713 Posts
January 29 2012 04:08 GMT
#6
Congratulations I play ping pong just for fun (at the "not-professional-but-still-better-than-most-of-my-friends" level) and some of the matches we have are really kickass Totally makes you feel like a baller when you're on fire or even win a great rally!
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
zickoray
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States366 Posts
January 29 2012 04:34 GMT
#7
dude get some like Five Guys they are the shit

and yea i love ping pong i play at an EH level but its still a really fun game
Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1934 Posts
January 29 2012 05:14 GMT
#8
My school is having a ping pong tournament and I'm up to the round of 8, winners bracket out of like 188 people, I'm not popular at all so everyone is asking who I am when I beat the popular people, its really funny when the whole school just watches in silance when I'm beating a person who walked around the whole week saying he'd rape me.

But the same thing happened to me before this tourney, I didn't think I was good but I went to practice with a group of like 9 people and lost no matches. All of those people had beaten me before. My only explanation is that starcraft made me better somehow.
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synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
January 29 2012 05:31 GMT
#9
I'm fucking horrible at ping pong
cannot uphold le chirese heritage

also yeah, dominos = meh
:)
KhAmun
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1005 Posts
January 29 2012 05:37 GMT
#10
Dude I love ping pong...
I haven't gotten to play in so long though
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
January 29 2012 06:34 GMT
#11
lol i would have liked to see a vid of this match.

i feel like this in bw sometimes. most of the time i cant even control my units when im NOT under attack. but once in awhile everything clicks and everything is tight and fast.
Chronopolis
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1484 Posts
January 29 2012 08:37 GMT
#12
"I beat someone who I couldn't beat before doing techniques that I couldn't do before."
STAAAAAAHHH YEAA, Thats the stuff!

No seriously, I'm happy for you. These moments are what you live for.
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