Ping Pong

If your child has his or her mind set on a career in professional sports, and you'd like to be supported in your old age, it may not be the best idea to steer him or her towards becoming a world class ping pong player. There's no shame in it, but the annual salary plus endorsements and prize money and such currently tops out at just north of $100,000 for the best players instead of the magical and coveted $1,000,000 mark.

As of 1988 table tennis is now an Olympic sport. Ping pong, or table tennis, can be played with 2 to 4 players (singles or doubles), and the winner is the one (or team) who first scores 11 points. One of the most fun strokes in ping pong is the smash, and is much like a spike in volleyball. Balls are just creamed onto table tennis tables and the opponent gets embarrassed.

Wang Liqin is the current table tennis champion of the world. Did you know there are over 300 million ping pong players across the globe? In this case you are probably a statistic.

Bloggers speaking about the merits of ping pong can be found at sites like pingpongpertothom and tenismejakita.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Ping Pong”

• Discover These Truly Powerful Table Tennis Tactics

  
  The Blog Street Journal — Authority: 148
  A ping pong match is something that you should prepare for whenever you are going to play. It helps if you prepare early on days before the game starts by studying your opponents and finding out what their strengths and weaknesses are. However, if you didn’t prepare like this, you can easily find out their [...]
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• Always Be Equipped By Practicing These Powerful Table Tennis Points

  
  All Info About — Authority: 159
  Just like any other sport, you need to be mentally prepared for every ping-pong match that you intend to play. It helps if you prepare early on days before the game starts by studying your opponents and finding out what their strengths and weaknesses are. However, if you didnt prepare like this, you can easily [...]
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• Applying Your Maneuvers While In the Match: Being the Explorer or the Dominator

  
  A Girl And A Gun — Authority: 151
  Just like any other sport, you need to be mentally prepared for every ping-pong match that you intend to play. It helps if you prepare early on days before the game starts by studying your opponents and finding out what their strengths and weaknesses are. However, if you didn’t prepare like this, you can easily find ...
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• Utilizing Your Tactics While In the Match: Being the Explorer or the Dominator

  
  The Blog Street Journal — Authority: 148
  A ping pong match is something that you should prepare for whenever you are going to play. It is a big help if you start out early and watch your opponent play so that you know what their strengths and their weaknesses are. It is not entirely necessary to prepare like that though, as you [...]
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• Discover These Genuinely Right Ping-Pong Tactics

  
  All Info About — Authority: 159
  You should be prepared to play ping-pong just like you are mentally prepared for any other sport. Preparing early is a big step forward, and a good way to do this is to study how your opponent plays so you can understand where they are weak points are and what their strengths are. It is [...]
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• my quest for the golden paddle

  
  i am a fashion designer. gee — Authority: 119
  I was cordially invited to play in the Alloy Digital 2009 Ping Pong Classic at SPiN New York last night, and oh what a time it was! I ate a lot of flavored popcorn and improved aspects of my game by taking two giant steps back from the table (so thats why my returns kept flying all over the place!) and definitely ...
  3 days ago

• Health Care and Ping Pong

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 681
  By Wyeth Ruthven Forget conference committees, any observer of health care reform needs to add the term “ping-pong” to their legislative vocabulary. Ping-pong is a little known but increasingly used procedural device to pass legislation. A 2008 report by Walter Oleszek for the Congressional Research ...
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• CO-ED NAKED PING PONG

  
  Daily Fiasco — Authority: 145
  This girl tried to psych out opponents with, ‘Have you seen my porno?’ Well-played. (Photos by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com ) There are some strippers who know their way around ping pong. We don’t know if it’s that they’re just down for anything that involves a paddle, or if there’s some sort of rec room ...
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• Ping Pong Night On Roosevelt Island Cancelled This Week For Veterans Day - But Anyone For Matrix Ping Pong Next Week?

  
  ROOSEVELT ISLANDER — Authority: 501
  You Tube Video Of Ping Pong Match Matrix Style If you have been looking forward to the regularly scheduled Roosevelt Island Wednesday Ping Pong Night be aware that RIOC has issued the following Advisory for this week: Please be advised, due to the observance of the Veterans Day holiday, Ping Pong Night has been ...
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• Humorist, Wanda Sykes, Sets Obama Critics Straight On The Wanda Sykes Show!

  
  Latest entries from tabacco.blog-city.com — Authority: 460
  Wanda Sykes, "I cant believe people are blaming Obama for the mess Bush left! Bush just pees all over everything, and people are looking at Obama as if he just zipped up his fly!"
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• This Week’s Greatest Hits on Young & Hungry

  
  Young & Hungry — Authority: 574
  If there’s anything that grips Y&H readers, it’s tragedy, and it doesn’t get much more tragic than the homicide of Nori Amaya , the co-owner of Coppi’s Organic on U Street. People were obviously desperate for information on the strangulation. Even our negligible little item was widely visited. ...
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• Major Nidal Malik Hasan: If 3,000 Americans Are Murdered By Muslim Terrorists, We Mourn, Decorate, Remember, Deify & Weep - If 1-2 Million Iraqis Die For American Avarice & Imperialism, We Yawn!

  
  Latest entries from tabacco.blog-city.com — Authority: 460
  Telegraph.co.uk: Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan said Muslims should rise up - Tabacco: You have to bypass Americas MSM to get any real truths! I had to find UK source! Lets see how long before we hear this version on American TV!
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• 11/8/09: Indie-Mart Street Fair & Ping Pong Tourney | Potrero Hill

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 488
  Indie Mart takes over thee parkside with about 100 vendors in handmade, vintage and so much more along with the usual lineup of fun bands, djs, activities, photo booth, DIY workshops and demos (starting at 1pm), drinks, beers and bbq. Get your rock t-shirt customized at the sewing station for $5. Win prizes during ...
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• Behind the Scenes at Ping Pong Dim Sum

  
  Young & Hungry — Authority: 574
  how dim sum is made from pingpongdimsum on Vimeo . You’ll have to forgive Y&H for posting a video that’s so promotional in nature, but I found this inside look at Ping Pong Dim Sum quite fascinating, and not just because the London-based chain will open its first U.S. outlet right here in the ...
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• HYPOCRISY: USA Bans Reefer But Sanctions Cigarettes, Incarcerates Poor Potheads But Slaps Rich Cocaine Users On Wrist, Sends Dog Fighting NFL QB To Jail For 2 Years But Builds Genocidal Bush Library!

  
  Latest entries from tabacco.blog-city.com — Authority: 460
  The MSM discusses GOSSIP & TRIVIAL PURSUIT as Prime Time Political Debate, glorifies War but demeans Healthcare Reform, promotes Reality Shows but ignores US Military rapes, murders & death numbers. Is US a Communist Totalitarian Dictatorship?
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• D’Acqua Shutters, Ping Pong Dim Sum Set to Open Next Month

  
  Young & Hungry — Authority: 574
  Coming soon to Penn Quarter: Ping Pong Dim Sum The dining gods giveth. The dining gods taketh away. Missy Frederick at Washington Business Journal is reporting that D’Acqua , the downtown Italian eatery with the emphasis on fresh seafood, shut its doors for good on Oct. 30. Writes Frederick on her Top ...
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• Shortstack Live @ Comet Ping Pong

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  A few weeks ago Shortstack came out of hiding and performed a show at Comet Ping Pong. I went here instead. Fortunately, All Our Noise was there and shot some footage of the band. And they’re rocking out. The band’s past couple of releases– History of Cut Nails in America and 2008’s Covers EP –had ...
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• Bruce Lee Would Be Able to Beat Me Up

  
  The Slanch Report — Authority: 443
  This video isn’t new, but I have been long-remiss in never posting it. If you have ever played ping-pong and thought, “Hey, I could do this a lot better with nunchuks instead of a paddle,” this video is definitely for you. Apparently it’s an ad for Nokia in China, but regardless, it is a real video featuring ...
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• BRUCE LEE: MODERATELY BADASS

  
  With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — Authority: 681
  UPDATE: This is the actual video. Bruce Lee is one of those rare icons of film that was as badass in real life as he was in his movies. I heard that one time he caught a bullet in between his asscheeks while he was procreating with a stegasaurus. Unfortunately, that wasn’t caught on tape, but this was: It’s a ...
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• Numbers

  
  No legacy — Authority: 129
  Since we at No Legacy celebrate Leigh Hibell Week™ this week I want to dedicate this next post to him, most certainly the Rain Man of the NoLegacy crew. This link tip goes out to you Leigh.
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