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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• 15-Year-Old Ping-Pong Prodigy Wins USA Table Tennis National Championship

  
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  15-Year-Old Ping-Pong Prodigy Wins USA Table Tennis National Championship At the tender age of 15-years-old, Michal Landers has become the youngest player ever to win the Men’s USA Table Tennis National Singles Championship.  He overcame a three-games-to-one deficit in the best-of-seven final match on Dec. 19th ...
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• Location tracking using IR throwies

  
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• PJ’s & Christmas

  
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  We had a good Christmas. Except that Darren was gone, it was wonderful. We missed him, but he had a great time in Colorado with the other side of his family. It’s never the same around here without him, but so glad that he had a good time there. It is our tradition to open up one gift on Christmas Eve and it’s ...
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• Zachary Levi Looking Hot On The Cover Of Relevant Magazine

  
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• Google Creative Leads Have the Best Conference Tables [Design]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 890
  What do we have here? Just a boring table, right? Of course not! Google Creative Lead Ryan Vanderbilt is hiding something much more exciting in this custom conference furniture. Ping pong—a sport as un-American as Walmart apple pie. Really nice, Ryan. Though for the drawer, I might have gone with dueling ...
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• Fanciest Table Tennis / Conference Table Ever

  
  What's All The Racquet — Authority: 116
  Ive actually just recently made my table tennis table my home office desk, but this puts that to shame. Ryan Vanderbilts Table&Tennis; is more a fancy dining room table than a work table. Beautiful wood and detailing. Im wondering if the finish on the wood causes the ping pong ball to skid though. If, like me, ...
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• Does Susan Sarandon Have A Boytoy?

  
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  Did Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins break up because she had an affair with a ping-pong-playing hipster? Keywords: breakup , celeb love , justin timberlake , SNL , Susan Sarandon , Tim Robbins Bookmark/Share this post with: read more
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• Video lessons in table tennis from Ping Skills

  
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  Video lessons in table tennis from Ping SkillsEnglish | MP4 | 2008 | 450×360 | 125 mins | 487 MbVideo lessons in table tennis from the company Ping Skills.Alois “Head” Rosario Match – (Ping Skills)Essential Table Tennis RulesThe Right Table Tennis ShoesChoosing A Good Table Tennis BallGet a GripPenhold ...
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• The Health Care Fight is Not Over

  
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• 5 Simple, Yet Awesome DIY Projects

  
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• Brodmann Blades

  
  Plunder Guide — Authority: 451
  Anyone who enjoys a good game of ping pong won’t be able to help but love these Brodmann Blades. They are meant to fit just lika a glove with a paddle on each side so that you can give your best forehand and backhand. $100 . Share This
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• Broadmann Blades: Ping-Pong Paddle without the handle

  
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• Brodmann Blades

  
  What's All The Racquet — Authority: 116
  We havent had a table tennis entry in a long time, but these new paddles from Brodman warrant at least one. What these paddles are is a completely deconstructed ping pong paddle. Theyve separated the front and back - and you put your hand in the middle of them, like a glove. In essence, weve always said the paddle ...
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• Brodmann Blades Ping Pong Paddle Puts the Game In the Palm of Your Hand [Ping Pong]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 890
  Can you believe it? Ping Pong Paddle gloves! The game, it has changed! Now, granted, I havent actually slipped my hand into one of these potentially revolutionary paddles, but the design alone had...
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• Content Ratings Examined

  
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• Office prank: death from above

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 664
  Unsuspecting office workers beware. You may already be in the cross-hairs of a ping-pong ball launching robot . This covert robot hangs out on the other side of a suspended ceiling, waiting for its operator to unleash the fury. When put into action a hatch in a ceiling tile is raised and balls are launched at a ...
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  Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead : Sign the Senate Version of the Health Care Bill into a law before Joe Lieberman, Chair of Homeland Security, finds it incumbent upon himself to kill it at the next Cloture vote. Before the final Senate Vote there was some talk of "ping ponging" the bill--that is, eliminating ...
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• Forrest Gump Really Should Have Grown Up Somewhere Else [Ping-pong]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 779
  Silicon Valley engineers products and then exports them to the rest of the world. The latest innovation: ping-pong-playing robots disguised as small children, built from scratch to ruthlessly dominate the Olympics and win eternal glory for America. U-S-A! Many of these kids are the sons and daughters of ...
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• robot fires ping pong balls as a high tech, but fairly boring prank

  
  technabob — Authority: 715
  A member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Modlab spent the summer at Willow Garage , makers of the door-opening, self-plugging PR2 robot. Either the Modlab guy was really good friends or secretly annoyed with one of the researchers there, because he decided to install a robot that lobbed ping pong balls at ...
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• robot fires ping pong balls as a high tech, but fairly boring prank

  
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  A member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Modlab spent the summer at Willow Garage , makers of the door-opening, self-plugging PR2 robot. Either the Modlab guy was really good friends or secretly annoyed with one of the researchers there, because he decided to install a robot that lobbed ping pong balls at ...
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