Amateur vs Pro: Timo Boll playing with a pan!

Xylit · Oct 29, 2017

There is a German TV show were you can challenge a professional player in your desired form of sport. If you win you have the chance to win a lot of money in a final round. An amateur table tennis player, playing in one of the lowest German leagues, challenged Timo Boll for a match. The challenger had to choose between three different kinds of rackets as a form of handicap for Timo: An axe-like racket with Timo's rubbers on it, a smartphone and a pan. The candidate decided on the pan

Here is the match!

yoass · Oct 30, 2017

Xylit said:
There is a German TV show were you can challenge a professional player in your desired form of sport. If you win you have the chance to win a lot of money in a final round. An amateur table tennis player, playing in one of the lowest German leagues, challenged Timo Boll for a match. The challenger had to choose between three different kinds of rackets as a form of handicap for Timo: An axe-like racket with Timo's rubbers on it, a smartphone and a pan. The candidate decided on the pan

Here is the match!

"This video is not avaiable in your country." O tempora, o mores…

cudalbuc · Oct 30, 2017

Try the opera web browser and enable the vpn feature. In the address bar click on vpn and select germany.

yoass · Oct 30, 2017

cudalbuc said:
Try the opera web browser and enable the vpn feature. In the address bar click on vpn and select germany.

Yes, I know. I can also use a socks proxy, terminated over an SSH session to a DE-based server, I know. It's just so saddening, this kind of childish, futile harassment, that knee-jerk anally retentive game of trying to micro-control access to content — after making it publically available on the amorphous mass the Internet is.

ajtatosmano2 · Oct 30, 2017

It doesn't work for me even with Opera VPN and I am lazy to install a proxy.
What's the result?

brodolio · Oct 30, 2017

It works fine for me! thanks for sharing it!

Garrison · Oct 30, 2017

Can you buy those rackets with a long handle anywhere? I think that would be a lot of fun

TTHopeful · Oct 30, 2017

Can someone upload this somewhere. UK users can't view it.....

maar · Oct 30, 2017

For those who are not able to play the video due to restricted access. There is no need of any fancy proxy software. Just to you Local Area Network (LAN) Settings and find button LAN Setting. Where the Proxy Settings are there should be an option to edit them. Once you get in type for Address: 88.99.134.46 and Port: 8080. Click OK and you should be good to go. Remember to go back there and delete or disable Proxy settings once finished watching the video.

TTHopeful · Oct 30, 2017

Thanks maar ill try

maar · Oct 30, 2017

Works fine for me. It should be ok for you too

maar · Oct 30, 2017

Xylit said:
There is a German TV show were you can challenge a professional player in your desired form of sport. If you win you have the chance to win a lot of money in a final round. An amateur table tennis player, playing in one of the lowest German leagues, challenged Timo Boll for a match. The challenger had to choose between three different kinds of rackets as a form of handicap for Timo: An axe-like racket with Timo's rubbers on it, a smartphone and a pan. The candidate decided on the pan

Here is the match!

Thanks for sharing! Enjoyed it

TableTennisDaily · Nov 5, 2017

Here's a youtube video:

OhWell · Nov 6, 2017

Thoughts on the 3 handicaps? Would the axe have been more difficult for Timo?

Sali · Nov 6, 2017

I thought that with the smartphone it could be more difficult, but check this out:

Xylit · Nov 6, 2017

The axe-like thing would have been the worst decision I think. Just grab it more at its end (if that was allowed) and it feels like a common racket with a long handle. Not enough handicap to win against Boll. I have played with smartphones already as well and it is astonishing how much control you have with that. It is right in your hand, even surface with a constant ball bounce. Still not enough to win against Boll I think. The pan however is heavy as ***, its surface is uneven and you can't really control anything.

OhWell · Nov 6, 2017

Xylit said:
The axe-like thing would have been the worst decision I think. Just grab it more at its end (if that was allowed) and it feels like a common racket with a long handle. Not enough handicap to win against Boll. I have played with smartphones already as well and it is astonishing how much control you have with that. It is right in your hand, even surface with a constant ball bounce. Still not enough to win against Boll I think. The pan however is heavy as ***, its surface is uneven and you can't really control anything.

Oh I took it that the axe would have to be held by the grip they put on it, otherwise it’s a silly handicap, agreed.

If that makes it more interesting we can just ask ourselves what’s worse between the pan and the axe held by the end of the extended handle.

OhWell · Nov 6, 2017

Sali said:
I thought that with the smartphone it could be more difficult, but check this out:

Yeah it’s very easy to manipulate the phone, it’s basically a really tiny rubber-less hardbat.

anchorschmidt · Nov 6, 2017

Trust Waldner to have the most entertaining of these videos. The host's screams of despair are equally as entertaining.

Simas · Nov 6, 2017

OhWell said:
Oh I took it that the axe would have to be held by the grip they put on it, otherwise it’s a silly handicap, agreed.

If that makes it more interesting we can just ask ourselves what’s worse between the pan and the axe held by the end of the extended handle.

I am pretty sure you would have to hold the axe handle by its end where the grip is put on. So I would vote for the axe handle as I think it would be very hard even to hit the ball with it. Just imagine how you would have to adapt your footwork for it. I don't think it would be very hard to hit the ball with a phone or with a pan as the difference in a distance to which you are used to (between the end of your palm and the racket surface) and the phone or the pan is not that big. And the pan has a big hitting surface. So after you get used to the bounce from the phone or the pan I think its manageable to beat this guy for any pro. They should have found a better guy to play as this guy can't keep the ball on the table yet

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