How to Fairly Play Against Pygmies?

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In fiction, it is popular to have a species of shorter creatures, be they aliens or goblins. This lead me to wonder how you could play pingpong with them, without it being grossly unfair. Here is an idea I had for how playing against smaller players might work.

Let's assume a player with shorter arms and legs, but it isn't less agile or a worse player (relative to its size). It is maybe a metre tall.

The best I can think of, is you would raise the floor on the short player's side of the table, so they're standing at about the same height (the pingpong table's legs are cut, so that the table is perfectly level despite the raised floor on one side). Next, you would change the length and width of the table on the short player's side to accommodate for the length of the player's arms. This should give the shorter player an appropriately sized table on the shorter player's side.

This does raise a question for the normal sized player. Will they be disadvantaged now that the opponent's side of the table is narrower and shorter? Because of this, you might have to adjust the length and width of the shorter player's table so that both payers are equally disadvantaged, it being a little too big for the shorter player, and a little too small for the normal sized player.

Does this sound like a plausible way to play against naturally smaller players? I hope this is the right section of the forums for such an amusing question.

 

[Der_Echte]

Pygmies dont fight fair, they fight to win, by any means available.

You fight fire with fire, so the idea of embedding explosives inside the ball timed to explode 1 fraction of a second after landing on his side on your finishing shot is both spectacular to see and ironic poetic justice.

 

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If I could work out how to like posts, I would like yours.

It does make me wonder if anyone has tried hot-potato pingpong before. That could be fun.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

If I could work out how to like posts, I would like yours.

It does make me wonder if anyone has tried hot-potato pingpong before. That could be fun.

Look at the bottom of a player's profile from a post and there is a hand with a thumbs up. Next to it, it says like. I think the feature may turn on only after you have 5 posts which you now have.

When I play 8, 9 and 10 year olds who are smaller than most pigmies, I seem to lose even with what seems like a large size advantage.

 

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Are those kids experts, or does being small help in some way?

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Are those kids experts, or does being small help in some way?

Yeah, I was just joking around about how, a young kid with a lot of training can be pretty darn good.

 

[Reaper]

i believe being tall in table tennis is a disadvantage because is harder to crouch/bend the knees to perform a nice topspin, short guys don't even think of that just hit it while standing up.

I'm 6'2 so i had to study the gameplay of samsonov because i couldn't keep up with the fast pace of the short guys that i played with

 

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So shortening the pygmy table may also be to reduce pygmy advantage.

 

[htfu]

or fit them into a normal human size powered exoskeleton ... no table modifications needed