Table Tennis - Prejudices

[Bollforte94]

I want to make a video with the title: Table Tennis - Against All Prejudices
But at first I need prejudices. So what do hear if you tell someone that you play Table Tennis?
I will start:

1. Table Tennis is no sport
2. You don't have to move and sweat

Who has more?

 

[nabilatouni]

Yeah that's pretty much the same prejudice I heard, some people told me that "Oh Tennis Table is boring to play and to watch!" ; "You rather play tennis it's better, it's more physical" ; "Tennis table is for lazy people!".

 

[judah000]

Table tennis is a sport that is slo-mowed!


well I think they've never seen Ma long played!!hahah

 

[azlan]

I look like chinese so they assume that I am good in TT (sigh)............they didn't know that I am really very very good at it hahaha:0...20 years ago!!!!

 

[MildSeven]

short shorts?

 

[Matt Hetherington]

How do you even train for table tennis?

 

[azlan]

I got loads after 30 years..
1. It's not tiring, so you can't sweat and no stamina is needed - do multi-balls
2. Too easy. Unlike tennis, TT tables is only an arm's width - try standing 2 steps away from the table I say.
3. Don't need power and strength. The ball is only a couple of ounces - try hitting the ball from 12ft away from the table.
4. Played in hall so you're not battling against the elements as well, unlike tennis..again - try playing in a hall with 20 tables playing at the same time and people cheering everywhere.
5. You can't get girls since only nerds play them - heck no, I was married twice before
6. You can't make money in the sport - kinda true I think

What the heck do they know, I say

 

[WiWa]

Only played on camping sites and occasionally in schools or parks.

 

[xGG]

Not MAN enough!

 

[poltery]

They always tell me that it's SUPER EASY! @_@ they don't know a damn thing about this sport

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

I love playing guys who are tennis players who think they should be able to play Table Tennis because they can play tennis without putting any of the real work into learning the actual game. I played this one guy whose friends told me he thought he could beat me because he had been #300 in the world in tennis. Now, he was good for a player who did not play table tennis for real. But he had no chance given the fact that he was trying to hit through spin with tennis strokes and no clue how to loop. Funny. Tennis does not = Table Tennis. They are different.

Now a tennis player who really learns how to play table tennis can be pretty good. But that is different than someone who just thinks they should be good at table tennis because they play tennis.

 

[azlan]

Nadal would be good coz he put so much top spin on the ball..I think there was a video of him playing TT.

 

[Aussieron50]

Table tennis is a sport that is slo-mowed!


well I think they've never seen Ma long played!!hahah

Thats very true , I dont think they have seen anyone in the top 20 in the world play ! hahahahaha

 

[dguerra]

i don't know if it was written before but i often hear when i say 'i can´t go today because i have table tennis trainning' and i have the same answer, laughs and people saying trainning? it is really necessary to train? other people even don't believe what i say and they think i'm going anywhere else...