Word: pong
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...Dude, There's a Ball in My Iced Tea I think it's funny how Billy Gaines, the founder of Bpong.com, says competitive beer pong is not about alcohol [Aug. 18]. As a college student myself, I know that most students aren't playing to fill their cups with Gatorade. They like the added bonus of getting drunk as part of the competition. Brett Johnson, Santa Cruz, California
...think it's funny how Billy Gaines, the founder of Bpong.com says competitive beer pong is not about the alcohol [Aug. 18]. As a college student myself, I know that most students aren't playing to fill their cups with Gatorade. They like the added bonus of getting drunk as part of the competition. Brett Johnson SANTA CRUZ, CALIF...
After my initial excitement, I figured that the table tennis elite must actually whack through their paddles pretty quickly, and maybe needed some sort of pit station for repairing their rubber. But not being a ping pong - sorry, table tennis - aficionado, I asked Bob Fox, team leader for USA Table Tennis, for some help, and found out how wrong I was. "They don't worry about the rubber falling off the paddle," he explained. Fox said the pros apply glue to the paddles and use its tackiness to their advantage. "The effect is one of increasing the speed and spin...
...knew glue could do that? It seems that unlike us basement ping pong champions, table tennis athletes can actually use glue to snap the ball across the table in some pretty astounding ways. Think of slathering your palms with jelly or something equally slippery and then putting your hands together - "that's the springy effect that glue on glue provides," said Fox. Since the 1950s, when table tennis players stopped using hard-backed paddles that consisted of rubber on wood, athletes have been using paddles, or bats, that include a layer of sponge between the paddle and the rubber - anywhere...
Video on Time.com To see beer-pong enthusiasts in action, go to time.com/beerpong