Ping Pong Ball Trick

With Boston Ruit, beer pong gets ready for its close-up

Mikey Connors of Peabody growls at his opponents from across the folding table. Whipping the crowd into hysterics, the beer-pong heavyweight steps back from the edge and starts to kick his heels up like a bull about to charge. He lets out a vicious bark. With fans behind velvet ropes stomping around in spilled suds, Connors tucks his head down, lunges, and launches himself forward so that he's horizontally airborne. Executing a rare trick shot of questionable legality, he slam-dunks the ping-pong ball into the last remaining plastic cup and crashes through the eight-foot table, leaving nothing but a puddle of skunked beer and twisted metal in his wake. At stake in this all-day, eight-table beer-pong marathon at the Greatest Bar out by North Station is a chance to compete for $50,000 in Las Vegas, at the World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP) next January. Props are also on the line, and Connors, who's known in competitive circles as the Most Valuable Drunk (or MVD), earns respect despite coming in third place behind the infamous New York ringer Mike "Pop" Popielarski's team. The fearless air assault is captured by Chris Liquori and Keith Winer of Bostonian Productions, who are here to immortalize the match for Boston Ruit , their beer-pong highlight series filmed for the New England cable station MyTV. Someone was bound to create the first TV show about the world's drunkest sport. In 2011, beer pong — or Beirut, as it's often called on the East Coast — is hardly an underground phenomenon adored exclusively by frat boys and cellar dwellers. Marquee players have been featured in the New York Times and on the Tonight Show . There's even a documentary, Last Cup (2008), produced by Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame. At this juncture, every major sports publication in America has dispatched to Nevada for the WSOBP, which enters its seventh year in 2012, and is growing annually to accommodate thousands of players from around the world. Yet despite beer pong's longstanding popularity among the prized advertising demographic of college students, cable networks have yet to catch on. Perhaps no one believed in the potential entertainment value of dudes in battered baseball hats flinging balls at cups of beer.

Ping-Pong Ball Trick Shots? Oh Ya! | Entertainment Buddha

Move over you big ball trick shots because there’s a new act in town, and it involves tiny balls.  It seems we have a new found fad with all of these trick shot videos be it football, basketball, bowling, and now ping-pong.  I’m impressed by all of these videos, but this ping-pong one is pretty spectacular considering that the kid uses some impressive geometry principles to pull of his tricks.  If anything this video goes to show you that not all younger kids just sit around and play videogames all day like most adults think.  He had to put in some serious thought to get some of these shots to work, and his understanding of angles at his age is pretty stellar.  Check out his ping-pong shots below.

And I'm going to do the cool hairdryer trick with the ping pong ball! :)

Just been thrashed at ping pong even though I tried the ole 'ooh the ball has got stuck in my cleavage' trick!

RT : Want to learn the ping pong ball trick. But we haven't got any. Closest thing is cherry tomatoes. Will this end badly?

Want to learn the ping pong ball trick. But we haven't got any. Closest thing is cherry tomatoes. Will this end badly?

Ahh, I see. I heard it was because of her ping pong ball trick - only she had swapped them for golf balls instead..

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