@@jambonniercr8492which parts? Propaganda is for a cause or political gain; the only propaganda in this video is for table tennis and that's totally acceptable. :D
I don't know that's much about china but having this much english speaking chineese and this much people knowing adam while this is the country of ping pong and i don't see why would they listen to him casting game. Plus everybody knows him and there is not a single one table tennis player@@invisi1407
@@jambonniercr8492 if you really let government or MSM force china bad narrative on you, you are brainwashed. Same for chinese. There are lots of good people everywhere it's that simple
This was not my experience. In 2005 I travelled to Xi'an and played in a park that had multiple tables. The worst player I faced was about a 1300 level. Most were 1700+ and just casual players. The "Pro" table players allowed me to play a few games and I got destroyed.
pink pong park is very different vs w/e event this is. It's like... playing chess at a chess park with all the stone tables and play chess at a random picnic park. That being said, Adam would still dominate most people just due to his level, however u want to put it, his level is extremely high. Of course in China there are way more people that can be a threat to this challenge, there are also way more people that is no match at all.
When I was attending high school in China, about 10-15% of the boys were trained in table tennis-most would likely still lose to Adam if he played seriously, but at least they could serve and loop properly. Somehow, Adam found a spot where not a single person in a large crowd had any training. Next time, he should try a college campus!
I'm honestly surprised. I would have expected more challenging players in this video ! Maybe try challenging them at one of their already installed ping pong tables at one of their park where more ping pong enthusiast play :)
It's not like every Chinese person is a secret kung-fu master either...I found the average level at clubs wasn't even that high when i was there. The total amount of players just ensures their top players reach way higher levels
@@aseq2 bruh I don't see the correlation between being a kung fu master and the average level of ping pong players from different country. There's more density of ping pong tables in China than anywhere else in the world so more exposure to the sport there which is why I would have expected more people knowing how to play. Just like there are more baseball field in the US than anywhere else in the world. Of course not everyone in the US has swung a bat but I'd expect more people to have done so in the US than in China.
Adam is a very good player. I'm not surprised that he didn't lose many games. But most of the people he played against in this video obviously don't play ping pong regularly. Most of them are merely trying to return the ball. Elementary school & middle school kids who play ping pong between classes regularly are better than his opponents in this video, although they may still not be good enough to beat Adam in a serious game. It'll probably be a good match if Adam plays against members of a middle school ping pong team.
I honestly hope a local club challenges you to play their best players, similar to Indonesia as it'd be interesting to see how you'd fare against them.
He probably went to China not only to play vs average festival people, I bet there's gonna be more videos with stronger players. Some amateur club or a spot with tables where amateurs play would be fun.
@@rgefsedslol don't forget it's a video man. Not saying they don't have beautiful women there too but I'd imagine the distribution isn't too different from here.
In Canada, this is the same as hockey. We all watch it. Not that many can acually play it. In fact, table tennis skills might be higher than hockey skills, just because of the cost to play.
Maybe it's regional specific, but I believe it's way affordable to play table tennis in China than ice hockey. Agreed with your example of hockey in Canada!
Feel like its the same with england and football. pick out a random citizen and it'll be a guy who hasnt kicked a ball in 10 years, even though they're a football fan.
Yeah next time you should choose a local park with free pingpong tables there! You'll meet some weird grandpas/grandmas with incredible skills... and unique styles! (but don't panic you won't go broke if you play to 5 points, no pro plays there). But you are correct that people are just people! In China everyone have played pingpong, but not too many of them later become competitive. You just witnessed the WORST part of the Chinese sports system -- the pros are too faraway from the people. It has its historical reasons that back then all sports -- Pingpong included -- are not meant for people. It's only for the pros to compete in the international games for "the glory of the country", and for the rest of us to watch them on TV and shed tears of "how great our country is". Well how you become a pro??? The pros are selected at a very young age and were sent into special "athletic schools" to be trained to be an national athlete... It's a national funded pyramidal system that works from county to city to province to nation level. Once you are in, you'll be cut from the outside of the world, you'll get paid as if you have a job (don't know if it's still the case now at lower level). You won't see them in your local "normal" schools because they are not in it. They train 24*7 and don't worry about exams. They don't worry about going to high school or university. You don't see them and they don't see you. It's very unlikely in China that your buddy who is the 1st place in your school that will still be let's say top3 or top5 in your regional meet. Because that's the only time you'll notice that these "athletic school" guys/gals exists... They will smoke you and make you feel like a joke... So what's the point of being competitive if you are already not in the system and are guaranteed to lose??? During our adolescent years me and my buddies spend huge time playing Pingpong, basketball and all kinds of sports, but no one has ever think about being competitive or get a coach or even deliberately practice some skills. We just play for fun. I believe that's the case all over the country. In China the pros don't arise from general populations, they are in a parallel system. They don't work their way up in local club races. They don't have the brand exposure responsibility to sponsors, they don't need to get public attention to recruit students to coach to make a living. They are paid workers by the country who doesn't care about the outside. That's why even if China has the strongest Pingpong team, but the level of general population is not proportional to it. Now things are changing but the inertia of the old system is huge. Especially at the national level, for the number of medals, the old system works. Next time you should try challenge "the other system" and see how your money goes! I bet Xu Xin will know well how you will find that "the other system".
The whole point of this video, is for regular people to try and take $100 from a semi-pro, which sparks viewers' interests. Of course a pro would smash Adam, but nobody wants to watch something too predictable. This is a RUclips channel trying to show some fun in table tennis at the end of the day.
At my university in Germany, there were quite a lot of Chinese students. Two of them became good friends. None of those two plays table tennis (they prefer basketball), but once they told me about an annual Chinese tournament in town as they knew I had played competitively in my childhood. So I participated. There were around 30 players and, unfortunately, I played the later champion of that tournament. So I lost the first match and got to the b-round and won all matches then. I think, in total there were 4 to 6 players better than me of the 30. One of them was German as well. In order to that, I think it is simply a matter of numbers. China is a huge country with more than 1 billion people and table tennis is a relevant (not the only!) sport for them. So there are many great players, but also many poor players (like anywhere).
My first thought was, ...China?! He'll go broke!! And that expectation made the whole video so much fun/interesting to watch!! And maybe, just maybe, Xu Xin recommended that park on purpose!!
@@axle4565 I think playing table tennis has little to do with GDP. Sports centers or clubs are the best places. Campuses are also fine. Judging from the video, most people here just want to participate in the challenge and have little experience in playing table tennis. It seems like this is Calling everyone to exercise.
Many does not grasp how extremely almost impossibly hard to climb to the top in the world of table tennis. Upwards of 2000 - 5000 kids compete for ONE spot on the national team in training camps across China. In order to get into those camps you need to be at least among the top players in local clubs across 23 provinces in China. There are at least hundreds of those local clubs in each provinces. After being the top players in a club, you get a chance at one of those training camps. You need to compete with thousands of others for a chance at the national team. Let’s say you got that chance, there is no guarantee that you can ever represent China as you would need to consistently be in the top to play for China. Even when you are in the top, whom presumably are all from China, you need to be the best of the best of the best to even think about competing in the olympics or world championships. If you are 1 in a million in China, there are exactly 1400 people just like you.
They are wholesome but completely bereft of ping pong skills. Bit of a farce going to China and playing no-hopers. It's not exactly difficult to find talented players here.
I remember watching CaptainSauce back in 6th grade while he was still playing Battle Cats. Had a bad cold and was sleeping ~12 hours a day and going in and out of slumber, waking up to Sauce conquering ITF and yelling very funny stuff that made me laugh. Made the cold much more bearable. Glad he's back. Stay strong king!
He's playing at a park where people go for events, he's not at a park where people go to play table tennis, if he went to one of those he'll meet a lot of higher skill level people
i expected more challenging players to show up haha well maybe should promote in weibo or xiaohongshu before the event, so that those interested cn mark and prepare before the dayy. there must be some kind of events or tournaments carried out that few days that's why a lot of skilled players dont manage to show up. however well done for the video like it sooo muchh hope to see adam back in china very sooonn
When I was young, at Chinese New Year, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing used to hold parties for five days, the members of the national table tennis team did the same, people waited in lines to challenge them, everybody got three chances, you only need to win one point to win a racket ticket which can be used to exchange for some prizes😊
Oh so sad!! I was so excited at the beginning, looking forward for tougher competition. Adam should go to some Chinese park with TT tables and pick himself victims there😅 somebody who can at least play somehow
Hey Adam! I’m an international student studying abroad in Shanghai. As a fan of yours, I’d love to play a game of table tennis with you. How long are you staying in Shanghai for? 😂😂
I don't think he alert any of his fans that he's coming. I think mainly because his platform is RUclips, which is ban in China. So either he has a very small fanbase in China because of youtube. Or he doesn't have the proper platform to communicate with them that he's coming. He had to settle with normies.
I once worked in a small southeastern European country with a team of international professionals based in the US. In the basement of the building where be worked was a ping-pong table. The staff at this place had regular tournaments - the strongest players where the cleaning women who often played with a penhold grip and smashed the balls left and right.. One of our team members was Chinese, and when they saw him, they all wanted to play with him, expecting him to be a ping-pong superstar. They were very disappointed when he was just a normal ball pusher like the rest of us. Adam’s videos are really beautiful, they show how people from different cultural and social environments can connect by just having a bit of fun together. I have been once in Shanghai, and found it the most charming city in China.
Come to South Africa (I just missed you at the world cup), would love to play against you. You have taught me so much, from serving, to your snake, to even just your game attitude. Thnx for everything
lets not jump to stuff like media, someone said a good comment, China has yt banned so he can't announce to his fans that hes coming....secondly he looks like hes at some festival...its like USA is dominant in basketball but take a really good basketball player with a portable court and he will beat 9/10 ppl easily or even 10/10
@@Red4350 I don't have high expectations too..at least I expected an average player or even below average but everyone he played with is like I've never played it only watched players💔 Compared to China being a high tt participation country,indonesians were much better excluding those professionals and those who came after their friends called them..
Adam went to a park where there are no ping pong players but young people attracted by being on the camera and connecting with Adam, as a result, from the perspective of connecting with young Chinese people, this is great. But from the perspective of table tennis, well.... I see this as an opportunity missed to do something else in China in addition to what he did,... go to a park where there are lots of tables outdoor and Chinese people of all ages playing every day. An exemple if the outdoor ping pong facility at Chaoyong Park in Beijing, about 20 tables at one spot with people playing all day long. That would be fun and will lead to great games with you, some grandpa and grandma would give you a hard time. The other thing that would be interesting is to go to a sport high school like the one that was next to the hotel where I stayed on about 10 of my 40 trips to china. I could see from my window teenagers playing at about 15 or 20 tables outside in the school yard, the caliber was very good if not great. Such videos would give us an insight into what kind of base there is for table tennis in China which leads to so much strength on the provincial and national teams.
When I was attending high school in China, about 10-15% of the boys were trained in table tennis-most would likely still lose to Adam if he played seriously, yet at least they'll serve and loop properly. Somehow, Adam found a spot where not a single person in a large crowd had any training. Next time, he should try a college campus!
It would be very challenging for you to go to the park and look for the older people who play ping pong. Those people are the real OG ping pong players hiding in the world.
Hey Adam, I have been your subscriber for so long and watch almost all of your videos. Please come in Bangladesh there are so many good players here who know you and would love to play with you. We can all have a good time together. It will be such a pleasure to have you in Bangladesh. I hope you notice this comment someday. Wish you all the best ❤❤
hi Adam, I love Table tennis even if I'm not playing as much as I want. but I love your channel and watch you everytime. I wonder if you ever been in Italy (my country) and do a similar challenge there. It's a beautiful country, even I'm sure table tennis is not very popular there. If you would like to come by I would suggest to maybe get in contact with some gyms or clubs. Love to see all the new videos in this channel and one day maybe to see you in one of our beautiful city. Thanks for all the awesome work you do and spread this wonderful games around the world.
Hey Adam!! This is Shouvik It's Fun seeing you play and hats off!! to the way you respect this game. I love your passion Why don't you come all the way to India, we all would love you being here?
Very nice! So we figured out that Table Tennis in China is like Football here in Brazil. I mean, it is the country of the football, but not everyone can play well :D
It’s so weird seeing so many ppl in that area don’t know how to play ping pong at all. I grew up in Tianjin, China, almost everyone dude in my class can play at pretty good amateur level and there were a lot more ppl that could play among the school. Maybe ping pong was slightly more popular in Tianjin. 😅
It is really surprising that the street level in China is so bad. You played more than 50 players and most of them were on absolute beginner level. I remember seeing your video with the same premise when you played in a park in Cologne/Germany. Most of those players would have busted these Chinese players up. 😅 I mean, of course on an international level China clearly is world number 1. But that exactly is the reason why I was more than surprised to see the level of these players. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the video very much, thanks! 🎉
Adamm, come to Brazil!! The country of the ping pong!! hehe 😄 In São Paulo, specially… You can tell for us where you will came! We are waiting for you Adam! 😉
I feel like my grandpa could get a point hes insane and has been playing since childhood but i swear this guy is holding back on me because even though im improving he just easily matches me lol
There is one, or a few, specific parks in every city in China where all the serious TT happens. Some Chinese pro players create content by going to those places and the competition does get pretty serious there. Adam probably chose not to go one of these places because his content style is more 'happy people having fun'. Otherwsie Xu Xin could have pointed Adam to this park next to the Shanghai City team, where Wang Liqin would show up with a bunch of his kids
I've played in a fair number of table tennis clubs in China, in various cities - surely not as many as you have, but a fair amount. In my experience, comparing to playing in clubs in America, the weakest players in the Chinese clubs are stronger than the weakest players here, presumably because everyone learns some basics in school. But the strongest players in clubs are sometimes better here in the U.S. than in China, because the strongest players in Chinese cities aren't playing in their local clubs, they are working in training centers or playing professionally in some capacity. Here in the U.S. you can walk into a local club and face a national champion - that would rarely if ever happen in China. I suspect the same is true in reverse for sports that are more popular here, like baseball.
Many does not grasp how extremely almost impossibly hard to climb to the top in the world of table tennis. Upwards of 2000 - 5000 kids compete for ONE spot on the national team in training camps across China. In order to get into those camps you need to be at least among the top players in local clubs across 23 provinces in China. There are at least hundreds of those local clubs in each provinces. After being the top players in a club, you get a chance at one of those training camps. You need to compete with thousands of others for a chance at the national team. Let’s say you got that chance, there is no guarantee that you can ever represent China as you would need to consistently be in the top to play for China. Even when you are in the top, whom presumably are all from China, you need to be the best of the best of the best to even think about competing in the olympics or world championships. If you are 1 in a million in China, there are exactly 1400 people just like you.
I played whit many Chinese here in Canada, many competitive players, didn t find them any better than others, good technique but not particulary talented do i am not surprise by the result of this video, it s only at the prefessional level where they are better than others.
Hey Adam! I really like your contents and I'm also a big table-tennis fan myself. It would really good if you can come to Budapest and do a similar challenge, because I live in Budapest. And I'm subscribed too:)
TT is not so popular in Nepal... If you come here and interact with people in this way,it would definitely help TT to grow over here too... loves from Nepal❤
this video kinda destroy the myth that a big percentage of chinese people(not pro) are great at TT.... i though there would be at least a few intermediate players among those who participated... but none showed up. great video anyway. keep it up adam
Come to Alsace! Well, it switched so often from Germany to France (currently it's French) that many people have no idea what maybe comes next. So it should count as a Country. xD Greetings from Strasbourg, the Capital* City of Europe! *) according to Strasbourg, cuz here is the European Parlament ^^
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Adam doing more to foster Chinese American relations than most diplomats lol.
almost felt like propaganda at some times
Ping-pong diplomacy 2.0
@@jambonniercr8492which parts? Propaganda is for a cause or political gain; the only propaganda in this video is for table tennis and that's totally acceptable. :D
I don't know that's much about china but having this much english speaking chineese and this much people knowing adam while this is the country of ping pong and i don't see why would they listen to him casting game. Plus everybody knows him and there is not a single one table tennis player@@invisi1407
@@jambonniercr8492 if you really let government or MSM force china bad narrative on you, you are brainwashed. Same for chinese. There are lots of good people everywhere it's that simple
This was not my experience. In 2005 I travelled to Xi'an and played in a park that had multiple tables. The worst player I faced was about a 1300 level. Most were 1700+ and just casual players. The "Pro" table players allowed me to play a few games and I got destroyed.
he picked a casual park that doesnt have ping pong type events
pink pong park is very different vs w/e event this is. It's like... playing chess at a chess park with all the stone tables and play chess at a random picnic park. That being said, Adam would still dominate most people just due to his level, however u want to put it, his level is extremely high. Of course in China there are way more people that can be a threat to this challenge, there are also way more people that is no match at all.
@@TPACasual Adam is about 2200 level. Not top 600 in the USA, but still good. That being said, he has changed his focus to promoting the sport.
When I was attending high school in China, about 10-15% of the boys were trained in table tennis-most would likely still lose to Adam if he played seriously, but at least they could serve and loop properly. Somehow, Adam found a spot where not a single person in a large crowd had any training. Next time, he should try a college campus!
@@john26660 hey is that like elo?
I'm honestly surprised. I would have expected more challenging players in this video ! Maybe try challenging them at one of their already installed ping pong tables at one of their park where more ping pong enthusiast play :)
It looked like he was at some festival. I think you would find a lot more challenging players in a public park or street
It's not like every Chinese person is a secret kung-fu master either...I found the average level at clubs wasn't even that high when i was there. The total amount of players just ensures their top players reach way higher levels
@@aseq2 bruh I don't see the correlation between being a kung fu master and the average level of ping pong players from different country. There's more density of ping pong tables in China than anywhere else in the world so more exposure to the sport there which is why I would have expected more people knowing how to play. Just like there are more baseball field in the US than anywhere else in the world. Of course not everyone in the US has swung a bat but I'd expect more people to have done so in the US than in China.
Adam is a very good player. I'm not surprised that he didn't lose many games. But most of the people he played against in this video obviously don't play ping pong regularly. Most of them are merely trying to return the ball. Elementary school & middle school kids who play ping pong between classes regularly are better than his opponents in this video, although they may still not be good enough to beat Adam in a serious game. It'll probably be a good match if Adam plays against members of a middle school ping pong team.
I can say confidently that it’s a myth saying all Chinese are good at ping pong.
So nice of you to introduce table tennis to so many people. This is actually the first place I started watching table tennis as well.
I honestly hope a local club challenges you to play their best players, similar to Indonesia as it'd be interesting to see how you'd fare against them.
He probably went to China not only to play vs average festival people, I bet there's gonna be more videos with stronger players. Some amateur club or a spot with tables where amateurs play would be fun.
yeah, that would definitely be more of a challenge for Adam, though his bank account might suffer.
Chinese people say that winning international match is easy in table tennis but winning national match is hella tough
如果是十年前这句话是真的，但现在日韩甚至欧洲的选手水平都很高，中国男队除了几个主力以外已经不再对全世界有压倒性的压制了。
is the only sport China dominate bt far.
It’s so cool that even people who have no idea how to play still try
for money ofc
fr and half of them are gorgeous women i need to go to china or sm
@@ISlamicrefuge22it’s fun
@@rgefsedslol don't forget it's a video man. Not saying they don't have beautiful women there too but I'd imagine the distribution isn't too different from here.
In Canada, this is the same as hockey. We all watch it. Not that many can acually play it. In fact, table tennis skills might be higher than hockey skills, just because of the cost to play.
the low cost was also why the poor china started to play it so much in 70s
Hockey is so much more expensive than table tennis.
Maybe it's regional specific, but I believe it's way affordable to play table tennis in China than ice hockey. Agreed with your example of hockey in Canada!
@@zihaosong9933this is what he means table tennis has more skilled players because it is accessable to most people.
Feel like its the same with england and football. pick out a random citizen and it'll be a guy who hasnt kicked a ball in 10 years, even though they're a football fan.
Imagine if ma long or Fan zhendong comes to challenge you 😂
they would play 0-2 against Adam and offer him $100 instead.
Or a professional 4years old
@@chimysharkindeed…. Both legends but Ma Long is the bigger Legend
Well fan zhendong already was adam's cameraman once and adam also played with ma long in a suit in dubai
they'll get snaked and lose
You should visit a ping pong park where actual players go like Zhang Jike did.
Yeah next time you should choose a local park with free pingpong tables there! You'll meet some weird grandpas/grandmas with incredible skills... and unique styles! (but don't panic you won't go broke if you play to 5 points, no pro plays there). But you are correct that people are just people! In China everyone have played pingpong, but not too many of them later become competitive. You just witnessed the WORST part of the Chinese sports system -- the pros are too faraway from the people. It has its historical reasons that back then all sports -- Pingpong included -- are not meant for people. It's only for the pros to compete in the international games for "the glory of the country", and for the rest of us to watch them on TV and shed tears of "how great our country is". Well how you become a pro??? The pros are selected at a very young age and were sent into special "athletic schools" to be trained to be an national athlete...
It's a national funded pyramidal system that works from county to city to province to nation level. Once you are in, you'll be cut from the outside of the world, you'll get paid as if you have a job (don't know if it's still the case now at lower level). You won't see them in your local "normal" schools because they are not in it. They train 24*7 and don't worry about exams. They don't worry about going to high school or university. You don't see them and they don't see you. It's very unlikely in China that your buddy who is the 1st place in your school that will still be let's say top3 or top5 in your regional meet. Because that's the only time you'll notice that these "athletic school" guys/gals exists... They will smoke you and make you feel like a joke... So what's the point of being competitive if you are already not in the system and are guaranteed to lose???
During our adolescent years me and my buddies spend huge time playing Pingpong, basketball and all kinds of sports, but no one has ever think about being competitive or get a coach or even deliberately practice some skills. We just play for fun. I believe that's the case all over the country. In China the pros don't arise from general populations, they are in a parallel system. They don't work their way up in local club races. They don't have the brand exposure responsibility to sponsors, they don't need to get public attention to recruit students to coach to make a living. They are paid workers by the country who doesn't care about the outside. That's why even if China has the strongest Pingpong team, but the level of general population is not proportional to it. Now things are changing but the inertia of the old system is huge. Especially at the national level, for the number of medals, the old system works.
Next time you should try challenge "the other system" and see how your money goes! I bet Xu Xin will know well how you will find that "the other system".
He prefers to use his own table I think? Then he is not denying play to many who would like to use a public table.
He could just set up near a public table
Good essay
The whole point of this video, is for regular people to try and take $100 from a semi-pro, which sparks viewers' interests. Of course a pro would smash Adam, but nobody wants to watch something too predictable. This is a RUclips channel trying to show some fun in table tennis at the end of the day.
他们中的佼佼者还是需要配合赞助商拍一些广告的，“国家队赞助商xx”，而且往往有好几名类似于冠军或有影响力的运动员拍摄同一个广告，这些广告通常在一些重要的国际赛事期间反复播放😂
I love how he quickly feels out everyones skill level and adjusts to makes it fun for everyone, Seems like such a nice guy ❤
I had a grin on my face during this whole video. Love it!
At my university in Germany, there were quite a lot of Chinese students. Two of them became good friends. None of those two plays table tennis (they prefer basketball), but once they told me about an annual Chinese tournament in town as they knew I had played competitively in my childhood. So I participated. There were around 30 players and, unfortunately, I played the later champion of that tournament. So I lost the first match and got to the b-round and won all matches then. I think, in total there were 4 to 6 players better than me of the 30. One of them was German as well. In order to that, I think it is simply a matter of numbers. China is a huge country with more than 1 billion people and table tennis is a relevant (not the only!) sport for them. So there are many great players, but also many poor players (like anywhere).
My first thought was, ...China?! He'll go broke!! And that expectation made the whole video so much fun/interesting to watch!!
And maybe, just maybe, Xu Xin recommended that park on purpose!!
nah, its just shanghai city, they are just average Chinese. He should go to Beijing or North of China
@@jyu2345 shanghai has the highest gdp in china at 662 billion usd, beijing is second
@@axle4565 I think playing table tennis has little to do with GDP. Sports centers or clubs are the best places. Campuses are also fine. Judging from the video, most people here just want to participate in the challenge and have little experience in playing table tennis. It seems like this is Calling everyone to exercise.
@@TOPFEEL_ yes I completely agree with you, I am just clarifying to jyu2345 that he should get his facts right
Many does not grasp how extremely almost impossibly hard to climb to the top in the world of table tennis.
Upwards of 2000 - 5000 kids compete for ONE spot on the national team in training camps across China. In order to get into those camps you need to be at least among the top players in local clubs across 23 provinces in China. There are at least hundreds of those local clubs in each provinces.
After being the top players in a club, you get a chance at one of those training camps. You need to compete with thousands of others for a chance at the national team. Let’s say you got that chance, there is no guarantee that you can ever represent China as you would need to consistently be in the top to play for China. Even when you are in the top, whom presumably are all from China, you need to be the best of the best of the best to even think about competing in the olympics or world championships.
If you are 1 in a million in China, there are exactly 1400 people just like you.
Adam needs to go to the local parks where the uncles and aunties play. 😂
The family is so wholesome:D
They are wholesome but completely bereft of ping pong skills. Bit of a farce going to China and playing no-hopers. It's not exactly difficult to find talented players here.
@@formulaic78 Nah id win.
I remember watching CaptainSauce back in 6th grade while he was still playing Battle Cats.
Had a bad cold and was sleeping ~12 hours a day and going in and out of slumber, waking up to Sauce conquering ITF and yelling very funny stuff that made me laugh. Made the cold much more bearable.
Glad he's back. Stay strong king!
I'm really surprised not many people could beat you over there! Impressive!
I’m pretty sure basketball is beginning to take over now
He's playing at a park where people go for events, he's not at a park where people go to play table tennis, if he went to one of those he'll meet a lot of higher skill level people
your kindness to ALL the people brings TEARS into my eyes ❤️❤️❤️
GGs bro, nice play, and the people there look so happy and joyful 😊. One day or another I'm gonna visit china hopefully I guess
i expected more challenging players to show up haha well maybe should promote in weibo or xiaohongshu before the event, so that those interested cn mark and prepare before the dayy. there must be some kind of events or tournaments carried out that few days that's why a lot of skilled players dont manage to show up. however well done for the video like it sooo muchh hope to see adam back in china very sooonn
How about Hong Kong Next XD
Looking forward to seeing you ❤
Rita's stlye is perfect
Come to TORONTO already ADAM! I been asking for over a year now 😢
Yeah come
Yesss Adam i will totally beat you
while you're in canada do vancouver too plz
Yes plz! 🙏
Adam is a bad person
When I was young, at Chinese New Year, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing used to hold parties for five days, the members of the national table tennis team did the same, people waited in lines to challenge them, everybody got three chances, you only need to win one point to win a racket ticket which can be used to exchange for some prizes😊
Oh so sad!! I was so excited at the beginning, looking forward for tougher competition. Adam should go to some Chinese park with TT tables and pick himself victims there😅 somebody who can at least play somehow
2:55 HAHAHA THE EDIT is so good, i love ya adam
glad to see you bring joy and smile to those people
Hey Adam! I’m an international student studying abroad in Shanghai. As a fan of yours, I’d love to play a game of table tennis with you. How long are you staying in Shanghai for? 😂😂
Hoping this reaches him 🤞🤞🤞
You went in China and found the worse people to play table tennnis. Crazy, 1 point to win 🤣
I think they pre-screen the players and picked the worst.
easy, its jusst like anywhere else,normal ppl are just normal ppl
@@evilsquizz ok, but in other countries he found good players and their are also normal people. In China neither one 🤔
I don't think he alert any of his fans that he's coming. I think mainly because his platform is RUclips, which is ban in China. So either he has a very small fanbase in China because of youtube. Or he doesn't have the proper platform to communicate with them that he's coming. He had to settle with normies.
@@thai33ozyeah definitely those are normies, he should play with causal players like university students.
If you went to any of those parks where a bunch of retirees play all day on the free tables it would be a different story. They're amazing.
That American handshake and hug made them look so uncomfortable 😂 more so than losing the match
I once worked in a small southeastern European country with a team of international professionals based in the US. In the basement of the building where be worked was a ping-pong table. The staff at this place had regular tournaments - the strongest players where the cleaning women who often played with a penhold grip and smashed the balls left and right..
One of our team members was Chinese, and when they saw him, they all wanted to play with him, expecting him to be a ping-pong superstar. They were very disappointed when he was just a normal ball pusher like the rest of us.
Adam’s videos are really beautiful, they show how people from different cultural and social environments can connect by just having a bit of fun together. I have been once in Shanghai, and found it the most charming city in China.
Pingpang is less popular among young guns in China. My parents and uncles play far better than me. You may have more fun if you play against 70s-80s.
I love the editing on this video, It's incredible!
Still waiting for India's 🇮🇳 Video btw best content ❤🏓
Come to South Africa (I just missed you at the world cup), would love to play against you. You have taught me so much, from serving, to your snake, to even just your game attitude. Thnx for everything
How is no one at least a decent player in a pingpong like event?
This shows how media influneces our minds
lets not jump to stuff like media, someone said a good comment, China has yt banned so he can't announce to his fans that hes coming....secondly he looks like hes at some festival...its like USA is dominant in basketball but take a really good basketball player with a portable court and he will beat 9/10 ppl easily or even 10/10
@@Red4350 I don't have high expectations too..at least I expected an average player or even below average but everyone he played with is like I've never played it only watched players💔
Compared to China being a high tt participation country,indonesians were much better excluding those professionals and those who came after their friends called them..
@@Red4350they still can access YT
@@khriebztetso This is a park, no one comes here for table tennis
Adam went to a park where there are no ping pong players but young people attracted by being on the camera and connecting with Adam, as a result, from the perspective of connecting with young Chinese people, this is great. But from the perspective of table tennis, well.... I see this as an opportunity missed to do something else in China in addition to what he did,... go to a park where there are lots of tables outdoor and Chinese people of all ages playing every day. An exemple if the outdoor ping pong facility at Chaoyong Park in Beijing, about 20 tables at one spot with people playing all day long. That would be fun and will lead to great games with you, some grandpa and grandma would give you a hard time. The other thing that would be interesting is to go to a sport high school like the one that was next to the hotel where I stayed on about 10 of my 40 trips to china. I could see from my window teenagers playing at about 15 or 20 tables outside in the school yard, the caliber was very good if not great. Such videos would give us an insight into what kind of base there is for table tennis in China which leads to so much strength on the provincial and national teams.
I think you pick the wrong place to challenge. Or as you said, the reality is far from what we thought.
Xuxin is my favorite table tennis player and you should do it in Australia please I love your videos and want to meet you once in Melbourne
None of them can watch this video tho 😂😂
Nah, many chinese use VPN
Don't you know Bilibili?
Thanks for the video and welcome to China Adam! :)
Adam please buy better cameras. This is potato quality :(
4:07 I heard the N word💀
That word in Chinese is 那個 ,the meaning is “ that “ in English
Great vidoe as always! Come to Copenhagen (Denmark) next! :D
Hello mate I just listened to your commentating for Eurosport / Paris 2024 which was truly impressive. Keep up with the great job! 👍
When I was attending high school in China, about 10-15% of the boys were trained in table tennis-most would likely still lose to Adam if he played seriously, yet at least they'll serve and loop properly. Somehow, Adam found a spot where not a single person in a large crowd had any training. Next time, he should try a college campus!
So glad to see you finally got to experience Chinese folk competitions!！
Adam can speak so many languages I'm jealous
I don't even know how to play ping pong, but I watched the entire video. Such an entertaining video.
It would be very challenging for you to go to the park and look for the older people who play ping pong. Those people are the real OG ping pong players hiding in the world.
Do it in Baltic countries Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania 🤩🤩🤩 we'd love to see you here!!
Hey Adam, I have been your subscriber for so long and watch almost all of your videos. Please come in Bangladesh there are so many good players here who know you and would love to play with you. We can all have a good time together. It will be such a pleasure to have you in Bangladesh. I hope you notice this comment someday. Wish you all the best ❤❤
Dude your editing is beyond hilarious 😂
Most wholesome youtuber ever .
hi Adam, I love Table tennis even if I'm not playing as much as I want. but I love your channel and watch you everytime. I wonder if you ever been in Italy (my country) and do a similar challenge there. It's a beautiful country, even I'm sure table tennis is not very popular there. If you would like to come by I would suggest to maybe get in contact with some gyms or clubs. Love to see all the new videos in this channel and one day maybe to see you in one of our beautiful city. Thanks for all the awesome work you do and spread this wonderful games around the world.
The “mine mine mine” at people trynna catch the ping pong ball killed me 😭😭
Awesome beat me...very interesting win $100...Adam is so cool
If you ever want to do this format in Italy, I highly reccomend you do it in the "Parco del Valentino" in Turin! Will be waiting for you
Hey Adam!!
This is Shouvik
It's Fun seeing you play and hats off!! to the way you respect this game. I love your passion
Why don't you come all the way to India, we all would love you being here?
The way Jolin said “nervous” ☺️🥹🥹😍
Very nice!
So we figured out that Table Tennis in China is like Football here in Brazil. I mean, it is the country of the football, but not everyone can play well :D
Hey Adam! Would love to see you come to Sri Lanka! Not many people visit here but it would be lovely to see you visit!
you should go to those older parks in china and play with the old ppl there. they are really good.
hh great edit! wish u back to shanghai soon!
The end review is fair and honest. Not everyone there is a decent tt player the pro that plays well are few only.
yay the series is back
It’s so weird seeing so many ppl in that area don’t know how to play ping pong at all. I grew up in Tianjin, China, almost everyone dude in my class can play at pretty good amateur level and there were a lot more ppl that could play among the school. Maybe ping pong was slightly more popular in Tianjin. 😅
This is such a fun channel
Jolin at quite the end is pretty and sweet!
that family was so wholesome
Thank you si much for the emotions ) that was fun and makes me happy
It is really surprising that the street level in China is so bad. You played more than 50 players and most of them were on absolute beginner level. I remember seeing your video with the same premise when you played in a park in Cologne/Germany. Most of those players would have busted these Chinese players up. 😅 I mean, of course on an international level China clearly is world number 1. But that exactly is the reason why I was more than surprised to see the level of these players. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the video very much, thanks! 🎉
Adamm, come to Brazil!! The country of the ping pong!! hehe 😄
In São Paulo, specially… You can tell for us where you will came! We are waiting for you Adam! 😉
"I'm his mother"
the FINAL BOSS HAS ARRIVED
his whole family is challenging you now!!
Yo you’re going ez on them 😂
ok，it looks like Adam participated a dance party?i recomend he to go to a normal park in China if he want this challenge more difficult.😂
Wishing Vietnam would be on Adam's travelin' list
I feel like my grandpa could get a point hes insane and has been playing since childhood but i swear this guy is holding back on me because even though im improving he just easily matches me lol
Great video. Just wanted to say
Thumbnail: 4k
Video: cctv with mic 😂
There is one, or a few, specific parks in every city in China where all the serious TT happens. Some Chinese pro players create content by going to those places and the competition does get pretty serious there. Adam probably chose not to go one of these places because his content style is more 'happy people having fun'. Otherwsie Xu Xin could have pointed Adam to this park next to the Shanghai City team, where Wang Liqin would show up with a bunch of his kids
The first guy you're up against is like sooo pretttttty ♥
Like wowwwwww~ ♥ ♥
I bet if we called Guinness World Records we could get Adam certified for the most awkward bro hugs in world history.
I've played in a fair number of table tennis clubs in China, in various cities - surely not as many as you have, but a fair amount. In my experience, comparing to playing in clubs in America, the weakest players in the Chinese clubs are stronger than the weakest players here, presumably because everyone learns some basics in school. But the strongest players in clubs are sometimes better here in the U.S. than in China, because the strongest players in Chinese cities aren't playing in their local clubs, they are working in training centers or playing professionally in some capacity. Here in the U.S. you can walk into a local club and face a national champion - that would rarely if ever happen in China. I suspect the same is true in reverse for sports that are more popular here, like baseball.
Many does not grasp how extremely almost impossibly hard to climb to the top in the world of table tennis.
Upwards of 2000 - 5000 kids compete for ONE spot on the national team in training camps across China. In order to get into those camps you need to be at least among the top players in local clubs across 23 provinces in China. There are at least hundreds of those local clubs in each provinces.
After being the top players in a club, you get a chance at one of those training camps. You need to compete with thousands of others for a chance at the national team. Let’s say you got that chance, there is no guarantee that you can ever represent China as you would need to consistently be in the top to play for China. Even when you are in the top, whom presumably are all from China, you need to be the best of the best of the best to even think about competing in the olympics or world championships.
If you are 1 in a million in China, there are exactly 1400 people just like you.
@@lohxinkai3427 This is why many consider the China Open to be a tougher tournament than the world championship.
Pls Adam come to Brazil, i'm a big fan from São Luís (MA)
I played whit many Chinese here in Canada, many competitive players, didn t find them any better than others, good technique but not particulary talented do i am not surprise by the result of this video, it s only at the prefessional level where they are better than others.
Living in Shanghai and it's interesting to realize that Adam is so close to me at the time, although I didn't know🤣
Hey Adam! I really like your contents and I'm also a big table-tennis fan myself. It would really good if you can come to Budapest and do a similar challenge, because I live in Budapest. And I'm subscribed too:)
TT is not so popular in Nepal... If you come here and interact with people in this way,it would definitely help TT to grow over here too... loves from Nepal❤
Let's go to Czech republic!💪🏻😁
So close to beginner's luck there!!
THEN HIS DAD COMES TO CHALLENGE
this guy has his entire family ready to challenge you!!
this video kinda destroy the myth that a big percentage of chinese people(not pro) are great at TT.... i though there would be at least a few intermediate players among those who participated... but none showed up. great video anyway. keep it up adam
didn’t have to do his mom dirty like that 😂😂😂
As a Chinese,I support you to meet the old people in some park with Pin Pong table
Come to Alsace! Well, it switched so often from Germany to France (currently it's French) that many people have no idea what maybe comes next.
So it should count as a Country. xD
Greetings from Strasbourg, the Capital* City of Europe!
*) according to Strasbourg, cuz here is the European Parlament ^^
Hi from Bas-Rhin!
Truly hope you are safe Adam and not near the earthquake in Taiwan?! Peace and love at such. a tough time. Leo
Fun. First half more than the second. I feel bad for those who needed 5 points to win. 😞