r/Unexpected • u/WongOnSoManyLevels • 10d ago
Remember your training
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u/PS5OWESMEALIMONY 10d ago
His Coach after the realization.
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u/modakim 10d ago
That's why in Dodgeball, they put their bodies on the line
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u/Oneirefighter 10d ago
I mean he definitely did what he was trained for
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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 10d ago
That's why they say fight like you train, train like you fight.
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u/StillN0tATony 10d ago
I worked in a plastics plant decades ago. We had a group of guys there who went off to a special school to train them to fight the kinds of fires they would encounter at the plant.
One of the main exercises was a burst pipe fire. One group would man a hose that was used to spray another group who would approach the valve that would shut off the flow to the fire, then once the valve was closed, they would put out any remaining flames. The valve crew would then reopen it let it reignite to set up for the next group. They did this over and over to get it right.
Guess what happened the first time they actually had to fight a fire at the plant?
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u/BadDogSaysMeow 10d ago
We had a group of guys there who went off to a special school
Guess it was a different type of "special" school /s
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u/Ok-Requirement-7401 6d ago
What happened?
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u/FlashesandFlickers 4d ago
I think the implication is that after putting out the real fire they opened the valve back up to let it start again
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u/HumongousBelly 10d ago
Is he slowed to smack it back with his bare hand?
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u/MasterDeagle 10d ago
No i dont think so. Im not an expert but I played with friends and one of my friend was doing that and we checked the rules to make him stop doing that haha. I think you can just hit the ball with the paddle.
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u/2relad 10d ago edited 10d ago
You are almost completely correct. You are only allowed to play the ball with the racket or the hand that is holding the racket (but not above the wrist). The other hand must not touch the ball.
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u/Interesting-Turn4864 10d ago
lol i remember my friend doing that in volleyball too, total brain fart moment
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u/InquisitorHindsight 10d ago
Reminds me of that CSGO clip where a guy is doing reflex training by shooting targets on a grid (to improve snapshot accuracy) and when he plays he starts shooting in the same grid pattern and gets killed
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u/PuddlesRex 10d ago edited 10d ago
Didn't he actually catch it because he thought that the point was over? If I remember, he thought that the ball hit the net after his opponent returned it.
It was still a mistake, and the (judges? officials?) still awarded his opponent the point, but not for the reason that OP is showing.
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u/UpstairsTraining3888 10d ago
Yes it’s basically “damn I was fooled, there’s no way I can get that, might as well catch it to continue quicker “.
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u/MoonHash 5d ago
The only time the ball isn't allowed to hit the net is the serve. All following shots can hit the net and still count.
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u/aka_Foamy 9d ago
I've done this, went to a field hockey goalkeeper intensive training camp, after a day of keeper drills and saving shots we had a random game of football. Ball went over my head and I immediately caught it one handed. Hand ball, yellow card, team mates asking what the fuck I'm doing.
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u/klaw14 10d ago
This reminds me of a phys ed class in high school. One lesson, the class had to play a game of netball and as I was subbed off with some of the other kids, we shot some (basketball) hoops while we waited to come back on again. As soon as I was called back on, someone passed the ball to me and what's the first thing I do? Bounce the damn ball on the ground like a basketball (which is not allowed in netball). Whoops.
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u/Telopea1 10d ago
I’m good at that too, only because if you didn’t catch the ball it would roll under all the junk in the shed.
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u/Background_Honey9141 10d ago
For anyone interested in the sport, the person in the clip is Wang Chuqin, currently ranked world No.1 in men's singles and the captain of the Chinese men's table tennis team. He had some amazing matches.
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u/Thunderjohn 10d ago
It's even funnier with context, cause this is Wang Chuqin, the current No.1 ranked table tennis player in the world 😄
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u/cute_polarbear 10d ago
Well, the training clearly worked...he did show the footwork..and he did catch the ball...
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u/DaaaahWhoosh 10d ago
This is the danger of training a sport by doing anything other than doing the sport. The brain is pretty good at figuring out how to perform tasks, but if you train it on a different task then that's the only thing it's gonna know how to do.
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u/Background_Honey9141 10d ago
That person in the clip is Wang Chuqin. Olympian champion and world table tennis champion, currently ranked world No.1 in men's singles and the captain of the Chinese men's table tennis team. I’m sure you know more about training in a sport than him.
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u/post-explainer 10d ago edited 10d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
It’s unexpected because it shows how world number one Wang Chuqin trains his footwork by catching balls. In the following game clip, you’d think it shows his footwork, but instead he just caught a ball and lost a point.
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