Beat Me, Win $100 [China] 

Adam doing more to foster Chinese American relations than most diplomats lol.

I would have laughed so hard if you see a line of the chinese national men and womens team just waiting for their money 😂😂

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 :)

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.

Imagine if ma long or Fan zhendong comes to challenge you 😂

It’s so cool that even people who have no idea how to play still try

adam we love the fact you are making table tennis more popular around the world you have done so much for the community we love you

I had a grin on my face during this whole video. Love it!

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.

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!!

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.

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

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".

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.

You went in China and found the worse people to play table tennnis. Crazy, 1 point to win 🤣

You should visit a ping pong park where actual players go like Zhang Jike did.

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

How about Hong Kong Next XD Looking forward to seeing you ❤

as always, you're so entertaining Adam 🏓 hopefully you'll do more videos like this btw, mesmerized by Rita's beauty hahaha

glad to see you bring joy and smile to those people

I'm really surprised not many people could beat you over there! Impressive!

Great vidoe as always! Come to Copenhagen (Denmark) next! :D

Thanks for the video and welcome to China Adam! :)

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

Rita's stlye is perfect

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?

So glad to see you finally got to experience Chinese folk competitions!！

The family is so wholesome:D

Adam needs to go to the local parks where the uncles and aunties play. 😂

Adam, your videos are always entertaining.

I would love to visit China someday!!

Come to TORONTO already ADAM! I been asking for over a year now 😢

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

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.

How is no one at least a decent player in a pingpong like event? This shows how media influneces our minds

Come to New Zealand, Adam. We’ll give you a good challenge at Empire table tennis club in Wellington😅

I love your content❤❤❤ Could you go to Barcelona, Spain next?

hh great edit! wish u back to shanghai soon!

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? 😂😂

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.

If you ever come to Vienna, I will be there to play! :) Epic video as always!

Most wholesome youtuber ever .

Hi Adam, this is chin Huat from spore, I been to recent spore smash but didn’t get to see you but did heard your voice during the commentary. Nice! Hope you can one of the day come spore for above challenges! I am sure many people will be happy to see you here! Keep on ponging! Cheers!

Still waiting for India's 🇮🇳 Video btw best content ❤🏓

In China? Your are incredibly brave!

I don't even know how to play ping pong, but I watched the entire video. Such an entertaining video.

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😊

Ola adam huge fan keep up the work 💙💙💙💙

I feel like having them make a line in order of ability before playing them could be a fun concept

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.

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!

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).

I am a Chinese American, and I am from Shanghai, it is a beautiful place and I recommend visiting 上海中心，外滩，Disney， etc.

Now you should come out to okinawa! The table tennis here is a blast!

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, 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 ❤❤

yay the series is back

The way Jolin said “nervous” ☺️🥹🥹😍

Awesome beat me...very interesting win $100...Adam is so cool

He deserve more subscribers.. fr

I just rewatched Balls of fury for the 20th times and just realized that you were in that movie playing vs the German hehe.

Just subscribed, Sydney Australia next please 😩😩

The end review is fair and honest. Not everyone there is a decent tt player the pro that plays well are few only.

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 was born in China, I grew up in China. I lived there in China. I learned Table Tennis in China. I do not know how to play Ping Pong. I suck. But I still enjoy it.

that family was so wholesome

Love your videos! Come to Romania ❤

The “mine mine mine” at people trynna catch the ping pong ball killed me 😭😭

You are amazing Adam! Good job!

you should go to those older parks in china and play with the old ppl there. they are really good.

Awesome as ever!!!

Looking forward to playing you in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Adam 😁

I'm looking forward to come to Taiwan again. I'm a big fan of you 😍

Yeah .. come to see Morocco ❤

I like watching your videos. If you want to find someone who is good at table tennis in China, you can go to the park and play with those guys. Many of them are masters with special skills.

As entertaining as ever. Tq

Adam, you are the best ❤❤❤

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.

Well, the average person still seemed a lot better than in America. I feel you would’ve gotten more competition if you played in the street like you did in New York. Thanks for the vid as always!

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

Yo you’re going ez on them 😂

i love this video! Could you please do it in denmark, i really want to challenge you, and im a strong player. Played for 2 years

Truly hope you are safe Adam and not near the earthquake in Taiwan?! Peace and love at such. a tough time. Leo

Fun vid. Come to Venus next?

It will be nice to see you in Tbilisi, Georgia. At least you can drink how much you want in country where wine was born :D ;)

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'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.

The table is Xuperman, so where is Xuxin?😂😂 I'll work in Shanghai next year. If Adam come China again, I'll go to challenge you.❤

Please come to Korea!! We are looking foward to play with you😆

Jolin at quite the end is pretty and sweet!

Pls Adam come to Brazil, i'm a big fan from São Luís (MA)

Let's go to Czech republic!💪🏻😁

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！Come to Hong Kong. I’m looking forward to it!

Adam, you should come Hong Kong as well

The good players were probably busy training or at a competition during that time. I do wonder if China has much in the way of amateur tournaments where regular people (I.e. below provincial team level and not in school) could compete for fun.

I was expecting a lot more red and gold jerseys!

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! 🎉

Adam that kind event are mostly young people, you should go to rec parks, which is the final boss usually spawn