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I'm a dork

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:45 am
by Smile:)
Saturday I fell asleep when Mar was on!:(
I missed most of it and Prince of Tennis, can some one tell me what I missed?

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:26 am
by termyt
I don't usually watch it, but I did catch prince of tennis. I think I've seen three episodes now, so I don't know names. I saw most of Mar, too, but it was my first time seeing it, so I really didn’t know what was going on.

In Prince of Tennis –
[spoiler]The main character guy - the young guy that every opponent seems to dismiss because he is so young completely ignoring the fact that he constantly beats everyone who does so once again beats an opponent who underestimates him because of his age.

This time, he battles an opponent who has the remarkable ability to predict what his opponent will do based on probability and physics. Our hero over-comes this by applying a clever technique of hopping up and down to keep his muscles tight and ready to spring into action. By doing this, he gains a half a second of reaction time, which fouls up the other guy’s ability to calculate where to hit the ball so it will be out of reach. To finally beat his opponent, he has to take this hopping skill to the next level and he begins to hop from foot to foot. This way, if he happens to come down on the correct foot at the right time, he could gain a whole other second of reaction time – giving him a 1.5 second boost, making it impossible for his opponent to correctly guess what he is going to do. The trick here is, that if he came down on the wrong foot, he would surely miss the shot. So by always coming down on the correct foot, he demonstrates his own ability to accurately predict what his opponent is going to do. [/spoiler]

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:28 am
by Fish and Chips
termyt wrote:In Prince of Tennis –
[spoiler]The main character guy - the young guy that every opponent seems to dismiss because he is so young completely ignoring the fact that he constantly beats everyone who does so once again beats an opponent who underestimates him because of his age.

This time, he battles an opponent who has the remarkable ability to predict what his opponent will do based on probability and physics. Our hero over-comes this by applying a clever technique of hopping up and down to keep his muscles tight and ready to spring into action. By doing this, he gains a half a second of reaction time, which fouls up the other guy’s ability to calculate where to hit the ball so it will be out of reach. To finally beat his opponent, he has to take this hopping skill to the next level and he begins to hop from foot to foot. This way, if he happens to come down on the correct foot at the right time, he could gain a whole other second of reaction time – giving him a 1.5 second boost, making it impossible for his opponent to correctly guess what he is going to do. The trick here is, that if he came down on the wrong foot, he would surely miss the shot. So by always coming down on the correct foot, he demonstrates his own ability to accurately predict what his opponent is going to do. [/spoiler]

...My God.

And every episode is like this?

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:30 am
by termyt
Well, I've only seen a couple, but all the ones I've seen are, yeah. Kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh, but with tennis instead of cards.

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:31 am
by Fish and Chips
Truly, the mind boggles.

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:54 am
by Smile:)
termyt wrote:I don't usually watch it, but I did catch prince of tennis. I think I've seen three episodes now, so I don't know names. I saw most of Mar, too, but it was my first time seeing it, so I really didn’t know what was going on.

In Prince of Tennis –
[spoiler]The main character guy - the young guy that every opponent seems to dismiss because he is so young completely ignoring the fact that he constantly beats everyone who does so once again beats an opponent who underestimates him because of his age.

This time, he battles an opponent who has the remarkable ability to predict what his opponent will do based on probability and physics. Our hero over-comes this by applying a clever technique of hopping up and down to keep his muscles tight and ready to spring into action. By doing this, he gains a half a second of reaction time, which fouls up the other guy’s ability to calculate where to hit the ball so it will be out of reach. To finally beat his opponent, he has to take this hopping skill to the next level and he begins to hop from foot to foot. This way, if he happens to come down on the correct foot at the right time, he could gain a whole other second of reaction time – giving him a 1.5 second boost, making it impossible for his opponent to correctly guess what he is going to do. The trick here is, that if he came down on the wrong foot, he would surely miss the shot. So by always coming down on the correct foot, he demonstrates his own ability to accurately predict what his opponent is going to do. [/spoiler]


Thank you! :grin:
To bad I missed that it sounds...well...a little weird!