Amateur vs. Semi-Pro
– [Adam] Meet Josiah Roberts. While we use the term "amateur" he's probably the best player
his friends will ever see. – Growing up, rural Missouri,
we had a… attached garage that was not used as a garage. It was the "playroom." But at the time, we were just playing with like hardbats, you
know, pimples out, no spin. I had no technique. After leaving for college
and moving to the bay area, I started experimenting
with some equipment, actual sponge, you know a little bit, a little bit
more spin on the rubber. (You've been playing for about 15 years?)
Yeah. I, I'd say about 15 years, but I've been playing, you know. With sponge or any spin at
all for about three years. – [Adam] Josiah is a lot like players around the world because he loves to play, and while he didn't learn professionally and his technique is
unconventional, he plays a lot, and recently he's improved a lot as well.
So I thought it could make
for an interesting match. For this match with Josiah, he's going to start with
a nine to zero lead. If he wins game one, game
two, he starts eight zero. If I win game one, game
two, he starts ten zero and so on until one
player has won the match with a total of winning three games. Now, the only twist is the loser has to take a picture of
a stranger, print it out, and get the stranger to autograph it. You ready to play? All right. Game time. – [Announcer] Let's get ready to rumble! – [Scorekeeper] Game point! Game point! – [Josiah] All right, all right. Game point! Game point! – What happened? – Oh! – [Josiah] I should not try
to put side spin on it! – Wow! Wow! That was amazing! Wow! – [Josiah] Oh man, I thought
that was gonna kick that way.
– [Announcer] Head shot! – Wow, so good! Game point! Game point! Deuce! – Sorry.
– [Scorekeeper] Game point! Today I consider
myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. – Oh, good shot! Game point! Game point! That's not a smash. Game point! – Got me!
– [Scorekeeper] Game point! – Oh, nice! – Ah! – Ah, move, move, move, move! Move, move, move, move,
move, move, move, move. – [Josiah] Move, move, move, move, move! – Oh! Bad wall. – [Adam] The loser has to
take a picture of a stranger, print it out, and get the
stranger to autograph it. – [Announcer] Match point! – What? – [Announcer] Match point! – [Josiah] Move, move, move, move, move. – [Announcer] Match point! Deuce! – Oh! – [Scorekeeper] Game point! – The smash! – [Josiah] Nice!
– Thanks. – [Darth Vader] You have
failed me for the last time. – [Josiah] Oh. – [Announcer] No! – [Adam] Loser has to take
a picture of a stranger…
– [Announcer] Match point! – [Josiah] Too much! It's just too much! – [Announcer] Match point! – [Announcer] Match point! – Ah! – Oof.
– What is that? – [Announcer] Match point! – Ah! No, no, no, no, no, no! – [Announcer] Match point! – Adam…too much. – Thanks. Good playing. – [Adam] The loser has to
take a picture of a stranger, print it out, and get the
stranger to autograph it. Excuse me. Could I have your autograph? Is this you? I'm a big fan. It's okay? Thank you so much. Awesome. Wow, thank you so much. Adam. Nice to meet you. – Nice to meet you. – Wow. Thank you so much. subscribe Sorry to bother you guys. I'm a YouTuber, and I play table tennis, and the punishment for losing a match was I would have to approach a stranger and ask them for an autograph. So, I thought it would
be fun to get a picture and have you autograph it. Is it okay with you if we
use this in a YouTube video? – Yeah, okay.
– Awesome! Thank you, appreciate it.
Thanks!.
