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Ping Pong ball skills on YouTube. Real or CGI?
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Spliff
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Feb 20, 2008, 03:33 PM
 
Is this legit or CGI? I don't trust anything online anymore and it kinda takes the fun out of seeing this stuff.
     
Eug
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Feb 20, 2008, 04:15 PM
 
Who knows, but if you do stuff like that enough times, it's eventually going to work.

This is all real, although it consists of two parts in two takes, stitched together: Cog
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 05:17 PM
 
oh man; i thought it was going to be Winona (edit: sorry, didn't remember who on south park did it)!
     
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Feb 20, 2008, 06:15 PM
 
The one where he was hovering the ball above his mouth didn't look real.

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Feb 20, 2008, 08:26 PM
 
So those guys have gotten a few people drunk during beer pong.
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Feb 21, 2008, 12:43 AM
 
I would guess it's probably real, but not so impressive considering you can't see what's been edited out. Notice that they never did more than ONE single trick without a cut in video?

If they'd done 3 or 4 different tricks, or even the same trick 3 or 4 times, without anything edited out in between, then it might be impressive.

My guess is that there are several failures edited out between each success.
     
   
 
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