Matrix ping pong

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Matrix Ping Pong, a popular movie clip that can be found on the Internet, is a recording from the popular annual Japanese show Kinchan and Katori Shingo's National Costume Competition (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の新！仮装大賞) showing performers mixing moves in the style of The Matrix with Ping Pong, using kurokos -- stagehands in kabuki theatre -- to hold the actors and the props up, facilitating humorous and otherwise impossible movements. Most of the elements in the performance are set against black, rendering the stagehands invisible at first. In fact, the scene appears to be a normal game of ping pong at first sight, until the incredible feats are performed. This performance, lead by team captain: Hideki Kajiwara (梶原比出樹), won the competition on March 31, 2003.[1] The movie clip became an internet meme for a while.

Variations of the crazy ping pong stunt can also be seen in YouTube.

There has been many sequels to the pingpong skit, miming football, or even a household quarrel.

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  1. ^ Lucas, Dean. Famous Pictures Magazine - Ping Pong. Retrieved on 2006-04-30.

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