Well, this has been a dream of mine for a couple years now. The first time I played ping pong in Berlin, my mind was blown and I chanted for weeks and months, “WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THIS IN SAN FRANCISCO???”
Now we do. It’s a party called American Tripps and it debuts the first two Fridays in August. Here’s how it works:
It starts mellow, everybody strolling around the table, drinks in hand, possibly movin’ to the music, getting to know the people next to you in the circle. And as people mess up and the ranks dwindle, the action gets serious:
But not too serious. It’s all in good fun. It’s fun to watch, it’s fun to hang out. It’s fun. It’s the best! RSVP and invite your friends HERE.
Why “American Tripps”? Last summer I played a bunch at this place called Sportklause on Glogauer Straße, but they had some leftover signage from when the space was a travel agency catering to immigrants from the Balkan Peninsula.
So we called it “Balkan Tripps” because that was more fun to say.
And on an (un)related note, I’m going to be in Berlin on Friday.
I did this last year at a bar in Berlin. It was fun. Especially trying not to spill your beer when you run around the table.
Did you know that there is an outdoor ping pong table in the back of Finnegan’s Wake?
I did!
quiet you. stay in dolores park…nothing to see anywhere else in the city. unless you got game.
LAST TIME I GOT EXPELLED FROM THIS SHIT BECAUSE I TRIED TO PLAY WITH MY VAGINA INSTEAD OF A PADDLE. FUCK YOUR MALE-CENTRIC FLIP FLOP GAME.
I just left berlin like 3 days ago! damn! Im bummed I didnt know about this game they play while i was there! guess itll have to wait till i get back to mission.
HA HA this place was pretty close to my old flat in berlin. Its on a back little side street and quite a walk from the u bahn station (when there is two feet of snow on the ground and berlin is having the coldest winter in 60 years) and i kept trying to take my friends to balkan tripps (suha cute bar!) and it kept being closed.
You should start a berlin style all you can drink wine bar as well(im not kidding, this city is the stuff dreams are made of)
Just came back from Berlin and went with some local friends to the Balkan Tripps spot. I was blown away by this crazy style of ping pong! Gonna work on bringing this over to Philly now, too.