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<v Host>Hey, how are ya?</v>

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Today on Whoa! That's Weird we're going to a

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Chinese SlamBall tournament.

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(Whoa! That's Weird theme music)

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(upbeat music)

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When it comes to slamball

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I'm more of like a three point guy.

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I just post up and shoot.

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(court noises drown out host)

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So, how many years have you been playing slamball?

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<v ->One year</v>

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<v ->One year?</v>

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<v ->Yeah only one year.</v>

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<v ->So how did you hear about the sport?</v>

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(off camera translator repeats question)

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<v ->(responds in Chinese)</v>

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<v ->So you saw this on TV?</v>

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<v ->Yeah.</v>

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<v ->And then you were like, that looks fun?</v>

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That looks fun, I would like to play.

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<v ->Yes, that's all I try to do it.</v>

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So I watch the game in QA, I want to try to do it.

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<v ->That sounds like a lot like me</v>

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back when I was in seventh or eighth grade

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I would see it on TV.

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<v ->(laugh) Yeah.</v>

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<v ->Yeah, it used to be on TV in the US.</v>

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I would sit on my couch, each a bunch of Taco Bell,

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and just watch slamball for hours, and I was like

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"when I grow up I want to be a slamball player"

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but I just didn't know how.

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You are living out my childhood dream.

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<v ->Oh yeah, real?</v>

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<v ->Yeah, like my dreams got flushed down the drain but...</v>

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<v ->Well I think you can do it too.</v>

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<v ->Well yeah I can get out there,</v>

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I don't really have the lower body strength anymore.

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My knees are shot from playing.

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I did, I did throw up a few dunks.

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Not to toot my own horn.

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Okay, that's the air I need.

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(trampolines squeek)

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(host yells in delight)

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So the way it works in China is at a young age

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they look at you and are like okay this dude's tall

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this guy's wicked fast, let's put him in a sports school,

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and then if you don't get put in like a sports school

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you just grow up really not playing sports.

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So most people you meet in China they're either like

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not athletic at all or they've been going to a

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sports university where they've just been kind of

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practicing one sport over and over again for years.

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And you know, they usually got some skills.

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What they're doing with slamball here is

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they're going around to the different sports universities

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in China and they're starting to train kids.

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And you know that's kind of why they built this complex in

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Wu Han you know, so they could just bring in all the

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universities to start working on their slamball skills.

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And it's really starting to pay off.

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(upbeat music)

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Jesus Christ, it's a massacre.

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No slamball team in China has ever beat

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the blue and yellow team.

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This is their court they're the, what's that called?

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The Novem, it's like some sort of Chinese mythical bird

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with three heads.

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But they are just throwing it down out there.

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(upbeat music)

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<v Host>Oh he's just a kid!</v>

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He's just a kid, don't do it to him.

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These are college kids,

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that dude's entire future is ruined now.

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He can't show his face in public.

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So because your team is the best,

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do you guys get all the chicks?

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(off camera translator repeats question)

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(in Chinese)

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<v ->Hi!</v>
<v ->Hi</v>

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<v ->This guy fucks.</v>

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This guy fucks, I knew it.

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(Xiong laughs)

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(upbeat music)

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(host screams with excitement)