Pepper Pong is the ‘next pickleball’ — and it’s bringing people together: ‘I call it isolation kryptonite’
NY Post
Get ready to spice up your life — Pepper Pong could be the perfect social game for space-starved New Yorkers in need of a mental boost.
The all-comers welcome, no table-required version of ping pong can be played just about anywhere — on a car hood, or even in a cramped apartment — and some fans are even referring to the pastime, created to stave off loneliness and depression, as “the next pickleball.”
“It’s so much more fun than real ping pong, and it’s so much more useful because you can play on any surface,” creator Tom Filippini told The Post.
All you need for this back-and-forth affair is a portable, plastic net that can adapt to any flat surface and three types of weighted, Nerf foam-style balls — each designed to bounce with different velocities.
The 50-year-old said he and his family have played unofficial versions of the game for over a decade.
“You don’t need that huge table, or the second mortgage that is required these days to make space for it,” the Denver dad said.
