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With the money he earned endorsing products when he was ping-pong champion.
Football, running, shrimping, ping ponging, mowing and meeting US Presidents.
Cross country running, ping pong, football and swimming if you count his shrimp boat days.
In the movie: Forrest Gump meets JFK after becoming an all-American football player. Forrest Gump meets Lyndon B. Johnson to receive the Congressional Medal of Honour because of his valour in carrying wounded soldiers back from the lines despite being shot in the bum. Forrest Gump meets Nixon after becoming a really skilled ping pong player, and taking part in an American delegation to China using ping pong diplomacy.
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Beatles
With the money he earned endorsing products when he was ping-pong champion.
Football, running, shrimping, ping ponging, mowing and meeting US Presidents.
Cross country running, ping pong, football and swimming if you count his shrimp boat days.
In the movie: Forrest Gump meets JFK after becoming an all-American football player. Forrest Gump meets Lyndon B. Johnson to receive the Congressional Medal of Honour because of his valour in carrying wounded soldiers back from the lines despite being shot in the bum. Forrest Gump meets Nixon after becoming a really skilled ping pong player, and taking part in an American delegation to China using ping pong diplomacy.
Forrest Gump never went to the Olympics. They may have been playing on a television set within the movie.
Not really true. It is based on a novel (fictional) by Winston Groom. //Actually, the character Forrest Gump was inspired by a decorated war hero named Samuel Davis. But Davis was not a shrimp boat captain, champion ping pong player or college graduate.//
A heavy paddle
I dont think you can get a ping pong paddle but during the fall fair or something you can play a game called "Puffle Paddle"
The point of the ping pong trip was meant to show what was happening at that time in the world. China had, after many years, opened their doors to democratic countries, thanks in part to President Nixon. So Gump's ping ponging was a gesture of good will between the two countries.
Well, an ancient being from centuries ago hit a ping pong ball with his or her paddle. When the ball hit the paddle it made a 'ping' sound. The ball rebounded of the paddle and hit the table, making a 'pong' sound. Ping pong was then born.