Professionals who are actually PLAYING. What fun!

I know. This is amazing. I assume they are professionals since they appear to have all the trappings, surroundings, etc. This is how I always played sports of any kind, and why my love of sports was socially-executed at an extremely young age (maybe 5th grade at most?)
I've always held that "it's only a game" is the mantra necessary for enjoyment of the event, but ever since I was repeatedly bitched out by teammates for being open when I fouled someone else in a sport, or otherwise being honest about how some interaction wasn't ultimately fair, I just lost interest (and faith in humanity, in general).
This was great to watch, but not even the first time I've seen it. What is it about table-tennis that makes the participants so eager to throw off their egos and have fun?
Also much respect for one of the most demanding examples of control over small-scale kinetics.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Ultimate-Ping-Pong-Showdown-Saive-vs-Chuang

Ultimate Ping Pong Showdown - Saive vs Chuang has been added as a related post - related requested by bareboards2.

are these guys like the Harlem Globetrotters of Ping Pong?

I have no idea who won, but that was pretty cool.

I wish I could get some kind of a ultra straight forward walk through of exactly what is going on, and some background as to who these guys are.

Great video!

5:10, pure gold.

Wow, that was amazingly entertaining and incredibly funny! Thanks for the sift. Made my day!