Ping pong isn’t our exclusive competition. My first cousin and me were always competitive… maybe too competitive. It could be as slight as who could eat swifter or eat a higher quantity… whom could eat slower or less. It did not matter. If there was a way one person could best the other in anything, we would compete.
Unfortunately, the small home my wife and I purchased doesn’t have a lot of space for the various means my first cousin and I desire to compete. Following much deliberation, my wife and I at long last settled on a billiard table with a Stiga table tennis conversion top. Fundamentally this provides us the capacity to play either billiards or table tennis on a single table in the same room.
Thus now my cousin and my infamous rivalry continues. Naturally, he incessantly kvetches that it isn’t the true thing. Even though he normally bests me in pocket billiards, every single time we set the table tennis conversion top upon the pool table, it seems his game drifts.
To put it plainly, I think it is because I’m just simply the better table tennis player. But unfortunately, he makes too many excuses. The height isn’t right. The dimensions are incorrect. The list goes on. So I procured the measuring tape. The dimensions and elevation are spot on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he postulated the table had the wrong bounce; that in some manner the billiard table beneath affected the velocity and height of the ball bounce.
So we investigated the official bounce measurement (yes, there’s an official bounce measurement). It is for each 30 centimeters of drop, there ought to be a 23 cm bounce. We tested the bounce in over a dozen locations on the conversion top. In every last place the ball bounced virtually perfectly straight up and nearly precisely 23 cm high. So you see, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly good job duplicating a good game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I’m just the superior ping pong player.
