Two Games, One Table, One Rivalry
Table tennis isn’t our exclusive contention. My cousin and me are always combative… maybe too combative. It could be as trivial as who could consume food speedier or just plain consume a higher quantity… whom could consume food slower or in smaller amounts. It did not matter. If there was a way one person could outdo the other in anything, we would contend.
Unfortunately, the tiny abode my wife and I purchased doesn’t have a ton of space for the various manners my first cousin and I wish to compete. After much deliberation, my wife and I at long last set on a pool table with a Stiga Fusion table tennis conversion top. Basically this gives us the capacity to play either billiards or ping-pong on the same table in the same room.
Thus now my cousin and my infamous competition continues. Naturally, he invariably kvetches that it is not the true thing. Even though he ordinarily trumps me in pool, every single instance we place the table tennis conversion top upon the billiard table, it seems his game errs.
To put it plainly, I think it’s because I am just simply the better ping pong player. But unfortunately, he possesses too many rationalizations. The elevation is not right. The dimensions are off. The list goes on. So I procured the measuring tape. The dimensions and elevation were right on to the official table tennis dimensions. Then he claimed the table caused the incorrect bounce; that in some manner the billiard table below affected the velocity and height of the bounce.
So we researched the official bounce measurement (indeed, there’s an official bounce measurement). It’s for each 30 centimeters of drop, there must be a 23 centimeters bounce. We tested the bounce in over a dozen placements on the conversion top. In every last place the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and nearly precisely 23 centimeters high. So you see, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly respectable job duplicating a good game of table tennis. And my cousin has no excuses. I am just the better ping pong player.