My Cousin and My Table Tennis Conversion Top

Ping pong isn’t our only contention. My first cousin and I were always combative… perhaps excessively combative. It might be as slight as whom could eat speedier or just plain consume a higher quantity… whom could consume food slower or less. It did not matter. If there was a means one individual could outperform the other in something, we’d contend.

Unfortunately, the tiny home my wife and I purchased does not have a ton of space for the various manners my first cousin and I wish to compete. After much calculation, we at long last settled on a pool table with a table tennis conversion top. Basically this affords us the capacity to enjoy either pool or ping pong on one table in the same space.

So now my cousin and my notorious competition continues. Of course, he incessantly kvetches that it is not the real thing. Even though he ordinarily trumps me in pool, each instance we set the table tennis conversion top along the pool table, it seems his game errs.

To put it simply, I think it is because I’m just plain the superior ping pong player. But unfortunately, he possesses too many rationalizations. The elevation isn’t right. The proportions are off. The list proceeds on. So I procured the measuring tape. The elevation and dimensions are spot on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he claimed the table caused the incorrect bounce; that somehow the billiard table beneath affected the velocity and elevation of the ball bounce.

So we researched the official bounce measurement (yes, there’s an official bounce measurement). It’s for each 30 cm of drop, there must be a 23 centimeters bounce. We tested the bounce in over a dozen positions on the conversion top. In every last place the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and nearly exactly 23 centimeters high. So you see, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly good job duplicating a strong game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I am simply the greater ping pong player.

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