Cousin Competition and Stiga Ping-Pong

Ping-pong is not our only competition. My cousin and me were always competitive… perhaps too combative. It might be as slight as who might consume food quicker or just plain consume more… who could consume food slower or in smaller amounts. It didn’t matter. If there was a means one individual could outperform the other in anything, we’d contend.

Regrettably, the tiny home my wife and I purchased doesn’t have a lot of space for the many manners my first cousin and I desire to compete. After much deliberation, my wife and I finally settled on a pool table with a Stiga table tennis conversion top. Basically this gives us the ability to play either pool or ping-pong on one table in the same space.

Thus now our notorious competition continues. Naturally, he constantly kvetches that it isn’t the true thing. Even though he ordinarily trumps me in pool, each instance we set the table tennis conversion top upon the pool table, it seems his game errs.

To put it plainly, I think it’s because I’m just plain the better ping-pong player. But unfortunately, he has too numerous rationalizations. The elevation is not correct. The dimensions are off. The list goes on. Thus I procured the measuring tape. The height and proportions were right on to the official table tennis dimensions. Then he postulated the table had the incorrect bounce; that somehow the billiard table beneath affected the velocity and height of the bounce.

So we investigated the official bounce measurement (indeed, there is an official bounce measurement). It’s for every 30 cm of drop, there ought to be a 23 centimeters bounce. We tested the bounce in over a dozen positions on the conversion top. In every spot the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and almost exactly 23 cm high. So you see, table tennis conversion tops do a perfectly good job duplicating a good game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I am just the superior ping pong player.

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