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One Rivalry, One Table

Table tennis is not our exclusive contention. My first cousin and me are always combative… perhaps too combative. It might be as trivial as who could eat speedier or just plain consume more… whom could consume food slower or less. It didn’t matter. If there was a means one person could outdo the other in something, we’d contend.

Unfortunately, the small home my wife and I purchased doesn’t have a ton of space for the many manners my cousin and I desire to compete. Following much calculation, my wife and I at long last settled on a billiard table with a Stiga Deuce table tennis conversion top. Basically this affords us the capacity to play either billiards or ping pong on the same table in the same space.

So now our infamous competition proceeds. Of course, he constantly kvetches that it isn’t the real thing. Even though he ordinarily bests me in pocket billiards, every single instance we set the table tennis conversion top along the pool table, it appears his game errs.

To put it simply, I think it is because I am just plain the better ping-pong player. But regrettably, he makes too many excuses. The elevation is not right. The proportions are off. The list proceeds on. Thus I procured the measuring tape. The elevation and dimensions were spot on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he postulated the table had the wrong bounce; that somehow the pool table beneath affected the speed and height of the bounce.

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

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