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Ping pong is not our exclusive competition. My first cousin and I were always combative… maybe too competitive. It could be as slight as whom might eat quicker or just plain consume a higher quantity… who could eat slower or less. It didn’t matter. If there was a means one person could trump the other in something, we would compete.

Regrettably, the small house my wife and I bought doesn’t have a ton of space for the various means my cousin and I desire to compete. After much deliberation, my wife and I finally settled on a pool table with a Stiga Fusion table tennis conversion top. Essentially this gives us the capacity to enjoy either pool or ping-pong on a single table in the same room.

So now my cousin and my notorious rivalry proceeds. Naturally, he constantly kvetches that it is not the true thing. Even though he ordinarily trumps me in pocket billiards, each time we place the table tennis conversion top on the pool table, it appears his game drifts.

To put it simply, I think it is because I am just simply the greater ping-pong player. But unfortunately, he makes too numerous rationalizations. The height is not correct. The dimensions 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 postulated the table caused the incorrect bounce; that somehow the pool table below affected the velocity and height of the bounce.

So we investigated the official bounce measurement (indeed, there’s 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 locations on the conversion top. In every place the ball bounced virtually perfectly straight up and nearly precisely 23 centimeters high. So you see, table tennis conversion tops do a perfectly good job replicating a strong game of table tennis. And my first cousin has no excuses. I am just the greater table tennis player.