Cousin Rivalry and Stiga Table Tennis
Ping-pong isn’t our only contention. My first cousin and I are always combative… perchance excessively competitive. It could be as slight as whom might eat quicker or just plain consume more… who could consume food slower or less. It did not matter. If there was a way one individual could trump the other in something, we’d contend.
Regrettably, the small abode my wife and I bought doesn’t have a ton of space for the various ways my cousin and I desire to compete. After much calculation, my wife and I finally set on a pool table with a Stiga table tennis conversion top. Essentially this affords us the capacity to enjoy either billiards or ping pong on the same table in the same space.
Thus now our infamous competition proceeds. Naturally, he invariably complains that it isn’t the real thing. Even though he normally trumps me in pool, every single instance we place the table tennis conversion top upon the pool table, it seems his game errs.
To put it plainly, I think it is because I’m just simply the better table tennis player. But regrettably, he has too many rationalizations. The elevation is not correct. The proportions are incorrect. The list proceeds on. Thus I procured the measuring tape. The proportions and height were right on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he postulated the table had the wrong bounce; that somehow the pool table below affected the velocity and elevation of the ball bounce.
So we researched the official bounce measurement (yes, there’s an official bounce measurement). It is for every 30 cm of drop, there must be a 23 centimeters bounce. We tested the bounce in over a dozen locations on the conversion top. In every last spot the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and almost precisely 23 centimeters high. So you see, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly respectable job duplicating a strong game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I’m simply the better ping pong player.
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