Ping Pong and Pool: One Table
Table tennis isn’t our exclusive contention. My first cousin and me were always competitive… maybe too competitive. It might be as little as whom might consume food speedier or eat a higher quantity… whom could eat slower or less. It didn’t matter. If there was a way one person could outperform the other in something, we would contend.
Unfortunately, the small abode my wife and I purchased doesn’t have a lot of space for the many manners my cousin and I desire to compete. Following much calculation, my wife and I at long last set on a pool table with a table tennis conversion top. Fundamentally this affords us the ability to enjoy either pool or ping pong on a single table in the same space.
So now my cousin and my infamous rivalry proceeds. Naturally, he constantly complains that it is not the true thing. Even though he ordinarily trumps me in pool, every single instance we place the table tennis conversion top upon the pool table, it appears his game errs.
To put it plainly, I think it’s because I’m just simply the better table tennis player. But regrettably, he makes too many rationalizations. The elevation is not correct. The proportions are incorrect. The list goes on. So I got out the measuring tape. The dimensions and elevation were right on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he claimed the table had the wrong bounce; that in some way the billiard table below affected the speed and elevation of the ball bounce.
So we researched the official bounce measurement (indeed, there’s an official bounce measurement). It is for every 30 centimeters 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 virtually perfectly straight up and almost precisely 23 cm high. So you realize, table tennis conversion tops do a perfectly respectable job replicating a good game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I am simply the greater ping pong player.

Posted November 30, 2009
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