Ping-pong isn’t our exclusive contention. My cousin and me were always combative… maybe excessively combative. It could be as trivial as whom might consume food swifter or just plain consume a higher quantity… whom could eat slower or in smaller amounts. It did not matter. If there was a means one mortal could outdo the other in anything, we’d contend.
Unfortunately, the small home my wife and I bought does not have a lot of space for the various ways my cousin and I like to compete. Following much deliberation, we at long last set on a billiard table with a table tennis conversion top. Basically this provides us the capacity to play either pool or table tennis on the same table in the same space.
So now my cousin and my infamous competition remains. Naturally, he incessantly kvetches that it is not the real thing. Even though he ordinarily bests me in pool, each time we place the table tennis conversion top on the pool table, it seems his game drifts.
To put it simply, I think it’s because I am just simply the greater table tennis player. But regrettably, he has too numerous excuses. The elevation is not correct. 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 dimensions. Then he claimed the table caused the wrong bounce; that in some way the pool table below affected the velocity and elevation of the bounce.
So we investigated the official bounce measurement (yes, 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 placements on the conversion top. In every last spot the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and nearly precisely 23 centimeters high. So you realize, table tennis conversion tops do a perfectly good job duplicating a strong game of table tennis. And my first cousin has no excuses. I’m just the better table tennis player.