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Ping-pong is not our only competition. My cousin and I are always combative… maybe too combative. It could be as trivial as who could eat speedier or just plain consume more… who could consume food slower or in smaller amounts. It didn’t matter. If there was a means one person could trump the other in anything, we would contend.

Unfortunately, the tiny home my wife and I purchased does not have a lot of space for the many ways my first cousin and I like to compete. Following much deliberation, we at long last set on a billiard table with one of the Stiga table tennis conversion tops. Fundamentally this gives us the ability to enjoy either billiards or ping pong on one table in the same room.

So now our infamous rivalry continues. Naturally, he constantly kvetches that it isn’t the real thing. Even though he normally trumps me in pocket billiards, 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’s because I am just simply the better ping-pong player. But regrettably, he makes too many rationalizations. The height isn’t right. The proportions are incorrect. The list proceeds on. Thus I procured the measuring tape. The height and proportions were right on to the official table tennis proportions. Then he postulated the table had the incorrect bounce; that in some manner the pool table beneath affected the velocity and height of the bounce.

So we researched the official bounce measurement (yes, there is an official bounce measurement). It’s for each 30 cm of drop, there must 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 almost exactly 23 centimeters high. So you see, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly good job replicating a strong game of table tennis. And my first cousin has no excuses. I’m just the greater table tennis player.