One Rivalry, One Table
November 28, 2009 by Janet7
Ping-pong is not our exclusive contention. My cousin and me are always combative… maybe excessively combative. It could be as trivial as whom could consume food faster or just plain consume more… whom could eat slower or in smaller amounts. It did not matter. If there was a means one person could outperform the other in anything, we would compete.
Unfortunately, the tiny home my wife and I bought doesn’t have a ton of space for the various ways my first cousin and I desire to compete. After much calculation, my wife and I finally set on a billiard table with a Stiga Fusion table tennis conversion top. Basically this affords us the ability to play either billiards or ping pong on one table in the same space.
Thus now my cousin and my infamous competition continues. Naturally, he incessantly complains that it is not the real thing. Even though he usually trumps me in pocket billiards, every single instance we place the table tennis conversion top on the billiard table, it appears his game drifts.
To put it simply, I think it’s because I am just simply the greater ping pong player. But regrettably, he has too many excuses. The elevation isn’t right. The dimensions are incorrect. The list goes on. Thus I procured the measuring tape. The dimensions and elevation were right on to the official table tennis dimensions. Then he postulated the table caused the incorrect bounce; that in some manner the billiard table beneath affected the speed and elevation of the ball bounce.
So we investigated the official bounce measurement (indeed, there is an official bounce measurement). It is for each 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 each place the ball bounced almost perfectly straight up and nearly precisely 23 cm high. So you realize, ping pong conversion tops do a perfectly respectable job duplicating a good game of ping pong. And my cousin has no excuses. I’m simply the greater ping pong player.
This is gonna help.
Switzerland’s Roger Ferderer celebrates his victory against Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis after their match of the Madrid Masters on May 14, 2010 at the Caja Magic sports complex in Madrid. Federer won 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. AFP PHOTO / Dani Pozo
I like a bit of table-tennis … and it's a lot more exerting than people think. It used to be quite popular when I was at school, some years ago, … but you don't hear too much about it these days- shame!!
what’s that of special account???
We have table tennis! =) RT @Half_Moon_Inn – sickest hotel but needs tennis courts and a gift shop lol -
omg! I so like u! so cute! u did a great job
ok if heaven doesnt exist then how were we created?out of monkeys?
Wow… Microsoft has managed to get more pathetic than before- I didn't think it was possible. Speaking of the impossible- I remember thinking nothing could look stupider than Move… well, Kinect proved me wrong.
Judgment: My money stays with Nintendo.
But balls do occasionally bounce higher. If it takes a gust of wind, for instance. Or if it has a high angular momentum and hits the floor at different angles in relation to it’s axis of rotation. I used to see the second scenario happening while playing table tennis on a regular basis.
This is the thing with evolution: it’s a complex scenario, like a table tennis ball spinning, not a simple scenario like a non spinning basket ball.
Ahhh..I see the problem. There are TWO games that are often confused. The first, table tennis, involves terms such as “topspin”, “lob”, “smash”, and often involves players standing so far back from the table that they are in different states. The second game, ping pong, involves terms such as “puh-dink”, “clonk”, and “my leg hurts”. Put two table tennis players together…fine. Put two ping pong players together…also fine, albeit a little freaky. Put a table tennis player up against a ping pong player and you have trouble. As in “Puh-dink……KERBLAM”
lady at walmart believed i was a pro ping pong player!
This new xbox kinect just played pump it up when I got a match point in table tennis.
I can understand the homesickness completely – hang in there!! At least you guys had a lot of fun while you were together :0)
I've never had pears with nut-butter… looks delish!
Oh goodness, I am THE worst ping-pong player – I can never keep that little ball on the table, haha. So fun that Bobby can play it so well!
Good luck with studying – and enjoy your Saturday!
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I love him in a movie called “Ping-Pong.” He plays a bald crazy ping-pong player–very campy.
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Tomorrow, S'pore plays with China for the gold medal for Table Tennis!!! Wow…..a Giant Red Nation verses a tiny red dot! Hahaha…..S'pore now gets to the limelight! Hip hip hooray!
You noticed only Chinese win the table tennis to enter the Semi Finals. So the Chinese are really superior in table tennis. They are competiting among themselves representing different countries; China, HK, S'pore & South Korea.
How can China lose to S'pore! This will be historical! I can't wait to know the results!
Even more interesting is the evidence that can be found in the twitter stream of Brad Feld, new board member of Gnip.
In this one he discusses the sound of a ping-pong player in the background of a conference call, the day that the Gnip funding closed:
And in this one he twitters about how the current ping infrastructure is broken, and that the correct solution is found by never giving up:
http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y
You saying you are an 'average reader' is like me saying I am an 'average ping pong player'. Sometimes is just better to be factual than to be modest.
Plus the organised table tennis match with with Dad later. Will anyone ever beat me at table tennis? Doubt it. -
http://www.todofull.org Table Tennis [WII][PAL][ESPAÑOL][WU]
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RT Table tennis? Its ping pong u asain!! Lol -
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Tips from a professional ping pong player
I got victory in Virtual Table Tennis against John Clark(N) with 11:6. yeah
Any good ideas for my Professional Ping Pong player Halloween costume? I’m a college guy.?
Agreed! RT Table tennis only seems a good idea in the workplace when your playing yourself
Blake Griffin, professional ping pong player?: via