Puma's Slick New Ping-Pong Table
Written by Daniel Threlfall
Puma doesn’t just make hip kicks. They’ve also made a wicked cool ping pong table. One glance at this slick recreational piece of furniture, and your next three words are gonna be, “Wow. That’s awesome.”
How creative can you get with a ping pong table? I mean…flat green surface. Little net in the middle. A couple of lines. Don’t forget some legs. Ah, how traditional. Puma’s going ping-pong 2.0 with this fresh revolution. They call it “Chalk.”
Chalk it up.
“Chalk.” What a fitting name. The first little table tweak that Puma made was the transformation from bland playing surface to huge chalkboard. That’s right. The conventional green surface of the ping-pong table has made its debut in “Chalk” as a grand, sweeping expanse of chalkboard. Scorekeeping is a breeze. Or, if scorekeeping gets boring, you can write abusive epithets on the chalkboard to intimidate your opponent.
Stupid flimsy little nets.
If you’re a table tennis aficionado, you’ve probably experienced some level of angst at the little nets that try so hard to stand against the onslaught of your tad-too-low serves. Puma sympathizes. That’s why Chalk has a metal chain-link net. You got it. Metal. Chain. Link. Awesome.
Storage galore.
A ping-pong table can be a glorious waste of space. Have you ever thought about it? Where do you put your drink? Your paddle? Your wallet? With Chalk, you’ve got gaping under-table space to swallow anything you want to throw into its cavernous depths. The thing has so much storage space you won’t know what to do with it all—unless you use it as a second closet or something.
Nice legs.
As if all these enhancements weren’t enough, Puma made an improvement on the traditional excuses for legs that most ping-pong tables use. Never fear the collapsing, flimsy tubes of metal. Chalk has legs made out of solid ash and will endure the abuses of uncontrolled collisions.
Price match.
The cost of Chalk is just about as high as your expectations. With a starting amount of $3,900, this table is for the serious ping-pong pro.
What others have said
I recently bit the bullet and bought one of these to throw in the game room for the twins 12th birthday. Financially, it didn't destroy me and the kids were overwhelmed (at this point there is more drawing going on than ping pong.) Overall, a great product, I pulled the trigger after seeing it here:
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This is by far the coolest ping-pong table I have ever seen!! SO versatile with the chalk marking. And the way the lines go off the end, this is SO COOL! The metal chain net is so awesome, I wonder how the ball would react to grazing this net?!