Two interesting one pocket shots by Blomdahl

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I had a chance to play Blomdahl some one pocket on a bucket table this afternoon at Carom Cafe. He came up with some really cool shots with very precise cue ball control :eek:

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Thanks for sharing. The WEI'd shots are certainly the mark of an able player!
I shoot them all the time and only sell out about 49% of them!!

Please tell about the cue he used- it appears to have a quick taper- is it his 3c cue? Off the wall?
 
There was an interesting post awhile ago in the carom section from someone who bought one of Torbjorn's old Adams cues.

He sorts through dozens of shafts to find ones he likes and has a variety of stiffness in the shafts. He apparently varies the stiffness of the shaft he uses to adjust to new tables without having to change his stroke too much.
 
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I had a chance to play Blomdahl some one pocket on a bucket table this afternoon at Carom Cafe. He came up with some really cool shots with very precise cue ball control :eek:

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That must have been fun, Wei. How good were his 3-rail safeties?

I'm just learning to watch for these shallow kick shots (like page 1 in your diagram) - it's one of the myriad new concepts my sensei, 1 Pocket Ghost, is trying to drive through my titanium skull into my so-called consciousness. They're often the better choice because of their CB-control advantages, wide margins for error and low likelihood of scratching. (Did I get that right, teach'?)

pj
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cuetable said:
I had a chance to play Blomdahl some one pocket on a bucket table this afternoon at Carom Cafe. He came up with some really cool shots with very precise cue ball control :eek:
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That's a wonderful shot, Wei, and it does come up during the end game once in awhile. Grady has shown several variations of that shot on his one-pocket tapes. I think it's much easier to gauge when the OB is less than a ball width off the cushion.

Is it my imagination, or did you use a Wei Table with larger corner pockets to support your "bucket table" remark?;)

Doc
 
Tang Hoa shoots this shot against Efren in the 1999 Derby City Classic One-Pocket Finals. Totally caught me off guard! I'm thinking he's going to try and two-rail it near his hole, and he kicks off the rail to bank it one rail. He missed it, but only by a few inches.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
That must have been fun, Wei. How good were his 3-rail safeties?

I'm just learning to watch for these shallow kick shots (like page 1 in your diagram) - it's one of the myriad new concepts my sensei, 1 Pocket Ghost, is trying to drive through my titanium skull into my so-called consciousness. They're often the better choice because of their CB-control advantages, wide margins for error and low likelihood of scratching. (Did I get that right, teach'?)

pj
chgo
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I don't think he did any 3 rail safety. The cloth/rail was also a little on the slow side. Pg.1 is a shot he pulled off, hitting the right side of the object ball.

From what I remember, he banks the ball pretty well (long cross table bank / 2 rail long cushion first -Pg.2).

Pg.3 is a shot he pulled to win a game.

Pretty sporty for a guy who played less than 10 games of one pocket in his life. (He played our Bob Jewett last year, I think the score was very close. )

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3 cushion players have an advantage playing one pocket. The kick shot on the first post is a fairly standard shot. At least it is to me and I see a lot of high level one pocket players shoot it when the situation is right for it. It does sell out the cross corner passover bank a lot though so it's only a good shot if there is a safety ball to stop the free swing.

Three cushion and straight rail billiard players are monsters at one-hole. That's a game that they could literally dominate if they chose to learn the moves. It's a pool game that is made for billiard players with all the tickies, caroms, kicks, throw shots, and banks.

I would bet it all that within one year Torbjorn Blohmdahl could be a top five one pocket player if he decided to study the game seriously.
 
JB Cases said:
3 cushion players have an advantage playing one pocket. The kick shot on the first post is a fairly standard shot. At least it is to me and I see a lot of high level one pocket players shoot it when the situation is right for it. It does sell out the cross corner passover bank a lot though so it's only a good shot if there is a safety ball to stop the free swing.

Three cushion and straight rail billiard players are monsters at one-hole. That's a game that they could literally dominate if they chose to learn the moves. It's a pool game that is made for billiard players with all the tickies, caroms, kicks, throw shots, and banks.

I would bet it all that within one year Torbjorn Blohmdahl could be a top five one pocket player if he decided to study the game seriously.
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I agree with you. However, I believe he already has a deep focus on the game he loves. This "pool stuff" is just a little activity for him. I am guessing there are a few reasons for him to play pool at the tournament:

1, No 3c tables available - all 11 tables taken for the Sang Lee International Open
2, To meet new friends - He'd play Mike Massey some 9 ball, Thorsten Hohmann 14.1, Bob Jewett a little bit of everything just to social
3, Play pool might help him to relax from the intense competition scene


Just in case you want to see how he plays pool, the following are some old videos of him playing Efren some 9 ball in Tokyo in 1995 (scroll down to the 4th video and on):

http://library.cuetable.com/showthread.php?t=1374
 
Torbjorn also plays a very sporty game of 9-ball, I got to play him some while I was working as a Referee / Score keeper during the 2002 Carom Corner Tour stop in Tacoma, Washington. All I can say is he certainly is a gentleman and one of the most Artistic and technically perfect 3-Cushion Billiards players out there. Another fact that would appear to make him a great 1-Pocket player is the fact that his game is totally natural. Most 3-Cushion players have studied the Diamond Systems in depth, however, Torbjorn learned the systems he uses through a combination practice and natural abilities. With that said, and the shots I have seen him make, I totally beleive there is no Game he could not master if he put his mind to it.

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Take care
 
manwon said:
Another fact that would appear to make him a great 1-Pocket player is the fact that his game is totally natural. Most 3-Cushion players have studied the Diamond Systems in depth, however, Torbjorn learned the systems he uses through a combination practice and natural abilities. With that said, and the shots I have seen him make, I totally beleive there is no Game he could not master if he put his mind to it.
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I just remembered a fun exercise from last year. We set the OB on the foot rail, at 1/2 diamond increments from the lower pocket, the CB on a random spot on the other side. The goal is to try to 2-rail kick the OB to the upper pocket. He started with pg.1 all the way to pg.5 with no more than 3 tries on each position. As a "nature" player, he'd look at the OB, get down to shooting position, feel the table, practice strokes and shoot...


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