The most casual escape safe ever!

JMS

JMS

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I don't know why I find this so amusing. Rodney Morris spends about 5 seconds getting out of this safe against Busty, He spent 4 of those seconds getting up out if his chair and walking to the table.

http://youtu.be/YAuN02xGpA4?t=31m48s


It starts at 31:49
 
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I don't understand why Morris shakes Bustamonte's hand at 6-4 in a race to 7? Morris won 2 racks at 6-2, to make it 6-4...then shakes Francisco's hand like he's conceding the match.
 
That's not really all that amusing. I've been there before when you're just so frustrated you just walk up to the table and smack the ball.


I just watched the rest of that game, and good for rodney on sticking it out and pulling off the win. I love his safety shot after bustamante missed his safe.
 
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not a race to 7

It was not a race to 7. There was some kind of point system, and Bustamante had already secured his 2 points (somehow). It may have been a team competition, or round-robin stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtszObwqwEs

bdorman said:
I don't understand why Morris shakes Bustamonte's hand at 6-4 in a race to 7? Morris won 2 racks at 6-2, to make it 6-4...then shakes Francisco's hand like he's conceding the match.
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Francisco's counter was definitely worth the price of admission.
It's a classic filipino kick-safe, and it's really well executed.
One of those options that I find it's easy to overlook.

This little exchange from 2004 is actually kind of relevant to the current
debate about team USA conduct at the recent Mosconi Cup.
The World Pool League was also a Matchroom production,
and the way Rodney just gets up there and whacks at it like he doesn't care
is quite a contrast to Busty's more professional attitude.
 
Actually, Rodney's first shot, though it looks to have been played with a bit of indifference, represented sound strategy. Sometimes you have to use what Steve Mizerak once termed "the hit it hard and pray to God approach" when you are in a tough spot in the kicking game." The idea, though, is that you need to give yourself some chance at leaving the cue ball a long way from the object ball when you kick.
 
I remember seeing this and thinking the exact same thing. He almost made it too...
 
Great looking, playing brunswicks

go figure in a pro pool tournment. the pockets shots showed the rails and the inside of the pocket great film shot!! Rondey is on a terror these days go rodney- and great luck to busty I think that is a showman cue then too- Hawaian brians had a copy of that cue in the shop !! mark
 
HollyWood said:
go figure in a pro pool tournment. the pockets shots showed the rails and the inside of the pocket great film shot!! Rondey is on a terror these days go rodney- and great luck to busty I think that is a showman cue then too- Hawaian brians had a copy of that cue in the shop !! mark
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Yeah, I have to agree. The camerawork and production is top class. I wish more pool videos were like that.

Great match too.

I play and always have been playing on the exact same table. Is it just me, or do the pockets look big? Bigger than 4.5 inches?
 
sjm said:
Actually, Rodney's first shot, though it looks to have been played with a bit of indifference, represented sound strategy. Sometimes you have to use what Steve Mizerak once termed "the hit it hard and pray to God approach" when you are in a tough spot in the kicking game." The idea, though, is that you need to give yourself some chance at leaving the cue ball a long way from the object ball when you kick.
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The force of the kick is fine, that's good 9-ball strategy.
It's the fact that he one-stroked it without eyeballing anything that looks careless.
Maybe Rodney just saw the line and knew for sure he was on track for a good hit.
 
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