I just had a thought.....I know....I know that's scary.
It's really amazing what some of the old time players were able to accomplish using really high deflection shafts and some people are still using them to this day.
To think that some guys were able to train themselves to pocket a ball when they were aligned way off to the side of the object ball is amazing. I remember years ago seeing an overhead shot of Bustamante playing and thinking that he was going to miss even hitting the object ball by 6 inches. He had to adjust that much for squirt, of course at that time I didn't understand how squirt worked so this looked impossible to me. This would have been around the mid 90's.
I just can't help but scratch my head when I consider that these players were able to learn to adjust for major amounts of squirt but yet so many players apparently have a hard time even aiming for a center ball shot.
It seems like adjusting for swerve and squirt is infinitely more difficult than finding the ghost ball location. If humans are capable of learning to adjust for such variables as major squirt why do you think it is that so many players have such a hard time simply locating the cue ball's target for a basic center ball shot?
It's really amazing what some of the old time players were able to accomplish using really high deflection shafts and some people are still using them to this day.
To think that some guys were able to train themselves to pocket a ball when they were aligned way off to the side of the object ball is amazing. I remember years ago seeing an overhead shot of Bustamante playing and thinking that he was going to miss even hitting the object ball by 6 inches. He had to adjust that much for squirt, of course at that time I didn't understand how squirt worked so this looked impossible to me. This would have been around the mid 90's.
I just can't help but scratch my head when I consider that these players were able to learn to adjust for major amounts of squirt but yet so many players apparently have a hard time even aiming for a center ball shot.
It seems like adjusting for swerve and squirt is infinitely more difficult than finding the ghost ball location. If humans are capable of learning to adjust for such variables as major squirt why do you think it is that so many players have such a hard time simply locating the cue ball's target for a basic center ball shot?