Hello, Mr M.

The typeface and colouring lead me to believe that these balls were not made by Aramith.

The truth is though, sir, I do not know who cast them at the moment.

Frosty said:

Should they? Sure, it’s the gentleman thing to do. Then again one of the most maddening things about life is that most know the right thing to do, and choose not to.

Bottom line? You just have to not let things like this bother you. I don’t care if a guy does cartwheels in my shot line with lit sparklers in his mouth and his butt.

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So much here that I can identify with.
I found that the best way for Me to deal with the distraction attempts was to escalate my adrenaline level. Confront them directly and to the point. My favorite confrontation came playing Lake City Red in a tournament. My words were along this line, "Listen here You Whining Crying Shark Move Mother effer.......when it's your turn you can whine and cry all you want. When it's my turn you sit there quietly and take it like a man." My fight or flight adrenaline escalation carried me to victory not only in that match but the whole freaking tournament. The residual mad carried me to my first big tournament victory.
Control the Anger!!!! And use it to advantage.
On another occasion I offered the opportunity to Tap Dance on the other end of the table while I shoot. The fireworks out of the butt is an interesting offer I will borrow if a similar situation arises.

MitchAlsup said:

If the ball has outside english when it hits a rail, it looses significant energy, and reflects at greater angle than incident.
If the ball has no sidespin, the rail will impart some on first contact and the ball will slow down.

If the ball has just the right amount of side spin, the ball reflects <I will just use the term> "well" not accelerating, or decelerating and picking up spin where angle of incidence = angle of reflectance.

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1)why would the cue ball lose energy because of outside english?
2) are you referring to the cue ball going in has the same spin that it would pick up if it went into the rail with no spin?

Bob Jewett said:

Try the corner-five system corner to corner on three different ages of cloth. See how quickly you can make it work with various combinations of left, center, right and follow, draw, stun. I think that experiment is going to be far more convincing than any post here.

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That was my first warm up shot on a new to me table. The rails, cloth and weather are variables that makes for calibration adjustment.

Should they? Sure, it’s the gentleman thing to do. Then again one of the most maddening things about life is that most know the right thing to do, and choose not to.

Bottom line? You just have to not let things like this bother you. I don’t care if a guy does cartwheels in my shot line with lit sparklers in his mouth and his butt.

skor said:

We can see that the tighter the pockets, the most accurate and consistent players have developed a more compact stroke.
Every movement will reduce accuracy. Old school players with big stroke like Bustamante never had a chance as pocket gotten tighter over the years even before the age factor.
Unfortunately, the body mechanics requires that movement.

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I’m not sure I agree with that
You see many top players today taking full back swings close to the bridge hand and doing well with the tight pockets
Chris Meling and fedor Gorst come to mind

Oikawa said:

E.g. two balls on opposite spots, drawing with side into corner pocket such that the CB never touches the end rail

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Ronnie Allen could execute a one handed spot shot where the cueball doesn't hit a rail. Not head spot to foot spot but out of the kitchen with spotted object ball. An accomplishment that showed a significant profit when executed with the one attempt wagers filling all the pockets of the table.

ShootingArts said:

He wrote left handed and backwards at the same time as writing right handed

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Yes that's it.

ShootingArts said:

However, nothing beats real time instruction by a well qualified instructor.

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I concur.
Even Ronnie O'Sullivan spent time with coaches. The other view point can be helpful even to an accomplished player. IMHO it is important to accept the authority of the chosen coach and give their coaching full attention. Sometimes it might be tempting to uh relate to other players a unorthodox method. I think that's a big No No. They will often find a need to discredit. Anything less than full commitment to the coach and their guidance can lead to unsatisfactory results.
My 6 weeks 6 lessons at 20 per was one of my best investments of money And time. An hour a day done properly can build a strong competitor.

So these are no Aramith balls then? Is it known who made that set?