Xenon256 said:

I know this was an old post but was thinking of this after a pop up came up for lifted shoes today. Was thinking hey that would make the jump shot easier. Then thought really what you need a longer fingers. Thought hey you could get a full finger glove put some silicon finger covers in it with padding in the end and probably gain a half an inch easy. Jealous of people with long fingers who knew!

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uk_9_ball_convert said:

just watched the SVB Melling match, was a good match, the young guys they were playing really only made one mistake in the whole match (2 if you count the lad dropping his cue as he was about to break, never seen that before).

With all the controversy over Matchroom changing colours in 9 ball, couldn't help but notice the 4 and 8 look ridiculously close in colour on my monitor (not sure if it's just my monitor) when I was watching it. Not suggesting Ultimate pool should be changing colours completely, but maybe they could use a less dark shade of purple.

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I made a post about that, and I think 100% of the replies were that they didn't look the same to all the replies but mine

SA96 said:

Really like the fact that Ultimate Pool call deliberate foul a loss of rack.

Cowards need to be punished.

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I was told that they do that because they are trying to make the game faster.

Can't be any worse than team Ohio milking every single second off the clock to a blazing (2-1 in a 30 minute match) or whatever it was.

Guess if you can exploit any part of the game it makes sense to the people who run the league. Constantly looking at the clock to make sure you are running it out seems chicken shit to me and for sure isn't entertaining to watch.

I understand why you make videos about how to, but a video on whether a #1 in the world player played the right shot seems a bit outside of your wheelhouse. Way too many variables that the viewer cannot know, that Joshua does.

Nice video. It's a close choice for sure.

Respectfully, I disagree with one aspect of your analysis. Some of the results that you deem acceptable off the slowish one rail kick may not leave a good shot but leave a two-way bank shot. To me, one part of the gospel of tactical play is to avoid leaving two-way shots of any kind at all costs. Leaving one, to me, is, practically selling out.

Still, most of your analysis is dead on. If I'm going one rail here, I'm never going soft. My intent would be to send the 7ball to the top rail if at all possible. It requires neither a soft nor hard hit, just a medium speed hit. Going three is reasonable, increasing the risk/reward nature of the shot.

Hence, I think it's a very close choice between a medium speed one railer and the three railer with intention to pocket the ball. We don't know whether this type of three-rail kick is something Josh practices, so we can't be certain of what the right play here was for him.

Josh' choice was reasonable, but there are arguments for the one-railer. I do not believe that the score was a factor in Josh' choice. As Nick Varner once said: "every rack is a race to one." Josh surely felt that the three-railer was his best path to winning that rack.

Chopdoc said:

You talk like humans woke up one day able to do those things thousands of years ago. Even simple tools took a very long time to develop.

If our modern technology were taken away tomorrow we would develope and use simple technologies and tools MUCH faster than originally by those thousands of years ago. In fact, most of it still exists anyway.

Their technical abilities accumulated over time just like ours. We are currently developing much faster than ancient humans did or even could.

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Technology is developing faster than ever.

Truthfully, the first thing I did was to check the end of the match to see who won. I think using time to contemplate the situation was big.

Still undecided as to Filler's motivation for the shot but on that, there may be a variety of reasons to try it - not the least of which is to test the table.

Bob Jewett said:

In a previous thread, there was a video of a very, very wet table and a shop vac.

I suppose the pumice or whatever is in Lava soap could be a worry, but vacuuming after complete drying ought to fix that.

Did the cloth get looser after the wash?

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No. That was not my video. Our table was relatively wet, but not wet enough to use a shop vac, just a fan set at the end of the table which dried it up in about 4-5 hours.

Oh my, well if the Shortstop on Pool says you must have a pause then that changes everything. I guess I’ll just have to reconstruct my entire stroke, F*ckouttahere