Reading this made me feel a bit English.
Freddie <~~~ the Queen would have me flogged
I've heard some whoppers but this....
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Freddie <~~~ the Queen would have me flogged
One time I had put soooo much spin on the cue ball
...it disappeared and time traveled into another dimension.
Two things come to mind
1. The guy who paid $500 for his Cuetec.
2. The guy who "used to be a pro" and played with guys "like Mike Massey and them." If not for the fact that his left hand got smashed and can no longer make a bridge and that he needs to shoot left-handed now....
Guy #2 ended up being my teammate. He claimed I (a lowly crappyt bar league player) was the best player he's seen. Sad.
Freddie <~~~ better than Mike Massey!!!!! Imagine that!!!! Now that's a whopper!
My stroke is so strong that I cut a ball in the corner pocket and the cueball sliced a piece off the object ball.
Freddie <~~~ oh wait, that really happened to me!!!
Actually it can be done, Mike Massey does it. It requires the use of a rail but the cue ball does actually travel in a S changing directions.
In the spirit of the thread though, we have all been told by someone how they paid their way through collage playing pool. Then you see them play and they can't even make a bridge. The thing that used to amaze me was they would tell me these tails as I am behind the counter of a pool room I own. What in their minds makes them do they think they can fool someone like me, this is what I do for a living. I would never go into a car garage and try to fool them with a false knowledge of cars, they would know in a second I don't know what I am talking about.
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I would not always be so sure to say something is impossible. A guy came in the pool room and wanted to bet on a shot. I am sure others on here have seen the shot and may even be able to make it. What it is is the object ball is frozen to the long rail about an inch from the corner pocket. The cue ball is at the other end of the table and also frozen to the same long rail about an inch from that corner pocket.
The bet is, he will bank the ball across corner from where the object ball and cue ball are. It looks completely impossible but it can be done legally. He set up the shot and challenged anyone to shoot it to demonstrate how hard it is to do as many shots as they want. After a lot of dickering he wanted like 150 tries they got him down to 40 and they bet him. He made the shot that looked completely impossible in 10.
Would you believe someone who told you they saw a guy make 1200 spot shots in a row no misses? I saw it in fact I saw the same guy make hundreds in a row many times. He would bet on 98 out of a 100 with people who didn't know him and it was a lock. I lost $100.00 to him the first time I met him. As far as I was concerned if he could do it he could have my money. It was amazing how easy he did it. after a few dozen shots you feel he may never miss.
I think the spot shot guy was mentioned in Pool and Billiard Magazine. Didn't he live in Florida? And as I recall a previous discussion, the cue ball was shot from the head spot. I think I'd bet him if I could spot the object ball where I wanted within a quarter inch of the spot on each shot.
The "Vernon Elliot" bank is with the cue ball frozen at the head string and the object ball on the same side rail just past the side pocket. Bank the ball cross-side. Not that hard with dirty balls -- just ask Joe Tucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-vXWEA_TU
As for the Z- or S-masse, Leonard Euler's nephew showed in the late 1700s that the path of a massed cue ball is a parabola, and parabolas don't turn two ways. (for real)
I always wonder about the guys that want 25 or more tries to make a shot?
Hard to believe they get people to bet with them.
I may kick better then I shoot,a player who knows that, said to me here is a kickshot proposition bet. cb on headspot ob frozen on ctr of bottom rail. Guy wants 20 chances to kick it in to bottom corner pocket,
who would ever give more then 3 chances? I told him for 25 chances I would bet I could kick 10 balls in all frozen in diff places.I made 8 tries and had made 5 balls.
He said I guess my grandma could make that original shot in 25 tries!
Hard to believe they get people to bet with them.
I may kick better then I shoot,a player who knows that, said to me here is a kickshot proposition bet. cb on headspot ob frozen on ctr of bottom rail. Guy wants 20 chances to kick it in to bottom corner pocket,
who would ever give more then 3 chances? I told him for 25 chances I would bet I could kick 10 balls in all frozen in diff places.I made 8 tries and had made 5 balls.
He said I guess my grandma could make that original shot in 25 tries!
Thats the guy he did shoot shot to spot. His name was Kenny "Spot shot Kenny" Kiddy. I am certain he is dead now. All he did was slow roll the balls in one after another. When he would practice he would usually get someone to spot the balls for him. My wife would often do it for him and it was nothing for him to make 100 to 300 on average between misses.
Exactly, masse works by putting momentum in one direction while making the ball spin in a different direction. Once friction takes over and the direction the ball is spinning catches it goes that direction, but it can not change directions twice without going to a rail or going off another ball. Some pretty funny stories guys! I love the o'kane one
After reading this my first thought was "If he was a good hustler...he wouldn't have been on TV....or famous!
Good read though.
Even he needs to touch a rail to change the angle of the masse.
When my son plays in league and is beating up on people 2-3-4 times his age, we often hear "when I was that age I also played that good". This is not from people that are not 70 and can't see or stand as well, it's from people in their 30s and 40s.
Fred, I played with you, you are at least a middling bar league player
And my favorite story I got from clueless pool players was from Country Club USA in MA years ago. Two guys with their own cues (cheap stuff from Sears) were playing next table to me. One of them throughout their games was giving really bad advice to the other one, quoting half-assed rules, showing him how to hold the cue the wrong way, etc... Finally the question was, as they were chalking up, "what is chalk for anyway". The second player replied "well you see how some of it falls on the table? It's to season the cloth so it plays better".
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Yep, even magicians are subject to the laws of physics.
But I think I discovered what's wrong with pool....
.....it's the domino effect...
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...=LD4U-NPDFHMn5J4fdvSB8w&bvm=bv.60799247,d.aWM