Is it sitting on a foreign object at the beginning of the stroke?
Million Dollar Proposition Shot? - How to Do It!
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Is it sitting on a foreign object at the beginning of the stroke?
A sticky ring is around the cueball. Close to the center but a little off.
HINT TIME:
My views are stuck on 104, must be a lot more now, and quite a few participants seem to be viewing, so time for a stronger hint:
HINT: Think about Relativity!
My views are stuck on 104, must be a lot more now, and quite a few participants seem to be viewing, so time for a stronger hint:
HINT: Think about Relativity!
The cloth is damaged/modified. The slate under the cloth is unlevel or cracked/broken.
It is not, the CB is directly on the cloth, standard cloth, but your thought has be wondering the possibilities!
Colin
None of those... and no magnets in play either!
The cueball is weighted properly without bias, but it is not round? Shaped differently?
The CB is on a toy miniature table, and you move the table with your hand, causing relative motion between the CB and the table, in the shape of a circle.
It's round.. well, as round as any pro balls being used.
The answer is more outside the box... and we're up to 465 views..
So last tip before the answer.
HINT: People 20 feet away may not see this shot clearly and some machinery is involved.
Colin
Everything is moving relative to something, but you're getting warm!:thumbup:
Table is on a cruiseship/boat/plane/ any other type of vehicle.
It need not be a miniature table and I'm not moving anything by hand.
Keep in mind, the CB is actually hit with a cue, not sitting stationary.
It could be, but it also could be on land.
It's on something that it's not normally on though!
AND THE WINNER IS DAVEM :thumbup:
https://youtu.be/_YzeGRFDIms?t=5m54s
Go to 5 minutes and 54 seconds to see the relevant clip if the link doesn't take you directly there.
Colin
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Is it on a gyro?
So, while I've only had an hour or so to think about it, after watching this video https://youtu.be/_YzeGRFDIms?t=5m54s, ... got to 5 mins 54 seconds if it doesn't take you directly to this 10-15 second clip of a girl throwing a ball in an almost circular path on a merry-go-round, turntable.
Put a pool table on one of these and the viewers or camera on this and the CB can take an almost circular path.
It's not purely a visual anomaly, it requires friction from the cloth bed to push the ball to the left and then back and then right along the direction on the spin.
I don't think it can do a pure circle. But the physics guys might be able to explain it even better now they have the concept.
I can almost imagine some serious hustler making up a large turntable to put a pool table on, with a seat for his victim, to perform this shot.
Would be worth some dollars just to see it.
Seemed a more fun way to present this nice find than to just post a video straight up.
Hope you all got a little enjoyment out of it... and learned something, albeit, out of the box and impractical.
Colin
Put a pool table on one of these and the viewers or camera on this and the CB can take an almost circular path.
It's not purely a visual anomaly, it requires friction from the cloth bed to push the ball to the left and then back and then right along the direction on the spin.
I don't think it can do a pure circle. But the physics guys might be able to explain it even better now they have the concept.
I can almost imagine some serious hustler making up a large turntable to put a pool table on, with a seat for his victim, to perform this shot.
Would be worth some dollars just to see it.
Seemed a more fun way to present this nice find than to just post a video straight up.
Hope you all got a little enjoyment out of it... and learned something, albeit, out of the box and impractical.
Colin
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