Why do you need a short stroke for this shot?
Testing Your Stroke
- Thread starter mr3cushion
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Why do you need a short stroke for this shot?
The 'Longer the Follow-thru' the more the CB deflects.
The 'Shorter' the less deflection. But, No jab!
How can you have this wonderful problem? Where do you live?
I can’t convince anyone anywhere to buy a single billiards table in my area. I even bought a house, refinished the basement for a billiards table, and then when it was ready ended up divorced. Lol. So I can’t even buy one myself.
This is not true.
What is happening is that you are slightly changing your tip position, or your coupling of your arm to the mass of the cue, or hitting the ball harder, even if you think you aren’t. It is impossible for follow through length to have an affect on end mass.
The only thing you can do to a ball is modify the location, angle, and magnitude of the impact vector. Anything else violates Newtonian physics.
Cue acceleration just helps you be super accurate with tip position and consistency.
I'm sorry for your divorce, amigo.
I'm living in France, but I hope to be back to the states in about a year. I agree that it's not the worst problem to have, but I love pool...billiards is great, but I stink at it.
While I don't have an immediate answer to contradict your claim, which I have put in large bold font, it is not immediately clear to me that it is correct.
If you have some proof that you are prepared to make that will defend that claim, then I am all ears. Otherwise, I suggest taking a step back and thinking it over carefully. I really don't think this is obvious. Impact mechanics can be complex and non-intuitive.
There are literally a Million 3 cushion players, like myself who would NOT agree with Your statement.
This is REAL, Not Virtual stuff.
And thanks for that.
However, though I m no video expert it's pretty clear to me that you were also shooting down on the ball. Perhaps not as much as I was but in these two screen captures you can seen the CB starts curving as soon as you hit it and then it jumps up off the OB on its way to the rail.
Lou Figueroa
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These 2 screenshots Don't prove anything!
I have a very dumb question for @mr3cushion and @lfigueroa: did you guys use low left or high left on the shot?
Au contraire, mon ami.
I think they show pretty clearly more is going on with this shot than you think.
Lou Figueroa
very sorry to learn that.
hope all improves for you
@bbb had the courtesy to remind me in a private message that the cueball starts frozen to the rail on this shot, therefore bottom left is not possible with a level cue.
Larry, you're way too nice. You gotta call me out in public when I say something dumb in public. lol
I’ll come back to this later. I think there are issues of definitions. I’ll work on this since I need to anyway
There is No mystery to Top 3C players. There are 5 'basic strokes.' Plus, 'combinations of certain strokes.'
1. Normal follow-thru stroke.
2. Rapid stroke.
3. Short stroke.
4. Slow stroke.
5. Dead-ball stroke.
YOU jacked up and shot 'Down' and Your cue went flying up!
What stroke/follow-thru category would that fall under?
uh, the jacked up and shoot down category?
How about yours? Clearly, your cue is not level. Then, as further evidence, the CB curves or maybe just jumps up in the air because you're hitting down on the shot.
Hips don't lie and neither does the video *you* provided.
Lou Figueroa
with apologies
to Shakira
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I Never mentioned "My" cue was perfectly level. In "My" video with a 'Perfect' stroke the cue follows the 'same plane' it originates from.
I'd say there's a Huge difference between "My" stroke and yours. "My" cue Never quivers off the line of aim a mm.