You play with barrels? What's the fun in that?
Bob <-- only played barrel-free one time and it was exciting
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WWYD to run 3 & out.
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Bob <-- only played barrel-free one time and it was exciting
Some people/players have 75% knowledge & 25% ability at execution, some 75% execution skills with 25% knowledge. Then there is the player who has the 'perfect balance' of both for them. That's the person that's difficult to beat!
Good Lord, bob. Not my own barrels
All the fun is in the barrels of third parties.
P.S. I am currently interviewing backers and all are encouraged to apply.
Your firing the air barrel , don't miss or it's knuckle time.
I think Bob is having sport with us Bill, Osmium is one of the densest materials on the planet and is also stinky. I met him once and he wasn't stinky.
I also shot this a bunch today. I 100% agree with Bob that the follow shot is simply being mad at your wallet. As DannyD says - "he's going to sleep in the streets with that shot!"
TOP: One significant reason that the follow shot is a poor option is that it is too speed dependent. Not only do you have to hit it fairly hard, if you are then marginally too hard or too soft, all you have is a bad safety option. Notably, even when you hit it good, your margin for error must be above the shot line for the next ball, making the run out even more difficult.
DRAW: With the draw shot, you almost always end up with something offensive, including being on the right side of the next pocket line.
VIDEO: For the peanut gallery, I converted the original image to a projection overlay and then shot it 10X [EDIT: 12X] each with markers for each shot. It's a rather long (and boring video). But, as you will see, the top shot had wild variations because the "recipe" of top and inside and aim point has too much variability. And, even when I got close, it wasn't a great chance to keep going. [During warm up, I had a a few "perfect" attempts, but there is no value in posted just the good ones here. Rather, you get to see 20 in a row, uncut]. Conversely, the draw shot has a tight grouping, 10 for 10.
PUNCHLINE: you should definitely give this shot a try for your own knowledge. I believe doing so will confirm that shooting with top can work in some instances, but draw will almost certainly work. Play your percentages!
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I don't know what all that gear you have on the table is. But I can tell you this, You don't have the stroke for the shot! So it's definitely not the shot for You.
BTW, does it look like "I" hit the shot Hard? I hit the shot with the tempo/timing and speed the shot needed.
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Oh, and yes. You did hit the shot relatively hard.
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[PS: my stroke out whammy's yours all day every day. hahhaahahah]
Now that is laughable!!!
Maybe you can try out that 'Whammy' stroke of yours on these shots.
From 1997 LIVE (no edit) for over 300 Northwestern students and patrons of Chris's Billiards.
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What category are you saying you fall in?
Clearly your shot selection is not so good when it comes to 1pocket.
Lou Figueroa
Bob is correct
A different category than You Lou.
I think both Hoppe and Byrne discuss the "dead draw" shot. Daly certainly does. It is absolutely standard at the small games.
The quality of spin is a very important concept. It is the ratio of the amount of spin to the speed of the ball. Lively draw is a lot of draw for how hard you hit the cue ball. If you take away the speed of the cue ball by hitting a ball, the quality of the spin necessarily increases.
As far as trying previously discussed shots at get-togethers, I was absolutely serious. I remember one member claiming they could make the eight ball half the time with the second-ball break. I think that talk would end pretty quickly at even money. Unless they are really Corey Deuel.
Daly's book describes it as a, 'Dry Stroke.'
From; Billiards.com DEAD BALL SHOT. (Pocket games) A shot in which a 'dead ball stroke' is employed; often called a kill shot, because of the relative lack of cue ball motion after contact with the object ball. (I guess I'm not the only player who knows one can apply more than '1' stroke through the CB.)
The question should be, "How does a player acquire/apply the 'dead ball stroke?'
What are the mechanics?
Come on guys... We're all too old for this kind of crap.
Besides... My dad could totally beat up any of your dads
Who's yard is better though?
