Recent content by heater451

In my case, eating celery with wings is self-delusioning that it's a healthy meal.

If "positive acceleration" is a state where a mass has a force applied to it (+1), and "negative acceleration" is in the opposing direction (-1), then is there not a non-acceleration/deceleration state (0)? Again, not trying to prove this, but to understand why the 0-force state is not...

Consuming the vegetable side with your hot wings, similar to "carroting".

This is what I was questioning. I would say that, say in a zero-g, vacuum environment, a moving mass would require a counter-force--acceleration in the opposite direction to its current direction of travel--but, considering something like a rolling cue ball, I don't see how the *removal* of the...

Since no forum topic goes without tangent(s), I have a question (which I could probably look-up, but w/evs): I can understand how *negative* acceleration is still acceleration (expectedly, in the opposite direction of the original force), but is not the slowing of a moving mass, with ZERO...

I sometimes think of this as shooting the far/back side of the cue ball. Similar to with punching, where the tip is to go for the "back of the head".

Practice slowly, many times, and focus on the follow-through--and end with your tip on the table. If the stroke is down-angle, it can almost happen automatically, but if stroking more level, you follow-through above the table, then let the cue tip down to the table, then reset however you want...

Not a legal shot by the rules I'm normally playing, as it's not a *stroke*, and also somewhat interpreted as a 'scoop'--contacting the ball upwards. But, you are certainly right about the "back and forth", which also happens when trying to keep hitting softer, with an actual stroke. I was...

You don't know me. Never underestimate my ability to slack.

Ah, I think that was the video I *did* watch, so I mis-remembered. I thought there was one where the target ball was almost, but not touching the cushion, and the cue ball was next it it. Like this, although not likely to be perfectly perpendicular to the rail--too lazy to make a real graphic...

I was talking to someone about dealing with the safety where the object ball (like a final 8 ball, or next ball in a 9-ball game) is close to the cushion but not frozen, and the opponent gently rolls the cue ball against it, pretty much perpendicular to the rail. I told him that there is a video...

Yes, I posted in support of your graphic, with the extra lines supporting your locating of the 'spot on the wall' point.

Dr. Dave's, "1/3-more-than-twice" diagram, where the individual lines should converge at the same aimpoint (off the table):

Maybe, Mr. Cues II (off Chamblee-Tucker Rd). In the early 2000's I would go to the Monday night 9-ball tournament, and most of the warm-up tables were taken when I got there. Usually, the triple-shim table was open--at that point, it was pretty much the last table in the back, left-ish but...

Seems like most favor the long, single-cushion kick. I get that for simplicity, but thinking about it a bit, I realized that I actually 'practice' the 3-cushion kick more often. There's a lot of times with friends (also league players), where we will end games shooting for the 3-c bank or the...