Recent content by Oikawa

Yes. First learn to shoot straight (fundamentals). Then get hundreds/thousands of hours of experience, while still optimizing your straight shooting alongside other training/playing. Do that properly and you'll have a natural rhythm and routine where your body handles the whole process...

I do that for 1 and 2 rail kick shots every time: Start with a mirror image baseline, then adjust from there based on my best estimation for the situation. And this estimation always includes some amount of feel, e.g. knowing that I need to hit it a bit fuller from the mirror line based on some...

It's funny how every single theorerical discussion on here gathers a bunch of mathematically illiterate grumpy folks who mix up theoretical discussion for something people think about while playing pool. No, no-one is thinking about complex mathematical formulas when running racks. But the...

I have an interesting idea for a new experiment or video (if you don't have one about it already) for Dr. Dave: How do different spins help in reducing table roll-off for soft speed shots? For example, a pocket-speed shot with no spin vs. max sidespin seems to roll off less with max sidespin...

I personally never use sidespin on normal shots where position doesn't require it. e.g. the spot shot shown in the video, I'd just play along the vertical axis. Speed/spin depending on table conditions and exact cue ball position. The issue of dirty equipment causing kicks is something I...

For me, as someone who "aims by feel", I get the best results by always assuming my misses are from mechanics, not aiming. This builds a positive feedback loop for sharpening my focus into the right things, and doesn't sacrifice my trust/intuition in aiming. Of course I sometimes aim wrong too...

An interesting note here is that while e.g. 7.1 minutes for hennessy is a pretty typical (slow-ish, but typical) frame time for your average joe with 400 fargo playing another 400 fargo, with each miss and longer thinking time spent on routine (for pros) situations adding up time, the same 7.1...

Last year a Finnish national championship match on 9-foot tables in the early rounds took over 3 hours for a race to 5 in 10-ball, ending at 5-4. Subtracting the possible bathroom break and warm-up racks, it still was about 3 hours. That's 9x 20 minutes racks in a row. Slowest I've ever seen in...

A pro is not necessarily a good instructor, and more so not necessarily good at explaining how/why he does certain things. A good example is the subjective experience of how the aiming process works, people who aim by feel might have some subjective experience of doing certain actions before...

Most shots require positional play, dictating optimal spin which very rarely is exactly the TOI point. Exceptions include shots where you don't need to play position and just make the pot (e.g. the last ball in rotation games). The whole TOI concept sounds weird due to this reason. As you said...

I have seen him play once in real life and he was very good indeed, defo looked more like a 650-660 than a 620. But I watched the stream and he (Aki) missed many routine (for a 620) pots, Mateusz had the worst luck of his life + he also missed some routine (for a 800) pots and played poor...

A 623 fargo (Aki Pöyhönen) just won a 797 fargo (Mateusz Sniegocki), Aki was up 7-1, then 8-2, then Sniegocki won 5 in a row to get to 8-7, with Aki taking the win at 9-7. Pretty insane to think that a 623 is 7-1 up against a 797, must be rarer than 1/1000.

It would be word games if it wasn't the original question and the reason I made this thread in the first place. Many people believe that it's not only harder but flat out impossible to perform certain shots without a smooth/well-timed stroke. E.g. two balls on opposite spots, drawing with side...

On top of this, there's also the self-correcting nature of the angles. With running side, the directional change (relative to no side) from first rail -> second rail is effectively the opposite of second rail -> third rail. This can be generalized past the first two rails such that any time you...

When are the first bigfoot matches starting? Bracket says 23/01 08:00 PM GMT +2, but it's already 11pm so that one is clearly not correct