Recent content by Oikawa

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

I agree with everything else you said except that the question doesn't matter, for me it's an interesting question mostly due to the fact that many people (in my experience, mostly mid-level players but also some 600-700 fargo ones) tend to believe the opposite of what I am claiming.

I tried to be clear about emphasizing that I am not talking about consistency, but the absolute limit of what is even possible, I don't disagree with you one bit about the consistency part. Put in another way, I am not trying to ask about whether good timing helps in consistency (it does), I am...

My understanding is that for the CB's reaction after hitting it with the cue, all that matters is what the cue is doing at the moment of contact, within a few milliseconds(?) of the impact. Breaking down the components of the possible factors at impact (normalizing for the environment and the...

rack 1: almost straight on 8, hard to get on 9 but got a thin cut and made 2: left thin on 8 but got good position for almost straight in 9 3: normal, good leaves except for 7->8, kept it easy otherwise 4: left a very thin 8 but made it and took hit to 9 pushing it out in the open 5: same as 4...

I'll give this a try in a few hours, 10 attempts. My guess is I'll get maybe 3-5, we'll see... Beginning seems trivial, but staying in position for 3->4->5 is the part that can easily fail.