@AtLarge , please edit "Ponders" for "Pongers". For we could navigate this wonderful you provide stats via Google search in 10 or even 20 years from now :)
Very true. Unless a person has some eyesight issues, everyone is very well capable of aiming a cue ball to the object ball correctly. Next, it comes to cue ball delivery (with a cue stick). Here it is the source of all the troubles.
I think most recent international event where Marlon played was Philippines Open 2025 (part of WNT). (ah, Mike Page was first to mention that!)
Here Marlon Manalo is up against Ralf "The Kaiser" Souquet
It is not possible to upload a video to the forum directly, but it is very much open to links from any other hosting. One could upload a file to Dropbox or any kind of a cloud storage, make a link to share and... share it :)
There is one guy who places CF and wood just the opposite, been doing those for over decade I think. But it must be only recently he came up with an idea of three different grades of them, whatever purpose they serve.
The players can either shake or bank for the break
I think I can guess "shake", but what does "bank" look like? Is it competing at a bank shot of any kind?