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That seems pretty shitty for those 650s and 700s trying to battle it out for a place. A 800 should just get an straight up invite, even if they aren't active in WNT events.

To clarify, I meant entertainment value as in laughing at those hacks and wanna-be's. Not for everyone, but I can imagine some pros will find it funny, obviously not as something they'd do regularly.

Entertainment value.

How is top any different? The same logic goes for all spins.

What is cue abuse?

Your PSR doesn't look consistent. Try stepping into the shot more identically every time. Pay extra attention to where you step, and where your cue hand naturally falls. Try to find a way of stepping into the shot such that the cue will always have the same position. This will also make it...

To put it into a mathemathical perspective, let's say that every shot has, among many other factors, a distance difficulty factor D, which is calculated by summing the two vectors (lines) of the shot (CB->ghost ball and the OB->pocket), defined as a value between 0 and 1 such that: - 0 is the...

Even if you don't play lousy position, the average shot distance will be larger. I agree with Bob, 9ft simply is harder on average, and I'm not sure I get what point you are trying to make. Quantifying the difference between them is an interesting topic, but IMO your points don't show anything...

How does this help the backhand?

A video of your stroke would help a lot. There could be 100 different reasons.

Yep. This is what I've been saying as well, very true. What do you mean? Why would he not believe in that premise, it's obviously true.

I categorize my mistakes by: 1. Non-aim related technique failure (hitting the CB in wrong spot due to arm not going straight, moving the body while down, muscle tension, bridge hand instability etc.) 2. Misjudgement of aim (wrong intuition of the required CB/OB overlap) 3. Not keeping the...

The way I see it is that the logic of deflection, SIT, CIT, swerve, etc. must first be understood (e.g. more swerve if more elevation = more compensation required). Then you practice the basic spin shots to develop a more intuitive feel of which effects to compensate for in which shots. And...

Yep, well summarised. Three years ago when I was starting to grind the game and work on my technique multiple better players instructed me to steer away from that sort of rifle-shooting style approach to cue alignment, and I did for some time, then tried a shit ton of different approaches over...

I took the image from google, the table where I play at is a bit tighter. Not as tight as the one in your image, but not as loose as that google image. I am from Finland as well, not China :D The username is just a random word, no logic behind it. Damn, that's very good! I have never...

Very good for 99% of shots, it's effortless and fast to do. Only gets troublesome with extreme elevation or super-awkward stretches, because it's tricky to keep your head in the same angle relative to the shot with those, but those are tough no matter what you do. I mean, of course I miss many...

With my chin. Head is always in same place/angle relative to the shot line (OB/CB overlap) that I'm seeing with my eyes, so aligning the back-end of the cue with the chin always fixes it to be on the correct line. Front-end of the cue is then obviously aligned by pointing at the correct point on...

As someone who also has some degree of aphantasia, I don't need to "see" visual images in my head to know different types of shots, all I need is to conceptualize the locations of the balls. When I imagine a shot in my head it's happening in like an abstract 2D geometry plane, with the locations...

It does add up a lot in the long run, even if its just that 2ft difference. Especially with the average bar box having more forgiving pockets than 9ft tables. I have a similar habit of practicing on Kaisa tables sometimes before pool matches. Kaisa = game played on super tight tables in...

Depends on the type of shot a lot. For awkward non-routine stances (weird rail-bridge, elevated due to a rail or another ball, mechanical bridge, jump shot, awkward bridge due to obstructing balls, etc.), it is much more likely to miss from stroke/alignment issues instead of aiming issues. For...