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Thanks for the link, and please thank your friend for posting the video! As I mentioned in my youtube comment, being the "same size and weight" isn't telling the whole story. What matters is the weight *distribution*, not just the weight in absolute terms. The curved paths that cue balls take...

I was just about to post this exact info, but Lexicologist71 beat me to it! I personally do other things like spin calibration and test kicks to dial in the rails (my 3-cushion background coming through), but these are the key principles I use to refine shot selection and position routes across...

Unfortunately, Scott, it seems that you don't fully understand the details of "tangent line physics" yourself. That would be fine, except you're being kind of a jerk about it in this thread for some unknown reason. Where's the more diplomatic Scott Lee I've grown to respect from threads past? I...

If you're currently using a low deflection shaft, you may find it easier to learn the shot by temporarily switching to a high deflection shaft. It makes it easier to avoid the deadly double hit by allowing the cue to be pointed further off-center for the same tip offset. Frequently - but not...

Scott...Just curious... What is your definition of pure sidespin? Do you mean pure z-spin at OB contact (where the z-axis is perpendicular to the table) and absolutely no follow/draw or masse axis spin? Or do you mean beginning a shot by shooting off-center purely along the CB equator...

People who like the Supercup idea will absolutely *love* my new tournament format: races to 1, best 50 of 99 sets. Then we'll really see who the most boringly consistent break shot player is with no need to bother playing from difficult positions left by yourself or your opponent all of the...

Ideally, balls are perfectly matched, racks are perfectly triangular, and they're both perfectly matched to each other. Unfortunately, that's rarely the case. Racking well is really about managing the interplay between the balls and the rack itself. The short answer is, there is no one 'right'...

Are there any archived videos, or was it live streaming only? Robert

In this interview, he claims that he already knew there was no 147 prize. He says he asked the ref as a tactic to stir things up and put pressure on himself to perform by letting the crowd know in advance that he was going for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KOkkPPYiw Robert

FYI, I talked with Mr. Ok when I was in NYC recently, and he said he converted Carom Cafe's tables (and others) to directly heat the slate and bypass the indirect heating of the "warming box". He claims a 50%+ power reduction that significantly reduces the operating costs for tables that are...

Miami has at least 12 heated 5x10 European tables within 15 minutes of each other and is home to 3x national champ Carlos Hallon. There a few more tables an hour north around Ft. Lauderdale, and then it gets worse beyond that with mostly scattered individual tables. I think Bill Smith said he...

I think the video has great value. It's not often we have visual evidence directly demonstrating the questionable claims of past champions. Otherwise, we're only left with "Great player X could do crazy sounding shot Y..." with no way to be sure about the setup and context. Robert

Sorry to burst Cushioncrawler's bubble, but he's almost 200 years too late ;) As with many billiard physics ideas we tend to think of as modern results, Coriolis got there first and had already described and diagrammed the effect in his 1835 book. Like later scientists, Coriolis pointed out...

That's true, Jal (as usual). What I find interesting is how most players' intuitions about which way the transferred follow or draw would make the OB curve tend to be the opposite of what would actually happen. (This was true about me, too, many years ago before I considered the physics.) In...

Thanks for the posting the link, and thanks to forum member Ira Lee (iralee3c) for filming and editing it! I especially like the final picture of Sang at the end...since it also has a somewhat younger *me* in it right in the middle watching in amazement :grin: Robert

Thanks for the AGIPI reminder! I had forgotten that it was this weekend. That was a great game (and is available on Kozoom replay for "Pass Premium" members). Barbeillon wasn't playing well, and then all of a sudden he put the heat on to take the lead. Choi just kept doing his thing though and...

The LaserStroke Training Aid from www.laserstroke.com achieves this by producing a plane of laser light that projects over the CB and OB simultaneously. The tip laser always seemed like a completely useless gimmick to me, but I bought the LaserStroke the second I saw it since I had been trying...

It doesn't, really. It's the plus-2 system adjusted for sticky (no slide) pool tables with a 1/4-diamond aim point offset towards the corner on the 1st rail. That means it has the same limitations, i.e. it works ok with practice on typical tables for 30-50 degree incidence angles, but don't...

I love technical discussions, and I saw this one getting derailed before it really got started. Enough about that... If questions like this were really so simple, I think we'd all have been bored by billiards long ago! ;) Even though the shot pattern you diagrammed is technically a 2-cushion...

I believe that it is common knowledge that table conditions are always a factor with any system. However, what isn't common knowledge is exactly how to account for those varying conditions in detail to maintain high precision from table to table. No system I've ever seen published or described...