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Somebody asked about the one pocket break recently, which got me tinkering with VP4 (ruh roh). Hope this is helpful. pj chgo Typical one pocket break - good result

In pool we use the term "spin-to-speed ratio" to describe the "amount" of spin on the CB, comparing revolutions to distance traveled over a fixed time. But the simpler way to express that would be "revolutions per foot traveled", ignoring the time interval. For a given amount of tip offset...

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What if we could just aim our cue like a rifle with the tip at the contact point and instead of stroking it simply pull a trigger to shoot it at any preset CB speed? Would taking the stroke out of the equation mean more accuracy/consistency or less refinement/creativity? If your only motive is...

What do you think of a pool hall with an adjacent golf simulator room? Synergistic cross-attractions or totally different clientele? Which is better? Asking for a friend. pj chgo

Just because I was curious, here's a simple diagram of the cross sections of two 12mm shafts, carbon fiber and maple, showing the thickness of CF walls needed to equal the mass of the equal diameter maple shaft (for CF that's 2.5 times as dense as maple, which Google says is more or less...

Are you in there, Doc? pj chgo

Saw this on Facebook and wondered if you see it like I do: except for the “full”, "1/2" and “thin” hits, I think they’re backwards - the fraction should describe the amount of overlap, not the amount of “revealed” object ball. pj chgo

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Pocket specs say the back (throat) of the pocket opening should be narrower than the front (mouth), apparently so the pocket will reject some balls that hit the facing at the "wrong" speed/angle. My question: the ball has to get past the mouth to hit a facing - why isn't that good enough? pj...

:oops: pj chgo https://www.facebook.com/reel/1186304192006315/?s=ifu

There's been a lot of discussion about pocket measurements lately, so I thought it might be useful to show how they can be measured from a pic (if it's not too distorted by camera angle) using the balls in the pic as "rulers". These are corner and side pockets from VP4 - ball "rulers" are...

Takes both. pj chgo

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I've always maintained that there are too many different cut angles* needed in pool for any usable aiming system to possibly "define" all of them so precisely that any shot can be made by following the system's instructions to the letter, without the need to recognize the final aim solution...