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speaking of youtube... For those not too lazy for the rules rigamarole, here's a video of the best angle and speed to get the most bend on a side pocket bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rg5zhrt44 Cheers, Robert

Carom Cafe isn't in Manhattan, but it's *definitely* worth the trip out to Queens from the city (34-02 Linden Place in Flushing). They have eleven 5x10 heated Verhoeven 3-cushion tables, twenty or so 4.5x9 Gold Crown pool tables, and three 6x12 snooker tables, table tennis, a full bar and...

There's not much out there now, but there will be in the coming months (see this thread for an idea). I'll keep you posted. HAMB is definitely NOT the only method. Robert

Your results are just the, um...tip of the iceberg, Patrick ;) I look forward to sharing my methods with you in the coming months now that I'm back to writing. In the meantime, good luck with your experiments. You're on the right track. Robert

I played an entire tournament once with a 314 when I was experimenting with LD shafts before I bought my Z-2. I remember because it was the Doral, FL event where I first beat Luis Avila and Miguel Torres in competition :) I've included some pics of it in action. Both it and the Z-2 I played...

Exactly. You're not a beginner, you're just applying your current skills to another discipline. I'd work on learning game principles and shot patterns. If, during the course of practicing a certain type of shot, you're having trouble getting the required ball action, then maybe start considering...

Sorry I'm replying so late to this, David, but I somehow missed your reply to this thread. I've emailed the errata doc file to your email, as requested. Please let me know if you have any problems receiving or reading it. Thanks again for your hard work in producing the English translation. We...

Pool and snooker players tend to have much better mechanics than carom players when it comes to making precise hits on the object ball. That's because most carom shots have a wider margin of error than what is require to precisely pocket balls. Other factors like speed, spin and shot pattern in...

For reference, 6 degrees is around 10.5" (i.e. almost a full diamond) difference across the length of the table. That's roughly 1.3" error for each diamond the OB is away from a pocket. An OB from the center spot shot to a corner pocket will be off by an inch for every degree of throw (6" in...

Interestingly, misses due to normal CIT are often mistakenly blamed on cling/skid, even among top players. I've noticed this to happen most often for slower stun shots around 1/2-ball hit. I suspect it's because of the CIT cut angle deviation magnitude (typically 4-6 degrees depending on...

Hi guys, I've read several posts about Efren and Balkline in this and other threads, and I keep seeing an important distinction missed in all of the arguments...err, discussions :) That distinction is between a person's 'favorite' game and their 'best' game. Just because you enjoy a particular...

Thanks for doing the streaming, Ray! As far as announcements go, however, you may want to keep in mind that there are likely several potential streaming customers like myself who disable avatars and signatures in the AZ forum options to cut down on visual noise while reading. That means we...

Thanks for the kind words, Eddie! It was fun meeting and talking with you at the Carom Cafe week in billiard heaven (what an event!) I hope next time we can get on a pool table and talk some one pocket. Robert p.s. Shovak Schmovak! ;)

Yes! Ira Lee arranged for all of the matches to be recorded in HD as they were being streamed from the 14.1 World Tournament and the Verhoeven Open, including all of the exhibitions. I'm sure he'll be sharing details sometime soon about where to go for video-on-demand and DVDs. Thanks for the...

Thanks, guys! Hugo is playing really well right now and came in 4th overall in the event, so that was a good win for me. The run of 10 came at just the right time :) Since it was on the TV table where I'm usually talking instead of playing, Ira Lee thought there might be some interest in a...

I intentionally mistyped that just to see if you were paying attention...yeah, that's what happened... ;) That's actually Coriolis' "alpha", not mine :) He wrote in the days before COR was standardized. I did it that way to alter your diagram in the spirit of his approach using his constant...

I briefly corresponded with David Nadler in 2007. Mostly, it was me thanking him for all of that tedious hard work he put into the translation, but I did try to be productive and include a few corrections that he was nice enough to include in the errata pdf available from his site for the book...

If you eventually do dive into Coriolis, let me know. I have many corrections for the English edition I can share that I haven't sent to Nadler (the translator) yet. The English version is incredibly valuable, but there are tons of printing errors, including faithful reproduction of several from...

Jim, are you familiar with the geometric constructions in Coriolis' 1835 book? If not, I think you'd enjoy them. (Unfortunately, the current English translation is rife with misprints on almost every page and diagram, but you're well-versed enough in the physics to get past those. Or you could...

I think for equal amounts of draw and side on the miscue limit circle (i.e. 4:30 or 7:30 tip contact) to give the highest spin/speed ratio once NR is achieved, it would require an overly generous miscue limit of ~0.7R. A more reasonable miscue limit assumption of 0.5R-0.6R achieves the the max...