This group is a little thin on contributors, maybe not enough for a poll, but the ones we have are quite good, so I'll try anyway.
I'm wondering which camp you fall into. Let's call it the "Grady Matthews camp" or the "physicist's camp." In Grady's tape on break shots and key balls, he sets up a regular break shot and says something like, "now use a little outside english on this shot. All the best players do it this way." It is the idea we're all familiar with of trying to minimize throw, avoid skid and just "help" the object ball go in. Rempe says the english keeps the object ball from "turning over." In the other camp the physicists (at least one I know of) say that you shouldn't use any english on a cut shot because it increases the variability in what direction the object ball will take, depending on how much english you use. They propose no english.
Of course sometimes you can't use outside english and make the cue ball do what you need it to, but this poll isn't for those cases.
Any comments? BTW, I don't use english unless I need it for coming off a rail.
I'm wondering which camp you fall into. Let's call it the "Grady Matthews camp" or the "physicist's camp." In Grady's tape on break shots and key balls, he sets up a regular break shot and says something like, "now use a little outside english on this shot. All the best players do it this way." It is the idea we're all familiar with of trying to minimize throw, avoid skid and just "help" the object ball go in. Rempe says the english keeps the object ball from "turning over." In the other camp the physicists (at least one I know of) say that you shouldn't use any english on a cut shot because it increases the variability in what direction the object ball will take, depending on how much english you use. They propose no english.
Of course sometimes you can't use outside english and make the cue ball do what you need it to, but this poll isn't for those cases.
Any comments? BTW, I don't use english unless I need it for coming off a rail.