My question goes out to anyone who has been playing 14.1 a while and your skill level here is not relevent. I have never had a skid or as the English say a kick when applying outside spin to cue ball with medium stroke - never. I have however seen many kicks when employing a soft hit with inside spin especially. Just trying to find logic in what ended my 351 ball run, the conditions were not real humid either. Any players out there that have a genuine answer - I will listen. I lost the footage of the skid but it was a bad one, I employed left hand spin on cue ball and the object ball twisted left. It would have been the 352 ball potted and I did feel like I had been kicked hard when I saw the object ball twist.