All Japan Championship 2005, 42mph break!

Celtic said:
It is no problem. It is still a very fast break speed, 4 MPH off the world record if I am not mistaken. Very cool to see the video, he grew a ton since the last time I saw him shoot. Funny thing, his break looked a little better when he was younger (and shorter). He did not have the scrunched up, bent at the knees stance he uses now.
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I have some pictures of Mr. Wu courtesy of www.my147.com
In his interview, he said he wanted to make history by being the first who wins the junior world championship three times. He has already won it twice.
In this web site www.my147.com, you can also find lots of pictures of Xiaoting Pan, the reigning All Japan Championship champion, and Jennifer Chen, among other pool and snooker players.
You do not need to understand Chinese to look at the pictures. Enjoy.
Richard
 

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Break Speed

I will have to admit, that does seem like a 28 mph break. I have seen very few people put up over 30 but it has been on a bar table. I have seen 32 mph with the cue ball being knocked off the table. I have seen 31 twice that have kept the cue ball on the table.

I have also heard that Lee Heuwagon can hit the balls at around 32 mph consistently but I have never seen a radar put on them. He has one hell of a break and I would say it is very close if not at 32.
 
I was having a little trouble absorbing a 42 MPH break.....that was NOT his fastest performance......

Ala Kelly Bundy, "it wobbles the imagination!!"
 
> At the Bicycle Club event in 1992,a radar gun test was used. The highest break speed measured at that event was 34 MPH,by David Howard more than once,followed by Earl and Bustamante at 32 and 31 MPH. A few years later,an article said George Breedlove and Sammy Jones and broke the 36 MPH barrier barrier several times. Having seen David Howard and several others break and have the cue ball jump up so high it threatened or broke the overhead light,watching this break was nowhere close speedwise,but he still broke them nicely. I watched Jon Kucharo break 25 racks in a row that must have been in the 34-35 range,and the cue ball came to rest within a handspan of the previous shot every time,amazing considering the speed and force. Tommy D.
 
Robert Byrne has a section about breaking in his Advanced Technique book on pool. Annigoni and Bob Jewett were there and they calculated how fast the cueball was going when they broke with different weight cues.

Fastest anyone broke the balls was about 24 mph. Hard to believe anything would change that would allow people to break at 42. Dr. George Onada did a survey of the top nine ball pros and they averaged about 24 mph. His article is in the April 1989 Billiards Digest (good luck finding it)
 
Impossible Grady!

Grady said:
42 mph would be equivalent to hitting a golf ball 400 yards.
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Grady...Several golf pros can drive the ball 400 yds. NOBODY can break at 42 mph, or even close to that. Perhaps if you shot the cueball out of a cannon! :D LMAO

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
 
42 kilometers per hour converts to 26 miles per hour. I think that solves the mystery!
 
Hi Bud,

I think I read that article. Was this the article which concluded that the average player breaks best with an 17/18 oz cue?

edit: and there´s the link allready. You guys are fast.

bud green said:
Robert Byrne has a section about breaking in his Advanced Technique book on pool. Annigoni and Bob Jewett were there and they calculated how fast the cueball was going when they broke with different weight cues.

Fastest anyone broke the balls was about 24 mph. Hard to believe anything would change that would allow people to break at 42. Dr. George Onada did a survey of the top nine ball pros and they averaged about 24 mph. His article is in the April 1989 Billiards Digest (good luck finding it)
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