It seems that 3-cushion players can make the cue ball back up while using follow....
An interesting follow shot
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I do that too in pool but not this severely. It's called glance off after shooting the ball with a follow. The more follow you put the more glance. You can use that glance to your advantage when needing to miss a ball that's closely to the object ball you're trying to make, just like what the guy did here but as I said, in pool I don't think you or him can do it in the same fashion that he did in the 3-c shot that he performed. You can glance off a little bit then the cueball would miss the 2nd ball in a pool table.
I don't know if it has something to do with the type of table 3-c uses or cloth, I believe that this guy who performed the shot will find it more difficult to do the exact thing in a pool table, he could do it a little bit but not by that much. Maybe has to do with the cloth or the ball weight or something.
Bypassing the white ball was one thing, the "impossible" part was the follow taking the cue down to the bottom rail, then back up, accelerating backwards off the side rail to score.
It feels like the ball should die off that bottom rail w/all the follow, really surprising to see the action.
Lots of left spin to grab the side rail. Amazing shot!
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What happened afterward seemed pretty natural to me, this is what the cueball should do with that much left spin in a new cloth of 3c table. Coming off the last rail you can see the English made the cueball go, exactly as expected. The part which was questioned by the OP I believe is the glance, i.e. when the cueball hit the object ball where you can see it go backward & to the left then the follow takes and move forward which means in doing that it missed the other ball entirely which was actually a little bit behind.
It’s a lighter CB, correct?
Got ya, thx. Watching again, the light cue ball theory makes sense; it does seem to almost bounce backwards.
Anyone who didn't immediately understand that the shot was impossible without some kind of gaff ( a light cue ball), really needs to study their billiards more closely.
Now that's a pool shot! Could that have been a normal size cue ball and two larger three cushion balls? That would make sense.
They are definitely heavier than pool balls...normally.
CanadianGuy
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really wish we could see some 3c players shoot some of these extreme spin shots on a pool table
Watch Efren....CG
For the shot to work the CB has to be lighter than the ball it hits (so it’ll rebound).
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I believe that snooker, pool, and carom balls are all made from the same composition of cast phenolic resin plus filler. The relative weights are then proportional to the cubes of the diameters of the balls: 52.5, 57.15, and 61.5 mm respectively. Since the room where the shot was played has all three kinds of tables, the cue ball that bounced back could easily have been a pool or snooker cue ball. The gaff can be enhanced by greasing the cue ball so it slides back farther before following forward. It's important to record the shot in low resolution and from a distance.
Mike Massey plays 3-cushion. Semih Sayginer has some videos where he shoots on a pool table. And, of course, Venom spins his pool cue ball pretty well. Is this the sort of shot you mean?
If looks like that white CB might be a bit smaller, which would make sense.
impressive, but is it a rational shot selection? touch the yellow and you screw up. i think most players would shoot three rail first into both balls