Attention all tech nerds.... the AK-147... GETCHA SUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like a little too pricey and hard to obtain or it would be fun to tuck in a corner and pull out for a certain shot at home. It would probably improve most people's shooting off the rail for example.

Hu
 
So if someone were to design a variation of that item that is actually at least 36" long, would it then be allowed? I think he missed the actual underlying issue of that question.

I also think it should be possible to design one of those with variable retractable positions for different speeds. I'm sure it would be difficult to get to any speed resembling a pro's "hard" shot, but I suspect it could support any shot from super-soft up to about medium.

And, if nothing else, the existence of this product supports the idea that 90%+ of success in cue sports is having a repeatable, straight stroke.
 
Rocket354 said:
So if someone were to design a variation of that item that is actually at least 36" long, would it then be allowed? I think he missed the actual underlying issue of that question.

I also think it should be possible to design one of those with variable retractable positions for different speeds. I'm sure it would be difficult to get to any speed resembling a pro's "hard" shot, but I suspect it could support any shot from super-soft up to about medium.

And, if nothing else, the existence of this product supports the idea that 90%+ of success in cue sports is having a repeatable, straight stroke.
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Rules used to say no moving parts in a cue. Several have been marketed with moving parts however. Who knows? A little work, a price under forty dollars, they might have something!

Hu
 
Tom "Dr. Cue" Rossman has a spring-loaded cue stick that can hit the ball pretty hard. I think you can set different speeds.

The toy in the video is not designed to be all that effective. Also, you have to turn it sideways to use it.

I think a better design would have a magnetic rod in a tube and a large battery in the handle. Dial the speed, aim, press the button. If the rod was only six ounces (but going up to 30MPH) it would stop on impact with the ball, so no double hits, and the ball would be going up to 30MPH or so.
 
Like a lot of folks, I met Tom Rossman in Vegas many years ago, when he was doing his exhibitions.

Found out about 15 years later that he was from Minonk Illinois and a school friend of my fraternity brother Paul Kettwich. Very small world.
 
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