Best way to roll forward just a bit on longer shots?

[Black-Balled]

Does that mean your CB followed more like 1 1/4 diamonds with a pocket speed hit?

pj
chgo

Huh ??

The cb approx traveled 1/4 the ob's distance on each shot, generally. Highest cueing point, but I was shooting the ob only to the closest rail, straight on, full ball hit...

 

[Patrick Johnson]

Huh ??

The cb approx traveled 1/4 the ob's distance on each shot, generally. Highest cueing point, but I was shooting the ob only to the closest rail, straight on, full ball hit...

Right - I was wondering about the actual distances traveled by both balls. If you tried the shot pictured it would be OB = 5 diamonds, CB = 1 1/4 diamonds (= 1:4 ratio).

pj
chgo

 

[Bob Jewett]

Huh ??

The cb approx traveled 1/4 the ob's distance on each shot, generally. Highest cueing point, but I was shooting the ob only to the closest rail, straight on, full ball hit...

I think that's considerably more travel on the cue ball than for normal conditions. Sticky conditions tend to give a larger ratio (less cue ball travel). The only condition I can think of that will increase the cue ball's travel (as a fraction of how far the object ball goes) is for the cue ball to be heavier, and it has to get a lot heavier before the ratio will get to 1:4.

Here is the situation I'm talking about with a 1:4 cue ball : object ball travel distances for a rolling full-ball hit. The 2, 3, 4 and 5 are marker balls. The 1 ball is a ball ahead of the 2 ball. If the cue ball ends even with the 3 ball, the 1 ball should end even with the 5 ball for a 1:4 distance ratio.