I know that snooker balls are lighter. I live in a country where I'm never more than half an hour away from a Rileys pool and snooker club, with proper full size snooker tables as well as American pool tables. Also a country that has enough snooker on TV that I can tell when a ball kicks and when a player miscues!
You're saying that everyone in snooker is wrong. That the best player IN THE WORLD is jumping the ball and just doesn't realise it. You're saying that you know more about how snooker balls react on snooker tables than the people who play for a living, for hours every day. Why did the ball miss to the left of the pocket? He was using reverse side. Low right. The increased friction on contact lifts the object ball, and the right spin throws it to the left. When balls kick on a slow roll cut shot and miss, they miss thick. This is the increased friction dragging the ball. It's the same idea in that clip. Again, look where the cue ball finishes. The kick takes the pace out of the white. I can play a screw shot and have both balls jump, but still get the reaction out of the cue ball. You haven't answered this point, and you can't. That is because you are wrong.
You've been shown different videos - the slow-motion one from Dr. Dave, and the one I wasted time uploading only for you to say some imperceptible jump is occuring before contact which for some reason also throws the object ball off line as well as killing backspin. I can't say anything more, and it's a new policy of mine not to argue with dogmatic believers in anything. I'm off to do something more productive, like banging my head against a wall or counting how many grains of salt there are in a shaker.
I'll give Ronnie your contact details so you can tell him how to correct his faulty cueing...
Dave (slowly learning never to argue online)
