Holy crapola..that's a trick shot worthy of Sayginer.
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Can A- players and above do the following test?
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Possibly but thats irrelevant to the drill in question. The question is one of unintentional side spin, thats the purpose of the line.
Not that I'd ever assume you would simply 'stand corrected'.
No, that is probably more like 1000x harder, you are talking about two contacts that have to be dead perfect, no spin whatsoever imparting to the objectball on the first contact or it will spin off the footrail and offline. That second contact still being perfectly straight and making that cueball come back to hit the tip? That is not even on the same planet of difficulty. On a 9-foot table that would be bloody hard. I would bet against Ronnie O'Sullivan coming in cold on that shot and trying it on a snooker table in fact, I would bet $100 a shot on that for quite afew shots before I believed it was not a fluke if he actually made it.
You might want to try videoing yourself. I've been doing this drill recently to try and straighten out my stroke, and thought I was doing alright until I saw video of it.
Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCbgMWWbUhk
You can see that I was using the measles cue ball, with Joe Tucker's third eye attached. The CB came back pretty much to the tip (I moved the cue ever so slightly). But the video clearly shows I wasn't lined up correctly. I never would've figured it out without the video (or Joe Tucker's 3rd eye dvd).
Try doing it with a measle cue ball.....
Wow, that is tough. Max Eberle shoots this on one of his instructional dvds.
Other versions for when you get bored, and want to get frustrated instead-
1) Shoot A) above through two balls stradling the center spot about 2 3/4 inches apart, and have cb return straight, passing through those two balls again on the way back to your cue tip.
And/or add two balls on the rail separated by 2 3/4 inches at the target end rail(with or without th 'center table gate').
2) Shoot A) above at a ball frozen to the rail at the center diamond of the end rail, so the double kiss comes back to the cue tip. Add center table 'gate' variation once it is too easy.
I can't do any of these-but I try them every once in a while. I seem to add a quarter? tip of right to everything that I think I am hitting center ball. Just enough to miss close at best.
Possibly but thats irrelevant to the drill in question. The question is one of unintentional side spin, thats the purpose of the line.
Not that I'd ever assume you would simply 'stand corrected'.
I will stand corrected when I have been corrected. I designed the CueSight training ball so I think I am familiar enough with all variations of this drill. I am of the opinion that it is more beneficial to understand where you actually hit the ball in this drill based on where it goes after hitting the rail.
Between 1/10 and 1/3 of the time. It took a good deal of time to get this one down; but it does wonders for your stroke.
Exactly right. Placing the ball so the the line is perfectly perpendicular to the table is the difficult part and has nothing to do with your stroke.
Keeping it that way isn't really that hard but will show flaws in your stroke.
here is a link to a similar thread I started some time ago.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=167509&highlight=stroke+check
I don't think I could align the stripe vertically enough to keep it from wobble.
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http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=167509&highlight=stroke+check
I don't think I could align the stripe vertically enough to keep it from wobble.
steven