DCC Straight pool is coming up - Stuart Pettman 117 Compressed down to 20:33

[macguy]

Hey Bob we miss you at the Derby. I would like to thank you again for getting the challenge started and putting the money up for a number of years. You deserve to be recognized for being a big part of the interest coming back to straight pool. I travel alot for work and I find people playing it as I travel around and that was not really true for a number of years especially in the mid-west.

As to the work it was not that bad, my problem was I think I doing it 3 times, I had to convert to a format my editor could edit as my my digital camera was not easily used directly. Halfway though I felt my converted video quality was not good enough, then my project appeared to be corrupted but I finally got a handle on it. I think I could do it now in perhaps 3-4 hours per hour of actual play time. I think I will try to do some runs this year at the Derby while I am onsite perhaps get 2 or 3 runs up quickly in this compressed format.



You can see the run in a mixed run tape here from the Inside Pool stream, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvQSmvfbHWg The miss at the end occurs around 2:15:22 I am sure the entire run is not captured as the stream was not focused on that table the entire time there were 2 tables going. I would think the entire runs was well more than an hour long, I thought this format would be nice as the actual flow of the run is much easier to see and IU like the result, I considered trimming to only the last single stroke and I think this format including building the stance looks really good is very watchable. I might post the entire run if there was interest.

Thanks for the link I just watched it. It is really more enjoyable watching in real time then fast forward. I have to say, I was a little hesitant to make my earlier comments regarding his play. When I watched the full match with commentary who ever those guys were commenting, they were really brutal. At points they were making fun of him and laughing at the way he played.

 

[DGilb147]

The "world record" refers to the highest verified (i.e. videotaped) straight pool run on a 10-foot table.

Many thanks i thought it was a record , i watched this on you tube (inside pool) Many months ago and they made some mention of it being a world record.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Many thanks i thought it was a record , i watched this on you tube (inside pool) Many months ago and they made some mention of it being a world record.

Copied from another thread:

The record in tournament play on a 5x10 is by Joe Procita: 182 in 1954 against Mosconi.

Irving Crane was the first to run over 300 on a 5x10 in exhibition: 309 in Logan Utah in 1939.

Mosconi ran 309 in exhibition in 1945, then 322 (April 22, 1953, Platteville, Wisconsin) and 365 (November 13, 1953, Wilmington, North Carolina). It's not clear which of these exhibition runs was on a 5x10, although the 309 probably was. Mosconi comments in his biography that the 365 started with him breaking the head ball into the side pocket, so his opponent had no shot during the game except the lag. The run took "more than an hour and a half."

A high run of 355 is also listed for Mosconi in 1953 but without any other information and Mosconi does not mention it in his biography.

The longest run in any cue sport discipline was by Tom Reece in 1907 at English Billiards: 499,135 (unfinished). That was on a 6x12 table, but Tom was not using much of the table.

 

[sfleinen]

Are there any actual benefits to doing what Pettman does?

With the black dot on the shaft, you mean? If he's using a laminated shaft, no benefit at all, other than to satisfy the subconscious "must orient shaft 'this' way" hankering that snooker practitioners have.

If, on the other hand, he's using plain maple shafts, there could be a radial-consistency benefit, much like what Meucci did with their Red Dot shaft product (i.e. putting a red dot on the shaft, that if positioned face-up, guaranteed left-right radial consistency, because it was tested on their robot at the factory).

Irrespective of all this, I think it's a great result he achieves -- even if only to satisfy his subconscious.

-Sean

 

[DGilb147]

Copied from another thread:

The record in tournament play on a 5x10 is by Joe Procita: 182 in 1954 against Mosconi.

Irving Crane was the first to run over 300 on a 5x10 in exhibition: 309 in Logan Utah in 1939.

Mosconi ran 309 in exhibition in 1945, then 322 (April 22, 1953, Platteville, Wisconsin) and 365 (November 13, 1953, Wilmington, North Carolina). It's not clear which of these exhibition runs was on a 5x10, although the 309 probably was. Mosconi comments in his biography that the 365 started with him breaking the head ball into the side pocket, so his opponent had no shot during the game except the lag. The run took "more than an hour and a half."

A high run of 355 is also listed for Mosconi in 1953 but without any other information and Mosconi does not mention it in his biography.

The longest run in any cue sport discipline was by Tom Reece in 1907 at English Billiards: 499,135 (unfinished). That was on a 6x12 table, but Tom was not using much of the table.

Thanks for the information on 14-1 . Tom Reece's break helped to ruin English billiards as a spectators sport, mind you it took skill to manoeuvre and wedge the two balls into the pocket to play nursery cannons from.

 

[victorl]

I agree, I don't see much benefit to consistent shaft orientation, but I could be wrong. It's a big thing in snooker, but has never really caught on in pool.
He just shoots so damn well that it made me want to try it too.
By the way, Pettman was using a Predator shaft the last time I saw him.