Dealing with Humidity

PhilosopherKing

PhilosopherKing

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What adjustments, if any, need to be made when playing in a very humid environment?

How do different types of equipment and the condition of the equipment affect any needed adjustments?

How does a player concentrate and play with confidence while making a conscious effort to over-hit the cue ball and shoot what would be misses under normal conditions?

Thanks
 
some of my views on the matter....

Well humidity will make a ball catch more.....b/c more water is present there is more friction.

You can get more side spin to catch on a humid table than a dry one (off cushion rebound for example).....but it will be worn down faster on a humid table. Sort of how you can get more side spin to catch on "felt" but it wears off faster also.

If a table leans already then the lean will magnify with the increase of humidity.

On tables like that you usually have to shoot a little harder, you will use english but stay more onto the core of the ball when applying it for the straightest CB travel(half to one tip english at most).

Alot of shots that need the CB just to roll a foot or two after OB contact are hit harder with center or just a touch above, so that you can have more speed on the shot with just the amount of forward roll on it.

You use speed to keep the flight path straight and english to override and/or control the speed to get proper position.......your basically going to play alot more natural angles in these type of conditions.

It also helps if you have a solid speed control base. Meaning you can always without a doubt put the CB where you need it distance/travel wise. If you know your set speeds then you can recall them at any moment. If you take a couple warm up shots and note your speed difference from your status quo then you can adjust off of it.

If a normal shot at X speed went 2.5 rails lengthways and on the humid table it only went 2 rails then you know that you can take off a half rails distance in speed and be on the money. But you have to have a standard to set your speed by.

best wishes,
-Grey Ghost-
 
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greyghost made some good insight for you as well....
-take care and good luck
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Rob.M
 
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Hi PhilosopherKing :)

the Humidity is something what is really difficult to handle- for each type of player- is it a D or an A-Player. The *better* players takin profit out of their experience they made. Experience is the key to handle it.
Keebie (Greyghost) shown up good explanations.
But to write down all the things which could happen caused by humidity would be a bit too much. Many points have been already posted- but im sure you ll find out the most on your own while playing.
Easiest thing to explain is for example what happens with a ball bumping back from a rail/cushion. The angle will be always shorter with a high-humidity in a pool-room. In most cases you can also *feel* how wet the cloth is.

Have fun,

lg from overseas,

Ingo
 
PhilosopherKing said:
What adjustments, if any, need to be made when playing in a very humid environment?

How do different types of equipment and the condition of the equipment affect any needed adjustments?

How does a player concentrate and play with confidence while making a conscious effort to over-hit the cue ball and shoot what would be misses under normal conditions?

Thanks
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Here is an article about one aspect of this.

The main change is that follow will be a lot easier than draw. If your game depends on a lot of draw shots, it will suffer.
 
Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna wrote a book called "Banking with the Beard". He actually talks quite a bit about table conditions. From humidity to temperature, down to how the balls roll due to how the felt was installed. It's an awesome read. From my experience, the cloth is slower and grips more on rails. This also makes it more likely to rattle balls.
 
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