Whatever happened to just going outside and duking it out? You kids and your ways nowadays.
Jeff Livingston
Good hit? Free game-changing app all pool players should own.
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Whatever happened to just going outside and duking it out? You kids and your ways nowadays.
Jeff Livingston
That's why I changed my mind...
I also stand corrected.
I went and watched it again. If the 15 had been hit first, the tangent line off of the 8 ball would have caused the cue ball to move backwards. The cue ball never moves along that tangent line.
Just goes to show, in order to judge the reaction of the balls, you have to pay attention to the reaction of the balls.
I went and watched it again. If the 15 had been hit first, the tangent line off of the 8 ball would have caused the cue ball to move backwards. The cue ball never moves along that tangent line.
Just goes to show, in order to judge the reaction of the balls, you have to pay attention to the reaction of the balls.
This could be a good business plan.
Have an app where a impartial referee could watch a hit on his/her phone from anywhere and judge a hit. S/he could be paid via a debit for each call before the hit. This would keep the number of stupid request down to low enough levels to work and yet make a tidy profit. This could work very well in league play and tournament play.
Bob? It could be named the Billiards Digest fight stopper app.
Jeff Livingston
Have an app where a impartial referee could watch a hit on his/her phone from anywhere and judge a hit. S/he could be paid via a debit for each call before the hit. This would keep the number of stupid request down to low enough levels to work and yet make a tidy profit. This could work very well in league play and tournament play.
Bob? It could be named the Billiards Digest fight stopper app.
Jeff Livingston
Sounds good to me as long as everyone involved in the call has a paypal account and knows my account name :groucho:
Let's see...each league could have a payment account that would make the payment to the refs' account, and then the LO could just deduct that from the team's winnings or add on the debt to their weekly league dues.
Thinking outloud.
Jeff Livingston
But what happens when you watch for which ball moves first? I watched the thing several times and I never once though that maybe the 8 moved first. I went from "kinda looks like the 15 moved first" to "I'm pretty sure the 15 moved first". If you hit the 8 thin enough, the cueball will go forward though it with barely any change in angle.
Selecting full screen with 2160p you can catch the cue ball deflecting off of the 8 ball first if you use the arrow to select around 9 seconds, clicking it over and over. Makes it easier to know when to expect the hit. (when doing this, does anyone else start hearing a voice in your head saying "back, and to the left?)
Also pay attention to the side of the cue ball, the streak created by it, gives you a good railroad track to see that the cue ball will hit the 8 before the 15. You have to use your ghost ball abilities.
Grinder313
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Definitely bad hit. The cueball should not have the energy to follow the 8 without hitting the 8 first altering the cueball path into the 15 and then rail.
If the cue ball hits the 8 first the direction of the cue ball will change by 30 degrees. The object balls are sitting such that you could freeze the cue ball to both of them and the cushion. If the cue ball contacts the two balls simultaneously -- which is pretty rare -- the path of the cue ball will still be a lot into the cushion off the two balls and it is the contact on the 8 that sends it that way.