Hard to Find the Center of the Cue Ball

[Mensabum]

Along the horizontal centre line, which position has the least squirt.

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High mid low center right.

 

[Mensabum]

Squirt isn't a problem if you are aware of it, understand it, and know how to compensate for it.

Omg, sounds just like deflection!!!

 

[Mensabum]

Wrong drink!(grin) I started with a Coca-Cola bottle then went to the long skinny neck of a 7Up or wine bottle. Then I realized I was unnecessarily complicating my stroke to keep it straight vertically going in and out of that hole. Two vertical bottles to form a gate and a ball behind them a ways for a target was a better method. Three pool balls forming the gate and target works too.

I wasted time and did my stroke harm trying to hold it straight for the length of a coke bottle, the six ounce one. Using a pendulum stroke requires extra wrist or shoulder movement to go in and out of a bottle. I found a channel between two objects to be better. The bottle did cause me to abandon the pendulum stroke so it wasn't all total waste!


I see what you are talking about. Largely removing one variable. Seems the touch of inside would have to be perfectly matched to the spin off of a collision but I guess close enough is good enough to use a different reference point. I stretch and shorten my angles as needed so I guess I have been using TOI, TOO, and most importantly BOC, my personal favorite with TORE being a close second.

Hu

 

[Mensabum]

The difference is the frequency. 98 out of a hundred still gets the medal.

Nope. That means you missed 2.

 

[HawaiianEye]

I was fortunate in that one of my mentors preached consistent shot speed over and over again. It became ingrained so as most of my shots are hit with the same power and speed. Firm pocketing speed. Forgive my possible improper use of terminology.
That's what we called it back then. Most straight pool players hit their shots the same. Or we tried to as often as possible.

I prefer to hit the balls with a firm, consistent stroke, too.

I am not a fan of slow rolling or babying balls, if I don't have to.

 

[straightline]

I prefer to hit the balls with a firm, consistent stroke, too.

I am not a fan of slow rolling or babying balls, if I don't have to.

Filler is pretty consistent about this. You do have to spend considerable time developing stuncentric ball control - not to be confused although not unrelated to stuntantric ball control.

I tend to bias toward speed but that's just me.

 

[maha]

since there is an infinite amount of differences in where the cueball can go from different speeds depending on the hit on the object ball there is no way to judge the speed you need for a shot.

it has to come from lots of playing and feel for it. then your mind tells your arm how fast to swing.

for certain ranges of shots like bank shots where speed changes the angle then having a firmish hard speed that is constant as you can, gives you the best way to judge the spot to hit on the rail.

 

[maha]

okay suppose you have a straight in shot and need to follow the cueball straight down table from the center to the short rail. 4 feet 2 inches to do that for those that do not know. assuming cueball's forward part is on the center of the table.

two ways or a combination of the two.

one is with raising the cue tip higher on the cueball and following it down using the speed necessary to do the job. not so easy until you are very good.

second is to try to use a constant speed you can duplicate and raise the cue tip the proper amount to make the cueball go four feet two inches.

most will use a combo of both methods at the same time. which should be harder.