We’ll call it the skid-ball.
How much of a cueball is useable normally?
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We’ll call it the skid-ball.
Technicality but you can easily get outside that circle jacked up; good in close if there's a spot you can put your bridge hand down.
If you jack up you need to turn the ball so the center-of-ball to center-of-number-circle line is parallel the axis of the cue stick. Then I think outside the circle is equally perilous as for a level shot.
Yes I am aware of this Mr. Jewett thank you. :sorry::grin:
Is the blue line supposed to be the farthest outside you can go without miscuing?
If that is the case, then I'll bet all day that I can hit way out side that blue line without miscuing.
I think if you use a marked CB and check the chalk marks you’ll find the middle of your tip can be outside that limit but the actual tip/ball contact point is at the tip’s edge within or very close to the limit.
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The circle is centered on the CB from whatever angle your stick approaches.
EDIT: I see Bob said the same thing - but you don’t seem to realize that it means you’re mistaken...?
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What degree of impossible horizontal are we using as a baseline? Actually even if center tip cannot make contact, there will still be a degree of leather on the ball that will be sufficient to impart motion per the gingerness (quantum thermodynamic term) of the strike.
No baseline needed. The miscue limit applies at all angles.
Then you wouldn’t need to jack up - and it would likely be an intentional miscue.
P.S. The tip’s center can only make contact with a centerball hit.
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Yeah but the cue is usually inclined and for people with large hands, functionally jacked up by default. Obviously - except to scientists I suppose, you can get outside the line by shooting down.
There are many practical instances of this; shooting over a ball, or frozen to the rail, all require hitting way high and all doable. Since all the shot activity remains horizontal, that miscue perimeter can be moved outward to the "incorrect" and intuitive distance from center.
What does “all the shot activity remains horizontal” mean?
Do you still not get that the miscue circle tilts with the cue?
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Horizontal as dictated by the bed of the table.
Speaking of horizontal, the diagram depicts the horizontal zone not the tilted version for the actual strokes.
You remind me of the experts who insist there is no proof of alien life, hence no alien life defacto stating homo sapiens are the most advanced form of anything, ever. Fact is if you just took a look at the night sky...
OK, so horizontal means horizontal (progress!). What does "all the shot activity remains horizontal" mean?
The diagram depicts the miscue limit from the angle of the cue's approach, no matter what angle that is - the central point that you're still apparently missing.
I have a feeling your definition of "experts" differs from mine...
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Shot activity is pretty much everything likely to happen when you shoot balls around a pool table.
Experts, umm, how about the astronomers who refuse to speculate beyond scientific method. (I think they're afraid of SETI)
Tell you what, put your miscue spec in terms of center sphere and stroke angles tangent to it and I'll agree.
Experts, umm, how about the astronomers who refuse to speculate beyond scientific method. (I think they're afraid of SETI)
Tell you what, put your miscue spec in terms of center sphere and stroke angles tangent to it and I'll agree.
Say the same thing another way and you'll agree?
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
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chgo