You're not alone,,,, players I know have never made it.
It depends. Sometimes just high dead edge to edge at a faster clip. Sometimes with inside, rail first. Sometimes loaded up with outside and playing to deflect the CB a bit. I used to use inside about all the time on this shot, now with an LD cue I like outside and a good but soft stroke. I personally find it much easier to play around with throw with LD, though it's not the arrow.
Don't know if I've ever tried it, let alone made it.
I'm 100% with that shot.
Ball on top of the rail is a hustle. It is easier then it looks. Much easier the the cue all frozen to the end rail. I'll tell a funny story later of the whole pool room beating a road hustler out of a bunch of money on that shot. The hustler got hustled and left never knowing what happened to him.
This goes better with a house cue. Aim 4/5 or more ball. Maximum juice and speed. If you go too wide back off on the speed. To me, it's way out of spec with an LD shaft. Dr. Dave and Hatrick Johnson say I confuse swerve with deflection but mainly, it's closer to a masse with an LD shaft.
I was joking, but now I actually want to try it. ;P
I don't know this hustle but I would like to. I watched a champion make 2 out of 25.
He must have been stalling if he was a champion. Mizerak used to bet on three tries, so I'm told. I think even I could get 2 out of 25.
Not sure what you meant about an upside down picture because the picture is right side up in post #1 where it was shown.
Of course swerve can happen in a short distance under certain circumstances, never said it couldn't, but as I said not on this particular shot (jacked up or not) because of the short distance combined with the shot speed which it would have to be shot at in order to give the object ball a chance to go and between the two things together it just wouldn't allow enough time for swerve to become a real factor in the shot as diagrammed.
You would never be hitting the shot like that, but that aside I just don't think there is enough time for swerve to become much of a factor on this shot. I know what you are talking about and you don't have to hit it real hard because the spin is doing a lot of the work, but in order to be able to pocket the object ball it does require that you can't be hitting it so soft that you will be getting any kind of significant swerve in less than a diamond of travel. There just isn't enough time in that short of distance at the required shot speed for swerve to really be much factor here. Try it, you'll see.
Doesn't matter, I mis-read it, no need to keep on about it. My initial post stands. Obviously it can't be shot as stated. Assuming a misprint or other.
The book clearly is wrong. Here is the whole diagram, which they seem to have "borrowed" from the Knuchell book I mentioned above. Or maybe it was the other way around as they were published about the same time. They give the same wrong advice that Knuchell did for Shot 1, but they get Shot 2 completely wrong.
Theoretically this can be made with low outside English. Theoretically only due to my skill level. Who knows the trick???