By this definition, what would be the difference between "accelerate" and "decelerate"?By definition to "undergo a change in velocity" is to accelerate. Therefore the cue DOES accelerate after contact!
No, it's not. For instance, you can block your grip hand against the rail to prevent follow through and still make the shot (and even get all the action you want on the CB). Follow through is an effect, not a cause.Of course [follow through] is needed to make the shot.
So you think "accelerate through the ball" is interchangeable with "decelerate through the ball"?A change in velocity is acceleration, it doesn't have to be constant, and doesn't have to be equal, and it doesn't have to be in any direction!
... the comment was made about how one needs to accelerate precisely or exactly at the moment of contact. I'd like to know Dr Dave's opinion on this statement as well.
Damned facts! Who needs 'em?Fvcking science nerds.
Just because CJ has labelled TOI as a way of playing does not mean sidespin is not applied to the cueball. When you hit the cueball on either side it IS called English! I've been using a "touch of inside" long before CJ was born!
If a LD shaft makes you a better shotmaker, why is it over 60% of the top pros do NOT use them and most that do, do so because they are paid to use it?
That means 40 % do including the 2 best American players
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I got rear ended once while riding by motorcycle. I was hit at a constant speed, but since I was sitting still, I felt as if the car was accelerating through me.
Well... now that just explains every single one of your posts.
That means 40 % do including the 2 best American players
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By this definition, what would be the difference between "accelerate" and "decelerate"?
No, it's not. For instance, you can block your grip hand against the rail to prevent follow through and still make the shot (and even get all the action you want on the CB). Follow through is an effect, not a cause.
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First off Quack I was responding to the other bird of feather when he said 60% of pro's use a LD. shaft ,, personally I think it's morereally........you have seen all of the American pool players play in order to make that statement?
Wow you must get around a lot.........so......since I am a american pool player, have you ever seen me shoot? I could be the best player there is, you just never know.
Not all the best players in American are pros. It is just possible there are better play then the pros out there. Just that they are unknown.
But this attitude that just the pros know how to play is widespread in the pool world.
The two best American players were Hoppe and Mosconi. They didn't use it, Efren doesn't neither does Archer, Davenport, Wiley, & Strickland just to name a few. The two you mention are PAID to use them.
Ya any many other players who play with regular shafts are doing so because a maker gave them a cue ,,
We don't know if Willie or Hoppe would have played with one or not anymore than we if Bobby Jones would have played with a metal wood right at the time they were coming out ,, ,,
If it was just smoke and mirrors the LD shaft market would have fizzled out long ago ,,
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The LD market hasn't fizzled because of idiots like you that think a gimmick will make you a better shot maker!
It also means a change in direction of motion. So you're apparently arguing that we must speed up the stroke, slow it down, change its direction or any combination of the three? Unless you're not just playing juvenile semantic games...In physics, for objects in motion there is no difference...acceleration is ANY change in an objects velocity!
I'll bet they're as thrilled as I am.I'm coming to Chicago soon to visit my daughter and grandson...
You mean like this?There is a purpose for "follow-through"!
Patrick Johnson:
...the only reason for [follow through] is to ensure that acceleration is constant throughout the stroke (to avoid jerking).