I've heard some whoppers but this....

hang-the-9 said:
When my son plays in league and is beating up on people 2-3-4 times his age, we often hear "when I was that age I also played that good". This is not from people that are not 70 and can't see or stand as well, it's from people in their 30s and 40s.

Fred, I played with you, you are at least a middling bar league player :p

And my favorite story I got from clueless pool players was from Country Club USA in MA years ago. Two guys with their own cues (cheap stuff from Sears) were playing next table to me. One of them throughout their games was giving really bad advice to the other one, quoting half-assed rules, showing him how to hold the cue the wrong way, etc... Finally the question was, as they were chalking up, "what is chalk for anyway". The second player replied "well you see how some of it falls on the table? It's to season the cloth so it plays better".
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Damn, all this time I have been taking the seasoning off my table. :thumbup:
 
Cdryden said:
Damn, all this time I have been taking the seasoning off my table. :thumbup:
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You dummy! You need at least a 2mm coating of Masters or 1mm of Kamui for the table to play right. I don't trust the quality of a pool room unless I can play 4 shots and have my bridge hand look like I've been working on changing an engine. It also helps you with a "too fast" table. A bit of chalk dust and soon the cue ball screeches to a halt before you can even finish your follow though.
 
hang-the-9 said:
You dummy! You need at least a 2mm coating of Masters or 1mm of Kamui for the table to play right. I don't trust the quality of a pool room unless I can play 4 shots and have my bridge hand look like I've been working on changing an engine. It also helps you with a "too fast" table. A bit of chalk dust and soon the cue ball screeches to a halt before you can even finish your follow though.
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I'm trying to figure up how much it would cost to season my table with Kamui chalk!
 
the russian

I saw him beat shane at the expo last yr also beat many pros, I heard he got some guys at derby. I saw him beat ghost 100 to 26
 
I remembered this guy from a million years ago , here is an example , the one I remember he threw it between the legs of chairs set up on the lane and made it do an s curve.
Probably a trick involved but pretty neat anyway.
But then, bumble bees shouldn't be able to fly and birds can't fly backwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moHDv_kY0yM
 
I didn't see it myself but an older player from St Louis said he saw Louie Roberts win a proposition bet where he would freeze the cue ball against a corner pocket point, put an object ball on the rail past the side pocket and bet he could pocket the object ball up table and draw back and scratch in the corner pocket where the cue ball started.

He said Louie would jack up with inside and the cue ball would bounce along the rail back into the pocket. This guy was rarely impressed with anything he saw so it must have been an impressive thing to see.
 
poolguppy said:
So im sure everyone has heard quite the tales over a pool table, what is the most outlandish pool related tale you've ever heard? I was recently told by a guy that he has pulled of a Z masse. Basically to make it through a couple balls in his way he hit the cueball so that it masse'd and came back in a u turn....then turned again and went back the original direction....obviously he wasnt able to demonstrate such an impossible feat. It was one of those "once in a lifetime" shots that he just felt he could do in the moment... :rotflmao1: how bout you guys? Know some one who claims to have defeated bigfoot in a game of pool?
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Do you know the origin of the word masse?
 
book collector said:
I remembered this guy from a million years ago , here is an example , the one I remember he threw it between the legs of chairs set up on the lane and made it do an s curve.
Probably a trick involved but pretty neat anyway.
But then, bumble bees shouldn't be able to fly and birds can't fly backwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moHDv_kY0yM
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If the ball was in the air going in one direction, with spin on it, it would go the other way after it contacted the lane, if it was going softly enough forward where the forward momentum would not be greater than the friction of the spin.
 
hang-the-9 said:
If the ball was in the air going in one direction, with spin on it, it would go the other way after it contacted the lane, if it was going softly enough forward where the forward momentum would not be greater than the friction of the spin.
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That's not what I see in the video.
If what you are saying is true , then it would be possible to do with a cueball in finger billiards also.
I believe he had a string attached to the ball that was a certain length to let the ball do its first spin naturally and then the tension when the string got tight caused the ball to reverse direction and he would let go of it , but I am only guessing.
 
book collector said:
I remembered this guy from a million years ago , here is an example , the one I remember he threw it between the legs of chairs set up on the lane and made it do an s curve.
Probably a trick involved but pretty neat anyway.
But then, bumble bees shouldn't be able to fly and birds can't fly backwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moHDv_kY0yM
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I don't think there has to be any serious trick. If the ball is weighted off-center, the "masse" from the release can make it turn one way and the lop-sidedness can make it turn the other way. Dr. Dave has a video with an off-center ball doing a remarkable curve. Add a masse at the start of the shot and you should be able to get an S-curve.
 
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