Jitterbug it!

Flex

Flex

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Wanna have some fun?

Set up the shot shown in the Wei table below.

The gauntlet through which the cue ball must pass has an opening between the two balls of 2 3/4 inches, thus allowing 1/4 inch on either side of the cue ball.

Try powering the cue ball through the gauntlet at warp speed, yes, warp speed, with high right english.

I find the easiest way to do that is with back hand english, and I almost never miss the shot. But, if you are a parallel engish fan, have at it too.

When the cue ball smacks into the 8 ball it will do a jitterbug, a crazy jitterbug... :D

If you find you can't get the cue ball through the gauntlet with parallel english, consistently, try BHE...


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It's quite interesting to see that the juicier, IMHO, title of this thread and its contents haven't sparked a single response so far.

Perhaps I should have put something a bit more controversial up there, such as "Back Hand English rules... Or does it?" and reworded the text portion of the original post.

Oh well... perhaps someone will take the ideas contained in the post and put them to use. For my part, I now know what to do if I have a gauntlet situation and need to kill the cue ball in an interesting and special way.
 
I've used the force follow shot many times when the cue ball is on or near a rail and I have a corner to corner table length shot on a table that rolls off and have to kill the cue ball.

Kinda cool watching the cue ball do the "dance" if you hit it sweet.
 
Not what I would consider a difficult shot, and most of all, I don't understand the meaning of the two 'gauntlet' balls. Are they there to make it more difficult requiring more accuracy? And are you trying to claim that this can be only done with BHE and not with parallel?
I can do it with parallel, but most likely not every time, but I can say with confidence that when I do fail the shot, it has nothing to do with weather or not I'm using parallel or BHE.
Explain further please.
dave
 
Tokyo-dave said:
Not what I would consider a difficult shot, and most of all, I don't understand the meaning of the two 'gauntlet' balls. Are they there to make it more difficult requiring more accuracy? And are you trying to claim that this can be only done with BHE and not with parallel?
I can do it with parallel, but most likely not every time, but I can say with confidence that when I do fail the shot, it has nothing to do with weather or not I'm using parallel or BHE.
Explain further please.
dave
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The gauntlet balls are there to make the shot tough, and actually, that kind of situation where one needs to shoot the cue ball through a gauntlet comes up not infrequently, as we all know.

As you say, it's definitely possible to shoot the shot with parallel english, but IMHO it's far easier with BHE. When hitting the ball warp speed with parallel, calculating how to aim to compensate for cue ball squirt to thread the cue ball directly through the gauntlet is much tougher, I think. With my cue, shooting with parallel the way I'm describing would have me aiming probably two balls away from the necessary cue ball path and wouldn't work too well for me, even on my very best days. With BHE, knowing the pivot point for that shot when really power stroking makes the shot almost a gimme. Cue ball frickin' shoots straight down table, with no time for swerve on the cloth due to cue ball english occurring.

Flex
 
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