Measles Ball

Island Drive · 2020-02-16T13:58:19+00:00

Thought I'd share my thoughts, on what I've learned from this Super Aramaith Ball and Super Aramith ball set both new. The Measles ball does not draw as well as any of the cue balls I've ever used during the days I played full time, it has similar qualities of movement of a mud ball or a Heavy Big Bar Ball, but NOT. More like a big ball. I've finally come to grips with that just recently, and the measles ball is rebooting my entire carom/follow/draw/gearing thought process....I'm sure there's another word that other instructors use than ''gearing'' but it's how I perceive....when a spinning cue ball hits a stationary object ball. It's from yrs of running auto/truck/motorhome repair shops, that why I express it this way. I'm able to do allot of things with this ball, that all the other cue balls were Not able to do....and in turn it doesn't do allot things other cue balls can do. I'll do my best to explain my thoughts on this.... It plays like a heavy bar ball but ironically, when hitting an object ball somewhat full and your rolling your cue ball, the carom angle off the object ball is NOT like a heavy ball. The carom angle is wider rolling whitey, but not on thin cuts hummmmmmmm. When your drawing your ball hitting your obj. ball somewhat full, at a good speed to get back up table, it acts like a heavy ball and doesn't draw quickly....it has More forward movement because it's a MB, and then it feels like a heavy bar ball. On thin cuts down the long rail the cue ball will not come directly back across table, it plays like a heavy ball and moves down table (where the ball is being pocketed) as it goes back and forth, long rail to long rail. Those actions are like a cue ball that's heavier than the obj. ball. Draw shots.....The dirtier this ball gets during play (and the object balls are also getting more chalk on em), the more gearing one can do with Whitey when striking an object ball. Meaning, if I hit the object ball in the same place with more spin, the obj. ball will cut more. If you've every played with an oversized Bar Ball, your aware that you can NOT hit the object ball and the rail at the same time to pocket the ball. You have to hit the object ball fat, and utilize the gearing spin of the cue ball to create the proper cut to pocket the ball. Hope these thoughts help you understand what's going on. As one changes cue balls from tournament to pool room, the entire game/patterns/position play must also change. I remember yrs ago, mid seventies, when Bob Osborne/Black Bart came to Colorado Springs, to Grady Matthews room. He had this ball none of us had ever seen, it was a red circle cue ball. He told Grady He'd give em a game on the wire race to 11 9 ball. Gurgling Grady, smiled and turned em down. Grady was well aware how important it was to know Whitey before you Play/gamble, with a player of his caliber.