My Most Impressive Foul Ever...All Time...

Kickin' Chicken

Kickin' Chicken

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This past Friday I was at my favorite pool lounge playing some 9 ball on their 9' Olhausens. I have a real strong break that typically gets people's attention, well at least those who are nearby. Not so this night. I got everyones attention, even those who were far away.

I've been playing pool for a long time and while I'm sure it's happened before, I've never seen it, let alone done it myself. But Friday it happened, not once but twice.

I broke from just off the headstring right cushion and watched in amazement as whitey crashed into the one-ball (pretty squarely, I must say) then launched right up and over at least 10 feet high (probably more like 12 feet) then landed with a thud on a table that was being used 20 feet away. How can this be possible? Then later in the night it happened again with the cue ball, this time just nicking that tables rail on the way down. Most impressive other than having to give my opponent ball in hand.

I used to have a problem occasionally with keeping whitey on the table but am happy to report that that's all pretty much in my rear view mirror. And I did have some that left the table like a laser off to the side, typically the result of crossing over and only glancing the one ball.

I think the fact that the cue ball went way up and over upon contact is evidence of a pretty square hit. And on my break I apply one-half tip below center to keep whitey near center table. But usually it's center table on the same table I broke on. :grin-square:

So, what say you fellow AzB'ers, have you ever seen this phenomenon before? As I said earlier, I have had some lasers but never one with crazy arc and distance like these were. I really thought I hit em good.

A theory:

The cloth is getting a bit old and there's a small divot at the head of the rack; not so unusual as you all know. Could this have contributed to the launching of whitey?

I have included a diagram below for your viewing pleasure.

Should the Guinness people be made aware of this? The beer people, I mean. :thumbup:

Let me know what you all think.

Best,
Brian kc
 

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There is a guy in our pool hall that jumps the ball off the table almost every time he breaks, but nothing like what you have described here.

Although there was another guy trying to shoot a jump shot and hit it way to hard (not a very good jumper) and it landed on the next table and pocketed a ball that was left on the table (tables are very close together). It was quite a site.
 
It is pretty common when you break over and over in the same spot that a small divot wears in the table like you said. Then when you break from that spot the ball is actually in the air when it makes contact with the 1 and shoots straight up in the air. I've had a cueball shoot straight up and smash the light above the table from this. The odds of it landing on another table though 20 feet away 2 times in one night is pretty crazy though.
 
I was breaking 10 ball at the derby this year. When I broke, the ball shot almost directly forward as you described, even after hitting the one pretty square. The only problem is that the ball hit the guy on the table in front of me right on the ankle. He had to sit down for a few minutes.

He kept saying I did it on purpose cause no one could be that accurate by accident. I did go up to the guy he was playing and tell him I needed some jelly for weakening his opponent :)
 
themack said:
It is pretty common when you break over and over in the same spot that a small divot wears in the table like you said. Then when you break from that spot the ball is actually in the air when it makes contact with the 1 and shoots straight up in the air. I've had a cueball shoot straight up and smash the light above the table from this. The odds of it landing on another table though 20 feet away 2 times in one night is pretty crazy though.
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To clarify, the divot I'm referring to is at the head of the rack under the one ball. There is no divot in the cloth from where I broke.

And to justadub, no I didn't make a ball on that table but probably just as well that I didn't as they were playing call shot 8-ball and I didn't call anything there so it would have been a double foul. :grin-square::thumbup::grin-square:

Best,
Brian kc
 
The thing that concerns me most is diagraming the incident on stationary displaying a smiling, swearing pussy...
 
It's hard to tell what you did without seeing a vid of it, seeing the arc of teh CB, etc.

My guess, assuming that it really did hit the 1 ball squarely, is that you inadvertently had follow on the CB and that the CB happened to bounce & be in mid air when it hit the head ball.

Another good indication of how squarely you hit the rack would be the spread and movement of the balls (assuming it was a tight rack).

Maybe you should post a Youtube vid of a few break shots?


Eric
 
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Kickin' Chicken said:
To clarify, the divot I'm referring to is at the head of the rack under the one ball. There is no divot in the cloth from where I broke.

And to justadub, no I didn't make a ball on that table but probably just as well that I didn't as they were playing call shot 8-ball and I didn't call anything there so it would have been a double foul. :grin-square::thumbup::grin-square:

Best,
Brian kc
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I think you're jacking up and not keeping whitey on the cloth on the way to the 1-ball.I've broken into a divot and put the 1-ball on the floor but
whitey stayed on the table.
You're sentenced to 3 months of watching SVB breaking videos.
....next case

When you interfere in a call-shot 8-ball game you are required to
call 'FORE....in the corner
 
justadub said:
So did you make a ball on the other table? THAT would have been impressive! ;)
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Ok I DID do that- one time many years ago!

Funniest thing ever- It gets better!

I was playing on a table that was near another table lined up side by side. There was another game in progress at the same time as mine.

I line up my shot, a pretty straight shot in the side pocket. I call " 5 in the side" go to shoot, well I hit it terribly and miscue while shooting draw, the cueball jumps up lands on the other table AND MADE THE 5 BALL IN THE SAME SIDE POCKET ON THE OTHER TABLE!!

Unbeleivable. I made the exact shot that I called, just on the other table!

Of course, the way I figured it- it was still my shot!! :thumbup::eek:
 
justadub said:
So did you make a ball on the other table? THAT would have been impressive! ;)
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Two funny things related to this post:

1) A long time ago, before the words "control" and "break" had been put together in my mind, I was practicing alone at Big City Billiards in Brighton, MA on a busy weekend night. At the time I had a fairly strong break. I smashed one, the cueball must have hit the top of the one ball, lauched into the air, landed on the next table and pocketed a ball on that table!! It was simultaneously amazing and hilarious, and thankfully the people on the other table agreed. Sadly a few breaks later I hit a normal break, but my cheap Dufferin 2 piece break cue permanently became a 2 piece. The shaft joint basically ripped out of the shaft, splitting the wood and destroying the cue.

2) Recently at the late great Country Club USA in Chelmsford, MA I was playing in their Thursday night 9 ball tourney. Now since the last story, my break has become a little more powerful, but a LOT more controlled. It is now fairly rare for me to jump off the table, and I'm actually able to plant the cueball pretty well now. I'm breaking on my table. There was a leak in the ceiling right between my table and the next one in the row. Also I think they just had their A/C unit replaced, and a few ceiling tiles in the suspended ceiling had been removed. Their ceiling were probably 10 to 12 feet high, probably closer to 12. So I break, and for an instant I think I hit the one ball dead square. I then watch as the cueball flies up in the air, somehow avoids the light, goes *inside* the opening in the ceiling, and comes down and lands on the next table in the row. Luckily no one was playing on that table at the time. I was playing my friend in the tourney and she saw it happen, so I was thankful to have a witness. There is no way the ball didn't hit some little object on the table cloth or something, because this was no different than any other break. Not super hard, nice square hit on the one ball, nothing to explain the trajectory!

Anyway, wanted to share.

KMRUNOUT
 
Kinda like skipping a rock on a lake. With a small amount of below center hit and a powerful break the CB was in the air when it hit the one ball.

As I remember there was a guy in Youngstown, OH many years ago who perfected the technique and used it often. He broke from center table, hit the light above the table and brought the CB back to the table for his next shot. Impressive, but tough on the equipment.

Oh Yeah, his shot was not a foul and he often pocketed a ball and kept his turn at the table.
 
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this made me smile a little and now I have to tell you a funny story. now I can do this pretty much on command. and i am a pretty large guy 6'3 almost 300 lbs (not too much fat), and I can break around 27+ MPH as per a radar gun in vegas. (haven't done it since)

Well I joined a friends BCA team. I was new to that division so the opposing captain said I would come in as a 4SL ( I am normally a 6) so I matched up against a 5 who thought he was gods gift ( and looked like Conan OBrein) so the first game comes to a close and the guy slams the pocket marker down on a 2 ft straight in 8 ball. like he was the man.

so on the I won the next game and got to break ( I was still kinda disturbed by the slamming of the pocket marker) so i told the captain of my team watch this' and I proceeded to slam the cue ball into the rack making 2 balls knocking the headball off. and sending the cue ball into a beer mirror that was on the wall about 8 feet away from the table.

the crash was rediculous and the crack was even worse. (conan ) ran up to the mirror almost in tears and said' you broke the f---ing mirror. so I joked with my team while trying not to laugh too much that I would have 10 years bad luck because it was a beer mirror. I found it amusing maybe I am the only one:thumbup:
 
well my team kinda knew it was comming but the other team, was like WTF pretty much like that kitty in the corner i have since stopped playing in that league, (because of the long drive ) but I heard they switched the table around so you cant break that direction anymore.
 
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