Neil said:
Before you suggest someone ignore someone elses advice, I suggest you ignore your own. You are a classic example of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about giving advice. As long as you have been on this forum, one would think that by now you would have picked up on the fact that if you draw the cueball, it will come back to the other end of the table, not the middle. I suggest you have someone watch close when you break, you aren't hitting where you think you are. Further, if you think that guy has a good stroke, maybe you need to go get some lessons.
Wow you are dense. For a power break, I said either hit center, or a hair below center. For a cut break, WHICH IS A SOFT BREAK, and is also the break that Corey Deuel employs (which you mentioned) is hit with LOW OUTSIDE.
Do you live in a cave or something? Pay attention to how every top player breaks. They are striking the cueball in a downwards motion. Either with center, or just a small hair below center. They arent "drawing" the cueball, because they arent using a draw stroke. They are smashing the shit out of the cueball. If you can't tell the difference between the two strokes, don't try to tell me that I don't know what a good stroke is, because you don't know SHIT!
When the cueball pops up in the air, that's because it's like a mini-jump shot, the downwards trajectory from their cue cause the ball to hop in the air. They are either trying to squat the cueball in the center of the table, but favoring down table, rather than up table where the spot is. Why? BECAUSE THE 1BALL ALWAYS GOES DOWN TABLE. Now, take a deep breath and use your underdeveloped brain for a second. Imagine you are breaking, either from the side rail, or with your hand on the cloth. If you raise your tip above center, you are making your cue more level. That makes it EXTREMELY difficult to get the cueball to pop up in the air. Which makes your argument of the topspin "holding the cueball" after it pops up in the air bullshit. The cueball squats in the middle of the table after hopping up, from a perfect dead-center hit on both the 1ball and the cueball with a downwards trajectory of the cue.
Now, try again to use your brain. I know it's hard, but you can do it.
If the 1ball goes down table 95% of the time, it would make alot more sense to hit a hair below center, rather then above center. Why? Because if your tip strikes anywhere above center, it will go foward. In case you don't understand, forward=bad, backward=good on break. Wait let me dumb it down for you some more- u no want make ball go forward after break, cuz u never get shot on 1ball. If you still don't get it, go enroll in some special-ed classes.
It's funny this topic came up. I was just at Hard Times in Bellflower last night, and got to see Efren, Bustamante, Hohmann, Schmidt, and a bunch of other top players play for a few minutes, just as their exhibition was coming to an end. Never saw any of them aiming above center on the break.
Do you ever watch the pros play? It really sounds like you havent. Did you learn your super-special topspin break in your bar league? LOL thanks for the laugh. How about you ask some of the pros on this forum? Did that ever cross your mind? Does anything cross your mind? Hello? Anyone there?
Oh, and about the guy's stroke- he can draw his rock, he can follow his rock. He's got an idea how to play position. Can Keith McCready draw and follow his rock? How about Allen Hopkins? They sure as hell can, and as long as they can do it, they have a good stroke. If you never saw them play before, you would probably be the first dipshit to try them out, and get busted, because you would probably think they can't play, and need lessons with their poke-strokes.
You are way too easy to rip apart. Please try again.
