Are we seeing the soft break in 10 ball implemented as the future
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Now 10 Ball has went to the soft break
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What is considered a soft break? Anything other than wildly slamming the balls as hard as you can and with no cue control because supposedly that is what all the legions of fans and TV viewers want to see?
Soft breaks don't get balls to scatter like that.
He had 5....sometimes more to go above the head string. Soft breaks don't do that.
You need to have new cloth, polished balls and the Accurack to get it working. I don't think the balls separate the same way with the Magic Rack.
He was able to get it going at Derby. At the 10 ball MIH finals the balls got dirty and it let him down.
Corey used the soft break for TAR 1 vs Shane. Shane used the hard break. No comparison. 1 ball being pocketed vs 3 or 4.
People are simply much smarter about breaking than even 10 years ago. If you watch old pool videos (or have been playing a while), no one seemed to have any idea where any balls were going, including the cue ball. It was smash the hell out of them and maybe pop the cue off the table a bit so it was in the air when the chaos of balls flying everywhere was underneath. Now, players try to make certain balls, control the cue ball, etc. The game evolves and the break has gotten "softer" due smarter players.
The Accu-Rack was also in use at the Texas Open that AtLarge posted stats on. , Skyler beat Orcullo in the finals, .. No one was soft breaking it on the matches I saw...
Jayson's accuracy on the hit is phenomenal... And I had him do the same break racking your own with the wooden triangle in New Jersey for some of the patrons of the MIH event.. I am not sure if he made 3 or 4 balls.....
In 10ball you really need to hit them just hard enough for the 2 wings to make their 4 rail tracks back around the table... Your goal is to make the balls behind the 1 in the side.. They don't have to travel very far......
Jayson's accuracy on the hit is phenomenal... And I had him do the same break racking your own with the wooden triangle in New Jersey for some of the patrons of the MIH event.. I am not sure if he made 3 or 4 balls.....
In 10ball you really need to hit them just hard enough for the 2 wings to make their 4 rail tracks back around the table... Your goal is to make the balls behind the 1 in the side.. They don't have to travel very far......
Smash the piss out of them
Move the 10 to the hole.
Shoot a combo.
Soft break that,
Nick
Move the 10 to the hole.
Shoot a combo.
Soft break that,
Nick