Power break..

It's all smoke and mirrors. This shot can easily be manilipulated. Your hitting the apex ball above center and it's making the ball pop-up.
 
Funny stuff. Nearly every shot in pool is a jump shot to some tiny degree. The break is no exception. Manipulate it just right and you’re either landing the cueball on the front ball of the rack or it’s hitting the rack as it’s bouncing up off the slate. The bigger the “pop” of the cueball in the air the more the hit on the rack was glancing. Notice the balls do spread (like a head-on break will) but they don’t really explode. All the energy is going in the air instead into the rack. In essence, not all that powerful of a break after all.
 
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MattPoland said:
Funny stuff. Nearly every shot in pool is a jump shot to some tiny degree. The break is no exception. Manipulate it just right and you’re either landing the cueball on the front ball of the rack or it’s hitting the rack as it’s bouncing up off the slate. The bigger the “pop” of the cueball in the air the more the hot on the rack was glancing. Notice the balls do spread (like a head-on break will) but they don’t really explode. All the energy is going in the air instead into the rack. In essence, not all that powerful of a break after all.
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Thank you so much. Now I need to fly you in so you can repeat that in my home room.

If I owned a room and a guy was breaking like the dude in video. He'd be on his ass at the curb after the second swing.
 
MattPoland said:
Funny stuff. Nearly every shot in pool is a jump shot to some tiny degree. The break is no exception. Manipulate it just right and you’re either landing the cueball on the front ball of the rack or it’s hitting the rack as it’s bouncing up off the slate. The bigger the “pop” of the cueball in the air the more the hot on the rack was glancing. Notice the balls do spread (like a head-on break will) but they don’t really explode. All the energy is going in the air instead into the rack. In essence, not all that powerful of a break after all.
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Yeah. I agree.. But he is probably just hitting it 99% and not care outcome. I bet he hit em around 40 miles per hour.
The thing here is that he can do THAT!
Then he can take 20% or 30% off from that and do it with EASE.
Then he probably have easy to control the break and still crush it..
I did similar practice for while years ago and it evolved my break couple levels.
 
Ya I don't know... After watching it again more closely. I don't even see the power in his swing that would make the CB pop like that. Me thinks something is afoot.
 
MattPoland said:
Funny stuff. Nearly every shot in pool is a jump shot to some tiny degree. The break is no exception. Manipulate it just right and you’re either landing the cueball on the front ball of the rack or it’s hitting the rack as it’s bouncing up off the slate. The bigger the “pop” of the cueball in the air the more the hit on the rack was glancing. Notice the balls do spread (like a head-on break will) but they don’t really explode. All the energy is going in the air instead into the rack. In essence, not all that powerful of a break after all.
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My words exaclty. He's hitting the apex ball above center to make it "pop" The balls really don't spread that much for as high as the ball rises up. Plus the action on the cueball shows hes putting follow on the ball. The big thing is you need to hit the ball above center.
 
MattPoland said:
Funny stuff. Nearly every shot in pool is a jump shot to some tiny degree.
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Why is this belief pooping up recently?

The cueball has mass. It takes a decent amount of power to get the cueball of of the table at all on a normal shot. Most shots are not jump shots to any extent.
 
Zerksies said:
My words exaclty. He's hitting the apex ball above center to make it "pop" The balls really don't spread that much for as high as the ball rises up. Plus the action on the cueball shows hes putting follow on the ball. The big thing is you need to hit the ball above center.
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Perhaps the cue ball is a rubber superball painted white to look like a cue ball. LOL
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Why is this belief pooping up recently?

The cueball has mass. It takes a decent amount of power to get the cueball of of the table at all on a normal shot. Most shots are not jump shots to any extent.
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No where near as much as I think you believe.

Simple experiment... Take a paper match stick and place it in front of the CB. Now shoot the CB at no more than medium pace ever so slightly jacked up. It takes very little to hop over the match. You can also repeat the experiment hitting with draw. ...but that wouldn't be a "jump" (bounce) as we normally consider it
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I only mention the match stick because that's what was used to prove it to me decades ago.

I know it's not much of a hop to clear such an object but the point is to prove the CB does take flight with waaay less than people generally believe
 
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DeeDeeCues said:
Why is this belief pooping up recently?

The cueball has mass. It takes a decent amount of power to get the cueball of of the table at all on a normal shot. Most shots are not jump shots to any extent.
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Do you mean like break shots?? You can see the tracks on a pool table leading to the rack, the cue ball is skipping. I have radar for my table, I can only break at a paltry 19MPH, I can pop the cue ball up like that by raising the butt of my cue a little. Its not speed that pops the ball up, its hitting down on the cue ball that makes it pop up.
 
fastone371 said:
Do you mean like break shots?? You can see the tracks on a pool table leading to the rack, the cue ball is skipping. I have radar for my table, I can only break at a paltry 19MPH, I can pop the cue ball up like that by raising the butt of my cue a little. Its not speed that pops the ball up, its hitting down on the cue ball that makes it pop up.
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Yep, it's all about the angle, drive the CB into the slate, it pops up and travels a foot or two, hits the table (hit it hard enough and it goes straight the head ball), then up again and hits the head ball at an angle that sends it into lala land.
 
fastone371 said:
Do you mean like break shots?? You can see the tracks on a pool table leading to the rack, the cue ball is skipping. I have radar for my table, I can only break at a paltry 19MPH, I can pop the cue ball up like that by raising the butt of my cue a little. Its not speed that pops the ball up, its hitting down on the cue ball that makes it pop up.
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No, I don't mean only break shots and that isn't what I quoted.
 
he's breaking open bridge without aid of rails
its phenomenal technique

he and Mike on those videos are trying to pop the cue ball up as high as possible for show

in practice Zhang can hit the rack as hard as anybody and squat whitey 8 times out of 10

we need those hard breakers in the game
 
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