Flakeandrun
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I'll eat my hat, shoe or whatever else. This APP is actually pretty useful (I am pretty sure I bad-mouthed, or talked it down in another thread, so need to hold my hands up here). Probably more value for money than most Predator stuff... I imagine this could be useful in a number of ways. I used it during my session with a friend yesterday. We played 3 sets of 7 and I won them all (with a bit of luck). Here is the map of all 21 breaks. Naturally, having just downloaded it, I wanted to try and hit them as hard as I could for a little while.
We were playing 8-ball, and I was breaking from the same point, open bridged, hitting the head ball full in the face. I managed to maintain good control, squatting the cueball (which is something I can struggle with when adding extra impetus). I got it up to around 26mph, but this didn't really prove to be anymore successful than the speed I naturally/comfortably break at (20-21mph).
I don't do any theatrics, besides the obvious change to stance and a slight involvement of my shoulder, my technique is relatively tame. I do like to give the shaft a little bend into the slate. there were 3 occasions I didn't make a ball, and 6 occasions I made more than 1 ball. I'd like to ask the boss at my hall to see what he clocks at, because he hits it about as hard as anyone I've seen (not that it's a particularly successful method, just hits it like he's using a sledgehammer).
My friend is a 100+ break snooker player, and he is crazy enough to play pool with a 30+ year old Stamford... Had a bit of fun trying to bully him into breaking with that
The more curved points to hand-spliced cues are so much more aesthetically pleasing than machine-spliced, triangular points.
We stayed till 1am, last ones there, which I regret slightly given that I wake up at 5am each day (phone was well into it's 'sleep mode' lol)... But I can't say I didn't have fun! given the data from this half-assed session, I reckon that I am breaking 9-ball, MR format, at around 15mph, and I'll give that a try next time I find someone who wants to play 9ball with me.
In future sessions, when I use the APP, I will try to be a bit more savvy with the type of information I collect, and see if I can incorporate this APP into practice sessions, or to assist me further. Balls went straight into the cleaner after... as one thing I did notice from giving the white a good spanking, is that with increased residue on the ball, I had a couple of nasty kicks during the session (there was one absolute howler I missed as a result).
If I could make one change, it would be the ability to shrink the graph down further to capture all results without scrolling to the middle point. Here is the data and break position, a beautiful Stamford (still beyond me how anyone would hit such heavy balls with this beauty), my balls getting a good wash
and a sea of blue felt.
We were playing 8-ball, and I was breaking from the same point, open bridged, hitting the head ball full in the face. I managed to maintain good control, squatting the cueball (which is something I can struggle with when adding extra impetus). I got it up to around 26mph, but this didn't really prove to be anymore successful than the speed I naturally/comfortably break at (20-21mph).
I don't do any theatrics, besides the obvious change to stance and a slight involvement of my shoulder, my technique is relatively tame. I do like to give the shaft a little bend into the slate. there were 3 occasions I didn't make a ball, and 6 occasions I made more than 1 ball. I'd like to ask the boss at my hall to see what he clocks at, because he hits it about as hard as anyone I've seen (not that it's a particularly successful method, just hits it like he's using a sledgehammer).
My friend is a 100+ break snooker player, and he is crazy enough to play pool with a 30+ year old Stamford... Had a bit of fun trying to bully him into breaking with that
The more curved points to hand-spliced cues are so much more aesthetically pleasing than machine-spliced, triangular points.We stayed till 1am, last ones there, which I regret slightly given that I wake up at 5am each day (phone was well into it's 'sleep mode' lol)... But I can't say I didn't have fun! given the data from this half-assed session, I reckon that I am breaking 9-ball, MR format, at around 15mph, and I'll give that a try next time I find someone who wants to play 9ball with me.
In future sessions, when I use the APP, I will try to be a bit more savvy with the type of information I collect, and see if I can incorporate this APP into practice sessions, or to assist me further. Balls went straight into the cleaner after... as one thing I did notice from giving the white a good spanking, is that with increased residue on the ball, I had a couple of nasty kicks during the session (there was one absolute howler I missed as a result).
If I could make one change, it would be the ability to shrink the graph down further to capture all results without scrolling to the middle point. Here is the data and break position, a beautiful Stamford (still beyond me how anyone would hit such heavy balls with this beauty), my balls getting a good wash
and a sea of blue felt.
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