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Essentially it means favoring that side of the pocket such that missing the shot leaves a more difficult situation for your opponent. Say a spot shot where the CB is on the head spot and the OB is on the foot spot and you are shooting the OB to one of the foot corners. Missing on the pro side in this situation would be the over-cut. In this way, if you over-cut the ball and miss, the OB goes to the side rail and with the right speed ends up in the middle of the foot rail, with the CB coming back to near the head rail somewhere. This leaves a difficult situation for your opponent.
If you had undercut the shot, the OB hits the foot rail first and then comes up towards the middle of the table, most likely leaving an easier shot for your opponent.
There's a thread around here somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
If you had undercut the shot, the OB hits the foot rail first and then comes up towards the middle of the table, most likely leaving an easier shot for your opponent.
There's a thread around here somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
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Found the other thread:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=135375
Some guys have a different idea of what it means, but the "safer leave side" is pretty much what most people are referring to.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=135375
Some guys have a different idea of what it means, but the "safer leave side" is pretty much what most people are referring to.
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Nice discussion and thanks for the link.
A far as favoring the facing or the cushion side of target center when the OB is close to a cushion (to optimize the chance of it dropping), for what it's worth, I've "learned" to favor the cushion on slow shots, but the facing on fast ones. Unless the memory is playing tricks again, I think the pros do this all the time in the matches I have on tape. And I believe it has considerable support from work done by Dr. Dave, for instance. He's done a massive analysis of effective pocket size and margins of error. He's summarized it for "public consumption" in articles 62-64 (see #62 of Jan, 05, if nothing else) on this page:
http://billiards.colostate.edu/bd_articles/index.html
This agrees with the definition given in his glossary. I always thought it meant going for the facing in the situation described above, but live and learn...
http://billiards.colostate.edu/resources/glossary.pdf
Jim
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