Shane Van Boening's Break in Super Slow Motion

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As the title says it, it's Shane breaking in Slow-Mo. I've looked on Youtube and I haven't seen a decent Slow-Mo video of him breaking. The best footage of him breaking is in his Instructional series produced by Just Collett and Andrew Cleary(IMO they've done an amazing job). The video was shot in 720p, then slowed down in After Effects, rendered in 1080p then the final cuts and very little gama correction in Premiere Pro. The distortions that you might see are the false calculations done by the plugg-in I used to slow the footage down. This video is to show his technique and not the impact. I hope you like the result and subscribe for future uploads. Here is the video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxZP-JS4g5s&feature=youtu.be
Thank you,
Iulian C.
 
Pretty cool..... He is almost standing straight up before he makes contact...wild...
 
Cool, nice video!

One thing that stands out is that Shane lifts up a lot *before* contact. But from just before contact, through contact, and after, his head, left shoulder, and body aren't moving at all--just his right arm.

If you filmed my break, I'd probably be flopping around like a fish out of water at contact.
 
Nice video, Iulian.
The cueball is in air after he shoot it and before the contact with one ball?
 
Great job, Iulian. This might be the best slo mo vid of Shane's break mechanics.


Eric
 
Thanks for the slo-mo.

I noticed a few things which I hadn't seen before.

First, of course, is the vertical rise of his upper body from aiming position to breaking position. I would say the rise is to put the body in a power position and to give clearance for his right arm and the cue to come through the shot in line.

Second, on his backswing, he pulls the cue so far back, the ferrule of the cue doesn't even show.

Third, and most important, his bridge hand is anchored to the table with a lot of downward pressure to the point it appears his knuckles are white. Also, I noticed that his bridge hand does not move at all until the cue has passed through his bridge hand well past the center joint on the cue.

Fourth, his eyes never leave his target point on the one ball until after the shot is gone.

If this kid keeps this up, he may turn into a player one day. LOL



Stones
 
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One thing I found interesting, and probably contributes to that huge transfer of energy into the stack, is that while the CB of course gets airborne, it comes back down at or just before contact with the one ball. So all the energy goes straight into the rack rather than having some of it go into the table as it would if the CB were still coming down at impact with the one.
 
The power in his break is exactly like a racquetball shot. The power is developed by the whip of his wrist and elbow. Notice the elbow comes to his side first loading up the lower arm and wrist which subsequently whip through. JMHO
 
Thanks for the video of Shane breaking. I play a lot of 9 ball and I need all the help I can get with my break. Trying to pattern your break after Shane's has to help if you don't have a good break to begin with.

James
 
bdorman said:
Great work Julian.

I expected to see more rotation in his torso, but there really wasn't any.
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I thought the same thing, I really would have bet he put his "hips" into the shot, much like a baseball player with the amount of power he generates..... just pure speed and accuracy.....
 
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