Shot from last night

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Underclocked

.........Whut?.........
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You may have to use a bit of interpolation to understand this but this is basically the layout I was left with last night in a 9-ball tournament:

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I don't jump. My opponent knows I don't jump and thought this would be a great point to pushout to (he had broke, made one, and left himself nothing at all).

My opponent is the best jump shot maker I know so there was no way I was going to opt for him to shoot. I had been beaten out of the hot seat just the evening before in a hill-hill situation where another player made an olympic quality jump shot (an absolutely terrific out by the way... glad I got to see it).

So here is what I did... I could just catch enough rail ahead of that upper side to contact the one ball. I added a bit of left english to try to hit it thin. As a consequence, I hit it too thin and this is what happened...

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The one came off the upper rail and hit the 9 a bit too thin - the nine doubled the corner and hung in the jaws as shown. The one settled on the right hand end rail with the 4 and 5 being relocated a bit in the process.

Notice the picture doesn't show the cue ball resting point? That's because the cue ball is still in motion with moderate speed.

And...
 
I forgot to mention this match was also for the hot seat and I only needed one more win to take the winner's bracket.

and this shot wasn't over yet. The cue ball banked off the lower cushion with just enough speed to go across and tap the 1 off that end cushion. The 1 then slowly rolled into the 9 and just touched it.

After just a few milliseconds hesitation, the 9 fell in the corner pocket.

There is a partition in that room that divides the playing area from the rest. Just as the 9 fell, I went around that partition and hid. :grin:
 
I would have taking a foul on this one but kudos to you for throwing caution into the wind and geting rewarded for it... I need the 7 ball :p
 
Cool shot.

My shot choice, without looking at the answer, was basically the same, only different.

It looked to me that you could hit the rail just before the side with running right english to widen the kick. I was looking to hit under the 1, go to rail, and then into the 9(double ticky), moving the 1 away and hopefully pocket the 9. Have to hit it with some speed, considering the multiple rubs of rails and caroms.

I agree, hiding (a smile) after the shot was good manners.

Nice shot.

Consider learning to jump partial balls in order to start a (multi-rail)kick. If you're going to miss-miss big-more stuff to blame.

Nice shot.

Take care

ps: Neil knows a lot of this kind of stuff
 
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You didn't tell him you were going for that and would have called it but figured it was too obvious?
 
I would call it a beautiful luck shot. Those only happen rarely. :D

I can jump, I just don't. The shot just goes completely against my old-school grain. Guess I'm going to have to overcome that inhibition and start carrying three cues around. :rolleyes:
 
Slh said:
thats a nice shot, very similar with this shot Reyes played against Gallego in this video. Except he made it and it wasn't the 9 ball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D1yNZ_X628&feature=related
at 6:26
If you haven't seen this match you should do, its a great match
Click to expand...

And the shot you reference isn't even the best one from that point on in the video!

Go ahead everybody, click the li, (if you must) skip to 6.26, then hold on tite!!

wow.
 
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