Side Pockets - Strickland Vs. Hall - 2001 U.S. Open

[DrCue'sProtege]

ok, folks, i know you posters have heard me complain about balls hitting my side pockets and popping out instead of falling. so, i was watching the Accu-Stats video from the 2001 U.S. Open, Earl Strickland vs. Buddy Hall, and i can give you a classic example of what i am talking about.

do any of you posters out there have this tape? if so, look at the break shot on rack #8. i believe Buddy Hall is the breaker, and watch the '3' Ball as it goes into the side pocket. it hits at a real shallow angle, hits the side pocket, pops out, gets kicked, and ends up on the rail close to the side pocket. Earl eventually scratches trying to get position on the '3' Ball.

anyway, the way that ball popped out, that is exactly what happens on my Gold Crown IV table. cant believe that ball popped out, even on that Diamond table. is this normal for tables??? i have tons of balls pop out just like that, and i am even to the point where i am gun-shy about shooting balls into the side pockets as a result.

anybody have that video?

DCP

 

[stolz2]

center pocket

If the ball is center pocket and at pocket speed it will always go. Try if you can slowing down the speed that you hit balls in the side pockets. This will in a sense make them larger. When i get kinda gun shy with shots i just practice them alot, until im confident.

Mack

 

[StevenPWaldon]

Believe it or not, balls can even jump out of corner pockets.

Shit happens, so you just have to learn to deal with it or around it.

 

[kyle]

Especially new leather pockets my friends table had one corner pocket that fired balls out, there was a bow at the back of the pocket that acted like a trampoline after the leather softened up it played fine.