Anyone play on slippery cloth? What I am talking about is the CB doesn't grab when playing spin. With draw, the CB slides forward through the contact zone before coming back. I couldn't get use to playing shape on these strange playing, crazy fast tables.
Slippery cloth
- Thread starter Jason Robichaud
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This sounds like what I played on last Wednesday, absolutely miserable. I rolled in a stop shot and had to use a power draw stroke that looked like I was trying to draw it two rails just to get it to come back a little.
I dunno how bad it was for you but I got used to 720 and liked it. I hear carom cloth though is like playing on ice. Quick draw is one of those subtle useful things, I dunno if I could live without it.
I'll take icy cloth over dirty old nappy slow cloth though.
I'll take icy cloth over dirty old nappy slow cloth though.
Here is what I'm talking about. Spin on the table would really take, a stop shot was good for about 2 ft of draw. Problem was, 4ft of draw was good for about 3 ft cause the CB would go past the strike zone like on the 5 ball. Taking a ball into the side rail and out to middle was another problem as you can see with CB A.
To give you an idea, diamonds play about 2 diamonds slower on the lag than the table I'm talking about.
Well I guess that's why 3 Cushion is a nightmare. The best tables are very fast and the cloth does slide.
Looking at the CueTable I'd have to guess that the CB was heavier than the OB's if there was that much forward travel before your draw spin took.
What kind of cloth?
yeah, I think you had a gaffy cue ball. That 5 you diagrammed looks impossible. A near straight shot with any sort of draw can't travel forward past the tangent line. The idea of travelling forward (nearly straight still) and then drawing back is like some sort of trick involving liquid filled balls, grease, and goat sacrifices.
Over-sized cue ball, Johnson's paste floor wax....and you'll have a cue ball that'll pass the object ball on a straight draw at least 6-8"...then stop for a split second...then reverse and take off. But a cue ball of the same size as the object ball, no...when equal force meets up with a stationary equal force with draw english....it's not passing the line of impact before reversing...not a chance.
Glen