speed pool

[Solartje]

last night i was playing in a night scotish doubles 9b tournament, and on the sideway's there where several small fun tournaments, and one was speedpool.

rules:
u break , if u scratch u get ball in hand in the kitchen.
after u stroke the first ball AFTER the break shot time begins to run.
if u miss, u just continue shooting untill all 15 balls are gone, like in straightpool. if u scratch, u got to take the ball out of the pocket, run around the table and touch the pocket where u scratched and take the cb back in the kitchen.

record time of last night was 57seconds by Xavier. ive done it in 2.21 :s was a bit disapointed, as im a really fast player. im sure i can get it to 1.20-1.30 if i gave it some tries. but my best time in 2 tries was 2:21. i actually like it alot

have any of you ever played it? what are your times?
maybe something fun to play abit during a training, and post your times in this post curious to see what others do.

 

[renard]

The trick of speed pool is to stop the motion of the cueball as quickly as possible after every shoot. Shooting stop/stun shots as much as possible. I have never tried it. To me I don't really think it's pool at all. Just a gimmicky game for entertainment value.

I don't understand what people see in it.

To each his own I guess. I'd rather play traditionally accepted games that everyone plays with an opponent shooting the leave you have left them.

 

[Deadon]

Might be fun, but it might hurt your usual, and very important, pre-shot routine, and will certainly reinforce any bad habits. Especially if your backswing is already too fast, or not straight. I agreee with renard, but I do see entertainment value for people that aren't trying to significantly improve their game.

 

[Solartje]

oops maybe i didnt explain it well

i wasnt hoping people would actually play this game in matches or money or whatever it was just a side gimick on my last tournament, and i was wondering what time some peeps in here would do i tried it 2 times and lost my match after the speedpool , so u ARE correct it screws up your game. and its not something u need to train or so just fun thing to do, in your next practice if u have 57seconds free time and want a quick change and fun and post the times in here.

hard to think of stopshots etc when ur playing VERY fast, almost no time to see what ball u are going to pot next, but it was fun to play abit

i still think that xavier's time of 57sec is pritty hard to beat... thats +- 4 seconds/ ball.