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[straightline]

Doesn't the big ball make a better flywheel?

 

[nataddrho]

What speed does that imply?

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Max speed and max tip offset. Probably something like a 30mph break stroke. Very difficult, just theoretical.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

If the ball is rolling smoothly on the cloth.... That's about 60 rotations per second, which is a linear speed of the surface of 35 feet per second or about 24 MPH. That's a pretty fast break shot, which is usually not rolling on the cloth. I think the limit mentioned is just in the speed someone's stick can move and not the nature of the ball.

And it would have to be hit even harder to get that break speed with an above center hit - so a believable upper practical limit.

pj
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