stay close to vertical axis and play great

[bbb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lln_8KJPNAQ
after a couple of safeties ronnie goes on a tear and runs a 147
starts around 1: 20 minute
i thought showing the tip positions pretty cool ...i hope you do too...:thumbup:
yes its snooker but the smaller tip size is proportionate to the smaller balls so excessive spin could still be used

 

[evergruven]

hi bbb, thanks for the post- cool vid, but how does man know where the cue tips go?

 

[garczar]

hi bbb, thanks for the post- cool vid, but how does man know where the cue tips go?

He's psychic. Seriously, i think just by the cueball movement you could pretty accurately deduce what spin(or lack of) the Rocket is using. Still amazing to watch Ronnie's style. Just a great rhythm-n-flow to his game.

 

[evergruven]

He's psychic. Seriously, i think just by the cueball movement you could pretty accurately deduce what spin(or lack of) the Rocket is using. Still amazing to watch Ronnie's style. Just a great rhythm-n-flow to his game.

so you'd say the tip stuff is an educated guess?

position-wise, it doesn't look like ronnie ever got too out of line, and often had a nice angle, so staying vertical is certainly believable- I was just curious if the guy who made the video used any other info./tools aside from what's provided.

agree that ronnie's got a great rhythm, and is a joy to watch!

 

[garczar]

so you'd say the tip stuff is an educated guess?

position-wise, it doesn't look like ronnie ever got too out of line, and often had a nice angle, so staying vertical is certainly believable- I was just curious if the guy who made the video used any other info./tools aside from what's provided.

agree that ronnie's got a great rhythm, and is a joy to watch!

Unless he was standing directly behind him on every shot how else could he have done this? Asked Ronnie "Hey Rocket, take me thru that run shot-by-shot and tell me what spin you used"? I think he just went by how the ball reacted.

 

[tim913]

I like the image of CB showing tip position, but could do without the annoying image of the shaft going back and forth!

 

[Patrick Johnson]

...the smaller tip size is proportionate to the smaller balls so excessive spin could still be used

Are you saying the smaller ball won't squirt a crazy amount because the smaller tip will squirt less? That's probably more true than you think - a 10mm snooker tip has about 1/3 less end mass than a 12.7mm pool tip, while a 2 1/8" snooker ball has only about 1/7 less mass than a 2 1/4" pool ball. So if I'm thinking about this correctly we should expect quite a bit less squirt in snooker.

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