the great Kimura trickshots!!!!!!!!!!!
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These are incredible shots. I've not seen any of the main guys Rossman, Massey, Segal, Pellinga, shoot anything like this, nor have I seen Venom shoot like this.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
I've only watched the first 5 minutes or so but so far they are pretty much the run of the mill classics. 80% of the shots I have seen on here are in Mike Massey's book. Well done, but nothing really new or out of the ordinary. (But keep in mind I haven't seen the whole video yet.)
That's interesting. From 0 to 7:10 you've seen all those shots or 80% of those shots in Massey's book?
We must be looking at different volumes
We must be looking at different volumes
+1 recognized a lot of them from seeing Rossman and Massey do them...still fun to watch though.
Don't get me wrong, they are great shots, but not new by any means. After looking at it again (the first 5 min) 6 shot were in Mike book, 6 were not and 2 shot may have been but without the book in front of me I can't say for sure. So I stand corrected....it's 50% not 80%.....my bad
Absolutely, I wonder were a lot of these shots originated from. In Mikes book he sometimes gives the history behind a particular shot but more often than not they have been around longer than he has.
There are some very creative minds out there.
thx for the video.
I had a bootleg copy of this, not nearly as clear as this, but I was very impressed and it caused me for 2 years to to play trick shots.
[Not good for a persons overall pool game imo]
I eventually made a ten minute video tape on my video cassette recorder, rewinding after every miss, trying to make as many of his shots as I could
The bottle shot at thirteen seconds took me four hours. two the first day, and another two the next, again, rewinding the old machine after every miss.
I remember when I finally made it my wife was calling me upstairs for dinner, I think. I had pretty much given up on the shot but gave it one more try.
the ball on the table goes in the corner, as expected.
bottom bottle ball in the side, nice surprise, off camera but you can here it fall
top ball lands on the bottle and for once doesn't fall off
perfection!
I have made it once more since then but never again, gave up trick shots a long time ago.
My son was eight at the time and makes a strong showing.
the name on the tape is 1993 Christmas Trick Shot Video.
good memory.
thx again
I still have my unopened 7 ounce coke bottle.
I had a bootleg copy of this, not nearly as clear as this, but I was very impressed and it caused me for 2 years to to play trick shots.
[Not good for a persons overall pool game imo]
I eventually made a ten minute video tape on my video cassette recorder, rewinding after every miss, trying to make as many of his shots as I could
The bottle shot at thirteen seconds took me four hours. two the first day, and another two the next, again, rewinding the old machine after every miss.
I remember when I finally made it my wife was calling me upstairs for dinner, I think. I had pretty much given up on the shot but gave it one more try.
the ball on the table goes in the corner, as expected.
bottom bottle ball in the side, nice surprise, off camera but you can here it fall
top ball lands on the bottle and for once doesn't fall off
perfection!
I have made it once more since then but never again, gave up trick shots a long time ago.
My son was eight at the time and makes a strong showing.
the name on the tape is 1993 Christmas Trick Shot Video.
good memory.
thx again
I still have my unopened 7 ounce coke bottle.
Since we have been discussing trick shots in several threads, I thought it might be time to revive this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9EoPWnPCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9EoPWnPCI
At 2:47 is the over/under shot. I used to make that pretty consistently back in the 90's, I had to get that by watching trick shots on ESPN.
Tried about 10 times the other day, made it once.
Yeah no.
Pellinga used to reference Mr. Kimura and the time he spent with him when doing a lot of these same exact trick shots on ESPN decades ago.
Thanks Bob!
History:
When this first came out, it was miles above anything else availabile *on video*. Of course, there wasnt much on video. I consider this tape the godfather of trickshot videos. Kimura was like Florian of his time, putting like a home video together.
I would think that the generation of trickshot artists that came after Massey and Gurney also credit Kimura for inspiring them to go down the trickshot path. As much as some here think this is the same ol’ same ol’, the “same ol’ is partly well-known and pseudo-defined because of Kimura.
Freddie <~~~ tape is buried somewher in the “collection”
When this first came out, it was miles above anything else availabile *on video*. Of course, there wasnt much on video. I consider this tape the godfather of trickshot videos. Kimura was like Florian of his time, putting like a home video together.
I would think that the generation of trickshot artists that came after Massey and Gurney also credit Kimura for inspiring them to go down the trickshot path. As much as some here think this is the same ol’ same ol’, the “same ol’ is partly well-known and pseudo-defined because of Kimura.
Freddie <~~~ tape is buried somewher in the “collection”
Kimura
I had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with Kimura in Japan shooting trick shots, including the bottle shot. I still have the 500 yen coin that he shaped so the ball will stay on it. The gaffed coin makes the shot a whole lot easier.
He was an amazing man and he showed me a lot of shots that were fun to try. The amazing part was that he was well into his 80’s, out ran me to the bus stop, and made all of the shots on the first or second try.
I want to be like Kimura when I grow up!
I had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with Kimura in Japan shooting trick shots, including the bottle shot. I still have the 500 yen coin that he shaped so the ball will stay on it. The gaffed coin makes the shot a whole lot easier.
He was an amazing man and he showed me a lot of shots that were fun to try. The amazing part was that he was well into his 80’s, out ran me to the bus stop, and made all of the shots on the first or second try.
I want to be like Kimura when I grow up!