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Three and three proposition shot
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Bob, the CB is supposed to stop dead with a ton of right hand spin, correct?
I have to work on that skill...
I have to work on that skill...
That’s how it’s drawn up, and I know you can do that!
But in the Massey video, he crawls the cueball forward quite a bit after contact, and he certainly looked like he does it on purpose.
I’m surprised nobody has commented on the Massey video yet.
Yep. Very tricky. Once you figure out how to stop that cue ball and leave it spinning, the rest is getting the speed and initial bank angle down. The spinning cb is the simple part, with practice. The rest is where it gets tricky/lucky. With enough practice you might get to where you can make the shot 1 out of 10 times or better. But with the amount of practice this would require, you could devote the time to some other aspect of your game (other than trick shot shooting) and actually reach a higher level of play. :smile:
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Not that it really matters but to put some perspective on the shot its a total of about 26 feet of total ball travel on an 8 foot Diamond table
Even if you're on Facebook it looks like you need to join a group to view it.
Yes, he takes the cue ball ahead about 8 inches to about 2.5 diamonds from the end rail.
If the object ball is coming back short it can be easier to hit a little higher on the cue ball to fix the shot than to adjust the angle of the shot by moving the cue ball to the right. An alternative would be to move the object ball up the rail to start with but that changes the path and you have to select a new spot on the wall (maybe).
I just tried it 20 times and came close once. Another time just wasn't firm enough. Cool shot if you wanted to spend the time working on it. Could probably get it working 1 out of 10. Put a rack in front of the ball in the corner and you could possibly do it 1 out of 3 with enough practice.
Hitting it as firm as needed and floating the CB half a diamond so it stops in the path of the returning OB is 100% luck, and likely not repeatable. Stopping the CB dead, or within an inch or so of dead, and then manipulating the angle is a much easier way to get it working, imo after shooting it about 20 times.
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So I happen to know this shot very well. About 15 or so years ago when I started taking pool seriously, I would play out of a pool hall in Central Florida called Fastbreak Billiards.
Met an English bloke named Richard that showed me this particular shot, and he made it on his first try.
Since then, we've kept in touch, and I've seen him and others attempt the shot numerous times.
Still only seen it made that first time.
Met an English bloke named Richard that showed me this particular shot, and he made it on his first try.
Since then, we've kept in touch, and I've seen him and others attempt the shot numerous times.
Still only seen it made that first time.
Richard Broumpton?
I beiieve that. I shot it another 20 or 30 times and almost made it once. I recorded, just in case I nailed it.:thumbup: Then I decided I was only wasting time, and odds are I'd have to shoot it for hours before lucking it in,
, and afterwords I'd be no closer to making it again as I was when I started.
Tried this for about two hours last night. I made the ball once but it was clumsy (cueball bounced into the rail and backed up some and the one ball found it anyway). Cleanly I came close about half a dozen times where the cueball sat and spun, the one came to it clean, the cueball tracked towards the nine but mostly came well short. Once it stopped about four inches short.
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It definitely helps to have fast, sticky rails. The spin needs to grab. But don't be ashamed of the slightly random shot that went. That's natural for this proposition. I think Massey got a little lucky when the CB drifted forward.