Unbelievable shot by parica against van boening

[s'portplayer]

Just found this Parica/Van Boening match on YouTube. Jose makes this crazy combo shot on the 9 with it hill/hill. Scroll to 44:25 to see this shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzQzNNlXfU&feature=channel

 

[John Biddle]

The nine was dead, he had a wide margin for error. It loos much more difficult than it was.

 

[nathandumoulin]

The nine was dead, he had a wide margin for error. It loos much more difficult than it was.

Parica deserves far more credit than this. The shot is no gimme. The 9 may be dead, but you have to make contact with the back side of it or else it wont go. That's a half ball area that you need to hit, after a carom off the 4-ball, a kick to the rail, and then a slight back-cut combination from the 5-ball to the 9-ball.

One of the things that makes this shot harder than it looks is the fact that you can bank the 4-ball cross side at the same time. You could choose to play two shots at the same time, which means that you can't concentrate 100% on the carom/kick/combo/carom. Had he missed, people would have said that he was guilty of playing both shots at the same time, and not putting his full attention on just one.

Oddly enough, he made both, which is just another reason why this is such an amazing shot.

....not to mention that it's hill-hill in the match. The pressure alone makes any shot hard.

 

[Luxury]

Cool way to end the match but every pro would have seen the shot and made it 97 percent of the time.

 

[StevenPWaldon]

I completely disagree -- I'd have to say 98% of the time.

Cool way to end the match but every pro would have seen the shot and made it 97 percent of the time.

 

[JimS]

The nine was dead, he had a wide margin for error. It loos much more difficult than it was.

Yep. The bank wasn't that easy but the carom was.

 

[Robert Raiford]

Scroll to 44:25 to see this shot.

btw, you can link to the specific time 44:25 in the video by adding #t=44m25s at the end of the link like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzQzNNlXfU#t=44m25s

That pattern works for any youtube video - handy for specific shots in a long match.

Robert

 

[Chesscat]

I believe it was an unbelievably awesome shot no matter what you jaded f*****s say!

 

[allprobilliards]

i saw this live at the US Open. We all went crazy when he made it

 

[PROG8R]

btw, you can link to the specific time 44:25 in the video by adding #t=44m25s at the end of the link like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzQzNNlXfU#t=44m25s

That pattern works for any youtube video - handy for specific shots in a long match.

Robert

Now this was one of the more useful pieces of info I have read in a while.
rep to you. :smile:

 

[poolfoole]

The nine was dead, he had a wide margin for error. It loos much more difficult than it was.

It was a nice shot and he hit it perfect, but the 9 billiard was dead. It was a nice shot but not unbelievable. The bank going in on top of it was a very good shot.

 

[Apocalypse2017]

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Yeah I watched that match again last night. It was kinda sad to see SVB lose like that. I could have made that shot

 

[jsp]

There was a BD article on this a few months back...

http://www.billiardsdigest.com/new_strokeofgenius/dec08index.php

The shot was bank with a carom-kick-combo-carom two-way shot. The bank certainly seemed the harder of the two to execute but much easier to say.

 

[JE54]

Very nice............

 

[crawfish]

Come on, guys. The ball lined up dead. You could hit either side of it and have made the nine. I don't even think he was playin' the bank. I know I wouldn't have been with it lined up like that.

 

[B-Rod]

There is no such thing as a gimme when it is to beat svb at the us open

 

[Icon of Sin]

Come on, guys. The ball lined up dead. You could hit either side of it and have made the nine. I don't even think he was playin' the bank. I know I wouldn't have been with it lined up like that.

wrong, if he would have came straight down on the 5 ball it could have hit the left side of the 9 and the ball would have came off the 6 and headed to the right and away from the pocket. The only way to do this shot was the come in behind the 5 or contact the left side of the 5 for the 5 ball to move to the right and hit the correct portion of the 9 to make it carom to the left instead of the right.

still not that hard of a shot, but the carom was only wired if he hit the correct side of the 5 ball to hit the correct side of the 9.

easy shot or not, its a pretty cool shot to win the match on.

 

[crawfish]

wrong, if he would have came straight down on the 5 ball it could have hit the left side of the 9 and the ball would have came off the 6 and headed to the right and away from the pocket. The only way to do this shot was the come in behind the 5 or contact the left side of the 5 for the 5 ball to move to the right and hit the correct portion of the 9 to make it carom to the left instead of the right.

still not that hard of a shot, but the carom was only wired if he hit the correct side of the 5 ball to hit the correct side of the 9.

easy shot or not, its a pretty cool shot to win the match on.

Okay, not wired, but not hard either. And.... not pretty cool one to win on if you're Shane. Nine rolls farther, or doesn't land in just that position, and Parica's got to rely on a safe, or the bank... and get on the five. To show how it wasn't that bad, watch his face as he looks at it.

 

[Maxx]

Nice

It looked like a nice shot to me. Thanks for the post.

 

[nathandumoulin]

I remembered this shot last night while I was out shooting sets with a handful of guys. I set it up once for each of them (as well as myself). All 4 of us hit the 9ball on the wrong side and missed the shot. And just for the record, were all very competent at the table, each capable of running 2-5 racks in a row on a good day.

My point is that clearly it's not as easy as everyone assumes. People are always far too quick to deny the pros the credit they deserve. I feel it's partially whats wrong with our industry. We watch pool on TV and just assume a pro should run out every time he comes to the table with an open shot. If he misses anything, we say he's not playing well.

I feel this is one such case. I mean, common, it's a carom into a kick, into a back-cut combo, into a carom. Its not exactly a hanger....and it's hill-hill against SVB. There's no such thing as easy in this situation.