what is stun english
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stun is center ball no english,the cue ball deflects from the hit since balls are round if the cue hits left side of object ball it goes left and vice versa..you can also hit object ball dead center and if you hit cue ball a lil off center it will stun to the off side hit
IIRC from a book I read a while back:
A stop shot is a special case of the stun shot where the object ball is straight in.
Hit the cue ball the same as if it was a stop shot and if there's any angle to the shot then the cue ball takes off on the 90 degree tangent line after hitting the object ball.
Edit: Here's the definition from Capelle's book, "Play Your Best Pool."
Stun Shot - The absence of spin on the cue ball when it contacts the object ball. The shot is played with a firm stroke.
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A stun shot is simply when the cue ball has neither backspin nor forward roll on it when it contacts the object ball, i.e. it has no vertical roll. It is essentially skidding at the point of impact.
Hitting center ball on the CB will not necessarily produce a stun shot if the cue ball stops skidding and is rolling when it contacts the OB. So if the OB is far away you probably need to hit the CB a little below center so the draw is scrubbed off and the CB is sliding (has not yet begun forward roll) when it contacts the object ball.
Stun shot
Hitting center ball on the CB will not necessarily produce a stun shot if the cue ball stops skidding and is rolling when it contacts the OB. So if the OB is far away you probably need to hit the CB a little below center so the draw is scrubbed off and the CB is sliding (has not yet begun forward roll) when it contacts the object ball.
Stun shot
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A stun shot is simply a stop shot that is not straight in. The result of the shot sends the cueball down the perpendicular 90 degree line. The more angle on the shot the further down the line the cueball travels. The speed of the shot also can lengthen that travel...
This is correct, though a straight in shot hit with stun simply produces a stop shot. But only a stun shot (CB not rolling but skidding at impact) will result in the CB coming off at 90 degrees. A rolling cue ball will come of an OB on a 30 degree tangent line.
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It is actually a stun shot, executed with or without english.
I suspect you were playing in the 60s - it was known as
"killing the cue ball". Dogs has it right. The cueball must be sliding, not
rolling at the moment of contact.
As mentioned above, cue low on a near full ball hit with a normal stroke
and follow thru, the CB draws back. If you stun the CB, it will stop dead.
The Brit snooker players use it all the time, stun draw,
stun run-through(follow). Contrary to what some seem to think, you can
use side(english) on stun shots.
Dale
I have never heard the term stun english. But what immediately leaps to mind when I hear it is what I would use to throw a ball in using english. You can line up center to center on a shot that is straight to a rail and throw it into a pocket by using side spin. Using stop shot english, just below centerball hit, with sidespin produces the most throw.
Is that what you mean?
Is that what you mean?
It's a stun shot with english, I assume. The standard bread-and-butter shot of 9-ball.
Freddie
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That's how I took it, "stun with english."
A shot is called a stun when the CB has not forward or backwards roll at the moment of contact with the OB. One achieves stun by hittind a draw shot with just enough draw that all the draw has vanished by the time the CB makes contact with the OB. Between the cue-tip and the OB imbact, the CB is decelerating. The part where the CB is decelerating as draw diminushes is known as a drag shot. Draw friction drags velocity off the CB. Now if you time everything just right, and the CB arrives at the OB with no forward or backwards rotation the whole thing is called a stun shot.
The amount of draw one applies is necessarily dependent on the speed of the CB and the length of the run between cue-tip contact and OB contact. Up close, the stun shot can be hit at the equator of the CB, half a table away, you need 60%-odd of the miscue limit.
One uses stun because one has very fine control over the direction and speed after the CB-OB impact. Another use for stun is on unlevel tables to avoid table roll and still make contact with the OB with a fairly slow velocity on the CB.
The amount of draw one applies is necessarily dependent on the speed of the CB and the length of the run between cue-tip contact and OB contact. Up close, the stun shot can be hit at the equator of the CB, half a table away, you need 60%-odd of the miscue limit.
One uses stun because one has very fine control over the direction and speed after the CB-OB impact. Another use for stun is on unlevel tables to avoid table roll and still make contact with the OB with a fairly slow velocity on the CB.
i seem to be getting different explanations
or at least i am confused
is a stun shot dead centerball that skids does not roll
when it starts rolling it is no longer skidding and the stun is not in effect any longer
how could a right or left english not spin?
as u can see I don't understand yet
or at least i am confused
is a stun shot dead centerball that skids does not roll
when it starts rolling it is no longer skidding and the stun is not in effect any longer
how could a right or left english not spin?
as u can see I don't understand yet
