When will they wake up & realise that the cut break DOES NOT WORK!, & before you start to bash me & call me an a-hole just see where I am coming from first, ok here goes:
Now as I write this I realise that I will have people (closed minded possibly) throwing things at their computer screens but I feel this has to be said & that is that the cut break the pros use does not and will never work because if you look very carefully you will see that yes 70% of the time they are making 1,2 or 3 balls on the break with the 1 ball going into the side (the reason for the cut break) but with that said even after they make a ball they are still stuck for position on the lowest numbered ball & why because the white is kicked around where it either ends up behind the rack or kicked into a scratch forcing BIH.
Now before Corey Deuel came along the top pros were absolutely killing the rack & running a table like it was nothing & why was this I hear you ask, because....you guessed it they were using power & controlling where the white went which made for a more exciting game. (Example Wu Chia Ching winning the 2005 WPA world nine ball)
There was none of this tiresome & almost endless safety play but let me just clarify I enjoy a good safety battle as much as the next guy but there comes a point when it gets annoying & is somewhat detrimental to the game & this is what we are consistantly seeing with players when they use the cut break because as mentioned before the white ball gets lost in the shuffle so to speak & ends up down table behind the rack forcing the incoming player to kick to a safe most of the time.
But before you say it, no the reason we have these problems is not because of the 9 ball rack's shape but because people (especially the pros) refuse to learn to hit the one from the centre of the table dead on with power to get better results off the break i.e better spread, clearer look at the lowest numbered ball & control of the white & until they start doing this we will forever have threads like this arguing over the state of the game of 9 ball.
I do though think that 10 ball is the future but at the heart of the game of pool the major tournaments will always be conducted over a game of 9 ball shoot-out style because as Paul Newman said "9 ball is a game made for tv, it's fast & furious it's why people love it".
This in my opinion is what we have to do to get the game back to a fast & furious attack minded, jump shot making, bankshot shooting game that it once was.
Finally, just to finish & I can't beleive i'm saying this but to quote Earl Strickland "Let them break from the middle of the table & they'll break their hand". If you look at that statement it's completely true.
Now as I write this I realise that I will have people (closed minded possibly) throwing things at their computer screens but I feel this has to be said & that is that the cut break the pros use does not and will never work because if you look very carefully you will see that yes 70% of the time they are making 1,2 or 3 balls on the break with the 1 ball going into the side (the reason for the cut break) but with that said even after they make a ball they are still stuck for position on the lowest numbered ball & why because the white is kicked around where it either ends up behind the rack or kicked into a scratch forcing BIH.
Now before Corey Deuel came along the top pros were absolutely killing the rack & running a table like it was nothing & why was this I hear you ask, because....you guessed it they were using power & controlling where the white went which made for a more exciting game. (Example Wu Chia Ching winning the 2005 WPA world nine ball)
There was none of this tiresome & almost endless safety play but let me just clarify I enjoy a good safety battle as much as the next guy but there comes a point when it gets annoying & is somewhat detrimental to the game & this is what we are consistantly seeing with players when they use the cut break because as mentioned before the white ball gets lost in the shuffle so to speak & ends up down table behind the rack forcing the incoming player to kick to a safe most of the time.
But before you say it, no the reason we have these problems is not because of the 9 ball rack's shape but because people (especially the pros) refuse to learn to hit the one from the centre of the table dead on with power to get better results off the break i.e better spread, clearer look at the lowest numbered ball & control of the white & until they start doing this we will forever have threads like this arguing over the state of the game of 9 ball.
I do though think that 10 ball is the future but at the heart of the game of pool the major tournaments will always be conducted over a game of 9 ball shoot-out style because as Paul Newman said "9 ball is a game made for tv, it's fast & furious it's why people love it".
This in my opinion is what we have to do to get the game back to a fast & furious attack minded, jump shot making, bankshot shooting game that it once was.
Finally, just to finish & I can't beleive i'm saying this but to quote Earl Strickland "Let them break from the middle of the table & they'll break their hand". If you look at that statement it's completely true.
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