Which Pro Has The Most Powerful Stroke?

matthew staton said:
Larry nevel fan from the same pool hall as him I think he has the best stroke in the world have seen him draw the ball 12 rails before no joke...
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Larry Nevel, IMO has one of the best power strokes I ever saw. Massey's power is timeless, so is Kim Davenport's. Samir, the 3C guy has controlled power as did Ceulemans...CJ Wiley had a helluva power stroke too.
 
mastercueartist said:
I've shot a couple of them a time or 2.This is gonna sound a little off your direction but Mika shut me down bad one night and I can still feel the floor vibrate from the snap. That little man can rock and roll when he is loose.I would have to say thats the best clean power stroke I have seen in my entire life from the living. Never seen him do it again in tourn play on the tv but in live action he has a real clean snap when he needs it.
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so who broke there parott cue..
 
whitewolf said:
Okay, all you have to do is look in Ripley's Believe it or Not, or is it The Guinesses Book of World Records, but who has gone around the table hitting more rails than anyone on earth?

FL

Case closed LOL.
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This is what we call a "nut-swinger", boys and girls.
 
LastTwo said:
I think that all the pro players have powerful strokes, but there are some who excel above the rest. I heard Larry Nevel is one of the best when it comes to this. Rodney Morris has a pretty powerful stroke too. Anyone else?
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no question mike masse!
 
Fred Agnir said:
Larry Nevel and Corey Deuel were hitting this shot during the US Open 2003 just for fun, going all the way back up the table and down. Nevel was consistently able to draw over two table lengths:


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Fred
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Amazing. Jacked up draw shot is the most difficult to control no doubt.
 
Testing your stroke ...

Here's a little test for your stroke:

On a 9 foot table, put a ball just above the middle diamond on the left
long rail. Put the cue even with middle diamond at the other end somewhere
between the headspot and the right long rail.

Shoot the object ball in the corner down the rail, and draw your cueball
across the table to the diagonal long rail section, and around 3 rails to
make a second object ball sitting in front of the pocket at the same end,
but the adjacent corner pocket to where you shot the first object ball.

That shot will tell you if you have a powerful stroke or not. We have 1 young guy in Wichita that can do it 9 out of 10 times, he has Cory Deuel type talent,
but does not apply himself seriously to the sport. His name is Jeremy
Vulgamore, and he has one of the most powerful strokes I have ever
seen in 43 years of playing and watching. I have watched him bank a
ball long rail from little more than half way down table, and draw the cue
2 table lengths without missing the shot.

Drawing off jacked up shots is difficult, and controlling and drawing
the cue off of jump shots is difficult. One of the best for jumping and drawing the cueball is a guy named Dave Hendricks from Wichita, but down in Tulsa
or Oklahoma City now.
 
The twelve rail "draw" shot probably isn't a draw shot off a ball, it probably means that he hit the first rail with some draw so it had topspin when it rebounded off the rail.

My friend Lance did 11 rails on a billiard table doing this when he was 17- Robert Byrne mentioned it in a BD article. He also can do the two table length draw shot. This is the shot that seems to show who really has a monster stroke.

FL did his shot (on his video,anyway) by having the ball bounce off the cushions in the air three times- neat shot but not a true stroke shot. He does have a great draw but what other pool players go out of their way to get Guiness recognition.

I refuse to believe anyone can consistently stroke a ball as powerfully as Mike Massey/Semih Sayginer until I see it myself. Massey draws a table length on jump shots...lucky he doesn't slap the rest of us down and call us a bunch of sorry-ass wimps
 
whitewolf said:
The funniest thing was reading all of the CCBers trying to discredit the shot. If you want to read some really funny things, go find the thread over there. They actually believed (since they hated FL so much) that the Fast One was trying to trick the whole world, so they used silicone spray, put the sh*t on the cloth (can you imagine :D ?), etc. Then the thread died when someone mentioned that Larry made the cueball skip parts of the table for less friction by jumping off the rails and that they saw him do the shot at some school in Georgia. Nothing like seeing a bunch of arrogant a**hol*s eating crow!
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I don't think anyone can do what Mike Massey can do on the table day in and day out in front of an audience in competition or otherwise.

However....after seeing FL's video I am TOTALLY impressed with what he can do on the table. Actually, he did a few things that made my jaw drop. The hacks who never have anything good to say about what he can do or what he's done are EXACTLY the ones he refers to when he says, "they can't even run 3 friggin' balls"! And THAT'S the truth!!
 
try this one place the cue ball in the jaws of corner pocket {1.}. put object ball in oposite, diagonal jaws pocket{2}, then pot object ball in{2}and draw cue ball in off into {1} longest shot on the table therefore hardest drawshot a good test of cue power and perssicion!
 
drivermaker said:
The other question is...how far away do you place the CB from the first struck OB?
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didn't he say put the cue in one corner and the object ball in the other corner diagonally????

take the pills man, take the pills.

VAP
 
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