who has the hardest break?
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Here, in the Carolinas, we have two shortstops who can break just as good as Larry Nevel. They are Chew tabacca (don't know his real name, I think its Darrel) and Greg Dix.
cuetechasaurus said:I dunno if Kucharo gambles anymore, but ask Larry Nevel or Bryant if they want to have a break speed contest with him using a radar gun or whatever. If Jon doesn't gamble like he said, for sure someone would bet on Jon. You never know, this might be some interesting action. But again, I guarantee you they can't break as hard as Kucharo.
Cuetech- if he had money would bet everything on Kucharo
Charlie just might. He claims to have the fastest break ever recorded.
Craig Fales said:
Seen that youngster break. I don't think his name even needs to be mentioned in this topic. In no way does his break compare to the world beaters everyone is talking about.
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must be tony z. always bragging about nothing!
Tanner,
Yea after thinking about it for a second, it was Shawn Putnam, but damn he could break hard!!!!!
Yea after thinking about it for a second, it was Shawn Putnam, but damn he could break hard!!!!!
> I've said this before,if there is ANY living human that hits them as hard and as square as Kucharo from rack to rack,I don't know about it. I watched him at the U.S. Open in 2000,for close to 2 hours doing nothing but breaking. The cue ball was consistently 2,3,sometimes 4 feet in the air,and it came back in such a straight line it looked like it was going to hit him in the face,and stopped dead every time. You just couldn't hit them any better with a machine. The cue ball stopped in an area about a foot in diameter,unless it got kicked,and did it close to 60 times in a row. He was doing this from out in the middle of the table too,in the corner of the break box,instead of off the rail. Larry lights them up too,but not as consistently. Tommy D.
Southpaw said:
I have to agree with this. I've played most of the guys mentioned and these are the breaks that concern me the most during a match. However, Larry is notoriously wild with his break and I've seen him jump the cue ball into the next zip code on more than one occasion.
The question is a little irrelevant, though, because in reality anyone who can break 25mph or greater has a wickedly hard break. Of all of them, Archer and Deuel have the scariest breaks, even if they're not the hardest, because they can reproduce the results so well, and that leads to a long stay in the chair for you if they get things working.
Keith Bennett (sp?)
I'm just curious where Keith Bennett (sp?) rates in here. I saw him playing SVB at the last Derby City and he was hitting them so hard, I was honestly worried about being on the end of the table he was breaking toward although he had pretty good control while he was smashing the balls. I ended up going to bed before they finished, but I heard he ended up coming back from a sizable deficit and winning the set.
I'm just curious where Keith Bennett (sp?) rates in here. I saw him playing SVB at the last Derby City and he was hitting them so hard, I was honestly worried about being on the end of the table he was breaking toward although he had pretty good control while he was smashing the balls. I ended up going to bed before they finished, but I heard he ended up coming back from a sizable deficit and winning the set.
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Pound for pound I have never seen anyone hit them like me, Charles Bryant, George Breedlove, and Larry Nevel can also produce Huge powerful breaks. George is the closest player to my size who's break compares to mine, he has a fantastic power break and I used to watch him play on accustats and try to emulate his break. Archer knows alot about the rack and how to hit it solid but these names I mentioned are the best breaks ohh Jamie Baracks and John Kucharo's break is very powerful also.
Sincerely, Danny Harriman(ESPN 6 balls pocketed on the break)
Sincerely, Danny Harriman(ESPN 6 balls pocketed on the break)
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That boy (SMASHES) the balls
Danny Harriman said:
I remember seeing this on TV, if I remember right you made 6 balls on a 7 ball rack and had tough position on the 7 ball which you proceeded to fire in like it was a hanger. Yeah, you hit em pretty hard!
magnetardo said:I remember seeing this on TV, if I remember right you made 6 balls on a 7 ball rack and had tough position on the 7 ball which you proceeded to fire in like it was a hanger. Yeah, you hit em pretty hard!
yea, dito on the above. That break was a TKO. By the way, who was your opponent at that time, Harriman? I forgot.
Aside from that question; yes, I can totally agree with the posts above that Charlie Hillbilly, The Truth Nevel and Bustamante have such power breaks (not to mention D. Harriman). Evgeny Stalev of Russia has such an overdramatic style of breaking that he just eventually follows through "through the table". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l2X4fW262M&mode=related&search= Not bad for a person converting skill from Russian to Pocket Billiards.
Playsome said:
he will out smash any name listed here period, I seen him hit a 20' tall cieling in the pool room with the rock,before he could even play all that good back in 86. absloute no one can smash them harder, i'll book any action on that there is, PM me
