Who invented these balls, was this intended?

I actually think first of all we need to bring the green cloth back, It's how pool was for centuries, look at snooker they never changed from green and theyre doing fine.

Pool back to green just like 80s and the 90s, and trust me the green is the best color, it is the grass color and my eyes always love to see the fields of grass with trees, so for me it's green which is the best.

Then after picking the green cloth, the most perfect ball set color is what we've always been playing, don't get me wrong I'm not stuck in the past, but if you bring the sentinetal original brunswick ball color, then a slight change would be to brighten the color just a little bit, and we're good from there, remember now adays the cameras are on HD, you will see the balls clearly and you will know the 7 from the 8 from the 4 ball because of how modern the camera's are today, plus we can distinguish the colors because we are used to them, thats all.

I know none of this will take effect, but these are what I think should happen, but yea I am a viewer not a business man who works in the pool indursity so I cannot change anything, I can just write my opinion tho.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
Well, that's all well and good...But really, why not play with traditional colors if distinguishing between the balls in a real setting is all you are trying to achieve? Very few people make mistakes with these colors anyway.

Aramith made the tv-set to make the colors stand out more on tv and they did actual R & D on the subject. You may agree or disagree on the effectiveness of this, but I feel that on the old low quality streams it was an advantage over the traditional color scheme. The skittle balls are no better than any of the other sets in any of the possible settings, and they are new which leads to confusion in commentary situations. I'm not saying that this is not dumb, but it is what it is. Some people are just not good at adapting to changes, and that should be realized when a new industry standard is being pushed. Why do you think we are still using qwerty keyboards?

A minor point to some would be that the cueball rolls off... Of course a traditionalist like myself feels that the cueball should roll straight unless spin dictates otherwise, but that may just be me. I realize that on this forum that is a minority opinion. Still it is one I hold with conviction.

So in conclusion: Changes should be made if and only if they can offer some improvement over existing designs AND that improvement is worth the cost that the change will entail. (Commentator confusion, mistakes made by players in crucial situations etc.) IMHO the skittle ball colors do not improve ball recognition (in fact they make it harder on tv!) and confuse some commentators and the FRACKING CUEBALL ROLLS OFF! My last post on the subject. End of rant.

edit: PS: In my army days we would often use US equipment and laugh amongst ourselves at the "DO NOT EAT", "THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY" etc. legends on nearly every piece of equipment. Our friends and allies did apparently not think too highly of their soldiers was the joke. (Actually an army iq test performed showed a widespread (nearly uniform) low level of performance especially from personel from certain regions of the US. Instead of questioning the validity of the test they immidiately jumped to the conclusion that the soldiers were mostly dim witted, lol). The point is that my army comrades and I were the ones who were wrong. It takes forsight and intelligence both to see that a certain percentage of personel WILL in fact be on the lower end of the iq scale, have a harder time learning etc AND that people in stressful situations can make uncharacteristic errors. This applies to other areas of life as well...
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THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY"
very good advice for a Claymore.I know it looks obvious which way it gos,but you never know.

We play with the skittles ball at league,We have to call the ball and pocket.On obvious shots we don't.But if there is any doubt I point to the ball and say "That ball,this pocket" Just so I don't call a number and I'm wrong.
 
Chops02 said:
maybe it's just me...but i've played somewhere around 12 hours worth of pool with the skittle balls and i've not once shot a ball out of rotation...nor left a solid on the table and shot the 8 when playing 8 ball. maybe the issue here is, in reality, that people need to PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING when they are at the table instead of just blaming the ball set. novel concept.
i actually found that very thin cut shots proved easier with the skittles set...not sure if it was just the ball or the colors, but on both blue and green cloth i felt like i could see the edges better for some reason. oh well...just my opinion on both points.
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The high level players have thousands of hours playing and committed to their subconscious the traditional colors. I can only imagine playing nine ball with these colors, a pro has to stop and force themselves to think where the seven is, instead of just knowing where the seven is.

It would have to be like a speed reader who zips their eyes down the center of the page and grasps whole sentences in big gulps, now having to go back to one sentence and sound out each word. Sure it can be done, but the efficiency of the skill is bogged down.

I just wish cyclop would deep six the skittles and just supply their traditional set. Case solved.
 
Cardigan Kid said:
The high level players have thousands of hours playing and committed to their subconscious the traditional colors. I can only imagine playing nine ball with these colors, a pro has to stop and force themselves to think where the seven is, instead of just knowing where the seven is.

It would have to be like a speed reader who zips their eyes down the center of the page and grasps whole sentences in big gulps, now having to go back to one sentence and sound out each word. Sure it can be done, but the efficiency of the skill is bogged down.

I just wish cyclop would deep six the skittles and just supply their traditional set. Case solved.
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A new balls et costs $200. A lot of these guys have home tables. The Taiwanese players in their tournaments on YouTube don't seem to have trouble, or hesitate much.
 
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