CaptainJR said:
Are you talking about SJM's spot shot that the cue starts on the head spot. Spot to spot to coner pocket? What your saying can't be done shooting straight at the ball. Maybe off the side rail or something like that, but as far as shooting it like a draw shot, shooting straight at it, as you indicated. Nope, can't happen. Would bet me life on it. No tricks now. No missleading statments like hitting the cue running down the table using the cue to pocket the ball and stop the cue all in one second stroke. NO TRICKS! Can't be done. Who's law is that, 'somehing in motion will tend to say in motion.l....
Cant' be done.
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This is a beautiful example of the fish grows every time the story is told. One person embelishes it and the perch becomes a bass then a tuna and finally a whale. It gets told from one to the other and soon you don't know what went down. Even if the teller was there and saw it, let him tell it long enough and it will grow in size and soon become impossible. People see things, then report a different thing. 10 people can stand on a corner and see a car accident and report 10 different accidents, ask any lawyer about this and he will say it is so. If you do not have a video tape of the shot, then you have nothing and no proof. It's just another pool hall tall tale.
Pool halls are full of them. Some are true and some are not. Because the vast majority of them are not true, people just can't handle the true impossible one when it does come along. I once shot a ball table length, jumped it to a 2nd table which jumped it to a 3rd table and made the 8 ball in the side pocket. No video of it, never had told it before now because I learned nobody could believe that one, but I swear on a stack of bibles it went down. How do you sort these out and the answer is without video proof you can't. The other one I never released because it cannot be believed is I spit a cue ball out of my mouth and it hit 10 rails. I'll take a lie detector test on both and bet you a zillion bucks. I have the 10 rail spit ball on tape.
I went up to a bar in a pool hall to have a beer, just walked in the door and a guy there begain a conversation which got into great shots on a table. He began to tell me about this guy who came in a year ago and did this and that and I am sitting there knowing the guy he is telling me about is me. I said did you actually see this, he goes yes, I was there. He was not and the things he was telling me I did were impossible. I never wised him up.
Another guy in my room kept telling the same damn story every day about how his dad made this impossible shot nobody else could do. I went out, figured the damn thing out and went, come over here, watch this, bang zap down it went with his jaw.
A week later I am eating lunch and I hear him in the booth behind me, we are back to back so he does not know I am behind him and he is telling that same damn story again, but this time he has changed and embellished the story so now the shot is impossible and I nor any one can make it. The guy just loves telling that story to impress people, it makes him I guess special in some way or gives him something to talk about. Making a spot shot and stopping the cb on that spot with out the cb hitting a rail cannot be done. A masse shot has follow on the ball, it will not stop either. I am actually from Missouri, when I see that one, I'll believe that one. Put up a video.
The moral is, some just like telling tall stories to impress people to see their reactions, no harm in that. If you hang out in bars, you hear one every day of your life.
Moral two, the fish grows.
Rama...
