vapros
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I'm with that sober Duck. I will never be very comfortable at this table until the 13 ball has been knocked away, and here's a chance to do it.
"One Pocket, it's an epidemic, and there ain't no cure, trust me, i'm a doctor."Cowboy Dennis said:Strawberry did shoot the 9 into the 7 but the 7 hit the rail before it hit the 1 and caromed off the 1, back towards the cueball, barely missing a kiss before hitting the stack.
Ignore the 7's red arrow-line turning blue after it hits the 11, I made a mistake and wasn't going to redraw the whole thing.
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Here's how he left it. Cliff missed the bank on the 5 ball & sold out the 7 ball. I guess it's not good to stay up all night gambling. Brooks ran 4 balls.
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There's something to it when a One Pocket Hall Of Famer shoots a shot that you also would shoot, especially with good results. Imagine that. After all it's all about imagination.wincardona said:"One Pocket, it's an epidemic, and there ain't no cure, trust me, i'm a doctor."
Billy I.
If the cue ball would of ended up closer to the middle dia. on the side rail this shot would of been much more effective. As long as this choice was executed with a good cue ball there really wasn't much if anything that could of gone wrong. But a lot that could have gone right.wincardona said:"One Pocket, it's an epidemic, and there ain't no cure, trust me, i'm a doctor."
Billy I.
Nice call doctor, I put your shot up on post #18 and the only difference was that the nine ball took out the 5 ball instead of the 13.wincardona said:If the cue ball would of ended up closer to the middle dia. on the side rail this shot would of been much more effective. As long as this choice was executed with a good cue ball there really wasn't much if anything that could of gone wrong. But a lot that could have gone right.
The key to this shot like most shots is THE CUE BALL.
Billy I.
Look below.Frank Almanza said:Nice call doctor, I put your shot up on post #18 and the only difference was that the nine ball took out the 5 ball instead of the 13.
You talk about cue ball control being the most important thing in your shot, in which I agree. But in your initial post you mention that to get it there you would "force follow" the cue ball to the desired location. I'm sure we all knew what you meant, but is this the correct term for getting the cue ball there?
I take it that force follow is hit with a very strong stroke to get maximum top spin on the cue ball. But in essence what is needed here is a firm hit with just a small residue of top spin. For me it's strictly a feel shot to float the cue ball to that desired location.
In one pocket we use this technique a lot but it's not an easy thing to explain. What is the correct term used to explain this technique?
Frank, i've always referred to the type of stroke we are talking about as a force follow stroke, maybe someone can correct me on my terminology. I just assumed that it wasn't a natural follow but a forced follow.Frank Almanza said:Nice call doctor, I put your shot up on post #18 and the only difference was that the nine ball took out the 5 ball instead of the 13.
You talk about cue ball control being the most important thing in your shot, in which I agree. But in your initial post you mention that to get it there you would "force follow" the cue ball to the desired location. I'm sure we all knew what you meant, but is this the correct term for getting the cue ball there?
I take it that force follow is hit with a very strong stroke to get maximum top spin on the cue ball. But in essence what is needed here is a firm hit with just a small residue of top spin. For me it's strictly a feel shot to float the cue ball to that desired location.
In one pocket we use this technique a lot but it's not an easy thing to explain. What is the correct term used to explain this technique?
Frankalmanza said:For me it's strictly a feel shot to float the cue ball to that desired location.
What is the correct term used to explain this technique?
wincardona said:Frank, i've always referred to the type of stroke we are talking about as a force follow stroke, maybe someone can correct me on my terminology. I just assumed that it wasn't a natural follow but a forced follow.
Billy I.
Frank Almanza said:I'm sure we all knew what you meant, but is this the correct term for getting the cue ball there?
I take it that force follow is hit with a very strong stroke to get maximum top spin on the cue ball. But in essence what is needed here is a firm hit with just a small residue of top spin. For me it's strictly a feel shot to float the cue ball to that desired location.
In one pocket we use this technique a lot but it's not an easy thing to explain. What is the correct term used to explain this technique?
Cowboy Dennis said:Force-follow? Stun-forward? I've always called this shot the "shoot it so the cueball rolls a little forward after contact" shot, but that's just me .
androd said:I like the sound of it "Simple but elegant"
Rod.
Dudley said:Similar to the ghost I think of it as a stun follow shot.
Dud
lll said:to me force follow is extreme follow
the type that in straight pool would drive throught the stack
the kind that after hitting the object ball and the rail would rebound and come back into the rail
the kind that would hesitate and drive foward as if turbo charged
the center ball hit with a touch of follow where you can smash the object ball but the cue ball sort of dribbles foward i guess you could call stun follow
Did sunnyone send you a dictionary for Christmas?SJDinPHX said:It is also "extremely verbose, and seminally sculpatory"...(but mostly it's just stupid)...