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Billiards player makes unbelievable shots during game
- Thread starter MrOogieBoogie
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SafeinSound
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Holy shit I didn't know some of this shit was even possible with billiards
peteykirch
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It's great when the people doing commentary have no clue what the hell is going on.
Then he drops the line "If someone did that shot to me, I'd have to kill myself."
Then he drops the line "If someone did that shot to me, I'd have to kill myself."
rokkerkory
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I said wow
hosannainexcelsis
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OK, that's good. Damn good. He has ascended to the point where the balls must obey his commands.
DarkJediKnight
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Which shot am I supposed to be impressed by? I saw 2 very impressive shots. Was it the english to get the 2?
Dude's the next Van Hammersly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YraqJ7KDm7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YraqJ7KDm7c
So not trying to downplay this but those looked like a lot of shots most professional pool players should be able to make. Am I missing something? Don't get me wrong that one shot that bounced around the entire table through all the other balls to sink the corner pocket was fucking hot but... curving a ball or anything isn't exactly mind blowing for guys of that level.
I thought the first shot where he bounced the two balls off each other so the solid would be in the right position for the rebound was pretty good. I don't watch professional pool, though.
gaming_noob
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Maybe you've watched too many staged tricks to appreciate shots done on a competitive match.
Nintendo's Witch
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😮😧
DarkJediKnight
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Professionals at this level rarely try that because if you miss, you have little control of the cue ball - so the opponents can take advantage.
CarpeDeezNutz
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I'd have to kill myself if someone did that on me.
fluffydelusions
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😮😧
PogChamp
Davey Cakes
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Incredible shots, and the guy makes them look easy. I can barely hit the ball straight.
It's a cue sport therefore it's billiards. But, who cares what we're calling it?
Sevenfold
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More_Badass
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How does the white ball just stop in tracks like that in the second shot?
😮😧
Epsilon-delta
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He did a combo off the rails, followed by a masse, and ended with a four-rails combo shot.
Yea, that's impressive.
Yea, that's impressive.
I know nothing of competitive billiards, but the announcers were pretty blown away by it. So I got to imagine they were pretty impressive shots.
Jay Shadow
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Nintendo's Witch
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MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Yeah, the announcers are slaying me. "How did he DO that?"
adamsappel
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Physics.
psynergylover
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that was amazing!! he's a wizard/robot.
More_Badass
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Yeah, I mean what are the physics behind it?
BobTheFork
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3 impressive shots. The double combo back into the pocket on the first. The Looooooooong masse shot and then the fucking geometry jackpot before the final shot.
Any of those is top level, but that last one is just beyond that. You don't see that; the commentary reactions tell you how you don't see that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sports_techniques
Tl;dr hitting the cue ball at a particular point produces spin.
I'm garbage at pool but if you hit the ball a little lower than centre you're put backspin on it which will make it stop when it connects with another ball. Likewise hit it above centre to make it continue moving forward afterwards
someone else can correct me if I'm wrong
That's just basic physics man, if one ball has enough momentum and the collision has a center line along with the speed of the ball, is of short duration and relatively elastic, it will transfer all of its momentum the colliding ball. This happens all the time in billiards.
BobTheFork
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ALL of the kinetic energy in the cue ball transfers to the yellow, leaving the cue motionless.
It only stops like that if you hit the yellow perfectly straight.
100% momentum transfer
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
There's gotta be an anime of this sport, right?
Here are some links that might help in addition to what people said above.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/81959/perfect-elastic-collision-and-velocity-transfer
https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ideas/collide.htm
Huw_Dawson
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British player too.
I'm reasonably sure bouncing a ball off of four cushions is not something totally out of this world in snooker. Might be much more rare in pool due to the tighter space?
I'm reasonably sure bouncing a ball off of four cushions is not something totally out of this world in snooker. Might be much more rare in pool due to the tighter space?
sixteen-bit
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I like the curve
The white ball is struck slightly below centre with the cue tip and it kills the forward momentum when the white strikes the object ball. It works best when its a full on straight shot as you can see in the gif.
edit; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBSUbhVew7g
It takes a lot of practice to actually hit the cue ball where you actually mean to hit it.
Kotetsu534
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I'm the furthest thing from an expert on this, but if you watch how he hits the ball, he's striking it low so it adds backspin (i.e. the ball is spinning towards where it came from). He makes sure to hit it hard enough that it's still on the ball when it makes full contact with the object ball that the spin holds the ball in place rather than continuing on (if he added too much it would start coming back towards him). If you spend some time on a table and play around with different spins the cue ball's behavior makes intuitive sense pretty quickly.
Cosmic Schwung
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Fascinating. From your link it seems to get it to stop dead you actually need zero spin but instead you make the ball slide across the table. The cue ball then needs to strike the next ball dead on to transfer all the momentum to it. Given the length of the shot, presumably he did have to put on some backspin so it would become a slide by the time it strikes the other ball.