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Snooker discussion: Putting topspin on a cueball
Snooker discussion: Putting topspin on a cueball
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Without hitting an object ball not energy is transferred into spin.
Imagine a backspin shot at golf. The club need to strike under the ball with a lofted club such as a sand wedge. In snooker the cue does not go under the ball. |
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Angel Gabrial
I may seem a little offhand but i am not going to answer that point again |
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ok let me just say again..to create backspin on a golf ball you hit down on it...the opposite of what you assume!
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ok let me just say again..to create backspin on a golf ball you hit down on it...the opposite of what you assume!
 Now i know you are on the wind up. Did i say that you hit up the golf ball up to create back spin? This would be the opposite. So do you believe that similarly in snooker you have to hit down on the cueball to create spin? |
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Also creating spin on a golfball means the ball leaving the earth and spinning through the air.
This shot would be problematic on the green baize. |
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Angel Gabrael
Inever at any point mentioned hitting the golf ball up..mearly hitting slightly down with the golf club. Much as one does with a snooker cue |
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Certainly on ocasions when i have played snooker the cue ball has to my amazement left the green baise
and occassionally the table itself!! |
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I'm not surprised.
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Most centre ball shots or lower, if struck at anything above a moderate pace, leave the bed of the table.
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Pokermaster i have to go for this evening,and thanks again,
...try and keep Angel Gabrael away from golf please |
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Good night, LFC.
Thank you for your continued interest in the thread. |
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It's not EXACTLY relevant but I'd like you all to know that I once flipped a coin to decided who broke and it landed, from some height, on it's edge.
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LFC
To gain back spin the lofted golf club goes under the golf ball as i explained. Not sure why you think the club just comes down on the ball without going under it. Why would you deny follow through. Anyway here it is simplified for you. http://www.videojug.com/film/golf-how-to-get-backspin |
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Clunge
When you flipped the coin did it must have had forward spin? when it landed did it collide with any objects or come to a standstill touching your shoe? |
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I can think of many reasons to deny follow through.
Sat in some chocolate cake is the plausible explanation I can come up with though. There was a great video a few years back of some bloke in white chino's who'd clearly properly shat himself, and two blokes were pursuing him with a camera. "Mate, you've shat yourself!" "No, someone else did, I sat in it, that part I accept", was his somewhat unlikely explanation. |
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It landed on the table. The coin that is. Not the follow through.
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Pokermonster
I am sure that you could have made it at snooker. Interesting spherical observations being shared. It`s all good. |
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Clunge
We are EMailing this thread to Rishi Persad for the discussion of the fallacy of topspin being highlighted by the snooker authorities. However your tale of the chino guy following through and unintentionally potting the brown could be the talking point for John Parrot. |
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On its edge resting against a cushion I presume you mean, CH, not standing upright in the middle of the table?
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No PM, on the table. Not near a cushion. It was a pound coin, which makes it slightly less weird bit I was still...whoah!
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You would have burned at the stake as a witch for stuff like that four-hundred years ago.
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The 2013 world championship starts today. I predict very few topspin shots, if any.
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Hopefully Hendry's been working on his punditry. Lot of room for improvement based on what I saw a few months ago, imo
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For me, they've let him do too much too soon.
He's ok passing comment as an assistant commentator and not too bad with Hazel and SD/JP/KD in the studio but terrible doing the one-to-one interviews |
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Bring back Sir Clive Everton I say.
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Can't fault him on his knowledge but needs to work on his delivery and persona, imo
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Just bumping a few threads I wanted to save from the upgrade. My apologies for cluttering the forum.
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Not long until this year's World Championships. I won't be here during the tournament so just making my annual thread bump a bit early.
Good evening. |
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No topspin shots as yet this year.
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There are a few 'blasts from the past' on this thread, I wonder if some still post under different names?
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None that I can see.
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 LEGENDARY THREAD |
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I wonder if V4 Vendetta (AKA Goring) ever made it to his country retreat to try out my topspin test? :)
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It's a shame the forum seems so quiet lately, I recall fielding questions and insults nineteen to the dozen back in the day! :)
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A thread about snooker gets 700 replies and 10000 views! WTF?
 PM - You're a legend in your own lunchtime! |
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Agreed, always interesting posts - as an aside, they need to sort the world championship tickets out - theyve allowed touts to hoover them up, and every session is over £100 - need to introduce a purchaser present policy, cos the touts are cleaning up at the expense of proper fans (like m)
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. :)
Munch Man's legendary golf ball thread has inspired me to resurrect this old chestnut. No topspin shots seen at the Masters as yet. |
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excellent Mr P, i shall have a gander later. No doubt the banana shot has been discussed?
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Yes indeed, Mr B. Many, many times in fact. :)
The first ten pages or so are quite an entertaining read, then we got a little sidetracked once or twice. My favourite part was where a fellow cut and pasted MY words on to an American science forum, waited for their members' responses, and then cut and pasted THEM back on here trying to disprove my arguments. What he didn't realise, alas, was that I was also a member on that forum as well. :) Best wishes, sir. |