The greater the spin the straighter the cueball path?

[lkomarci]

Hi everyone,

just yesterday a friend of mine told me it was easier to pot balls while imparting side (not extreme though) to the cueball rather than striking the middle of the cb. This sounds completely off to me, but he says it's like with the bullet, the gun barrel isn't smooth on the inside but has like a spiral spline because this rotation makes the bullet travel in a straighter line. If the inside of the barrel was completely smooth the bullet trajectory wouldn't be nearly as perfect.

So what he's saying is that it's easier to pot the blue (on the spot) with the cueball on the baulk line when you impart SIDE to the cueball.

Any opinions? just sounds rediculous to me

[checkSide]

just sounds rediculous to me

It is ridiculous.

The swerve shot would be the best way to hit the cue ball straight if his theory were correct.

[cantpotforshíte]

And I'm guessing that it's going to sound ridiculous to anybody on here that reads his advice .. does your friend drink a lot?
He's right about the gun barrel of course, but not about the snooker bit. If it made pots any easier, then I reckon that the professionals would know about it, but they avoid using side unless they have to.

And if he turns up for practice one day with a 6 ft steel pipe bored out to the diameter of a cueball with a helical spline machined up the middle, I'd accuse him of cheating

[lkomarci]

in fact he was a bit drunk. but i didn't want to take that as a thing that would cloud his mind because he plays snooker like a dragon when he drinksl

Ye he was like, see everything spins, even the bloody electrons because it's a natural tendency! If the satellites have a perfect trajectory, then WHY do they revolve round their axes?? I really couldn't make a connection with snooker...but anyway just wanted to check if there's any truth to what he says. He's been playing pool for like 2 decades now and he's really good at it and yet he makes such rediculous statements.

[mick 142]

What a lode of bollocks your mate talks .

[magicman]

As everyone has said on here, and you knew yourself when he said it, your mate is either trying to wind you up or doesn't know the first thing about snooker.

I had a friend whose highest break was 92 and had been 92 for over 4 years. He asked me to coach him so he could achieve a century break. The very first day I advised him to play no side at all, even for shots that he felt needed side. He had a 102 the very first day of me coaching him. Nothing at all to do with me, just him hitting the ball in the middle.

I rest my case milud.

[lkomarci]

What a lode of bollocks your mate talks .

i second that. it really made no sense at all, but he was like i've been playing since the time you had started ****ting your diapers so i know what i'm talking about. i just had to check whether there's somebody else who would agree with his theory.
check this, he's like...why do you think audience is so thrilled when somebody pots a long straight STUN shot ...because its the hardest thing to do, it's much easier to do it with a bit of side on the cuebal

[lkomarci]

exactly magicman, i mean all the pros try to get a bit of an angle on the object ball so that they can utilize the cushions, use stun shots, etc to get a position on the next ball. i just couldn't believe what he was saying. he wasn't trying to wind me up unfortunately, we kept arguing about it for like 3 hours, the whole drinking session was about this very topic

[ace man]

...he was like i've been playing since the time you had started ****ting your diapers so i know what i'm talking about...

Typical attitude from a typical Mr. Know It All. Tell your friend that there isn't a single person in our country who is qualified to give ANY advices on how to play snooker. Not one. Only a handful of us have even had a chance to see real highly trained pro snooker players play IN PERSON. Seeing them play in person is very different from watching on TV. 1000 times better.

There are plenty of experienced snooker players who post here in coaching section. You can tell that they know their stuff. Learn from them, not your friend who played something else for 20 years.

[RGCirencester]

Just one thing on this as it has already all been said..... In the air theres little friction for a bullet to deviate of course so rifling merely keeps it on line, we are also talking extremely higher speeds...
On cloth a snooker player will deviate off course with or against the nap in differeing directions and by varying ammounts on each table. The white will also deflect off line slightly as you hit it. In short...
He was talking rubbish

[snookerfan91]

That is just his theory and in my opinion his theory is the exact same as saying pigs can fly on purple moons, absolute crap.

[jonplayer]

lol

Brilliant!! Tell your mate, the complex aerodynamics of an object traveling in excess of the speed of sound, and a round ball rolling on some cloth can't be compared to each other.

Has he got any more tips?

[checkSide]

Has he got any more tips?

Yeh... the best way to hit plain ball is to aim at the side of the cue ball.

[RGCirencester]

Don't forget that if you want a waistcoat like hendrys all you have to buy is a normal waistcoat, and some tartan paint

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[lkomarci]

lool gd one RG. yea its good to know that we all share the same opinion on this thing. :snooker: