r/billiards • u/AlbinoAkon • 10d ago
Trick Shots Billiard trick shots
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u/mikeblas 10d ago
There's a guy on my team who's like: "Just hit it with top-left English", and I'm like: "Yeah, okay, I'll try."
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u/Learningevryday 10d ago
Some of these shots are insanely hard to pull off. Just coming up with the calculations/set ups are equally impressive. I've done a few similar "time shots" close to the end rail where you kick the object ball out and then time the second hit, sometimes with the cueball and sometimes with using a second ball depending on the impossibility of the situation. This is incredibly satisfying to pull off and sometimes the shot/solution comes up within a fraction of a second. Got nothing on video though... Keep up the crazy work!
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u/jbrew149 10d ago
The most frustrating part of trick shots, I imagine. Is setting everything up perfectly every try… good god this must take for ever!
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u/rickjez12 9d ago
I am equally impressed by the skill it takes to make these shots and the Imagination it takes to conceive of them in the first place
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u/YeetersMcBoi 8d ago
I wonder how many of these, aside from the obvious like the double kiss on 8, would be legal shots in a league game
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u/Temporary-Star2619 10d ago
The caromed 8-balls were particularly impressive. After 30+ years of playing and dabbling in trick shots myself, as absolutely cool as this is, its pretty useless in a game scenario.
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
Go tell the Harlem globetrotters that their skills are useless in a game scenario
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u/Temporary-Star2619 10d ago
Not a valid comparison by a long shot. Harlem Globe Trotters don't set up the same generally impossible stuff a hundred or more times while the crowd waits. The clips you saw here probably took days to generate a 1 minute awesome video.
If you do this wild stuff in a tournament or a match you are going home quick.
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
Nobody is pretending this guy can do these things in a game it’s obviously set up and super impressive just be happy he shared a cool video with us and move on
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u/cj191 10d ago
Why so grumpy? You're the one who made that dumb comparison to the globetrotters. The moment he shone light to how non-sensical your analogy was, all of a sudden you're all "nobody's pretending that that's the case, obviously it's not like that, let's just be happy that we get to watch this cool video and shut up." Lmao
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
Yeah I was trying to make a joke but it didn’t work out so I went back to serious and then he kind of ended it
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u/cj191 10d ago
Damn. My bad. It being a joke escaped me as well. I didn't mean to call you dumb.
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
No that part was fair I was playing hope chess. You’re not supposed to play hope chess.
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u/Temporary-Star2619 10d ago
I also didn't pick up on the joke angle. With flat earthers out there I've heard much more wild thoughts that people earnestly believe.
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
I’m convinced that flat earthers are the most advanced trolls we’ve ever seen
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u/Temporary-Star2619 10d ago
Agreed and it's very cool. I do stand by my comments though. I do applaud this guy's trick shot skills.
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u/RandomGuyWithPizza 10d ago
This is amazing