Stephen Hendry's 'decel' nonsense?
Usually I'm a big fan of Hendry's commentatary, being a top player he usually brings a fresh technical insight into the game - but time and time again this WC championship he keeps talking about cue deceleration causing shots to be missed thin - what is he talking about?? It's driving me a little crazy.
If you are 'attempting' to play without side, surely a decel you will either cause the cueball to go consistently either left or right (depending on the exact cue action of the player) and not 'thin' as obviously the thin side is different for each shot?
Surely he is talking rubbish, also he seems to blaming it on about half of the shots missed thin in the whole bloody championship.
The only explaination for this I can think of is that every one of these drag shots that are being deceled on are being played with a bit of running side which would cause to miss thin with a decel - but I doubt all these drag shots are being played with running side, it would surely make a drag shot a lot more difficult and would be avoided by a pro unless completely necessary.
If you are 'attempting' to play without side, surely a decel you will either cause the cueball to go consistently either left or right (depending on the exact cue action of the player) and not 'thin' as obviously the thin side is different for each shot?
Surely he is talking rubbish, also he seems to blaming it on about half of the shots missed thin in the whole bloody championship.
The only explaination for this I can think of is that every one of these drag shots that are being deceled on are being played with a bit of running side which would cause to miss thin with a decel - but I doubt all these drag shots are being played with running side, it would surely make a drag shot a lot more difficult and would be avoided by a pro unless completely necessary.
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