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Monday, April 15, 2013

World's Most Amazing Trick Shot!


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A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

They frequently organize the balls in ways that are unlikely or impossible to appear in normal play, such as balls being in a straight line, or use props such as extra cues or a triangle that would not be allowed on the table during a game.

As an organized cue sports discipline, trick shot competition is known as artistic pool. 



World Champion professional trick shot artist Mike Massey setting up a trick shot.

Competition formats

Billiards trick shots are the subject of increasing international competition, both amateur and professional.

There are world championships, such as the WPA Artistic Pool World Championships and the World Snooker Trickshot Championship (which has not been held since 2006), and made-for-TV events, such as Trick Shot Magic and the World Cup of Trick Shots, often televised in both the US and the UK and providing enough prize money that some professional players specialize in the discipline.

The formats vary depending on the competition. Some, such as the World Snooker Trickshot Championship are purely exhibitions, with a panel of judges scoring subjectively to determine the winner.

Events such as Trick Shot Magic and the World Cup feature head-to-head competition where the players select shots that have strictly outlined requirements specified in a playbook.

 Each year, players are allowed to submit their own shot inventions, however, they are disclosed prior to the event to give all players an equal chance to practice them.

Players or teams are given two attempts to complete a selected shot within the given parameters, and earn one point for each successful shot.

Each player or team gets to select a given number of shots, generally eight or ten, and a winner is declared when one side is mathematically eliminated.

Trick Shot Magic, ESPN's annual artistic pool pro tournament, has been widely considered the televised version of the World Artistic Pool Championship, and it has held the highest ratings in televised cue sports competitions in the United States between 2000 and 2009.

Artistic pool similarly (see below) has a program of shots (three attempts each, in a sliding-scale point system), with precisely outlined parameters requirements.

The Ultimate Trick Shot Tour [1] features head-to-head competition between two players with no pre-defined shots.

Players challenge each other with shots outlining the parameters of the shots just before shooting.

Each player gets three attempts per shot, scoring one point per shot made.

Each player gets to select a given number of shots, generally six to ten, and the winner is declared when one player is mathematically eliminated.
 

Artistic pool

Artistic pool trick shot competitions, inspired by the related discipline of artistic billiards, began in the 1970's with international pros and coordinated by world champion Paul Gerni, with the World Trick Shot Artists Association, and in 2000, in Las Vegas, formed a new group, again with an international cast.[2]

They feature a program of 160 tricks to attempt, many of which were used in the previous formats by the WTSAA,[3] and include the BCA North American Championship, EPBF European Championship, and WPA World Championship, among others.[2]

The tricks are now divided into eight "disciplines", including trick/fancy, prop/novelty/special arts, and disciplines for extremes in each of the core cueing techniques.[3][4]

 The current world governing body for this sport is the WPA Artistic Pool Division, while the current largest league and player organization is the US-based Artistic Pool & Trick Shot Association (APTSA).[2][5]

The greatest contemporary champions of artistic pool include 22-time World Champion Paul Gerni, and more recently, Mike Massey, Andy Segal, and Tom Rossman. />

In WTSAA and APTSA competitions, competitors would have three chances to successfully perform each trick, earning full points if they are successful on their first attempts and incrementally reduced points for subsequent attempts.

Each shot has an associated difficulty rating (also the point value) with a higher rating being more difficult.

A preliminary round of 40 shots is performed, and the top players (the number varies depending on the number of competitors, but usually the top 12) proceed into a head-to-head playoff format to determine the winner.

Proper and official artistic pool competitions feature equipment limitations, (one cue, one stroke per trick shot, one approved universal prop per shot per diagram if necessary, all shots on the bed of the table, etc.), and shot requirements (e.g., preclusion of any off-the-table tricks, such as are popular in events like Trick Shot Magic and World Cup of Trick Shots).[6]

Objects used

As with other pool and billiards games, trick shots usually utilize a cue ball, one or more object balls, and a cue stick.

However, many props can be used in trick shots including bottles, drinking glasses, baskets, coins, ball racks, cue tip chalk, and other billiards- and non-billiards-related equipment.

Props are used to change the difficulty of the shot or add aesthetic value.

As with artistic billiards pros, trick shot artists often have specialized cue sticks for performing particular types of shots, particularly jump shots and massés.[7]


Notable trick shots

 

  • "Machine gun" (1): A line of object balls are placed in a row about a ball width away from a cushion, and the cue ball is shot into the space between the balls and the cushion so as to reverberate between them while traveling and hit each one of the object balls in series, issuing a machine gun-like sound.
  • "Machine gun" (2): A line of object balls are placed in a row along but not against a cushion, and are then shot directly with the cue, one after another, around the table, each contacting three cushions, and into the same pocket. The trick requires carefully timing the shots, so that newly-shot balls travel between balls already in motion.[8]
  • "Machine gun" (3): A line of object balls are placed on the table. The cue ball is shot into a pocket with deadweight and the object balls are all potted into the same pocket directly one after the other with the cue, while the cue ball is still traveling. Done right, the cue ball is the first ball hit and the last ball falling.
  • "The dollar bill shot": Introduced into competition by Paul Gerni, this shot uses a banknote, typically a US$100 bill, placed on the short rail near the corner pocket as a target landing zone. The cue ball is banked off of eight or nine cushions and should land with the ball's edge over the banknote. This shot is used as a tiebreaker on Trick Shot Magic with the competitor landing closest to the bill winning the match.
  • "Up and in": Mistakenly thought to be originated by World Champion Mike Massey, this shot has much earlier origins, and was done in 1980 in Sweden by European champion Bengt Jonasson of Stockholm. He showed it to the gentleman of the American team (Paul Gerni, Jim Rempe, and Mike Sigel) in an exhibition prior to the 1980 Swedish Open in Gothenberg, using a wooden shoe instead of a floppy cowboy boot, and prompting both Gerni and Rempe to stop at the gift shop at the Amsterdam airport on the way back to pick up some wooden shoes. In this shot, the cue ball is jumped off the table into a wooden shoe (a cowboy boot for Massey, 25 years later) on the floor, which made a nice "klack" sound in the case of the wooden shoe. In the U.S., the wooden shoe shot is sometimes referred to as "the boot shot".
  • "The bottle shot": Two balls are balanced on top of a glass soda bottle. The cue ball pockets a ball in the side and gets propelled in the air, knocking the bottom ball from the top of the bottle, letting the top ball drop to rest on top of the bottle. This shot was conceived by Japanese player Yoshikazu Kimuraj, from Kyoto, and popularized by Polish champion Bogdan Wolkowski.
  • "The butterfly": For this popular exhibition shot from the days of pool greats Willie Mosconi and Jimmy Caras, six object balls are grouped in the middle of the table[9] in a butterfly shape; in a single shot, each ball drops into a different pocket in the billiards table.[10][11]
  • "Just showing off":[12] Five object balls are clustered near the left side pocket and a hanging object ball in the lower right corner.[13] The cue ball is sent in to the cluster pocketing all five balls and then travels 3 rails to pocket the hanging object ball. This shot was originally designed in the '60s by Paul Gerni, combining two previously popular trick shots, and made famous by Steve Mizerak in a Miller Lite beer commercial in 1978. This shot and the subsequent commercial boosted Mizerak's name recognition and vaulted him into the Hall of Fame. Gerni still showcases this shot in his present-day exhibitions, and it has now become a standard for most all pool exhibitions.[14]
  • "The snake shot": Fifteen object balls are placed across the table. The 15 ball is the first and it is placed 6 inches away from the corner pocket. Each successive ball is placed 3 inches behind the previous one in a winding chain. Each combination of balls beginning with the 1 and the 2 should be aligned so they aim toward the next ball in the chain. The cue ball must be set up in position to make a straight line with the first two-ball combination. When the 1 ball is hit it should cause a chain reaction as each two-ball set hits each other.[15]
  • "The Swing Shot": A rack hangs from above and swings back and forth. The player proceeds to jump balls through the moving rack and into the corner pockets.[16]

Notable professional players

 

 

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Trick shot World Champion Steve Davis potting a ball under a cloth.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

3-Cushion Grandmaster - Sayginer vs Massey (Part 3 of 3)


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Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, 5 by 10 feet (approximately 1.5 × 3 m) pocket-less tables, which often feature heated slate beds.

In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.

The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.[1]

There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. Some of the more prevalent today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, cushion caroms, balkline, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards.

There are many other carom billiards games, predominantly intermediary or offshoot games combining elements of those already listed, such as the champion's game, an intermediary game between straight rail and balkline, as well as games which are hybrids of carom billiards and pocket billiards, such as English billiards played on a snooker table and its descendant games, American four-ball billiards, and cowboy pool.[1]

Etymology

The word "carom", which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom".[1]:41

Sources differ on the origin. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word carambola, or the French word carambole or caramboler, which were earlier used to describe the red object ball.

Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India),[1][2][3] also known as star fruit.

But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation.[4]

In modern French, the word 'carambolage' means a multiple collision accident, similar to one ball hitting the other two.

Cloth


Cloth has been used to cover billiards tables since the 15th century.

In fact, the predecessor company of the most famous maker of billiard cloth, Iwan Simonis, was formed in 1453.

Most cloth made for carom billiards tables is a type of baize that is dyed green, and is made from 100% worsted wool, which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little resistance across the table bed.

The green color of cloth was originally chosen to emulate the look of grass, and has been so colored since the 16th century.

However, as in green eyeshades, the color also serves a useful function: Humans have a higher light sensitivity to green than to any other color, so green cloth permits play for longer periods of time without eye strain.[1][5]

Balls

Modern billiard balls are made from highly resilient plastics, are normally 61.5 mm (27⁄16 in) in diameter, weigh between 205 and 220 grams (7.23 – 7.75 ounces; 7.5 is average),[6] and are significantly larger and heavier than their pocket billiards counterparts.

While UMB, the International Olympic Committee-recognized world carom billiards authority, technically permits balls as small as 61.0 mm (approximately 23⁄8),[6] no major manufacturer produces such balls any longer, and the de facto standard is 61.5 mm.

The three standard balls in most carom billiards games consist of a completely white cue ball, a second cue ball with typically a red or black dot on it (to aid in differentiation between the two cue balls), and a third, red ball. In some sets of balls, however, the second cue ball is solid yellow.[1]

Both types of ball sets are permitted in tournament play.[7]

Billiard balls have been made from many different materials throughout the history of the game, including clay, wood, ivory, plastics (including celluloid, Bakelite, crystalate, and phenolic resin, polyester and acrylic) and even steel.

The dominant material from 1627 until the early- to mid-20th century was ivory.

The search for a substitute for ivory use was not for environmental concerns but based on economic motivation and fear of danger for elephant hunters.

It was in part spurred on by a New York billiard table manufacturer who announced a prize of $10,000 for a substitute material.

The first viable substitute was celluloid billiard balls, invented by John Wesley Hyatt in 1868, but the material was volatile and highly inflammable, sometimes exploding during manufacture.[1][8]

Cues

Carom billiard cues have specialized refinements making them different from the typical pool cue with which many people are more familiar.

Such cues tend to be shorter and lighter overall, with a shorter ferrule, a thicker butt and joint, a wooden joint pin (in high-end examples) and collarless wood-to-wood joint (for a one-piece cue "feel"), a fast, conical taper, and a smaller tip diameter as compared with pool cues.

Typical dimensions are 54–56 inches (140–140 cm) in length, 16.5–18.5 ounces (0.47–0.52 kg) in weight (lighter for straight rail, heavier for three-cushion), with a 11–12 mm diameter tip.[9]

The specialization makes the cue significantly stiffer, which aids in handling the larger and heavier billiard balls as compared with pool cues. It also acts to reduce deflection (sometimes called "squirt"), which may be defined as displacement of the cue ball's path away from the parallel line formed by the cue stick's direction of travel.

It is a factor that occurs every time english (side) is employed, and its effects are magnified by speed. In some carom games, deflection plays a large role because many shots require extremes of English, coupled with great speed; this is a combination typically minimized as much as possible, by contrast, in pool.[10]:79, 240–1

The wood used in carom cues can vary widely, and most quality carom cues are handmade.[clarification needed]

Heated slate


The slate bed of a billiard table is often heated to about 5 °C/9 °F above room temperature, which helps to keep moisture out of the cloth to aid the balls rolling and rebounding in a consistent manner, and generally makes a table play faster.

A heated table is required under international carom rules and is an especially important requirement for the games of three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards.

Heating table beds is an old practice.

Queen Victoria of England (1819–1901) had a billiard table that was heated using zinc tubes, although the aim at that time was chiefly to keep the then-used ivory balls from warping.

The first use of electric heating was for an 18.2 balkline tournament held in December 1927 between Welker Cochran and Jacob Schaefer, Jr.[1]

The New York Times announced it with fanfare: "For the first time in the history of world's championship balkline billiards a heated table will be used ..."[1][11]


Three-cushion billiards

In three-cushion billiards, sometimes called three-cushion carom,[18] the object is to carom off both object balls with at least three rail cushions being contacted before the contact of the cue ball with the second object ball.

Three-cushion is a very difficult game.

Averaging one point per inning is professional-level play, and averaging 1.5 to 2 is world-class play.

An average of one means that for every turn at the table, a player makes 1 point and misses once, thus making a point on 50% of his or her shots.

The origin of the game is not entirely known. It is undisputed that one Wayman Crow McCreery of St. Louis, Missouri popularized the game in the 1870s.[1][19][20]

The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place January 14–31, 1878 in St. Louis, with McCreery a participant and New Yorker Leon Magnus the winner.

The high run for the tournament was just 6 points, and the high average a 0.75.[21]

The game was infrequently played, with many top carom players of the era voicing their dislike of it, until after the 1907 introduction of the Lambert Trophy.[1][22]

By 1924, three-cushion had become so popular that two giants in other billiard disciplines agreed to take up the game especially for a challenge match.

On September 22, 1924, Willie Hoppe, the world's balkline champion (who later took up three-cushion with a passion), and Ralph Greenleaf, the world's straight pool title holder, played a well advertised, multi-day, match to 600 points.

Hoppe was the eventual winner with a final score in of 600–527.

Three-cushion billiards retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America,[1] and is the most popular carom billiards game played in the US today, where pool is far more widespread.

The principal governing body of the sport is the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). It had been staging world three-cushion championships since the late 1920s.[23]

The International Olympic Committee-recognized World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) cooperates with the UMB to keep their rule sets synchronized.

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3-Cushion Grandmaster - Sayginer vs Massey (Part 1 of 3)


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Michael "Mike" Massey (born April 9, 1947) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, best known as a trick shot artist since the late 1970s, and has given substantial visibility to the sport by traveling the globe to perform exhibitions and compete in a variety of disciplines.

He has won professional national and international tournaments in trick shot competition, nine-ball, eight-ball, straight pool (14.1 continuous), and one-pocket, but has been even more influential in the sport as an accomplished instructor, consultant and fund raiser.[1]

From 1989 to 1991 he served as a contributing editor for The Snap Magazine. Massey, was born in Loudon, Tennessee[2] and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee[3] for several years where he owned a pool hall.

He has been nicknamed "Tennessee Tarzan", but currently lives in Midway, Utah.[4]

Massey was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame on April 7, 2005.[5] For 2007, he was ranked #8 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.[6]

Titles and achievements

2007 Pool & Billiard Magazine Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players, #8

2005 induction into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame

2004 Trick Shot Magic Champion

2003 Trick Shot Magic Champion

2003 World Artistic Pool Champion

2002 World Artistic Pool Champion

2002 BCA North American Artistic Pool Champion

2001 Trick Shot Magic Champion

2000 World Artistic Pool Champion

2000 BCA North American Artistic Pool Champion

2000 World Artistic Pool Champion

2000 Trick Shot Magic Champion

1996 Snooker World Trick Shot Champion

1992 Snooker World Trick Shot Champion

1997 Senior Nine-ball Masters Champion

1996 winning team member in the Mosconi Cup, Team USA

1996 Dutch National Eight-ball Champion

1996 Hall of Fame Eight-ball Champion

High runs of 9 racks of nine-ball in tournament play, and 13 racks in challenge match play

High run of 224 balls in straight pool

11,230 balls pocketed in marathon shooting (24 hours)

8,090 balls pocketed in marathon shooting with one arm

World record for most racks of nine-ball run in 24-hour period: 330 racks on live television in Austria, complete runs 1 through 9 (9 balls pocketed on the break or in combination shot did not count)[citation needed]

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