[thedirt0115]

The author was a mechanical engineering professor who loves pool. These slow motion videos are more physics demonstrations than instructional.

Not many people know how to jump the cue ball legally, and even fewer know how to control the spin on a jump shot, so I thought these different jumps were interesting: https://billiards.colostate.edu/high-speed-video/hsv-7-23/ https://billiards.colostate.edu/high-speed-video/hsv-7-24/ https://billiards.colostate.edu/high-speed-video/hsv-7-25/

If you're looking for more instructional videos, check out the normal speed ones on https://billiards.colostate.edu/normal-video/

[ianai]

They appear to be good videos for seeing the real time physics at play. If you want to cue ball to not fall into the pocket on a direct shot then it needs to be spinning backwards from the direction you push it, for instance. That particular video showed the needed spin and actions at play well.

To really appreciate this content might need a little basics course on billiards. It’d probably be really useful for someone practicing a hobby and trying to get tactics practiced and analyzed.