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Re: Fatigue Poisons

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Originally Posted by Pyrotex View Post
Example: you got a pool table, cue ball, and a "set-up" for a trick shot involving 8 other pool balls. Hit the cue ball at the right speed, and all 8 pool balls go in the pockets. Let's say it takes 4.0 seconds for all the balls to drop.

Now, can you do the same shot in 2.0 seconds? No. Hitting the cue ball twice as hard is NOT going to make all the other balls merely go twice as fast to their pockets. It will also change the angles they travel, the amount of spin they carry, and their timing when they cross each other's paths. The shot will get totally screwed up. Balls that weren't supposed to touch, now glance off each other. Balls now have too much or too little spin to make the right bounces off the cushions. You'll be lucky if any of them drop.

Extremely good analogy.


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