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Summary: Billiards Digest April, 2011
David Alciatore, PhD ("Dr. Dave") ILLUSTRATED PRINCIPLES
"VEPS GEMS - Part XVI: The Massé Shot"
Note: Supporting narrated video (NV) demonstrations, high-speed video (HSV) clips, and
technical proofs (TP), and all of my past articles, can be accessed and viewed online at
billiards.colostate.edu. The reference numbers used in the article help you locate the
resources on the website. If you have a slow or inconvenient Internet connection, you
might want to view the resources from a CD-ROM or DVD. Details can be found online
at: dr-dave-billiards.com.
This is my sixteenth article based on the "The Video Encyclopedia of Pool Shots (VEPS)," an
instructional DVD series I recently created with past BD columnist and good friend Tom Ross.
VEPS contains 750 shot types and principles within 50 main categories and 5 major areas. An
outline of the entire VEPS series and video excerpts from each DVD can be viewed online at: dr-
dave-billiards.com/veps. Last month, we looked at jump shot physics and technique advice,
which is covered on the fifth DVD: "VEPS V Skill and Specialty Shots." This month, we'll focus
on massé shot technique and examples, also covered on the last DVD.
A massé shot is one where you hit down on the cue ball (CB) off center to curve the CB's
path, usually in dramatic fashion. In the early 1800's, a brilliant physicist and mathematician
came up with a remarkably simple way to predict the direction of the CB after curving ceases and
natural roll begins. His name was Gustave Coriolis, the same guy who discovered the "Coriolis"
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