Amazing Pool Table Shots
A trickshot is when a pool cue strikes one or more balls on a billiards table, and the balls react in an odd or unexpected way. There are sanctioned trickshot world championships such as the WPA Artistic Pool World Championships, and made-for-TV events such as the World Cup of Trick Shots. Unlike artistic billiards, in which competitors must perform over seventy pre-determined challenges, trickshot competitions usually allow the players to make up new tricks. However, there are many standard tricks, and serious players will often have a large notebook of trickshot designs that they bring with them to competitions. Here is an amazing trickshot video from the Czech Republic:
Texas Globetrotter
The Harlem Globetrotters are world famous entertainers who have turned the sport of basketball into performance art. Now comes Tim Nolan, a professional juggler and basketball entertainer who has performed at The White House, Busch Gardens, The Guinness Museum in London, The Super Bowl, The World’s Fair and holds the Guinness record for bounce-juggling 11 balls. Tim is gaining a large following for his amazing ability to juggle balls, clubs, rings, torches and knives.
Juggling “is a great way to express yourself,” says the 36-year-old bachelor. “I feel as though it’s a perfect blend of the mind and body. Your mind has to keep thinking about what you’re going to do next . . . and your body has to be able to do it. There’s movement and motion and expression. And the tricks are endless. Just when you think you’ve seen everything, somebody else comes along and does something you’ve never seen before.”
Blind Golfer Hits Hole-in-One
Robert Dunham, an 85-year-old legally blind golfer from Arizona, made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Dunham, a World War II vet, was playing with a group of fellow blind veterans. His volunteer assistant lined him up with the ball, handed him a 9-iron and stepped aside. Dunham swung through the ball and hit it squarely. The ball landed softly on the green, took one hop and fell right into the cup. Dunham’s group erupted into cheers and high-fives.
“I thought they were kidding me,” Dunham said. “I told them, ‘You guys better not be pulling my leg.’”
Golf Digest puts a PGA Tour pro’s chances of a hole-in-one at 1 in 3,756 and an amateur’s at 1 in 12,750. Sports Illustrated puts the odds at 45,000 to 1. No word on what the odds would be for a blind golfer.
