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The most ridiculously complicated trick shot ever. watch!

youtube.com — Not your conventional trick shot, but I'll be damned if it isn't impressive. Ridiculously impressive.

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  • loganhid, on 10/11/2007, -7/+26No. Bloody. Way
    • deminator, on 10/11/2007, -7/+50Rube Goldberg plays pool.
    • DokumentAMarble, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16way
    • Samsong, on 10/11/2007, -2/+44Ooh... Yeh... Bumped the table... Sorry about that buddy....
    • andregriffin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+110I was not prepared for 4 pool tables.
    • Al3x, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I expected them to show a birds eye view and have it spell something...not be just a ton of dominos
    • JasonMaloney101, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1YA WAI!!
    • porterfield, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25...JUST a ton of dominoes?
    • themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3Was that french. If so that trickshot was so gay.
    • Anpheus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33It's not a great trick shot because there was only one shot made. The ramps could all be placed _AND_ tested independent of the dominoes, so once he had those set up it was merely a matter of placing the dominoes and making a simple shot.
    • KIERANMULLEN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Dominoes did all the work...meh
    • FadieZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Lol...all the announcers kept saying was "This is so useless, this is so useless.."
    • alky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They cut every time they go to a new table. It might not have been done in one continuous shot. Still pretty damn impressive.
  • user777, on 10/11/2007, -2/+81now try that without the dominoes
    • redheadguy719, on 10/11/2007, -12/+13yeah, seriously, this is kinda stupid. Has virtually nothing to do with pool, it would just be hard to set up. You could do something equally 'amazing' with like, ping pong balls or something.

      EDIT: others below have said the same thing, so, srry if this is like, a double post
  • Wonkanobi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+30This is older than the tubes that comprise the internets
  • eastdale12, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Okay, that's a bit extensive. I'd rather watch them set up for the shot.
  • vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Did I just see a billiard ball do a waltz-a-roll on a cue stick "tightrope" to the other table? Or is my monitor acting up?

    That truly is an awesome pool trick shot! Very cool video!
    • DokumentAMarble, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19it was two stick right next to each other, it was rolling down the grove between them.
    • 8177, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I don't see a trick shot. I see a shot anyone could do that knocked over that one dominoe that started the chain.

      [edit] well the submitter kind of covers his ass in description. I do agree it is impressive. Just not a trick shot.
  • diizy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41Haha the best part in this is when one of the ladies said this was an incredible waste of time. seriously.
    • kevin.gc, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5I think you just described every domino setup.
    • diggmaddy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I concur. All that player had to do was to trigger the sequence. Real work was in laying it out. Now if only he did it all by himself.... that would be impressive.
  • lostcause, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Normally when videos are labeled "most *blank* ever* I tend to Bury As Inaccurate, but I think this one may be right.
  • sikosmurf, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40How does this take any skill other than the first shot?
    • Gasdark, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8there are many different types of trick shots, but a great deal of the most impressive ones consist primarily of the set-up. This is an almost caricaturish example of the set-up being the impressive part. The initial shot takes no skill, its the pre-setting of the table(s) that involves skill.
    • krummb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Exactly, anybody that had the time could setup dominoes and make sure the balls were placed in the right place to pull this off.
  • shteinb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Imagine how pissed off you'd be for every screwed up practice shot. It must take like 20 minutes just to set up the dominos again.
  • Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35Props to whoever set up the dominoes... That's about it.
  • theskunkworks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I want to see a video of someone just completing their set up for something like this but before they get a chance to set it all in motion there is an earthquake and ruins it all.
  • alostreflection, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16this shot isn't difficult at all from a pool standpoint. I do trick shots myself, and this was a simple english shot into the corner, everything else is timed to fall at the right time. It is difficult to setup im sure but the execution is simple, and the execution is what separates the good shooters from the average. This shot is called a setup shot in trick pool, as long as it is setup properly it'll happen every time. try jumping 5 balls consecutively into a boot that is 5 feet off the table on the floor, that is a trick shot.
    • deose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4alostreflection Is completely right. It is just one little shot that triggers a chain reaction set up to work no matter what. No skill needed here.
  • thorbergdt, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Only that guy.... and Chuck Norris can make that shot... sorry i had to put 'Chuck' in his category.
  • alostreflection, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Sorry for double post.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OVJzkiCiY

    Mike Massey and Eric Yow, 2 of the best in the business
    • everfalling, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1interesting. i'm assuming the object is to make contact with all three balls, even if in the beginning of the shot, not all balls are contacted.
    • everfalling, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1never mind. i looked it up. crazy stuff.
  • cyclox, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0not a trick shot.... a L-A-M-E-S-A-U-C-E shot (@LexisNexis that one was for you)
  • gadgetboy32, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5big deal. I can set up balls to aim for the holes too!!
    WEAK!
  • GCarden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1How many takes did they have to do to get the final version?
  • TocsinFilms, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That's pretty cool in it's own way, but it's pretty ***** lame too. All he did was shoot once and the dominoes did the rest of the work. That's not so much a trick shot. All he had to do was line up one shot and the rest just did it from the way the dominoes was set up. That's pretty ***** lame.
  • champsampson, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2EVER!!!!!!!

    ***** you and your use of the word, Frenchie.
  • seGGy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Burried as spam.
  • everfalling, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1wow, that was super lame. there wasn't even any english on any of the balls. all he did was set off a domino set with pool balls slapped in. hell, with enough preparation, and fairly good aim, i could have set that off just as well. it's a good domino trick, but a very poor trick pool shot.
  • iPsyko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I'm going to try that.

    Crap, i don't have 4 pool tables.
  • TenaciousMe, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3That's not impressive at all. As long as he hits the first domino the rest is set up already. The first shot isn't even particularly impressive.
    • Pureeviljester, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1dugg down for being right =/

      i agree w/ you on that one.
  • toxicshok, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1If rube Goldberg played pool.
  • TSHNG04, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I posted this video 98 days ago and it only got 8 diggs.

    http://digg.com/other_sports/Best_Pool_Trick_Shot_Ever
    • matt0baba, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yes it is also posted in the sport news section...
      see it's times like these i wish there was a VIDEO section on Digg...
      oh no... blasphemy i see a video section at the top!
  • SuperiorKarsch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Had my fingers crossed that the last ball would just come up short.
  • hdtvdust, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, not an amazing trick shot at all. IT was an amazing DOMINO set up. The pool shot itself was very standard for professional trick shot players. Day 1 of basic training for them.
  • bakkouz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I submitted this same video 9 days ago but it didn't get dugg.
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