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Trackballs - how much space between ball and monitor/bezel?
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ABACABB:

--- Quote from: wcndave on August 29, 2012, 08:26:53 am ---On the original game I used the thumbs method.  This gave 95% of the distance, and much better control of direction, spin, slice etc.


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If you're only getting 95% distance, you cannot achieve the backspin.  You need to hit about 110% power to start to achieve backspin and as the website says, the harder your shot, the more backspin - to a certain extent
wcndave:
95% of what I could could do with the open hand method.

You cannot have more than 100% of that....

I was able to get enough backspin, and found that actually too much was not good.

in fact, with a driver (when i might use the hand method) you don't really want / get backspin, and with shorter clubs i found using thumbs and if necessary slightly more club was far more accurate.

anyway, i am not a pro, just saying thumbs method has it's place.

more to the point, the OP should just try it out using some cardboard boxes, that was the original question!
MaxVolume:

--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 29, 2012, 08:05:55 am ---@Max seriously?? flick a tiny piece of paper and that is your comparison to a trackball??  That is not even close to the same thing.  A trackball has much more size, weight and volume than a tiny piece of paper and you don't flick a trackball with your finger like you were describing with the paper.   :banghead:

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Dumbass, it's about using your whole hand/wrist/arm/shoulder as opposed to one finger and a thumb.  It's a physics experiment intended to strip away the assumptions about the relationship between mass and energy, but obviously you're not getting it, especially if you're assuming the tiny ball of paper is supposed to be analogous to the trackball itself.  :laugh2:
MaxVolume:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on August 28, 2012, 01:17:16 pm ---Take the training wheels off child.  Then maybe you will get-it.

Come back when you are full grown.

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So the lesson learned here is that when the unintelligent are backed into a corner they react by attempting to belittle their opponent since they've already accepted that attempting to outwit him is utterly futile.  In situations involving close proximity, this is where they would resort to physical violence because their mental capacity is at its limit.
PL1:


"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
--Author unknown, often attributed to Mark Twain




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