Thank you Sharivari! I am Alain Martel. You are very patient to have recreated this shot, you brightened up my morning, it was very funny to watch. You succeeded in 92 tries, really strong! Cheer!
For Alain Martel to pull this one off on the first try, with all the pressure of beeing in an actual game, against Jeremy Jones? The stuff of a great champion!
Great shot and extreme creativity, Alain! Do you remember your intention when going for this shot? Were you just trying to get separation between the 2 and the cue? Thank you 😁
@@orandilu989 For sure I remember. I had the choice between two shots since I could not complicate the game by blocking other balls. First the masse by the rail around the 5 ball to touch the 2 ball, I didn't like that choice. It was easier to hit the 2 ball that way but I probably would have left an easy shot for JJ. The second choice was the jump on the rail, I knew that if I touched the 2 ball while jumping several things could turn in my favor ... and the miracle happened! 😊
This was so much fun! I would like to do more entertaining stufff on this channel, of course besides the usual pool lessons. Would you enjoy more videos like this?
Definitely!!! I absolutely loved Rollie's videos from KAMUI, but he has not been uploading since. Watching an "average" player recreate the pros' pool shots is so fun to watch and really makes you understand how difficult those shots were!
I think you need to have a series on shooterspool as well.... You can probably be the first youtuber to crack the pool e-gaming sub genre... Maybe have a couple of subscribers play you in an online match as well?
Amazing how the shot happened right after you let go of your overconfidence and came to level with your own skillset. That's the main lesson I got from this video. Confidence makes you amaze yourself. Humbleness (and perseverance) creates wonders :) Great video as always!
You know how smart people say they are not smart? That’s kinda like me with pool, a lot of people say I’m a good pool player but I don’t think I am and I think that’s what motivates me and drives me to train harder, along with my passion
WOW, definitively a crazy shot by Alain who did it first shot and with the pressure of a real match situation. I lived in Montreal back in the 90s and Alain Martel was the pro in my pool room, I seen him play alot ( even I played 1 match to win a side pot challenge, unforgetable experience even if I lost !!!) So spectacular to watch him play, he is a pool legend here in Quebec and Canada. The Big Dancing Bear is very implicated in promoting pool even today with the younger players. Nice video !!!
This shot reminds me of all the crazy shots that randomly occur in pool, where you say afterwards, "If I was TRYING to do that, I would've needed about 500 attempts!" Making a legal hit on the object ball is a difficult skill shot, but also making the combo is almost pure luck.
@@mikescorpio13 Didn't you ever play against an unskilled banger who lucked in ball after ball? Every league seems to have a guy like that. That's one reason I avoid APA and its slop.
@@garybkatz I played all kind of bangers and most of them are mostly unlucky then sometimes lucky.When luck seems to follow one player in particular then you can assume he is just a lucky dude like Alain Martel in this shot video.He is by far the greatest player i ever played against and a genius around the table. *But for some players luck itself is an art*.
I really appreciate your dedication. Many of us would have never attempted this or would have given up long before a successful recreation. After watching you attempt it so many times, as an accomplished pool player, I have a much greater appreciation that the professional made this in one the first try in a pressure situation.
I’ve been watching this channel for a long time but hadn’t seen this wideo (😂- shout out to the old days) before. Sharivari’s tutorials are always so perfect. But now I wish he would include his mistakes more often. Here I could really feel his personality and humanity when he failed to run out at the end. I feel closer to this channel than ever before and, for the first time, felt compelled to leave a comment. Thanks for sharing your insecurities and so well done for pulling off this 1% shot in only 93 tries!
No way did Alain Martel imagine that shot working the way it did. The fact that you were able to recreate it in less than a hundred attempts was amazing and fun to watch. Shots 26 and 83 were great too! I want to see more like this!
Agreed. That's why I cringe any time I see these videos about this being the best shot in pool. He was just trying to hit the 2 ball. Everything that came after that was pure luck/chance.
Thank you for recreating the shot and your patience in doing so. Regarding the original shot.....It was a really good hit but it was an absolutely lucky pot.
Thank you for attempting the runout. I love to see players runout the rest after recreating an iconic shot. It puts so much pressure after you’ve made a stellar shot
Loved this - you really highlighted what an unlikely outcome this was. So many different elements involved in this shot, even just to hit the 2 and make ANY contact with the 5 - let alone to end up with the successful plant! I think I'd be on 300 shots at least. Great vid, subbed
Very entertaining ... Stuff like this can work on your confidence in both directions. A lesson we all watched you work through. So as much fun as it was, we still got a great pool lesson. Thanks.
This type of video reminded me of a snooker channel called 'Break from life' which recreates impressive shots from recent tournaments (safeties, cue ball control, tough shots, etc.) in the fewest attempts with the greatest recreation accuracy. You're my favorite pool youtuber and he's my favorite snooker youtuber so it brought a smile to my face to see this type of video. Entertaining content, my friend.
I've been watching you since you started making vids, and this was the most fun I've had watching any of your vids. I actually laughed out loud once. Thanks, keep it up
Fun video! Very well done, an extremely tough shot to pull off. Shows how amazing the original was to get first time in a competitive match. When you first asked how many attempts I guessed as 100, but having seen how tough it was in the early attempts I could have seen it being much higher than that even
That's some commitment with something extremely difficult. The creative mind of the player to attempt it shows just how committed they are in these games, only they have one chance, it's success or fail. Keep the dedication going, it's not easy 👍
Huge respect for actually going for recreating this shot. I know it's a reallllllly frustrating one and difficult one to recreate, to even get consistent contact. I was only about 2 or 3 months into pool when I tried this. After 10 minutes of trying, I realized I wasn't going to get anywhere close even in the next hour, so I gave up. Now I have much more skills and knowledge, but I still don't want to try this shot again hahaha Dr. Dave also gave up trying this shot, I believe...
If you watch more closely, the fellow who shot it originally, I think you'll see he held his cue more level, hitting only the very top of the cue ball, and applying more spin by lifting his cue tip upward, instead of down into the ball. Fun video! Thanks, always enjoy your vids.
Man why was this video so damn exciting for me?! I was cheering you on! What did we learn in this video? There's only one Dancing Bear my friend 😂. Salutations from Canada 👋
Congratulations, Dude!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Für solche Shots braucht man eine wirklich hohe Frustrationsgrenze. 😎💪Die erste Einschätzung fand ich auch sehr ambitioniert. Aber, dass das Ding dann SO ausging, wie du es zeigst, ist einfach saustark. 👏👏👏 Den Erfolg kann man dir nur gönnen!!! ❤️✌️
What I love about shooting pool is in your most desperate moments you can make the shot. But trying to practice or making it again, you fail. There's something amazing about it.
I was actually surprised you could do it at all. It is such an improbable shot. I wonder how many tries it would take Alain to duplicate it himself. What I think is that probably Alain was just trying for contact on the 2-ball, which he did pull off, but that the rest of his result was more in the nature of a fluke. Surely he would not say he was aiming for the shape he got on the 2! Alain gets big credit for thinking so creatively, though, and the way it turned out it was indeed one of the most amazing shots we've ever seen. It's a perfect illustration of the fact that in pool there is always more magic in the action of the balls waiting to be discovered or observed.
Year ago I had a guy standing behind me hoping to make me miss a cut shot. I did what you did and made the shot and made the cue ball go right past my head and smack him in the fore head. He said nobody can do that on purpose so I cant get mad at you, but he did not stand behind me any more. Jumping of the rail with high top is easy but you had to do it over the top of a ball a little harder. The trick to it is to have the cue ball be a 1/4 to 3/8 inch off the table when it hit the rail. Then it is the easiest one rail bank in the world to hit someone in the head and very accurate.
In my opinion, Alain only wanted to make contact with the two. But luckily I end up doing the combo 5 with the three... A bit of ingenuity mixed with luck... I think ??? Thank you and Yes that was an Epic shot,,,
Maybe, for the benefit of those who don't know much about pool but can appreciate a cool shot, you could open with some context: It's 9-ball, so the lowest remaining number must be hit first, but any ball(s) can be potted.
Well done Sharivari. Persistence pays, as they say. The most fascinating thing about the original shot is not that he made it, so much as he even was able to read the shot as a possibility in the first place. I've noticed this with pros. They routinely see shots that common "good" players don't. Efrem Reyes was perhaps the top player for invisible shots, so to speak. However, I don't think this would've been a shot that Reyes would have attempted. Rail bouncing was not really in his repertoire, preferring instead elaborate bank shots and impossible carom and billiard shots that he perfected playing French billiards. I now very much regret in my stupid youth having rejected French billiards outright. Like most American kids the first time I saw a French table I laughed and thought "what a stupid idea, a pool table without any pockets". Had I only known. Presently I believe that beginning pool players shouldn't even play pocket pool without at least a full year of true, no-pocket billiards under their belt. No game comes even close in learning angles, effects and power control; which ultimately translates into cue ball placement. Just my 2-cents.
jumping off the rail was a popular trick in the 80's. I think you'll hit it in less than 10 shots. Hell yes I called it. Like all trick shots you have to break it down. First get comfortable jumping off the rail. then work on coming off the ball.
Thank you Sharivari! I am Alain Martel. You are very patient to have recreated this shot, you brightened up my morning, it was very funny to watch. You succeeded in 92 tries, really strong! Cheer!
Dancing bear? Really? So you're a pool shark by day and bachelorette party stripper by night?! Interesting!!
Cheers Alain !
For Alain Martel to pull this one off on the first try, with all the pressure of beeing in an actual game, against Jeremy Jones? The stuff of a great champion!
Great shot and extreme creativity, Alain! Do you remember your intention when going for this shot? Were you just trying to get separation between the 2 and the cue?
Thank you 😁
@@orandilu989 For sure I remember. I had the choice between two shots since I could not complicate the game by blocking other balls. First the masse by the rail around the 5 ball to touch the 2 ball, I didn't like that choice. It was easier to hit the 2 ball that way but I probably would have left an easy shot for JJ. The second choice was the jump on the rail, I knew that if I touched the 2 ball while jumping several things could turn in my favor ... and the miracle happened! 😊
This was so much fun! I would like to do more entertaining stufff on this channel, of course besides the usual pool lessons. Would you enjoy more videos like this?
Yes definitely! I appreciate your effort for this video
Definitely!!! I absolutely loved Rollie's videos from KAMUI, but he has not been uploading since. Watching an "average" player recreate the pros' pool shots is so fun to watch and really makes you understand how difficult those shots were!
Need go Pro cam angle as well
I think you need to have a series on shooterspool as well.... You can probably be the first youtuber to crack the pool e-gaming sub genre...
Maybe have a couple of subscribers play you in an online match as well?
Hell yes!!!
That moment of self reflection and humility just before the success... that was the key.
Amazing how the shot happened right after you let go of your overconfidence and came to level with your own skillset. That's the main lesson I got from this video. Confidence makes you amaze yourself. Humbleness (and perseverance) creates wonders :)
Great video as always!
You know how smart people say they are not smart? That’s kinda like me with pool, a lot of people say I’m a good pool player but I don’t think I am and I think that’s what motivates me and drives me to train harder, along with my passion
And Alain did that on the first try, during a tournament infront of many many many people, while in a match.
Insane!!
Kudos to you to Sharivari!
He was just going for contact, but yea
WOW, definitively a crazy shot by Alain who did it first shot and with the pressure of a real match situation. I lived in Montreal back in the 90s and Alain Martel was the pro in my pool room, I seen him play alot ( even I played 1 match to win a side pot challenge, unforgetable experience even if I lost !!!) So spectacular to watch him play, he is a pool legend here in Quebec and Canada. The Big Dancing Bear is very implicated in promoting pool even today with the younger players. Nice video !!!
Your persistence paid off. Well done. This is the best instructional pool channel on UA-cam.
I guess if rollie isn't doing these kinda videos it's good to it back. Nice pick of a shot
This shot reminds me of all the crazy shots that randomly occur in pool, where you say afterwards, "If I was TRYING to do that, I would've needed about 500 attempts!" Making a legal hit on the object ball is a difficult skill shot, but also making the combo is almost pure luck.
Luck rarely shows up without intentions
@@mikescorpio13 Didn't you ever play against an unskilled banger who lucked in ball after ball? Every league seems to have a guy like that. That's one reason I avoid APA and its slop.
@@garybkatz I played all kind of bangers and most of them are mostly unlucky then sometimes lucky.When luck seems to follow one player in particular then you can assume he is just a lucky dude like Alain Martel in this shot video.He is by far the greatest player i ever played against and a genius around the table. *But for some players luck itself is an art*.
You had me sweating rocks and my heart was pounding as if I was betting my house on you making it. Thank you for not giving up.
I really appreciate your dedication. Many of us would have never attempted this or would have given up long before a successful recreation. After watching you attempt it so many times, as an accomplished pool player, I have a much greater appreciation that the professional made this in one the first try in a pressure situation.
Start over! Wrong side of the table!
Wrong hand!👌🤣
I’ve been watching this channel for a long time but hadn’t seen this wideo (😂- shout out to the old days) before. Sharivari’s tutorials are always so perfect. But now I wish he would include his mistakes more often. Here I could really feel his personality and humanity when he failed to run out at the end. I feel closer to this channel than ever before and, for the first time, felt compelled to leave a comment. Thanks for sharing your insecurities and so well done for pulling off this 1% shot in only 93 tries!
No way did Alain Martel imagine that shot working the way it did. The fact that you were able to recreate it in less than a hundred attempts was amazing and fun to watch. Shots 26 and 83 were great too! I want to see more like this!
Agreed. That's why I cringe any time I see these videos about this being the best shot in pool. He was just trying to hit the 2 ball. Everything that came after that was pure luck/chance.
Great to watch well done.. You normal make everything look so easy.. Your tips have bought my game up to a half decent level.. Keep it up
Thank you for recreating the shot and your patience in doing so. Regarding the original shot.....It was a really good hit but it was an absolutely lucky pot.
Thank you for attempting the runout. I love to see players runout the rest after recreating an iconic shot. It puts so much pressure after you’ve made a stellar shot
Wow, that is call ''patient'' ! And I'm patient enough to see you succeeded 😉
Love your patience with this and willingness to show the process and even the "not even close" attempts.
Loved this - you really highlighted what an unlikely outcome this was. So many different elements involved in this shot, even just to hit the 2 and make ANY contact with the 5 - let alone to end up with the successful plant! I think I'd be on 300 shots at least. Great vid, subbed
AMAZING JOB, BROTHER!! Truly admire your dedication and focus to stay on that!!!! Keep it up and I'll keep watching!!!!
Very entertaining ... Stuff like this can work on your confidence in both directions. A lesson we all watched you work through. So as much fun as it was, we still got a great pool lesson. Thanks.
This type of video reminded me of a snooker channel called 'Break from life' which recreates impressive shots from recent tournaments (safeties, cue ball control, tough shots, etc.) in the fewest attempts with the greatest recreation accuracy.
You're my favorite pool youtuber and he's my favorite snooker youtuber so it brought a smile to my face to see this type of video. Entertaining content, my friend.
Best money shot I've ever seen. You nicely showed how to adjust and adjust to learn a tough shot, great learning video.
I've been watching you since you started making vids, and this was the most fun I've had watching any of your vids. I actually laughed out loud once. Thanks, keep it up
Fun video! Very well done, an extremely tough shot to pull off. Shows how amazing the original was to get first time in a competitive match. When you first asked how many attempts I guessed as 100, but having seen how tough it was in the early attempts I could have seen it being much higher than that even
Insane ! Happy you made it and keep these coming !
Dude this was so fun to watch. Thanks for the solid content, as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Most creative shot i've ever seen.
That's some commitment with something extremely difficult. The creative mind of the player to attempt it shows just how committed they are in these games, only they have one chance, it's success or fail. Keep the dedication going, it's not easy 👍
Such a difficult shot! Great job on sticking with it and pulling it off.
Congratulations! That was a crazy one to begin with, but you made it. Good on you!
I remember watching this shot live. It was the Border Battle challenge Canada vs USA.
I loved this video and I'm glad you stuck with it. 😊
Huge respect for actually going for recreating this shot. I know it's a reallllllly frustrating one and difficult one to recreate, to even get consistent contact.
I was only about 2 or 3 months into pool when I tried this. After 10 minutes of trying, I realized I wasn't going to get anywhere close even in the next hour, so I gave up. Now I have much more skills and knowledge, but I still don't want to try this shot again hahaha
Dr. Dave also gave up trying this shot, I believe...
If you watch more closely, the fellow who shot it originally, I think you'll see he held his cue more level, hitting only the very top of the cue ball, and applying more spin by lifting his cue tip upward, instead of down into the ball. Fun video!
Thanks, always enjoy your vids.
I would like to see the bankshotcombo from Skyler from this year's Mosconi cup. I think you know which one I talking about.
Wow so cool :) Thanks for sharing your skills.
That is one amazing shot 😮wow!!!🎉
This is why you should never give up!🥶💯💯
All that with the left hand, amazing
I think this perfectly illustrates how high level players, really in any sport or game, are just on a completely different level.
NICE ! Quality !
This was great! Would love to see more of these!
I like how you have a monitor in your room to watch footage
Your willingness to try this shot that many times is remarkable.. I sometimes try difficult shots but if I can’t do it after 20 try’s I give up
Crazy he did that in a live game
Nobody can call you a quitter!
Congratulations,that was a tough one.
wow! great video and congrats!
That was awesome 👏
Cool video! Really enjoyed it. Thanks a lot for all your hard work and time.
I think it would take me a thousand tries.
Enjoyed the this video!
That was straight up fun. 👏
A lot of your attempts were really good.
Great video as always! I think you even used the same music as Rollie did when he made his shot recreation videos, would like to see more of these.
Man why was this video so damn exciting for me?! I was cheering you on! What did we learn in this video? There's only one Dancing Bear my friend 😂. Salutations from Canada 👋
Great effort. Once learned proper approach was just about luck of exact speed.
If that was 100 tries, just think the guy pulled off a 1in a hundred shot with no attempts, in a competition, under pressure. Insane
Well done!
Congratulations, Dude!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Für solche Shots braucht man eine wirklich hohe Frustrationsgrenze. 😎💪Die erste Einschätzung fand ich auch sehr ambitioniert. Aber, dass das Ding dann SO ausging, wie du es zeigst, ist einfach saustark. 👏👏👏
Den Erfolg kann man dir nur gönnen!!!
❤️✌️
Vielen Dank 😁
What I love about shooting pool is in your most desperate moments you can make the shot. But trying to practice or making it again, you fail. There's something amazing about it.
Wow! Next is the other side of the table with your other hand, symmetry 😀
Tnx sharrivari
I was actually surprised you could do it at all. It is such an improbable shot. I wonder how many tries it would take Alain to duplicate it himself. What I think is that probably Alain was just trying for contact on the 2-ball, which he did pull off, but that the rest of his result was more in the nature of a fluke. Surely he would not say he was aiming for the shape he got on the 2! Alain gets big credit for thinking so creatively, though, and the way it turned out it was indeed one of the most amazing shots we've ever seen. It's a perfect illustration of the fact that in pool there is always more magic in the action of the balls waiting to be discovered or observed.
Crazy shot! Even though he was just trying to make the 2 down to the corner. Never the less a bad ass shot!💯👍🏼👊🏼😎
One in a million, he made it one in a hundred.
Attempt 26 “I think we’re done, thanks for watching” 😂😂😂😂😂
Dopamin! Gratulation und Danke dafür
Year ago I had a guy standing behind me hoping to make me miss a cut shot. I did what you did and made the shot and made the cue ball go right past my head and smack him in the fore head. He said nobody can do that on purpose so I cant get mad at you, but he did not stand behind me any more. Jumping of the rail with high top is easy but you had to do it over the top of a ball a little harder. The trick to it is to have the cue ball be a 1/4 to 3/8 inch off the table when it hit the rail. Then it is the easiest one rail bank in the world to hit someone in the head and very accurate.
That was great! Definity put a 😀 on my face.
Poor camera man probably wishes he had a tripod. Haha...good work shavari
Fun , nice video , you have fun plus joy. Thanks and I playing better grateful for your videos. Bye Oscar Canada
Thanks Oscar
Nice..I think the cushion jump to 2 ball corner pocket like you did at 9:55 was possibly the shot he was going for
Unbelievable that someone could pull off that shot on the first try at an official game!!!! It's really like winning the lottery - absolute insane🙂
I usually have the best success with either my break cue or a house cue. Higher deflection also makes it easier to jump the cue ball
There can be only one shot to try ofcourse! The famous Z-shot from efren reyes, against earl strickland, which also was the match winning shot....
That's a pretty ballsy shot...especially in competition.
Awesome vid! Next shot should be Jayson shaw bank against Kaci. Even Kaci liked it so much he flipped him the bird.
Next: Efran Reyes' famous Z-shot to sink the five-ball in a nine-ball game.
Thanks for the video and the effort!
In my opinion, Alain only wanted to make contact with the two. But luckily I end up doing the combo 5 with the three... A bit of ingenuity mixed with luck... I think ??? Thank you and Yes that was an Epic shot,,,
I think just hitting the 2 and a rail is a success.
That possibility in 5:26 is surely a higher level of the tried version :-D
Great video and great shot.😎
Bravo! fun video
For what it's worth, the shot you finally pulled off actually looked better than the pro pool player's.
Sometimes there is such a thing as a great shot, and then there is pure luck with an outcome to your advantage!
The body and the brain know perfection and at that moment the player united the two
Congrats for the good effort and result!! I made the Z shot in the 15th try but never again...
Maybe, for the benefit of those who don't know much about pool but can appreciate a cool shot, you could open with some context: It's 9-ball, so the lowest remaining number must be hit first, but any ball(s) can be potted.
10:58 .... Here's the magic happens ❤️.....
You said you have about a 1% chance (2:02) and that turned out to be pretty accurate :D
Original Shot has a certain smoothness . Watch the old hussler , his shot is pure
Well done Sharivari. Persistence pays, as they say. The most fascinating thing about the original shot is not that he made it, so much as he even was able to read the shot as a possibility in the first place. I've noticed this with pros. They routinely see shots that common "good" players don't. Efrem Reyes was perhaps the top player for invisible shots, so to speak. However, I don't think this would've been a shot that Reyes would have attempted. Rail bouncing was not really in his repertoire, preferring instead elaborate bank shots and impossible carom and billiard shots that he perfected playing French billiards.
I now very much regret in my stupid youth having rejected French billiards outright. Like most American kids the first time I saw a French table I laughed and thought "what a stupid idea, a pool table without any pockets". Had I only known. Presently I believe that beginning pool players shouldn't even play pocket pool without at least a full year of true, no-pocket billiards under their belt. No game comes even close in learning angles, effects and power control; which ultimately translates into cue ball placement. Just my 2-cents.
Happy holidays og...😎
Great example of not giving up 😁👍.
Imagine if the 2 ball actually made the 5 ball on the way back 😏
A league teammate played a version of this shot in a match. He actually made the ball he contacted straight in (the short way, not full table).
hint. the key to the bumper jump is elevating the cue - very hard to do for short players.
It's practicing shots like these that would get me yelled at in the poolhall. You should tag Rollie on this, see how many tries it takes him.
jumping off the rail was a popular trick in the 80's. I think you'll hit it in less than 10 shots. Hell yes I called it. Like all trick shots you have to break it down. First get comfortable jumping off the rail. then work on coming off the ball.
very good