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How billiard balls leap over obstacles

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To pop a sphere over a blocking obstacle, you don't scoop it like an ice cream cone. You must violently angle the stick downward, compressing the ball aggressively into the slate table so it forcefully rebounds up into the air like a startled grasshopper.

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