Playing the Smallwood video on youtube at .25x speed lets me see that indeed Smallwood does have a tiny bit of tilt, maybe 1 degree or so. The ball is just ever slightly leaning over to the right as it rolls down the lane.TonyPR wrote:It seems to me there are various types of full rollers today:
1) Nord: classic full roller, 0* tilt, tracks between thumb and fingers
2) 0* tilt but doesn’t track between thumb and fingers just like jimmydanny or like I used to be when I had 0* axis tilt (I used to track almost clipping the MF)
3) Tom Smallwood: tracks between thumb and fingers but does not have 0* tilt... yes, Mo said it somewhere and I am trying to find where but he said Tom actually has axis tilt so he’s not really a full roller by axis tilt definition but tracks between thumb and fingers.
4) Over rolled full rollers, have actually negative axis tilt
I would someday like to roll someone’s ball that’s laid out full roller to see what it does with my 2.5-5* of tilt. If I like it I may drill myself one without a thumbhole and maybe use an interesting balance hole...
See the attached screen cap that I took of his ball.
I put lines on it lined up with the spin lines on his ball.