Featured Image Credit: TikTok/ @luke23collins
Topics: Social Media, TikTok, Viral
Poppy Bilderbeck
A TikToker's pool shot has sent social media users' heads' spinning.
Some people are born with it, some people just spend their every waking hour at the bar, pint in hand, practising. Then there's others - including myself - no matter how hard they try, end up knocking a ball off the table, potting the 8-ball or ending up not getting in any of the right balls at all.
That's certainly not the case for this man, however, as his pool shot was caught on camera and has seen him praised as a 'f**king Jedi' - for good reason too.
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A TikTok user called Luke Collins took to his page - @luke23collins - to share a clip from a CCTV video of two people playing pool.
The footage shows the moment one of the players pops their leg onto the table, leans over and aims for the white ball, tapping it a mere few inches and right into the black 8-ball - seemingly making it impossible for the other player to play the final shot and win the game.
Then comes along the other player who strides over, aims up and shoots at the white ball, the black ball bouncing into one of the holes despite how the physics of it all just shouldn't work.
The other player wastes no time extending his arm to shake his hand.
And it's not taken long for people to weigh in.
One TikToker user said: "He’s a f**king Jedi!
"You know it’s mad when the opponent goes to shake his hand straight away," another added.
"He puts spin on the right side of the black anti-clockwise which causes the Magnus effect to carry it to the pocket very hard shot FairPlay."
But - for those of us who aren't regulars at our local dive bar or dropped Physics as soon as we could in high school - what is this so-called 'Magnus effect'?
Well, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics explains: "The Magnus Effect is a feature of airflow around a spinning body that is also moving relative to the airstream (or that has air flowing over it).
"The spinning flow combines with the one-directional flow to produce a net sideways force that, unless balanced out somehow, will push the body to the side."
But is this definitely what occurred in the TikTok video? Some users argued the pool player's cue helped him make the shot.
"Watch it in slow mo. The ball bounces back hits his cue and goes in. Fail," one wrote.
Another added: "100 percent hit his cue."
So, what do you think?