I am a fairly new AC player and this really is not clear to me. I think a follow through shot-by-shot animation of how the plan would be executed would be really helpful. I cannot get the plan from the explanation given.
Thank you for your comments. As a quick fix I have changed the wording in the explanation above. Hopefully it should be clearer now that Red is the striker ball, and it is planning on how to get to Hoop 2, and set the lawn for further hoops.
@@johnhutchison6144 Thanks for taking my comments into account. I did get the plan once I realised that red was the striker ball. My initial, wrong guess was that black was the striker ball, maybe because blue was being used as a pioneer to hoop two and the logic worked backwards from there. Now that I get some of the plan it is a helpful example. I have found the other videos in the series helpful, particularly the one on the stroke set which gave hand positions on the mallet. Thanks for doing these. Richard (member at G&GCC playing AC since January. AC Handicap 20). I have watched the video again. At my stage of learning and development as a player, the explanation is still too truncated for a beginner at my level to fully grasp. You miss out the step of rushing yellow as the reception ball after hoop 1 to get a croquet shot that will be a drive (?) to leave yellow at 3 and the red with a rush on black to get it behind blue, then some kind of croquet shot to get red onto a rush line on blue that will allow to rush blue in front of hoop 2 (leaving black in a place unspecified (but presumably as pivot so that blue can go to hoop 4? At least I guess that's the plan. If the plan is to leave black on the boundary then I think it is not a great plan. I would want to give thought as to how to get black back to a pivot ball position so that I can drive blue to hoop and roquet on black to take off to yellow. Thoughts? I think it would be better to leave black nearer the middle and do a take off to get onto the rush line behind blue, i can see that it is easier to get behind blue if black is further over, but it also means that the croquet shot with black will need to get red behind blue and get black back nearer the middle. If this is not helpful to you then please ignore it.
@@richardperkins45 The reason for sending Black right over is to assure a perfect position on Blue. A take off to Blue from any real distance could be risky. The Black ball would be stop shot into the lawn as far as possible....maybe only feet. But this would still be an improvement on where Blue lies now.
@@wnh79 that's really helpful, thank you. That red onto yellow is about to play then makes the diagram clearer. That wasn't clear to me from the explanation given in the video.
I am a fairly new AC player and this really is not clear to me. I think a follow through shot-by-shot animation of how the plan would be executed would be really helpful. I cannot get the plan from the explanation given.
Thank you for your comments. As a quick fix I have changed the wording in the explanation above. Hopefully it should be clearer now that Red is the striker ball, and it is planning on how to get to Hoop 2, and set the lawn for further hoops.
@@johnhutchison6144 Thanks for taking my comments into account. I did get the plan once I realised that red was the striker ball. My initial, wrong guess was that black was the striker ball, maybe because blue was being used as a pioneer to hoop two and the logic worked backwards from there. Now that I get some of the plan it is a helpful example. I have found the other videos in the series helpful, particularly the one on the stroke set which gave hand positions on the mallet. Thanks for doing these. Richard (member at G&GCC playing AC since January. AC Handicap 20). I have watched the video again. At my stage of learning and development as a player, the explanation is still too truncated for a beginner at my level to fully grasp. You miss out the step of rushing yellow as the reception ball after hoop 1 to get a croquet shot that will be a drive (?) to leave yellow at 3 and the red with a rush on black to get it behind blue, then some kind of croquet shot to get red onto a rush line on blue that will allow to rush blue in front of hoop 2 (leaving black in a place unspecified (but presumably as pivot so that blue can go to hoop 4? At least I guess that's the plan. If the plan is to leave black on the boundary then I think it is not a great plan. I would want to give thought as to how to get black back to a pivot ball position so that I can drive blue to hoop and roquet on black to take off to yellow. Thoughts? I think it would be better to leave black nearer the middle and do a take off to get onto the rush line behind blue, i can see that it is easier to get behind blue if black is further over, but it also means that the croquet shot with black will need to get red behind blue and get black back nearer the middle. If this is not helpful to you then please ignore it.
@@richardperkins45 The reason for sending Black right over is to assure a perfect position on Blue. A take off to Blue from any real distance could be risky.
The Black ball would be stop shot into the lawn as far as possible....maybe only feet. But this would still be an improvement on where Blue lies now.
Nice. But it is not clear who's has the next play.
Red onto yellow is about to play.
@@wnh79 :Yellow onto red seems easier.
@@wnh79 that's really helpful, thank you. That red onto yellow is about to play then makes the diagram clearer. That wasn't clear to me from the explanation given in the video.