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  1. Roger Long

    Arizona State Championships

    https://billiarduniversity.org/documents/BU_Rating_Comparisons.pdf This is a link to Dr. Dave's ratings comparison chart. In it he has descriptive player levels which are the ones that the AZBHOF will be using, except that the AZBHOF calls Dave's "Pro/Shortstop" levels Experts and calls his...
  2. Roger Long

    Arizona State Championships

    This tournament is designed to be inviting to all players, not just those who are active in any given league or tournament system. It is a fact that anyone who plays pool can be put into one of four different skill categories. The AZBHOF anticipates that it should not be a huge problem to...
  3. Roger Long

    Arizona State Championships

    The board of directors for the The Arizona Billiards Hall of Fame has decided to undertake the task of becoming a sanctioning body and promoter of Arizona State Championships. The plan calls for at least two championship tournaments per year - one in 8-ball and one in 9-ball. Each championship...
  4. Roger Long

    Shaft Question - how to make slick and remove dry wood feel

    Just for the record, Action does not make any cues that have a finish on the full length of the shaft, nor are any of their shafts made from a terrible grade maple or have a terrible taper. In my opinion, there are only two concerns with the purchase of Action cues: 1) I don't believe they take...
  5. Roger Long

    Wood vs. Carbon Fiber cue ball squirt (with a twist)

    Hi, Dave. You said the Predator Revo shaft creates much less CB deflection than a typical solid maple shaft, but that has not been my experience in the one or two Revo shafts I have tested. I have another Revo shaft that I will test later today. If possible, I will post a video with the...
  6. Roger Long

    HOW TO REPLACE A CUE TIP … No Special Tools Required

    I'm not doubting your word that the guy reduced the size of your ferrule, but when you say that "It always bugged me to see the fibers in the ferrule" I have to say that you were probably going to see the fibers in that ferrule no matter what. That's because of the particular melamine ferrules...
  7. Roger Long

    Wood vs. Carbon Fiber cue ball squirt (with a twist)

    I built a robot for testing the amount of deflection in shafts. What I have found in the shafts that I have tested so far is that the wooden LD shafts deflected the cue ball about half the amount of the standard maple 13mm shaft that I use for comparison. However, almost every carbon fiber...
  8. Roger Long

    Cyclop balls cracking

    Thanks for the info. I suppose that's pretty common knowledge here on AZB, but I haven't been on here in a long while or else I would have already known that. It's probably safest to stick with any ball made by Aramith rather than jump on the bandwagon of the latest thing.
  9. Roger Long

    Cyclop balls cracking

    Has anyone else experienced this problem?
  10. Roger Long

    T. Kennedy update..??

    Hi, gang. I haven't even visited these forums in ages, much less posted anything, so it just might be divine providence that I came here today and found this thread. Up to this time, all information and updates on Tommy were put on the GoFundMe website, and promoted through my Facebook page...
  11. Roger Long

    Arizona's equivalent of the Mosconi Cup

    No, it started out as a totally independent league operated by Bull Shooters. That was when it was just one night on bar boxes. Now, the west side league is a division of Arizona Hot Shots Pool League, operated by Larry Eans, and the east side is a division of East Valley Legacy Pool League...
  12. Roger Long

    Arizona's equivalent of the Mosconi Cup

    The east side and the west side leagues both chose 4 players from each of 4 different rating levels by way of vote from all the players. Then, those 4 elected players in each rating level played a round-robin tournament against each other to see which one from each rating level would be placed...
  13. Roger Long

    Arizona's equivalent of the Mosconi Cup

    After 32 players are signed up to play, the top 8 are identified and made captains. That prevents any of the top 8 players from being on the same team. Those captains are then rated by known ability as 1 thru 8. Then, the remaining 24 players are rated and listed by the league from 1st thru...
  14. Roger Long

    Arizona's equivalent of the Mosconi Cup

    Mike Bates, the owner of Bull Shooters Billiards in Phoenix, is offering his version of the Mosconi Cup on Saturday, March 17 when one all-star team from the East Valley Masters League will meet one all-start team from the West Valley Masters League in the 2018 Masters Cup. This contest requires...
  15. Roger Long

    Test Post

    I've been having trouble posting to this forum. I log in. It tells me I may post new threads and may reply to threads. But then I write my post and click on "submit new thread" and it takes me to a screen that tells me that I'm not logged in. So then, once I log in again, my post is completely...
  16. Roger Long

    Tip glue help

    I'm glad this subject came up because I, too, have been experiencing an unusual amount of tip failures lately. In 24 years of installing tips, I have had only 10 reported failures, 8 of which have happened in the last year. To me, the recent failures are a concern, so I started paying close...
  17. Roger Long

    Question for Dr. Dave on cue weight

    If I may, I'd like to get back to the purpose of my original post for a moment. As I stated earlier, I had built two extensions for a client's cue that when used at the same time made the cue a little too heavy to comply with the legal weight limit. Some might say that the answer to this...
  18. Roger Long

    Question for Dr. Dave on cue weight

    Thank you for that, Bob. Roger
  19. Roger Long

    Question for Dr. Dave on cue weight

    Okay. Bob Jewett, can you help me with this? Roger
  20. Roger Long

    Question for Dr. Dave on cue weight

    And neither can I. After that little aluminum toy came out in the early '90's that made it ridiculously easy to jump a ball, I could understand the reasoning behind putting a minimum length and a maximum diameter on a cue. But to have no maximum length restriction, while putting a maximum...
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