skor said:

... You might think that it’s all there in the open but there are secrets to this game as some things just hide in plain sight, well it used to be… but today the knowledge is out there and you need to search for it.

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You don't have to look very far. The spilling of the "secrets" started with Ray Martin's book, accelerated greatly with Byrne's books, and now info is available indexed and illustrated on Dr. Dave's site.

You do have to filter out quite a lot of ... ummm ... "less reliable" info, some of which is posted here, but you have to evaluate all info:

1. Can you understand it?
2. Is it true?
3. Does it work in your game?

It took me three or four readings of Mosconi's little booklet to understand what was in it, but that's because my game was developing at the time. Much of it didn't really make sense until I had a feel for how to hit the ball. And here are two secrets about Mosconi's book: he didn't write it and there are errors in it that can hurt your game.

Up to the top for some good playing cues

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I went to watch on Sunday afternoon and night, paid around $200 for the hotel room plus $25 general admission ticket. I enjoyed the event but do think attendance was down from 2024. I'm happy to support it, but wonder being a week prior to Thanksgiving can be tough to travel and use vacation time for us working folks.

HawaiianEye said:

I am sure he knew how, but that isn't what he was into.

Teaching someone takes time and most people aren't going to give you a large portion of their time for nothing.

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Well, for real, some of sports people can not teach others. They just do what nature gave them, usually unable to even explain, let alone teach.

Dan White said:

I think it is more than that. I think anyone who has played seriously as a hobby or better already just sees the angles and knows when the shot looks right. You don't have to be world class to do that.

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Very true. Unless a person has some eyesight issues, everyone is very well capable of aiming a cue ball to the object ball correctly. Next, it comes to cue ball delivery (with a cue stick). Here it is the source of all the troubles.

Vahmurka said:

It is not possible to upload a video to the forum directly, but it is very much open to links from any other hosting. One could upload a file to Dropbox or any kind of a cloud storage, make a link to share and... share it

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Thank you very much for that advice. I've never used Dropbox or similar service before but I'll look into it when I get home this evening. That's a terrific idea.

Vahmurka said:

would you elaborate on your personal reason for that? I've always been thinking, why try to fight deflection? Better be a good scholar of it.

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I state in my pdf. that I am not an engineer nor physicist nor a mathmatician. I am nothing more than an insanely curious person about the game. My reason is because when I strike the cue ball at whatever speed I want it to go precisely where I aim it without doing the mental gymnastics of running through all the variables necessary to determine how much it's going to deflect before it arrives at it's destination. I am quite aware that this is a fool's folly but so are many of life's worthwhile endeavors. Perfection is unattainable but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try. It's what drives the human struggle forward and sparks innovation and inevitably, missteps. I do not look at mistakes as failures; rather I think of them as ways that my idea won't work. Onward and upward for being all the wiser.

#Cruncher said:

Just out of curiosity, what is the hourly rate at such a nice place? Adding it to my bucket list to visit someday.

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From a Maps review. This would make it a non-starter for me, if still true: