Rusty in Montana said:

Sadly my ex wife got our valley table and the house in the divorce , I miss the table way more than I miss her !

A small price to pay to git rid of her ha ha !

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Lol! Why do divorces cost so much?
Because they're worth it!

I have the red and the black. Just like the above, I do like the feel of the black better, but that could be because the red is probably 15+ years old now and the black one is newish.

The biggest thing I get from practice is long stop shots to see if I'm adding unintentional L/R spin. Other than that, it doesn't really do a whole lot.

lfigueroa said:

Well, the black dots seem easier to see.

And my unscientific feeling is that the black plays a bit harder than the red. I always felt the red, for whatever reason, played like it was a of a softer composition.

Lou Figueroa

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The red one alwas felt "light" to me for some reason and looked bigger than the other balls...maybe an optical illusion because of the spots.

mareh said:

I play for about 15 yrs. I have a 9 ft table in my basement.
I just finished my 2nd hour session with an instructor.
My biggest mistake is i didnt took lessons 15 yrs ago. My mechanichs were not solid.
Specially PSR.

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I concur. It took me +20 years to book a session from a very good snooker coach who has an eye for pool also. He was able to correct my mechanics with 3 simple changes in 1 hour and I was kind of lucky it all clicked together. I am still riding this wave almost 10 years, my consistency is really high, despite usually having 2-3 weeks off table due work and family reasons.

I knew all the shots, but I had problems with my consistency. And that was my blocker, I thought I could do it myself, I am analytic, was videoing my playing already for years, but a good instructor knew how to fix issues. And he surely did.

The day after his lesson, I placed 10 reds on a full size snooker table for lineup. I was able to clear the table shooting reds in order with all blacks on my first attempt to make a 107 clearance, my first ever in snooker lineup. My biggest mistake was not to put all 15 reds on the table

Here a 'Short' version of FC's shot!

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And here's a More Difficult version with the CB & OB Only 1/8"=1/4" apart!

At 0:22 of the vid!

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I will be there in the McDermott booth. Stop by and say hi!

mareh said:

I play for about 15 yrs. I have a 9 ft table in my basement.
I just finished my 2nd hour session with an instructor.
My biggest mistake is i didnt took lessons 15 yrs ago. My mechanichs were not solid.
Specially PSR.

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PSR is more about consistent repeatability, finding and staying in YOUR rhythm, that which suits you best. It’s also something that can be depended upon in “big moments”, what some call high pressure situations, to keep you in the moment and to deliver your best stroke and not succumb to the accompanying adrenaline dumps those pivotal moments often create. To see and shoot the shot in front of you, without the importance you’re attaching to that shot in that pivotal moment affecting you and preventing you from delivering your best stroke. To understand that it’s the same shot irrelevant of current circumstances.

jimstone said:

How do you troubleshoot your potting to decide if it is your aim, or mechanics (stance, vision center, grip -stroke) that caused the miss? This has become frustrating for me on long, difficult cut shots.

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Do you overcut or undercut your misses?
If it's always the same, that's easily fixable, but not w/o seeing you hit balls.
I've heard the word Mechanics.... ALLOT.
Someone trying to understand why they miss, does not Need.... a mechanics list of possibilities.