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ShootingArts · Monday at 12:11 PM

gregcantrall said:
My visit to the refinery in Canada had us building scaffold to plus 75 feet. Tube and clamp. My first build with an experienced partner had him telling me, "you are incharge until I tell you you are not." I said, "Cool". We got er done .Even had some fun. And a great friend.

Glad to see you back posting! We call that tube lock down here. I have climbed close to three hundred feet on tube lock and 335 feet on a piece spanning about a hundred feet between two units. Hanging slick stainless sheets on an insulated pipe. The sheets were thin, three feet wide by five or six feet long. The wind was howling like usual up there, and I had to let go of about a half dozen sheets before the job was done. I suspect that razor sharp stainless could have cut somebody half in two if it hit wrong at ground level but I was working alone and doing the best I could.

Put together right I would have climbed tube lock to the moon. I hated even eight or ten levels of A Frame scaffolding that wasn't tied off.

Hu

Bavafongoul · Monday at 12:10 PM

Deion Sanders…..who was a pretty good multi-sport athlete said that he couldn’t understand why golf was the hardest
sport he ever attempted. The ball just sits there on a tee, motionless with no defenders to avoid or guess what pitch is coming next. The ball just sits there looking at you saying show me what you got. It is like hitting off a tee in baseball.

In the fairway, the ball does the same thing. Go ahead and swat me,…..swing hard and straight….watch me fly,….but how come it doesn’t do that very much? He said golf was the hardest thing he’d tried to master. How about you? Pool is easy compared to golf and my experience has been that weather is never a factor in pool unlike the game of golf.

Hugh Jass · Monday at 12:02 PM

Bavafongoul · Monday at 12:02 PM

maha said:
bav,

your son shot in the 90's at golf because he played torry pines and that is not a bad score there.

ill bet any 80's golfer if i was around he would shoot in the 90's there from the tips. if he was lucky.

To set the records straight he shot 91 on the North Course but it changed when he played the South Course to 114.

But he hits the ball so hard and goes so far with all the clubs, he has potential to become good. But the boy, even though he’s a adult man but still my son, can’t putt. No sense of touch but he can learn….I hope…..he also hits the balls too hard in pool.

If I posted his workout videos, it is insane to see him do pull-ups with a 50 lb. weight tied to his waist. He is very strong and fit so golf might be his thing. It used to be Phillipino stick fighting and has since become Ju Jitsu. I think golf is the perfect recreational pastime that isn’t injury susceptible like his other interests.

fastone371 · Monday at 11:57 AM

sjm said:
I wasn't watching the match, so this is my first look at the final shot.

While I figured this was a foul based on cue ball direction, I don't think it was as obvious as the Capito foul vs Lechner in 2025. It's bizarre that referees don't understand the principles governing good and bad hits when two object balls are near each other. So often, cue ball direction and/or speed will make the call obvious, but referees need better training. In the end, the referee clearly lacked the needed understanding to call a foul, and given this, could not logically call a foul here. I view this as a "lack of knowledge" situation, not a "grossly mistaken call" situation. Based on the referee's knowledge, the right call was made. Still, referees who don't have the knowledge to judge these situations should not get the nod in the final of a world championship.

If the refs do not know the cue ball physics exactly what do they think they are watching for? What do they believe that they will see with the naked eye that will have a bearing on the call either way??? The sanctioning body really needs to look at that and ask the same question before selecting refs. As far as I know everyvjob onb the

uk_9_ball_convert said:
Two things I disagree with, you said if you were FSR you would be challenging the call, but his view of the table was blocked by Yapp who was directly infront of him as he played the shot so realistically FSR didn't know what happened so was never going to say anything. Wonder what he thinks of it now.

And you think the ref should have taken longer, but someone announced over the tannoy that Yapp was champion almost as soon as the black went in, so that opportunity was taken out of her hands. I feel like the person on the tannoy is partially responsible for it not to have been properly reviewed, pretty hard to roll back a decision after you've publicly announced the champion.

"Tannoy", I had to look that up, I had no idea what that was.
Somebody announcing the winner should not influence her call whatsoever. If everyone in the crown yelled "foul" is she obligated to then call a foul??

Jerry R · Monday at 11:55 AM

I find it a little bit humorous when think about how it seems like forever that we used green cloth and blue chalk.
Now most tables have blue cloth, and a huge percentage of players are using green chalk.

fastone371 · Monday at 11:52 AM

Patrick Johnson said:
I reckon you said this...

pj
chgo

I absolutely said that one. Yeah, the missing windows and the white what I'm assuming were bed sheets being used as curtains floating in the wind outside of the windows were all the clues I needed from I94 to know that I did noy want to be there. Plus its not like it didnt have a not so stellar reputation and everybody knew that landmark even all the way from the freeway.

Lowell · Monday at 11:50 AM

Patrick Johnson said:
The table has nothing to do with that.

pj
chgo

It's all about player skill rather than the table, but I do find that games feel different based on the table type.

Like when I play against my buddies on a 6.5 foot table with huge pockets, the racks go by a lot faster. The shots are easier to make, but there's more pressure to choose the right pattern and run out since my opponent is less likely to miss a shot and give me another chance at the table.

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