Xdecemberguy said:

Man..I've seen some insults at Pia but come on. I'll lay down cash on Pia against any of you on here to win a race to 10.. Why all the hate she gets on here..IDK.. She trains hard and competes..put in the time and get the reward.

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skip100 said:

Do we really need to hear the nasty things players say to themselves after missing a shot?

We won't get any Jordan Spieth "dagnubbits", except maybe from Tyler Styer.

Lest we forget: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/oscar-dominguez-in-uk-tabloids-not-good.465274/

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straightline said:

Anything you can hit down the rail without cinching. Pockets with no jaws can go down to 3.25 maybe; just an aperture.

The rest of pool, speed, position - can be mastered. You don't need the hole to give you an angle. Sure there will be trade offs - no more lame safeties for instance...

I post this stuff all the time - nobody buys it out loud. Developing to that degree though, is for the having.

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straightline said:

Not people who can't play.
The feral predator crowd. This one is what kills it.

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straightline said:

A Gus may be analogous to a Strad but their relevance to the respective genres are not of equal merit.
Strads not killing fiddling is a very good analogy. A good Strad enables violin-ing in all its splendor and glory and produces it for those able to traverse its wonders. Those not as musically endowed will produce the more common squeaks, squawks, and clams in the attempt - the fault being in the player not the instrument.

Maybe it's because virtuosic pooling hasn't hit the mainstream that the analogy seems vague. Super tight pockets add context to and reveal precision execution. Buckets will look like pool but allow all manner of sloppiness and crudeness - all swept under the "can't play perfect" rug.
If anything will kill pool, it's the bad guys; not precision equipment.

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maha said:

no, what kills pool is if the rec. players dont come in and get interested in the game it cant grow.

bad players become good and great players. if you ruin the starting experience they never get into the game. as can be seen in the last decades as so many pool rooms died off. and the average is much higher.

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