Mensabum said:

I was into Snake/Mongoose. The Garlits, Prudhomme rivalry. Socks and Martin slipped my mind. Shame on me. Always like the short stroke for builds. That engine was the bomb.
Should have left that 340 alone, but what kid in the 70s ever left their engine alone??

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The 289 Ford had the shortest stroke to bore ratio in my manual, 2.87 to 4.0 according to decades old memory. The 302 Chevy was next shortest. Two engines of legendary prowess. I couldn't get away from a few more cubic inches and was fond of the 327 Chevy, another short stroke engine, not quite as short stroked as the first two though since all three had four inch bores. I brought things back in line a bit by punching out the 327 .030. Popular opinion was that it wouldn't stand a bigger overbore for sustained use.

About flow and the zone, they aren't the same thing. Flow is nice, the zone is far nicer! You can have flow without having the wild amount of information coming in that you get with the zone or the ability to sort and process that information.

Firing about three shots a second the noise seems near continuous and I had hearing difficulties since at least early childhood. While in a competition run two men I knew were talking about a pistol issue one was having. After the run was over I walked back and told them how to fix it without having them repeat anything. They were amazed how anyone could hear them talking in normal voices during a run.

Their conversation was of no use to me during the run and I discarded it for the moment without it interrupting the information that did help frame my run. However, I heard and remembered. Similar things happened many times, seeming impossible but proven true.

Sounds a bit like some of the hippie terminology but sometimes I could feel my senses expanding as I entered the zone. I didn't need greater hearing or smell but all five of my common senses expanded, just the way the zone worked. All inputs increased many times over, I didn't get to select which ones did.

I would much like to understand what is going on when we are in the zone. I have to admit that I have heard and read so many wrong explanations that I wouldn't trust anything somebody said or wrote even if they were right.

Hu

HawaiianEye said:

We are playing last pocket 8-ball and your last ball is in the jaws of a pocket and the 8-ball is right beside it.

If I make your last ball into that pocket, does that pocket become your last pocket or is your last pocket the pocket that YOU made YOUR last shot into?

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the pocket that either player has "his last ball left on the table" before the 8 goes in, has to make the 8 in that pocket.

so if you could combo his last ball into a side pocket that would be his pocket to make the 8 in and of course most times would end up being loss of game for him.
and when playing ball in hand you could shoot his last ball in one of the sides if the 8 couldnt easily be made in one even with ball in hand.

Coos Cues said:

My advice is always require a signature no matter how you ship. The few extra bucks are worth it. Had I done this my package would likely not have been stolen. This gives an added layer of protection to you and somewhat insulates you from lazy drivers. I was penny wise and pound foolish and paid the price for it.

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Don't count on a required signature. One of the cues I mentioned earlier that were delayed had signature required on it, but was still left sitting at the door without a signature.

Mensabum said:

I was into Snake/Mongoose. The Garlits, Prudhomme rivalry. Socks and Martin slipped my mind. Shame on me. Always like the short stroke for builds. That engine was the bomb.
Should have left that 340 alone, but what kid in the 70s ever left their engine alone??

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IINM a Tesla would blow the whole Superstock division. Dangerous world.

DeeDeeCues said:

Ferrule: A reinforcement sleeve.
Feral: Semi-wild animal.
Ferral: Not a word.

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Ferral:
Of or pertaining to Ferrari and it's holdings.

That is an absolute amazing cue!!!!! I bet its a beast!

A bit out of my tax bracket, otherwise I would be all over it. Then again, my tax bracket is probably a little south of the average in the cue collection world.

Worth every penny to any collector and player alike

iusedtoberich said:

I don't understand the scenarios you gave. Are you striking one (any) object ball directly with your cue stick, bypassing the CB entirely? If so, that's unsportsmanlike conduct and def loss of game, for any game.

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In every scenario I posted, I am using the cue ball to hit the object ball with a regular legal stroke...no tricky stuff.

anything on the face of your phone, laptop can easily be cast to any modern newer tv without a chord

older units may need an hdmi chord thats all.

I don't understand the scenarios you gave. Are you striking one (any) object ball directly with your cue stick, bypassing the CB entirely? If so, that's unsportsmanlike conduct and def loss of game, for any game.

Poolhalljunkie said:

What's your budget?

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Why is it like pulling teeth to get a budget range from "Looking for" posts? It seems like a waste of time to even respond without some Idea what the budget looks like. But then when they are asked point blank, they won't bother to say? WTF!

for me unless there are many spectators and gamblers around its just a collection of pool tables. and not a social environment.
hope yours gets more exciting than the picture.