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Razor
Hello Friends,

Long time, no talk. Hope everyone is doing well and hitting em straight. Anyway, I used to practice using this system that I think I learned about here. I don't remember if i can tag people on this forum or not, but I am trying to find that old system I used. I liked the pressure it added at the end as you transitioned to rotation (which I believe was always optional because sometimes I remember "chickening out" lol and just focusing on running all 15 balls in any pocket any order to get at least the minimum score each inning). Anyway you could track your progress/improvement on a simple excel sheet with your scores. Beating your previous best or screwing up on a simple shot in the non-rotation phase also added a little pressure.

I suppose if I describe it as I remember it, someone can point me in the right direction to find the exact rules/scoring instructions.

In short, I think it was 10 racks. Rack, break, take ball in hand and shoot I think a least the first 15 balls in any order / any pocket. I seem to remember the first 15? all counted as a single point, possibly the last 5? or more in rotation counted as more. I used to have a log book of all of my racks. Seemed like I recorded the score after each rack and prior to the next break..

I looked at Bowliaards (sp?) at Dr. Dave's page and I don't think that is it exactly? Anyone remember what I'm talking about?

All my best. Stay safe and hit em straight. Best.

~Razor
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ShootingArts
I didn't exactly like Mickey Thompsons, but I liked the size of them. Being a kid I built a full race 289 for my '65 2+2. I had more in that engine than the car cost new. When I fired it up the building shook so bad lights and windows were in danger of falling! The speedometer was marked to 120, had about another five miles an hour before the needle was pegged. I could peg it in third gear of the wide ratio four speed, still pulling hard. I had meant to drag race it but NHRA changed the rules while I was building it. My pro car was now a hobby car. Chrome didn't build the car so I didn't race it for chrome. It was never beaten on the street when the 440's, hemi's and 454's were prowling the streets. I had stripped all the weight I could out of the little car that didn't weigh anything to begin with and moved the big battery to the rear of the car beside the right rear tire. It would carry the front wheels through first gear and it twisted that little unibody so much I could see the engine between the hood and the cowl!

I could pass somebody at 70 in second or third gear and just being a young asshole I could light up the Mickey Thompson's so much they had to slow down or stop to let the smoke from the tires clear to see where they were going. Fortunately a huge oak limb fell on the Mustang or I would have probably never seen twenty years old. That car would outrun anything but Motorola but one way or another I avoided tickets. It was supposed to launch at 3200, would launch at 2800RPM. If I saw a cop I would "accidentally" kill it leaving a redlight launching at a thousand. With the faded paint and steel circle track rims when mag wheels were in style it didn't look like much.

Hu
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

sjm
HawaiianEye said:
Alex, Earl, Keith, Ronnie Allen, Mike Sigel...there were more than a few.
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Sorry, but these were not the visible players of fifty years ago. Fifty years ago today, the US Open 9ball was having its very first edition and pro pool was still mostly straight pool. Sigel was still primarily an action player that had just turned pro at the time who would hit the competitive mainstream by 1978. I had not even heard of Sigel fifty years ago, let alone seen him. Earl was 14 and had not hit the scene yet. Ronnie Allen was chiefly a one-pocket action player. Based on JAM's posts, Keith was chiefly an action player, too, fifty years ago and would remain such. All of this was long before Youtube, Accu-stats and streamed pool and the action players toiled in obscurity in the backrooms of America. Unlike today, only tournament players enjoyed any real fanfare back then.

It was still the era in which players wore tuxedos in world championships and the game was quite a bit more formal than it is today. There was no event to compare to the Mosconi Cup or the Reyes Cup, events in which players are animated and vocal and crowds go wild and create a party atmosphere in the arena. Pro events had yet to partner with major amateur events, an eventuality that made pro pool highly visible to amateur players. In fact, the BCA and APA leagues did not exist yet.

Off the top of my head, some of the most visible players back then were guys like Ray Martin, Allen Hopkins, Dallas West, Steve Mizerak, Nick Varner, Jim Rempe and Buddy Hall. Every one of them was a great player, but to suggest that they were greater entertainers or more "fast and loose" than today's crop doesn't jive with my observation, and I was attending tournaments even back then.
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Hoboken

Frosty
jtompilot said:
There’s no 1P in the city, what’s wrong with you🤣
I might get some bear spray and take the subway to Skyline Billiards. However Jenifer won’t play me some 1P😢 but she has called in a ringer😂
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Be thankful she won’t. As long as it takes her to get through a rack of 9 ball, I can’t imagine how long a game of 1P would take w/her.
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ShootingArts said:
When the Goodyear fiberglass wide oval came out in the late sixties or early seventies it was the thing. I was a dealer so I put them on everything I owned plus my entire family's vehicles. I was paying $19.95 up for them! I think the biggest I used only cost about $35. Even my little ol' lady driver mother had wide ovals on her car. Cost me eighty dollars total mounted balanced and installed. There was an excise tax I couldn't avoid paying but still less than $90 for the set I put on mom's car! A hundred and a half for the set on my high performance car.

Hu
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For some reason I always had a thing for big tires. More than TNA - size wise anyway.
I remember F70s and the polyglass G60series - :love: Didn't even have a car. :ROFLMAO:
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Pool Ball Collecting.

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Rubik's Cube said:
Hello, Mulambo.

I believe you might be referring to the Aramith Hybrid set of 1996, dear chap. To the best of my knowledge this was the first time the distinctive chequered design was seen on a pool ball.

It’s a special set. There is a gentleman on Facebook who has been trying to persuade me to part with it, but I have given my word not to sell. His latest bid was £1,500.

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Thanks for sharing! Thats the set I meant. I guess I must have seen it in here some time ago, but it would be tedious to dig through 150 pages 🙃

I wonder how many other prototypes have been made over the years, which never saw the day of light...
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

Hail Mary Shot
vintagecollectibles831 said:
Only a little less entertaining? Pool is boring as hell now. All the players using the same exact breaking method, all of the time, lol. It seems like they are all copying each other.

And, what is with that stupid looking Cut Break, that all the pros are now doing? What happened to the days of the random power break?

Now, it is all pattern racking, soft breaks, and all players doing exactly the same thing.

It must have been way more exciting, and interesting, back in the 70's.
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There might come a time where they have to change and add something to the rules again. Maybe re-spot any balls made on the break. You keep the turn for making the balls though but they have to deal with pocketing the ball on the spot.
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

Hail Mary Shot
CocoboloCowboy said:
Pool was bigger 50 years ago, as there was no internet, hi-tech video games, social media, email, texting, online pornography. Pool was recreation, and every town had a Pool Room.

Plus there were only two sexes 50 years ago, Male & Female, there was no third SEX……………..I Call Confused.
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I haven't heard that word for a very long time. It's funny that you said that but in actuality it hold true. The whole 3rd whatever is all BS. Anything that is questionable now, I refer to is "IT" !
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