ShootingArts said:

The table was one of those things. Two different youngsters wanted to finish with a decisive victory in a set. As others found out over the years, when it isn't important I might bang around. When it gets important to them, it gets important to me. Where I had been ambling around the table I start walking with power and impulse. I come down on the shot with purpose. It is like going from driving down the street to driving a race car.

Speaking of driving, I have drove manuals most of my life until recent years. A cousin asked how I always found cars with manuals. I told him I didn't look at ones without them! Later I drove race cars with standard transmissions and no clutches. Sometimes shifting without even lifting the throttle on six hundred horse plus engines, stronger than an engine that outdynoed Bobby Allison's engine forty horses on Bobby's dyno. Shifting like that with that drive train was gonna cost a lot of money if you missed, anything from engine to quick change rear!

I owned and drove a few eighteen wheelers too. At times it was the same deal, you got one chance. A lot of situations when you had to get it right fast including people pulling right on the rear bumper on a hill at an intersection to try to get an insurance claim.

Driving a car is a fine example of nonverbal thinking. You dodge potholes and rough spots without even noticing.

The wildest autopilot story was my grandmother. She would drive sixty miles home sound asleep, mostly over bad road! The start of it is the stretch of river road that the biker's got killed on in the old Peter Fonda Easy Rider movie. Us kids thought it was funny and we would watch her with her eyes closed and snoring softly all the way home! She had to be very tight with the man upstairs!

Back when I went to school we had five senses. Now I read we have over 140. I think some of those other senses and maybe some still to be found come in handy sometimes. I paused for a second or two to carefully verify my sight picture before placing my last two shots to set a record of the first perfect score after fifteen years of a competition that world class shooters had shot in. My riding partner was dying when I paused in the middle of a high speed run. On the way home I told him he was directly behind me urging me on with his hands half up when I paused.

He thought about that. "You are right. How could you know?"

"The zone."

Sometimes there is magic in the air and there is still a lot we don't know.

Hu

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kpfleming said:

Speaking of that coverage... does anyone know of a place where I could watch the end of the FSR v. Capito final? The ESPN streaming service cut off the broadcast when ESPN2 switched to a different event, and the score was 9-8 FSR I think.

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jay helfert said:

All things being equal I prefer watching Predator events for one big reason. They use traditional ball colors! Makes for easy viewing of matches, no squinting to figure out which ball is which. It actually makes a huge diiference! I enjoy watching a helluva lot more.

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jay helfert said:

All things being equal I prefer watching Predator events for one big reason. They use traditional ball colors! Makes for easy viewing of matches, no squinting to figure out which ball is which. It actually makes a huge diiference! I enjoy watching a helluva lot more.

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garczar said:

An old sage at the 'hall years ago told me this: pool players will bitch if not hung with a new rope. Some things never change.

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BasementDweller said:

I like what Matchroom has done with 9 ball. Their production is really good and the tournaments are enjoyable, but I'm afraid the WNT is going to peter out. Ultimately, I think they made a mistake going all-in on one game. I'm a fan, but I'm finding their tournaments are all having the same feel, and it's hard to distinguish one from another. The same setting, the same gray cloth, and the same players, doing the same thing in a different location.

I don't really like 8 Ball, but maybe they could have added more variety to their calendar by adding the other disciplines, or at least a single 8 ball tourney and maybe even 10 ball. Either that, or they need to figure out a better way to differentiate their tourneys. I could be totally wrong, and they are just running into the limitations intrinsic to pool. Plus, I do understand that there are competing organizations. I also do think 9 ball is a great game for professionals. But -- if I'm losing interest as a fan, surely there's something they could do differently.

Anybody else feel like all their tourneys are just bleeding into each other?

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BasementDweller said:

I like what Matchroom has done with 9 ball. Their production is really good and the tournaments are enjoyable, but I'm afraid the WNT is going to peter out. Ultimately, I think they made a mistake going all-in on one game. I'm a fan, but I'm finding their tournaments are all having the same feel, and it's hard to distinguish one from another. The same setting, the same gray cloth, and the same players, doing the same thing in a different location.

I don't really like 8 Ball, but maybe they could have added more variety to their calendar by adding the other disciplines, or at least a single 8 ball tourney and maybe even 10 ball. Either that, or they need to figure out a better way to differentiate their tourneys. I could be totally wrong, and they are just running into the limitations intrinsic to pool. Plus, I do understand that there are competing organizations. I also do think 9 ball is a great game for professionals. But -- if I'm losing interest as a fan, surely there's something they could do differently.

Anybody else feel like all their tourneys are just bleeding into each other?

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