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Did Adam ever build Karella cues?

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vintagecollectibles831 said:
Okay, I guess they may have been made in Thailand, if that is what the 3rd Edition Blue Book noted.


I wonder if the quality was any better than others.
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Wipe this from your memory banks. Aside from part of Pete Tascarella’s name makes up Karelia, Pete walked away from that business concept at the very beginning. Don Spektar, owner of Competition Sport, continued the business, working with various mass production builders. Spektar liked the name and kept it.
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Drills to correct your alignment

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Paul_#_ said:
It is often sold as a HAMB drill that will improve your game by practicing it every day for months.

Can't it be useful in some other fashion? Can't someone develop a calculatus-eliminatus method of learning from it? Something like:
If you cannot achieve 80% or better, review stroke with video;​
If on stop shot,​
cue ball spins right after hitting object ball, you are not hitting center ball---hit more to the right (and vice versa);​
cue ball follows object ball, you are hitting too high on cue ball---hit lower on cue ball;​
If you miss more often to one side than the other:​
try aiming more to the opposite side;​
try finding your vision center and line up eyes and cue stick accordingly;​
if missing to the right, move back foot to right (or is it left?);​
buy Joe Tucker's 3rd eye to determine if your center is not the real center;​
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and so on . . . . . ​
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FWIW, if you can't follow a ball picture perfect from 3 feet, why TF are you doing the "might" X drill?
Keith M was known for his ability to shoot a ball on the middle spot from corner to corner on the impossible golf table at the Bellflower Palace. Somebody here said jawed cue ball too. But like I said, advanced.
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(Un)Popular Opinion on Fargo Rate

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Coos Cues said:
In our recent BCA regional event the "elite" bracket included every entry with a fargo rating 600 and up. There were 52 entrants. I didn't try to find the average fargo for the field but I can assure that we have a lot of very sporty players in the mid to upper 600s who played.

The event was won by a legit 606 with a lot of robustness who has been around a long time.

Fargo probably would have given him less than 1/10th of one percent chance to win the event using their math, systems and algorithms. Probably close to zero within the margin of error. But he won it. By winning 8 matches he was the dog in all but one. Many of them a huge dog.

With over 4k robustness he's now a 611. Still lower than almost every single opponent in that event.

Here are the actual results entered into the Fargo calculator. View attachment 898720

So I don't buy that it is deadly accurate predicting winners and this was a two day event not a single match.
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I play in that tournament every year and I know many of the players. One tournament doesn't define a handicap. And if you run that event bracket twice no way that guys wins again. Stuff happens
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Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

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bbb said:
so he misses and now his opponent runs out and wins
good advice....;)
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Have you any idea how simple it is to rattle balls in? It's like uh, go practice that stuff. Major drill that I would do is trying to jaw balls. I copped this from Al Romero who was able to rattle a ball in 5" jaws at speed. Ball just rattled and stopped right there in the jaws. In trying to duplicate this - it's a one hole trap amongst other things - I discovered how much those balls want to fall. If the shot is in spec, there's nothing you can do to stop 'em.

Back to Yapp and his favoring english; he shot that like he was doing surgery next to an artery and well...
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