fuggles said:

Unless you are playing Ultimate Pool rules. That would be loss of game.

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Makes sense - like tapping out. I'm not the strategist here but I see the expedition rules as enabling clusterforks.

Food for thought:

Unless you are shooting a perfectly dead center shot to hit dead center on an object ball, the INSIDE half of the cue ball ALWAYS hits the object ball no matter what spin you put on it.

If you are cutting left, the left side of the cue ball hits the right side of the object ball.

If you are cutting right, the right side of the cue ball hits the left side of the object ball.

In BOTH cases the inside of the cue ball touches the object ball.

The OUTSIDE half of the cue ball NEVER hits the object ball, unless you can't aim a lick.

Shouldn't it be easier to aim the half of the cue ball hitting the correct half of the object ball than aiming with the opposite side of the cue ball?

I aim point-to-point.

I still think they should limit up table balls and penalize anything over with a loss.
Alternatively, first ball over the limit would be rewarded with a win.

Unless you are playing Ultimate Pool rules. That would be loss of game.

And look out for your prostate.

Initiate a charge back on your credit card. You're F@cked.

DrCue'sProtege said:

After the afternoon football games today I went downstairs and got the laundry started. So I then started to break some racks of 9B. I hadn't played in three days, sort of took a break from all the horrible rolls and spreads. The first five breaks - nothing - no chance. So I said to myself one more break and if there's no chance I am throwing in the towel today. This is what I got:

https://pad.chalkysticks.com/586ea.png

I just about threw the break cue. So I tell myself one more time. And I end up with this:

https://pad.chalkysticks.com/d48ec.png

I threw the break cue down on the table, shut the light off, and came upstairs.

20+ years of the same old stuff. It just never ends.

p.s. before anybody says anything, yes, there were other balls on the table. I am just showing the position of the CB and 1B.

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You’re making 7 balls on the break, that’s awesome!

Quit trolling seems like the obvious recommendation.

Humans don't multitask well.

SmoothStroke said:

Didn’t the thesaurus freeze to death millions of years ago? I’m a little behind.

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Think it was a big dust cloud.

The problem with pool in the US is an image problem. In numerous other countries there is a different perception of cue sports than here. You can't draw crowds of spectators to something that is generally seen as distasteful. Hustling is part of the problem. The bar scene is part of the problem. The lack of quality leagues for younger people to be involved in is because of pool's image problem. Everyone here knows this. We all know how the game is perceived. SVB and a few other players have been working on the 'opportunity for kids to be involved' part of it, and proper respect for the work they are doing. However, most parents would rather their kids join a soccer team or participate in school sanctioned clubs than go to the pool hall. Without a new generation of players this sport will be dead here in a short time.
In America, this great game doesn't attract our best athletes or thinkers. Because of it's image. Period.

Your break sux. You should be making the 1 ball a significant amount of times. Also your cb shouldn't be on the rail. And I believe all this has been said before. Not sure why you keep posting about this.

eg9327 said:

"Inside is your friend" is often quoted. I've never have taken the time to get comfortable with it on anything but short cuts where I need to shorten the rebound on the first rail. Well, also on corner shots where you need three rails back to the middle. For center and outside I aim, and when I'm comfortable, I pull the trigger. No biggie. On inside I actually get a feeling of discomfort and disconnect. It is an odd sensation. I guess I just need to hit 10,000 balls with inside to get over it.

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Inside is the same as outside when aiming to me, a feeling of discomfort is a mental thing, one of my mental hurdles is pulling my cue back when I draw the cueball, I'm working on it, Bob Jewett said in another post it's hard to unlearn a bad habit because under stress you will revert to the original way you learned it, I find that to be true but also helpful in breaking the bad habit, you can choose to work to overcome a bad habit or fear of Inside English or limit your pool game by limiting the shots you are able to perform.

This is a very good point , thank you.

Don't post this again and just contact them directly.

muskyed said:

So it's easier to draw a picture than take a picture with your phone? All sounds like BS to me.

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I've posted pics before.

If I saw one for sale I probably wouldn't know exactly what I was looking at. If you post a picture of the one you are looking for it may greatly improve your odds of finding one.