Some upstanding member here please slap me squarely for using USPS again. Bought a cue and asked for USPS shipment, it's been 10 days since shipment, with a full 5 days to hit the regional distribution center around 60 miles from origin. Now another 5 days and no update. Original estimated delivery was June 4.

And the USPS tracking site now has a banner stating possible delays due to the World Cup. How does the World Cup materially impact USPS?! They were waiting to roll out that excuse for months I bet.

The seller has been great to deal with, no fault to him.

Bob Jewett said:

The way that Maurice Daly put it is:

"[...] I do not know of anything that prevents improvement, that keeps fairly good players back in their game so much as making the wrong shot and then having it come out well. (Daly's Billiard Book, page 171)​

I met one pretty good nine ball player who shot all his three-cushion kicks hard and with lots of draw. He could sometimes make hits that way. I think it's usually the wrong way to play three-cushion kicks.

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I knew a pool guy that hit every shot bottom right, he had been playing that way for decades. I would guess that he eventually figured out he could go 3 rails around the table better one direction than the other, could only kill the cue ball on shots that he hit to the right, and had to cut the ball thinner when cutting to the left vs right.

Both of these are by Aaron Astle.

a lot of the restoration threads end up in the "Talk to a Mechanic" board

a1712 said:

I was leaning towards form and stroke. I see some really strange, to me, ways of holding a cue, the bridge, and the stroke. I was instructed by Mark Powell and from what he taught, and what I see, are far different from what he instructed. Brian.

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All areas are susceptible to wandering off the beaten path. Sometimes that's good, but nearly always it is a less effective way to play. I think would-be trail blazers should ask themselves, "Why is this a better way to play than what others are doing?" "It's my way," is not a very good answer.

InsertCleverNameHere said:

You guys are all so easily sharked.

Never give an opponent's quirk so much energy.

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Its not about being sharked but about paying attention to what you do, if I set my hand down on a pile of rail chalk it inevitably ends up on my shirt, my pants, my face, and my cue. If I have wipe edown the small section of rail I am going to use so be it.

David in FL said:

I may have mentioned it before, but I have that same cue. It's fantastic.

It's been sitting in the trunk of my car in Florida for over 30 years as my "just in case" cue and finds its way out a couple of times a year.

It's still dead freaking straight.


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The cue has a loyal following. Not many people would be willing to sell theirs. I won’t.

j2pac said:

The silent assassin.

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It’s my only cue that made me more money than it cost me. I used to play with it in a bar tournament years ago. I made more prize money than the sum of my entry fees with enough left over to cover the cost of the cue.

trob said:

He’s doing it for views.if you don’t understand the world of social media at this point and how they make money your the retard. And who says that’s the only rack he’s playing ya sped sled. Maybe hes playing against the ghost and working on other things and then playing one rack to see how long it takes him to break and run one rack without taking ball in hand you ass clown.
Hell calling someone a retard makes you the retard.

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That would be you're, not your and yes I understand social media and the concept of click bait titles, and it's RETARDED...

It's really not that difficult, if you can substitute you are for you're, then it's an apostrophe 're'. If you're denoting possession, it's your.

Jaden said:

I want to know what kind of retard only tries one rack a day.

When you want to improve at something you don't practice until you get it right. You practice until you can't get it wrong.

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He’s doing it for views.if you don’t understand the world of social media at this point and how they make money your the retard. And who says that’s the only rack he’s playing ya sped sled. Maybe hes playing against the ghost and working on other things and then playing one rack to see how long it takes him to break and run one rack without taking ball in hand you ass clown.
Hell calling someone a retard makes you the retard.