I meant if you do that on the new Diamond. Get perfect breaks but then the pockets are too tough and you can't get out. Will you be happier or sadder compared to today on the GC?
A lot of chatter here about what's wrong with Team USA and what we need to do to fix it. I'm sorry but none of the above is the answer. There is a reason why Shane became Shane and not just another American player. He actually grew up playing on bar boxes but made the transition to big tables by devoting himself to the game and whatever it took to be the player he is. It did not happen by accident. Shane put in the twelve hour days for years to get where he is. There is no short cut to pool stardom. It takes work and lots of it!
I've personally witnessed the practice regime of some great players who stayed at my home for periods of time. For years I had a really tough Diamond Pro table and players like Dennis, Carlo and Shane would spend day and night on that table until they had it mastered, or close. I'd wake up in the morning to the sound of pool balls and go to sleep at night to the same sounds. I saw real dedication by guys who wanted to be the best.
It makes me think the current crop of U.S. players does not do anything like this. Maybe they go to the poolroom every day (or on their home table) and hit balls for a couple of hours and hang around and smooze with their friends there. I don't think they take the game as seriously as the aspiring Euro and Asian pros. To them (Euro and Asian) they see a way to make a good living if they can win, so they make the necessary sacrifices to get there.
And Shane only did that because of his disability.
It's not that we need a few more guys to do this and we are all set, we need a culture where it's really freaking cool and aspirational to be one of the best players in the world. You need hundreds of guys spending 10 hours a day working on their game for at least a few years to see if they can break through, then maybe a few will
I have 3 Ultraskins on 3 of the shafts. Medium, Very Soft and Pro. Medium have good amount of draw on it. my son uses that shaft with his cuestick. I use both the V/S and Pro. V/S has very good amount of draw. Pro has ridiculous spin and is my favorite. personally, it's a premium tip at an affordable price. too bad the shipping cost as much as the tip. luckily I found the Pro somewhere with no ridiculous shipping fee.
I have a someone that does just tips and ferrules locally and they were going to remove finish on an old Dufferin I have. How do they do that near the logo at the butt end so it doesn't melt? I've heard this is common.
Mika grew up playing Kaisa in Finland, where the pockets are so tight that they barely accept a single ball. It's no accident that he became such a world class shotmaker.
This is what a Kaisa table looks like. Check out the size of those pockets:
A lot of chatter here about what's wrong with Team USA and what we need to do to fix it. I'm sorry but none of the above is the answer. There is a reason why Shane became Shane and not just another American player. He actually grew up playing on bar boxes but made the transition to big tables by devoting himself to the game and whatever it took to be the player he is. It did not happen by accident. Shane put in the twelve hour days for years to get where he is. There is no short cut to pool stardom. It takes work and lots of it!
I've personally witnessed the practice regime of some great players who stayed at my home for periods of time. For years I had a really tough Diamond Pro table and players like Dennis, Carlo and Shane would spend day and night on that table until they had it mastered, or close. I'd wake up in the morning to the sound of pool balls and go to sleep at night to the same sounds. I saw real dedication by guys who wanted to be the best.
It makes me think the current crop of U.S. players does not do anything like this. Maybe they go to the poolroom every day (or on their home table) and hit balls for a couple of hours and hang around and smooze with their friends there. I don't think they take the game as seriously as the aspiring Euro and Asian pros. To them (Euro and Asian) they see a way to make a good living if they can win, so they make the necessary sacrifices to get there.
P.S. Attendance looked rather sparse in there. Maybe even the Euros have begun to lose interest in this annual bloodletting.
The collision model is based on Chapter 5 Section 2 of Stronge W.J., Impact Mechanics. The model approximates the effects of "tangential compliance", i.e. the springiness of the rail parallel to the rail.
Prior to this, I used a classic impulse model for all collisions. The tangential forces were purely due to friction, and didn't account for tangential compliance. In that case, these banks were difficult or impossible to reproduce.
I briefly tested ShootersPool and I was able to get the 2x bank to work, but I couldn't get the 3x bank. I'm curious if ShootersPool or any other pool simulators can reproduce this effect.
Here are some technical details for the few who might be interested:
There is no numerical integration to solve differential equations; it's all done with simple harmonic motion equations that can mostly be solved directly for the final velocity at the contact point. The exception is some numerical root finding. I haven't measured anything yet, but I expect this is much faster than a numerically integrated model without much loss in accuracy. It's probably only slightly slower than the classic impulse model.
I meant if you do that on the new Diamond. Get perfect breaks but then the pockets are too tough and you can't get out. Will you be happier or sadder compared to today on the GC?
There's no way the cat could give you trouble for this, right?? No cease and desist, that sorta thing??
This is on AZ after all - by you.
Just askin...
Tournament was in Wichita, I live close enough to follow the Facebook page of the pool room that hosted it. Jamie (sp?) Cockrum won it and played quite well from what I saw.
This was no disrespect to Greg, who might be one of the most dedicated players in the country in his own right...
not entirely correct.
European pool is rooted in snooker which used to be bigger than pool in most of Europe.
Snooker is regularly broadcast on Euro Sport (European sports channels) and this made popular in most of Europe.
Shaw comes from snooker but most of the younger players have already born into pool, but again, the game is rooted in snooker and many clubs have both type of tables.
Some countries have different games that usually require a lot more skill than bar box 8 ball, like the Kaisa in Findland
Mika grew up playing Kaisa in Finland, where the pockets are so tight that they barely accept a single ball. It's no accident that he became such a world class shotmaker.
This is what a Kaisa table looks like. Check out the size of those pockets:
Maybe the Oscar, Lukas Jeremy Sossei and others figured that you can spend the time and money, but will never be picked once you don't earn the points. The picks are reserved for buddies in the USA ... and there you have the problem my fellow countrymen.
Btw, Greg Hogue, who I just watched lose two straight sets to a 620 Fargo in a barbox 9-ball tournament last week, was 1 rack away from qualifying for the Mosconi cup on points a couple years ago. Miss me with this "but, but, but life's not fair" BS
However, at least what I heard is was that the Europeans where holed up practicing on said equipment for a couple of weeks prior, while our guys where playing at various events here in the States on completely different equipment.
This is gonna be fake news. Are we to believe that Matchroom, who desperately wants/needs the USA to be competitive, is actively giving Team Europe an advantage like that?
. If I had lost 15 out of the last 18 times I’d at least ask for the wild 8. They’re just in a bad game that’s all…