pwd72s said:

My daughter is a 53 year old RN with years of ER and OR experience. She has told me some tales. So, all I can say is be careful with that.

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It's crazy how many people "slip and fall" onto objects.

u12armresl said:

There is only one person on this forum qualified to give break advice. He's studied the tapes, bought the equipment, and is a student of the break.

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I think he broke.

Chili Palmer said:

Look into using Calibre and plugins. I have Calibre for a bunch of other ebooks that I have but have never tried doing this so not sure what the success rate is but a quick google search should get you going.

"can i download my kindle books to my computer for calibre" are the search terms I used.

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Couple things, they never give you the file and you need Prime forever (I think).

u12armresl said:

I'm only in Season 2, but I figured someone knows or has played in that hall. It had ping pong tables too.

Now all they need is a golf simulator, bowling, pool, and a table for dominoes, maybe a dedicated chess table.

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Oh man wait till they introduce Root. Wrong season I guess. Heavy stuff that show.

Look into using Calibre and plugins. I have Calibre for a bunch of other ebooks that I have but have never tried doing this so not sure what the success rate is but a quick google search should get you going.

"can i download my kindle books to my computer for calibre" are the search terms I used.

jtompilot said:

I don’t know why WNT keeps undercutting the most prestigious 1P in the world. Buffalo has had the tournament the same weekend since before WNT was even a thought. I wish Filler would have skipped the UK tournament. Come on Filler, put you superior abilities over Fedor to work.

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Wow. While some have suggested that WNT and Predator should do their best to avoid scheduling clashes with each other, asking the major event producers in pool to schedule around an independent one-pocket event is a bit much.

As we saw, there were a few that played both events. The world pool calendar is so busy these days that expecting event producers to work around each other is unrealistic. As we have often noted on AZB, collaboration between WNT and Predator in setting the schedule would help, but it seems very unlikely at the moment.

Finaly, Josh did put his superior abilities to work and won $40,000. He is better than Fedor at rotation pool, but Fedor is probably still just slightly better than Josh at one pocket. Josh made the right choice.

bbb said:

stick to ball ...straight line
ball to ball ....straight line
ball to target ...straight line

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That's three straight lines in a row. 3 vectors. Seldom is it one straight line. One vector.

Tennesseejoe said:

Nor a draw stroke..

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Same CB strikes. If you 89 degree carom, square into a second ball, guess what?

Typo giving customer option of buying a 1.11mm shaft.

Side-Pocket said:

... It would be really nice to have a path to study one proven method that reallly works for all bank shots, or maybe to know that there isn't just one method that fits all.

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All banks and kicks depend on the cushions and cloth. That means there is no one perfect system. There are also all the user errors, as Pat mentioned, as well as the effects of throw and any side spin that gets on the object ball.

What most players don't understand is how hard banks are inherently. The original topic of this post is long banks. If you bank a ball that is on the head spot with the cue ball on the foot spot, the object ball travels about 10 diamonds to get to the pocket. That pocket is very, very far away from the object ball. Also, the cue ball is four diamonds from the object ball, which already makes that part of the shot pretty long. In terms of required accuracy, that long bank requires about four times the accuracy of a spot shot.

Predictable food chain.

Lowell said:

I'm 5'4, so not exactly tall. I actually don't have that much elbow drop, but I agree that elbow drop is not the bad thing it's made out to be. It's not a quirk that some pros have, it's more like a feature that most of them have.

However, I view the chicken wing as a different issue. For me at least, it inherently leads to wrist pronation, and the cue not being 100% straight at contact. With my old setup, I noticed that my lag practice would result in unwanted right English like 80% of the time.

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I get it but
At 5'4"
Pfft. Watch some Parica.

Try cradling the cue with the back two fingers.
Get modern sneakers that give you an inch or two.

If you really can't live with your stroke, you don't need any special gear to work on it.

I locked up on DRM.

straightline said:

Root.

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I'm only in Season 2, but I figured someone knows or has played in that hall. It had ping pong tables too.

Now all they need is a golf simulator, bowling, pool, and a table for dominoes, maybe a dedicated chess table.

deep said:

I'm playing in a tournament in a couple of weeks, my first is over a decade, and the format is 9-ball standard WPA rules, so 9 on the foot spot but with no break box. Would the cut break like used on the WNT events still be the best move or is there an advantage breaking from the side rail? I did some practice yesterday and was struggling with the consistency using the cut break. I'm not sure but I doubt we will be using racking templates for this tournament, so would that benefit the side rail break? An advice is greatly appreciated!!

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There is only one person on this forum qualified to give break advice. He's studied the tapes, bought the equipment, and is a student of the break.