maha said:

mike has a siliconed cueball. do you really think a person can do those things with a plain old cueball you get at the pool room.
its a trick shot.
and i dont have trouble drawing my cueball. i dont do it often for various reasons.

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SSP said:

It doesn’t always have to be a big draw shot, what if you need to draw or follow 3" to get shape on the game winning ball and you can't be off by 1/4"? You should not be using draw or follow unless you need to for shape, just because you hit low on the cueball does not make that a draw stroke, sometimes I do that just to slow the cueball down to get shape, in golf you use many different clubs to move the ball around, in pool you have one stick, for the most part, and you use many different strokes to move the ball around .

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Flakeandrun said:

How would it move at all... even touching it is imparting a follow through. Regardless of length.

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Chopdoc said:

I am thinking of dying it. That's what I did on the other McDermott.

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hello said:

I think its quite simple: You need to use draw when the situation calls for.If you cant draw the ball you will not be a good player.And sometimes you get to the table and ''have'' to execute a big draw shot.

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Chopdoc said:

Well, that is how I prefer my motorcycles...

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SSP said:

If the player slows down his stroke so there is no follow through then the tip can contact the cueball with no follow through, that is exactly how I hit the cueball when I was first learning to play, I didn't consciously slow down my stroke but I stopped my stroke at the cueball, thankfully some knowledgeable players taught me what a proper stroke looked like, I couldn't understand why I could not spin the cueball when hitting it with sidespin or draw/follow, in the immortal words of Yosemite Sam.....that'll learn ya

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R2PQZ said:

Dying it black was my thought. I have done it several times. I believe the Blue Mountain white with double black linen would look great.

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Wayne Crimi said:

The Florida Open and US open have convinced me that Fargo's rating approach is a tad too long term oriented. IMO it should weigh more recent efforts a little more than it does now.

Aloysius Yapp is rated 835 now. That's very high. With a rating like that he has a decent shot to win almost any major tournament. But 3 in a row is a pretty big longshot unless he was playing better than 835. I'm not sure how much the rating moved up over the last 3 tournaments because I don't have a historical list, but IMO it should be higher.

A player can have a single hot tournament and that doesn't necessarily reflect his true ability, but 3 Matchroom tournaments in a row against the best competition in the world should say a LOT about his current level and imo have pretty significant impact on his rating.

If I was gambling, right now I'd make Yapp the favorite over anyone other than Filler and Gorst and I'd need better than even money to be truly comfortable I had an edge with those guys. It's probably pretty close to even money. I realize that other players have sustained their elite form longer. That's useful information and should be part of the historical record also, but if we are trying to determine who is the best player right now, it's at least arguable that it's Yapp. We'll see in 6 months if he holds this form, but if he doesn't that should also be reflected a little quicker.

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