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Big Ko on Waxed Balls

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heck many/most pool rooms put some silicone product in their ball cleaners. thats why they are so shiny in the pool room. and the balls draw so easily.

most homeowners buy ball cleaner which is the same stuff. similar or the same as a liquid car polish. it does clean the balls nice and pretty.

it also ends up in the cloth.
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Thoughts on players who seemingly take Zero practice strokes, before shooting / final follow through?

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Not Dead Ted said:
That is a good question, and one that I don't have the answer to.

Are LD shafts more forgiving if there is error in choosing the point you pivot the cue around? I don't know, I'm waiting for someone to do the experiments on this.

In the meantime I will stick with a maple shaft that has a 12" pivot point. At least with it, the pivot point is in the visual field so I can see where I am pivoting.
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The only real advantage to ld shafts are that variable conditions like humidity, temperature etc, are less problematic because the shaft isn't going as far off of the centerline due to minimal cueball deflection (squirt). Many people have a problem with ld shafts being called low deflection, because the shafts themselves don't deflect less, the cueball is what deflects less, which is commonly referred to as squirt, as the cb squirts off of the cue's line opposite the offset amount.

I've successfully used bhe with high deflection and low deflection and everything in between. Funny story that I've told on here before, I was visiting one of the AZBers, in Virginia I think or North Carolina? His name is Matt, his handle was something like coolkat9lives or something.

Anyways, I met him at his local pool hall and we played some and he introduced me to a few of the locals and one of them was an older gentleman who had a classic cue, can't remember the brand, I think it was a...I can't remember (I remembered just before I hit submit, it was a Tascarella), it was a nice older cue with an old growth maple shaft, standard deflection.

I had just recently finished my prototype ld wood shaft with standard feel and was showing them and had them shoot a couple of shots with it. The older gentlemen questioned me about BHE since I was explaining what I had to do to use it for a ld shaft and I told him, I can adjust to any cue with just a few shots.

He was skeptical so he handed me his cue. I took a few shots to find the pivot point and proceded to run out one or two racks. Both of them were really surprised that I could adjust to a cue that was so different so quickly.
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China Open

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skogstokig said:
i don't know if it was the final or penultimate rack but he opted to shoot a difficult combo on the 9 and a carom on the 7 as a backup, instead of playing safe, missed but didn't leave much. my point is when he misses or messes up, he can eliminate the stroke from the equation. daniel maciol is the same way, it's never a breakdown in mechanics. whereas with someone like denis grabe or naoyuki oi, their mechanics are more prone to fail during high pressure
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Kazakis seems in a better place mentally of late or better at hiding his nerves. He used to dog it so much because of being nervous and overthinking that his stroke sufferred. I know he wants to win badly of course. He is very good....but playing against the elite players it is hard to see him winning.
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AJ Manas

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sjm said:
Manas is a hard one to handicap. His runout skills and pattern recognition are super-elite and give him a chance to runover pretty much anybody, but his tactical game is under-developed and he makes some poor choices from time to time. In offense-oriented matches, he's far more dangerous than he is when he has to grind.

I'm not yet willing to call him a complete player, but if his development and decision making can catch up to his world class skills, he'll likely be a top ten player in the world at some point.

He is, in rough terms, the male Chezka Centeno, who often manages to overcome some of her tactical limitations with mind-blowing offensive execution, but covering up for tactical limitations is a lot harder in men's pool than women's pool, and if he hopes to reach the highest level, he'll have to add some of the missing pieces.

He may never play defense like a Reyes, Pagulayan, Orcullo, or Biado. That said, were he to reach Lee Van Corteza's level in beating players to the shot, his prospects will be very bright.

One thing is for sure, though. He is entertaining to watch.
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Yeah, understanding the current state of AJ Manas as a player means watching him both when he bulldozes great players in fantastic displays of total offense, AND watching him in some of his losses, include big money matches, in which he eschews basic safety play in favor of firing away, seems to lose interest when he falls behind, seeing that the dog has some quit in it (perhaps because of his age), seeing that the nonchalance that makes him look brilliant can also bite him in the butt, etc.

I have watched several money matches in which there is a common refrain in the comments stream of, "If I was backing him, I would want to kill him because he just quit."

Great player? Sure.
Among the world's best? No. Not yet.
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