DJKeys said:

Me too! Hits fantastic, like all Becues.

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JasonATX said:

$300. One of my friends asked him afterwards.

Here's the bracket for 9 ball. https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2026-texas-open-9-ball-championshipstm/bracket

Link for the stream: https://www.youtube.com/@skinnybobs

Also, same friend got a really lucky first round draw:

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july9x said:

Can we see your current GC IV setup?

I can't believe you use that light for the Diamond still

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ShootingArts said:

Sorry to interrupt the thread but a small world thing! One of my best friends lived in Redlands. Rudy owned a camera store, sold medium frame cameras. Met John Randolph? Through him. John got paid five hundred a day back then to photograph motorcycles and naked ladies for Easy Rider magazine.

Rudy was in a terminal stage of cancer so I went out there. I didn't go the most direct route but 6500 miles to see Rudy and worth every inch!

No pool but I had brought my competition pistol and some ammo I loaded for steel plate competition to shoot in it, nice mellow loads. John started trying to shoot an about 16"x20" steel plate set up at 200 meters for rifles. He had shot up close to a hundred rounds of my light loads shooting at that plate with no luck. I figured my short range loads were probably shooting a group, to call it that, about six feet tall by two feet wide. The gun was accurate, the load wasn't at that range. The pistol would have shot a group that would have hit the plate about half the time had I loaded planning to shoot 200 meters. Not bad for two hundred meters standing and offhanded.

I picked up the gun from the bench when he wanted me to try. I came up smooth and broke the shot when the sights were about six feet above the plate. A second or two later there was the distinct tink of copper hitting steel. I raised the pistol to shoot again, thought half a second, and set it on the bench. Nowhere to go from perfect but downhill!

Rudy my friend, RIP

Hu

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Jaden said:

Funny story about that. When I first started playing pool seriously, I was day time manager at a pool hall in Redlands, Ca called corner pocket.

The owner used to buy and sell pool tables (where I learned how to be a table mechanic) and every pool table in the hall was for sale. Well he found this guy in Beverly Hills who had a turn of the century Brunswick nine foot with 2" single piece slate, took 8 of us to move it, the sloping inlaid legs and 3 identical 1976 rich cues. The high end ones with 8 points, 4 veneers on each point and 36 MOP inlays.

The guy was going through a divorce and he bought the table and the 3 cues for 2500. We refurbished the pool table and it sold for 13K alone.

I ended up with one of the rich cues and Scott ended up with two.

I was trained in martial arts, so I would twirl mine around like the movie, well one night, Scott tried to do that and it flew out of his hands and split just above the handle, lol.

It became the most expensive jump cue I ever saw, lol

I tried to get it from him to go with my rich, which I still have, but he wouldn't give it to me.

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Jaden said:

It should also clue you in as to why you'd make shots but have no idea why the cueball didn't do what you expected.

If you watch me play for any extended period, you'd be able to see that I've trained my arm to swing in and out for the back hand movement, that way I'm still using a pendulum swing for the actual stroke, and I use a modified snooker stance to keep my body out of the way of my arm swing.

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sparkle84 said:

I'm just taking a shot in the dark here. Have you ever thought about the earbud/music option. I've never done it, never will, I need to hear the ball contact, etc. And I think the main reason people use it is to block out noise/distraction. Who knows, might help.
Sans that, I like WobblyStrokes thought. Or, if you have to think of something, think of the microdot on the CB you're trying to hit.

Or go with the girl in post 13 but that may lead to miscues.

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straightline said:

On shitty strokes, I noticed Dr Dave uses an articulated full stance pivot to preserve the integrity of his stroke.
I don't. (lol) I just move the back hand. There's plenty of ligaments to compensate for you; keep it linear. Anyway, that clued me as to why I was able to bang so well in the beginner stages. Thanks.

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ShootingArts said:

Same room for error or more than there was when records were being set a hundred years ago with tight pockets and much lesser equipment and accessories. Big pockets came and went for spectators. I'm sure play will get easier and harder in more cycles to come to keep spectators happy.

Tighten things until few or none can break and run and spectators and players will be crying, and play will be made easier. It's a constant seesaw.

I have seen it in pool and another handful of sports. The best want things tough, it keeps them on top. Many of the rest of the field think they can buy or legislate winning. They can't, but the thought is "I would have a chance if the pockets were a quarter inch bigger or the chalk grabbed a little better or I could just use this super magic chalk ...

I have seen people price themselves out of being able to compete in a dozen forms of competition because they think they can buy wins. They may buy one or two wins but they can't buy winning!

Two things create winners, talent and hard work. Somebody let me know when I can go buy a jar of either one!

Hu

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Jaden said:

Why do you gotta be a dick about it? I promise you I'm right, you can either learn from it or don't no skin off my junk.

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So many people have left this site because of people who like to thumb their noses to those who have and are willing to share the knowledge.

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Rusty in Montana said:

They must of either seen or heard about the beer glasses at the Golden Bee in Colorado Springs where if you order a yard of beer , the glass is a yard long and has a rack to hold it when you're not drinking from it .

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spinninit said:

Too heavy. Thanks.

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trob said:

With 4 inch pockets there is little room for error.

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Jaden said:

People, including myself, have always been incredulus about BHE and the pivot point. I don't know probably 12-14 years ago now when I was streaming some tournaments, I got on and did a live stream and had a caller call in and AFTER I got down on the shot and locke my bridge in lined up on a straight shot, I had the caller choose what english to put on the ball. I then just pivoted for the type of english HE chose to show him it works.

I'm not willing to do that again, you guys are gonna have to just try it for yourself. It works, for the vast majority of shots. The only ones you really have to adjust for are the super soft shots and sometimes the super hard ones, but you could see that even a long semi hard shot I took on the seven with low outside worked just fine.

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ShootingArts said:

Back when there was usually a cone of hand chalk at the table and the blue cubes of tip chalk I was playing with a cowboy. No handchalk on the wall so he chalked his hand with tip chalk. I finally pointed out that hand chalk was to help things slide, tip chalk to keep them from sliding!

I played with a few people that used hand chalk or powder by the pound. Covered the stick end to end and both hands. By the time they were through spreading hand chalk they had covered the table and floor too! Some folks using a slip stroke chalked everything in sight. I heard Titanic Thompson did but never saw him play.

Something I have noticed about people that do something odd, they tend to play outside the norm too, either very good or very bad! Of course half the cowboys were twirling sticks after the color of money. I tried it but it aggravated me more than other people so I had to give it up. The cowboys were dangerous as hell all by themselves not being able to twirl a stick and hitting everything and everybody!

Hu

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