jay helfert said:

This Python table has an all steel frame, solid as a rock. It was my friend Perry's personal table, provided for me by my other dear friend Verna Mariano.

Check it out.

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Bro skipped all the leg days

Al_Camino said:

I've played on classic green, tournament blue, grey, red, and purple. The blue is by far my favorite to play on with classic green a distant second.

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I have played on those same colors except purple but I did play on pink, black, and white zebra pattern table, it was beyond awful. The grey was nice to play on but to me it is not very attractive, kind of like a primered car.

Very nice. Jay
Enjoy

uk_9_ball_convert said:

even when the team scoreline is quite lopsided I still think the individual matches have often been close and quite exciting. But there is definitely a negative air about the Mosconi because it's been so one sided in recent years. I definitely understand your fear, and I think it's a great event. Would be a shame if it did go into decline. I'll always naturally root for Europe, but I really do hope it's a close scoreline for everyones sake. Don't think even most Europeans want to see another European win by a big margin.

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i'm team europe but seeing jayson dance around every year after a trouncing has become a bit long in the tooth.

i think there are small moments that change a whole lot, like shane missing the 9-ball in the opening team match two years ago, and obviously tyler last year.

King T said:

Well James is far from a filler-in, he can play, as a matter of fact theres no American player other than SVB thats going to beat him.

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Well, still a filler, big time. The numbers and results speak for themselves. Your BS (biased sensitive) thoughts don’t.
Those Americans you mentioned are also fillers. A lot of 800+ are fillers...

jay helfert said:

Semi, six months to a year maybe.

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Nice!!! Enjoy!!!!! Can you get by in the Philippines speaking English or did you have to learn the language besides just picking up on it from being around it??

I would use something like this. Not sure exactly how setup works on the remote table, but I'm interested.

I have a buddy 2000+ miles away that I love shooting with when we are together. We have tried setting up Teams meetings to mimmick layouts to shoot 'against' one another. It's clunky, but gets the job done.

love it!

couldnthinkof01 said:

Shuff is playing great

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Yeah, pretty impressed with his play.

Cartune said:

How is the car running?

EDIT - what kind of race car we talking about?

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Last one was a 7 second drag race car. Sold it a little while back. A few decades of racing hard really wears you out. A lot of get home from work Thursday evening, leave around midnight to get thru Chicago and drive until the sun is up so you can get in line for tech. Then turn around and repeat Sunday night until the wee hours of Monday morning so you can make it to work on time. I always fantasized on how nice it would be not to live north of Chicago, it adds so much drive time wherever you go.
P.S. Now that the kids are adults I have not had to speak with X for years, that is definitely a bonus.

jay helfert said:

Your dreaming.

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My not so expert odds would look something like this.

Europe -400
USA +325
Europe -3.5

The reason some players can shoot without warm-up strokes is because they have their vision center correctly locked in much quicker.
In that case, warm-up strokes become a mere "formality." If a player is seeing the shot correctly according to his or her biology, then warm-up strokes do nothing more than create momentum (as is expected).

It's not because the player doesn't necessarily need to "warm up" it's just the setup is correct and ready for delivery from the outset.
Unfortunately, most players never learn their true vision center and this limits their playing levels.

Think of the fast players: Lou Butera, Earl Strickland, and Joshua Filler among many others. They get into an efficient, natural, and correct shot alignment. They're champions because they also have the other intangibles: a relatively comfortable setup, excellent eye-hand coordination, great concentration, etc.

JAM said:

Gotta root for my home boy. Go, Brandon, go!

I love seeing Shane beat Fedor. I don't know why.

Tony beating Shane is a strong win for Tony, though he is a one-pocket mechanic. Shane can play one-hole, but Tony has a little more cred in that department.

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Shuff is playing great

Chris said:

It's for drinking beer and playing craps, isn't it?

BTW, the plural form of the word is dice.

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Or maybe it could be drink too much beer from the tap and you might die. (unfortunately even drinking from the water tap could kill you sometimes, ask how I know)