spinninit said:

Too heavy. Thanks.

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Not a problem Good Luck finding a FS Blank for under $500

jimmyg said:

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I've had 2 of those so far tonight

trob said:

With 4 inch pockets there is little room for error.

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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

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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wild stuff man. sounds like some kind of sorcery to me!

i will mess around with it though, thanks for sharing

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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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 Scott 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.

If you wanna play in a church or library go ahead, don't expect everybody else to do what YOU want

maha said:

the white hand chalk went away mostly with air conditioning.

sweaty hands it was hard to stroke smoothly.

gloves were considered not manly, and none were really smooth or fit right back them to be useful.

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Yeh back in the day, the only people who wore gloves or played with cuetecs were d level bangers or hustlers...

:edit: or the people who were paid to play with them, (but that was only Earl, lol).

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 locked 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.

if you fart when you bend over, it might discourage people from sitting behind you.

RandyinHawaii said:

Me like!

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Me too! Hits fantastic, like all Becues.

O.B.O.

sparkle84 said:

Well, I'm limited on knowledge on many things, but I know as much as I need to know about BHE and pivot points. You have a number of posts on this thread where you've made statements that, how should I put this, are, if not wrong, are unquestionably, incomplete.
I chose to reply to this one because it's probably the most blatant misrepresentation.

To my limited knowledge, with most LD shafts the PP is upwards of 15". Some by quite a lot. Go ahead and make the video but be sure to include let's say, 4 or 5 different types of shots and shoot them all with different speeds and distances using the same length bridge. No cherry picking.

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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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