I had a short conversation with his mother once. She told me she had been pregnant for 22 months.

cueball2010 said:

All I want to do is take my cue out, tap it a little, and play!

I have the Willard's shaper and every single time I get ready to play or practice, I use the curvature gauge part to check the shape. Every single time I have to take a little bit off the sides because the whole tip has flattened out from the day before.

My medium layered tip only started holding its shape perfectly once I was down to about 2 layers on the side walls. Soon after I had to change the whole tip because I don't think the tip side walls should be less than the thickness of a penny. Because of this shape issue I opted for a harder tip or a Triangle tip. But its the same issue... I am more then half way through this tip and it still loses the nickel shape after every pool session.

Questions:

• Is it compressing in the middle because most shoots are center ball or near center? If so, is this normal for hard tips like Triangle?
• Is the the chalk actually wearing away the leather towards the center of the tip?
• Is the chalk getting under the leather fibers and expanding the parts of tip that don't take as much pounding?
• Will burnishing the sides of the tip every other day eventually stop the flattening of the tip?

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The member pooldawg8 is said to make great playing milk dud's.People are raving about them.A tip to consider, especially since he does a good amount of compressing them...can't see them mushrooming...

Sheldon said:

I have tipped Rafael's cue, he likes a squished Elk Master. I've also watched him scuff it pretty regularly, especially when he's shooting crazy stroke (trick) shots.

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Did you press or otherwise treat the tip..?

Bob Jewett said:

I saw his tip once when he had just gotten a new one. It couldn't have been much thicker than a nickel. And, boy, could he play the spin shots.

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Efren said Martinez has the most powerful stroke he'd ever seen.Pretty good accolades, I'd say...

Here's a classic example of what plagues me. I had just broke about 15 racks and only had one halfway decent chance to run out. When this stuff starts - which is almost every time I break racks - it just honks me off and I get totally out of whack and am so mad I can't hardly make a ball. So I said to myself "One More Rack" and that's it. I broke and finally had a decent chance.

I got straight on the 6B and wanted to just follow up about 8-10 inches to get a really good angle on the 7B to get to the 8B. So I slow rolled the 6B and the CB rolled off just a hair to the left and I missed the 6B just to the right as per the diagram. I said the heck with it and turned the lights out and came back upstairs.

If this would have been my first break of the night I bet I would have not missed the 6B. But I was so sick and tired of the same old stuff again my approach was terrible. And you see the result.

r/DCP

jay helfert said:

Modern day all the top players work on their break. A lot! Dennis used to spend hours on my Diamond just breaking the balls, first 9-Ball and then Ten Ball. Once in a while he would run out the rack, but mostly rack and break, rack and break, over and over again.

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I practice my break but not for hours...I think once you found your form, how to stand, how much follow through, delivery of the cue, timing etc. it becomes easier to excecute..what I don't understand is how a guy like Earl, who most likely put thousands of hours into honing his break, is not anywhere near breaking as well as he once did...it can't be just age...

MattPoland said:

I think we have to remember what’s needed for a win, and it’s not necessarily who is picked for the 5th man slot. If we had won these matches (which should have been feasible) we’d be up 9-5 instead of down 9-5. The fate of the cup doesn’t rest in Billy’s hands View attachment 862637

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This could also be framed as a reason to replace the entire team with younger more motivated players.

westcoast said:

why is Team USA sending the same exact team that got trounced last year? May as well switch up 1-2 guys

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Because the reason they lost last year was primarily down to Shane and Fedor.

They were dreadful.

sciarco said:

Yes ur right but I'm not learning anything from knowing who the top 20 are i already knew that .You learn from watching better players and practice in my opinion.

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Your not the only one following the thread?

TTT