I'm fortunate that I periodically get to spend some time and talk with Mark in St Louis. Really nice guy and great story teller. I knew his "Nashville" story - because we've discussed that before, and had something in common as I also worked for Bobby (much later than Mark) delivering/installing pool tables for a very short time before joining the Air Force. He messaged me this link on FB and each podcast was fantastic.

CocoboloCowboy said:

Think about it and you will get my point, if you put effort into it.

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effort? like learning to spell and speak in complete sentences?

billiardshot said:

You hit the point! Do Bar players need an expensive cue or just a cue that can do the job. In other word can I win just as much money with a 10 buck cue , as I could with a 1000.00 buck cue.

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More, since you’ll get more action.

pj
chgo

ShootingArts said:

An automatic flick of my wrist got back a half inch of that before the pellet left the barrel!

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Wow!!!
Well that similar to my pressure with the individual fingers during the stroke. A stroke on the exact same line can produce a different path with different finger pressure on the cue. Barry Stark's mention of the ring finger has helped me significantly. I tap the ring finger on my bridge hand habitually. Watching snooker, I notice the majority tap the middle finger as part of their routine. I at least know why I chose to differ from Ronnie in that aspect. A big part of my practice is comparison of my method to that of the goat .

ShootingArts said:

Mount a "low deflection" shaft in linear bearings an inch or less from each end and it becomes low deflection no more.

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Nice post, Hu, but I couldn’t translate this bit. WutchootalkinboutWillis?

pj
chgo

I've been listening to the Mark Wilson episode on my commute and thoroughly enjoying it. Great job so far!

According to Newton for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So if the cue flexes to the left X inches on impact a force of X inches to the right is applied to the cue ball. The more sideways flex in the cue the more opposite sideways force is applied to the cue ball. With a stiffer cue the force on the cue ball would be more forward, a flexier cue would impart more of a sideways force. And the amount of this force is determined by the mass of the cue's end. All other things being equal, more flex more deflection?? I'm no scientist, just some thoughts..

garczar said:

That's back when Bil Duggan was mayor and owner of a bar there, the Buckin Horse. All kinds of action out there during the oil $ days.

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If memory serves me right, and that don't happen near as much as it used too. The guy in charge of the Club was a guy named Sessions, had a over weight Son that lived in a trailer next to the club. Was off the Highway about a mile on the way to Canton Lake.

garczar said:

the MORE the shaft deflects the LESS the cueball deflects.

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… unless the end of the shaft close to the tip is heavy. For example, a very flexible shaft with a lead ferrule would create a shocking amount of CB deflection. See Diagram 4 in the following article showing the effects of mass added to the shaft at different distances from the tip:

gregcantrall said:

If and when I made an extremely difficult shot, I would immediately think, "if I don't get out that shot didn't happen."
For me it was all too easy to celebrate the shot when the goal is not yet attained. It's such a bitter taste to miss the easy one after making the difficult one.

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There should be a frustrated emoticon! There were several years where I would make a great shot, all the feel good chemicals would dump, and I would miss a duck!

Shooting steel with a pistol I had a perfect score up to the last shot. Eight inch plate at ten yards, I fired with my sight just over an inch inside the top of the plate and relaxed. The plate stood. That's when I found out that you could miss the shot by relaxing between the time the trigger broke and the bullet left the five inch barrel! Another time I was shooting a megabuck ten meter olympic air pistol. I couldn't test the trigger as that is bad for the valving on those guns. As I feared, the gun went off when my sights were about 3/4" left of the pencil lead sized bullseye. An automatic flick of my wrist got back a half inch of that before the pellet left the barrel!

Chopdoc said:

There are maybe five doctors that can function at my level in the country.

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That is pretty damned sporty!

Hu