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fuggles · Friday at 5:29 PM

So why is the predator 314 shaft lower deflection than other wood shafts of similar diameter?

JPB2 · Friday at 5:23 PM

Mensabum said:
How hard do you want to make this game?? I learned real fast this game is hard as hell to master without adding anything extra to the mix. Perhaps better players need that extra something bcuz they're so good at it, but I still learn things every time I play and I'm all about simple.

See my other post in response to CC. But I think seeing things more accurately will simplify things for me. So far it seems to. I am not a great player tho

fuggles · Friday at 5:21 PM

I would if I could. I have a 7' in the living room. And I have room in the garage but I want to keep it a garage. If I change my mind I would put a new 9' brunswick in there. My buddy put a new 9' tournament edition in his house. So jealous.

JPB2 · Friday at 5:18 PM

CocoboloCowboy said:
I had opportunity to view Geno’s Generation One DVD, IMHO it was nothing.

Returned it to owner, who had same impression.

If you have no fundamentals, you will have zero consistency pocketing ball after ball.

Dr. Dave shows you how to Aim. Dr. Dave is a real Teacher.

Well I didn’t see the gen 1 DVD. I agree if your other fundamentals are unsound you have problems. I haven’t worked with Dr. Dave so nothing I say is criticism of him. I have seen his vision center stuff and used it to some degree at least. What I am saying is I worked with Geno in June in person. I have taken lessons from different people. Some known as teachers. Some known maybe more for their play. Like a world champ. I have had some good instruction. Geno showed me something that has me perceiving things better that isn’t talked about in books or videos I have seen. It isn’t a gimmick IMO and doesn’t contradict other fundamentals.

IMO your criticism is unfair- aside from your criticism of the gen 1 DVD. Again, I am not ready to say how much what we worked on will improve my game. I have to work with it more and see how it affects what I get out of drills etc… I have seen some improvement though. How much is due to the base I built through working with other instructors - Tin Man in particular- is hard to say right now.

fuggles · Friday at 5:17 PM

Only 1 Filipino in the final sixteen. Must be difficult to travel.

straightline · Friday at 5:15 PM

hello said:
Not really...I think its safe to say that either Earl or Buddy was the best 9-ball player ever.We can also say that Efren is the best allround pool player and the best one pocket player ever.We can say this because of their ''achievements'' not based on stories where people say '' yeah, i saw him play, he was the greatest''

Many would agree. If you jump on that wagon, add your logic to the equation. I'd still say apples and oranges.
Tournaments or the road in these discussions are just filters - contrivances to distill "the ball" of the discussion; usually who won, and/or how much. Details are omitted or unknown in the first place.

hello · Friday at 5:14 PM

Frosty said:
I don’t know what your take is that would qualify a player as elite in your mind. I’m also not going to, as someone else so aptly put it, tear a player down, but since you equate Mark’s speed to that of Ginky, here’s something to think about. Ginky didn’t pick up a cue until he was almost 19. 6 years later he was named Billiard Digests pro rookie of the year. In a nine month stretch from late ‘98 into ‘99 he won the Camel Pro Charlotte 10 ball championship, the BCA Open 9 ball championship, and National Straight Pool Championship. Then the 2000 Derby City Classic 9-ball. Sadly an injury shortly after this stretch derailed his game and career. In 2009 he ran 343 balls in 14:1 at Slates, 10 years after that accident that took his best game. While his career was short, he was elite and he was a friend I’d never disparage. Having said that, Mark was a LOT faster than Ginky, Mark wasn’t elite, he was freaking intergalactic, and more unnerving was, he made it look effortless, at times almost seeming disinterested, bored with it. There was a point that he’d play anybody for the cash, and no one had to like it.

I think you cannot be considered a true great if you did not show your ability to play stellar pool over a longer period of time.With Ginky, of course, we won't know how great he could have been had his life not ended at a fairly young age...

SA96 · Friday at 5:12 PM

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