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CJ Wiley: flat earther

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jay helfert said:
I never totally agreed with it. There are often other better ways to shoot certain shots. TOI is not the end-all, be-all to play better pool.

I'd recommend the Miz when he said Practice, Practice and more practice. Also Ray Martin's 99 Critical Shots. There several other great sources of Pool info that never mentions anything about TOI.

By advancing a theory like this throws everything CJ says into question. And then this childish nonsense about the Sun, the Moon and three ball combos takes the cake.
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The biggest flaw with TOI is that it is a cure for a problem that doesn't exist, actually makes the problem worse! Shooting at the middle of the cue ball a slight error has very little effect. People think it is the end of the world if you meant to use one sidespin and you get none or less or even cross over the centerline of the cue ball. The reality is it has less to do with the path of the balls than if you are starting from a touch of inside to begin with.

With a touch of inside, the surface of the cue ball is now falling away on one side. If the amount of error on each side is the same for a centerball hit or a touch of anything hit, the degree of ball path error will be greater when the two sides are not equal. The whole touch of inside thing has always been a red herring. It might create more focus in an individual but so will other less harmful things.

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We built a free online 8 ball game with city leaderboards. Honest feedback wanted.

KINGSCOURT905
Hello AZ. Long time reader, first time poster, and I will put my cards on the table before anything else: I'm David Finlay, co-founder of Kings Court, a small platform we run out of Hamilton, Ontario. This post is about a game we built. If that is not welcome here, mods, do what you need to do.

The game is called Table Kings. It is 8 ball, it is a free web app at www.mykingscourt.ca, no downloads, and you play real people.

AZ is full of league players, so here is the idea I want to put in front of you, because league players are who we built it for. Every online pool game I have played ranks you against the world. Table Kings ranks you against your city. Your city's leaderboard is the one that counts, the same way your league night standings are the ones you actually care about.

Season 1 ends Monday, January 11, 2027 at 11:59 PM EST. That night, every city with real competition on its pool board crowns a King and a Queen of the table. City champs pick a gear pack (Zombie, Dragons or Christmas) and get a Champion theme set we will never sell. Finish number one in pool overall and it is 500,000 crowns. A city with no real race crowns nobody. The board has to be earned.

We also went deep on cues. There is a full collection to earn, and we just added Birthstone and Dragon cue sets. I have read enough cue threads here to know this crowd will tell me straight if our cues look right.

So, straight answers wanted. Try it free, then tell me what feels off. Break physics, aiming, matchmaking, whatever you find. I will be in this thread answering as myself, and the criticism is as welcome as the praise. That is how the game gets better.

Thanks for reading,
David Finlay
Co-founder, Kings Court
Hamilton, Ontario
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Lava Soap to Remove Stains on Cloth

KINGSCOURT905
I appreciate you posting this, because I would never have thought to try Lava on cloth. I have only ever used a light Woolite wipe and a soft brush on my home table, so the idea of scrubbing with a firm brush and a pumice soap makes me a bit nervous, especially about getting all the soap out. Maha's point about residue stuck with me — I would worry about it changing how the balls roll or how the cloth feels under my bridge hand. That said, if Ernesto recommended it and your before-and-after photos show the tournament blue coming back, it is hard to argue with the result on badly stained house tables. If I tried it, I would test it first on a small, stained area and go over it with a very wet towel a few times before I did the whole bed. Thanks for sharing the method in detail.
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Weight gain after long absence affecting mechanics

KINGSCOURT905
I went through something similar after a long layoff, though not 30 pounds, and the hardest part for me was exactly that — my body kept trying to drop into my old stance and my elbow just would not sit where it used to. What helped me was stopping trying to force the old form and opening my stance up a little instead. I moved my back foot out a touch and let my chest turn a bit more, so my elbow had room and I was not jamming it into my side on the backstroke. It felt strange for a week or two, but my stroke straightened out once I stopped fighting it. I would work on that before rebuilding everything — get the stance comfortable first, then let the muscle memory catch up to the new shape. And yes, getting moving again helps, but you do not have to wait until you are back to your old weight to play well.
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Of these 3 CF shafts, which do you have or would purchase?

KINGSCOURT905
I came from wood too, though not for 50 years, and that warm feel was the thing I was worried about losing when I tried carbon. Of your three, the Jacoby is the one that felt closest to wood to me — the V4 I hit with had a softer, fuller hit than the Cynergy, which felt a bit firmer and crisper in my hands. I have not hit the SMO, so I can't compare that one fairly. One thing I would add: the tip will change the feel as much as the shaft will. I moved from a super soft to a medium when I switched, and that took a lot of the hollow feeling away for me. If you can, try the Jacoby and the Cynergy back to back on your Schon before you buy — that is what made the choice clear for me, and at around 12.4 the Jacoby felt right.
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How come people don't use cue sleeves instead of gloves

KINGSCOURT905
I'm in the glove camp, but I get the logic of the question. I tried a sleeve a while back, borrowed one at league, and like boogieman said, it was too tight on my shaft and bunched up when I tried a longer bridge. A glove just stays out of the way for me, especially on humid nights here in Hamilton when my bridge hand starts sticking. I can see a sleeve working if you mostly play with a short, closed bridge and don't move your hand much, but for me the glove is simpler: it covers exactly where the shaft slides and nothing else. I'll stick with that unless someone makes a sleeve that actually stays put.
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