it doesn tell you much really.

but what would, is to break take cue ball in hand or not, and just count the balls you make before you miss. after enough tries you will get a perfect idea of how many balls in rotation you can run most times.

then from that you can now find out your best way to actually play nine ball.

the vast majority will find out that trying solely to run out after the break is not the best path to winning the game most times.

actually its a good rule especially in bars where balls cannot get spotted.

in a pool room it would add a big measure of skill and thoughtful moving to the game instead of a break and run out.

its the way it is now but ball in hand has changed pool if many different ways,

as the fools we are, if we cannot understand something, it makes one think less of ones self. so innately we need to invent some reason for what we don't understand. and what we invent makes us look even more stupid.

Stopping at the back looks clunky to me. Stopping at the cue ball is the way. lol...

stopping may or may not, and will for some help get their aim more in place. or maybe help them from jerking off line.

but stopping in no way helps your cue go more straight forward.

you can rationalize your muscles all you want.

but anything going back and forth in a straight motion never gets aided by stopping it and restarting the motion.

but by all means, if that is what it takes for you to hit where you need to, then that is the proper type of pool stroke for you.

unless for aiming purposes, i cant think of any sport where throwing or moving a club or object of some sort do you visibly and pause stop in the backswing,

Coos Cues said:

Millions of years ago homo sapien stumbled out of a cave and figured out the earth was round using sticks and shadows.

Yet here we are with these people among us.

Once you are on record saying that the earth is flat you have instantly lost all debates past, present and future. On all subjects. No exceptions.

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Yet this guy & company developed some pretty elaborate superstitions. These are sentients that indeed could not eat drink pis etc... anything that wouldn't keep 'em alive.

My point is that there is a hell of a lot more to the arm than biceps and triceps. We need to consider what all of these things are doing. They may be doing nothing in an extended pause while providing support in a smooth transition.

Perform an unusual activity for hours and you may find you have pissed off muscles and tissue you didn't even know existed!

I studied sports medicine for a few years, a sidetrack. I also was into moderate bodybuilding for a few years. One of my friends was into bodybuilding seriously enough he was in Arnold's encyclopedia.

Our muscles can be trained, all are trained in an unbalanced manner just by our daily activities. Eyesight is the same. We can train one eye or the other to be stronger than it was. If we don't have a strongly dominant eye we can even train the other eye to be dominant.

With fairly weak dominance I have trained either eye to be dominant at one time or another. I don't know if that is possible with a strongly dominant eye as I didn't have one to experiment with.

I think of an extended pause as a time when all of the supporting tissue is relaxed or tensed for no "normal" reason. I try to avoid an extended pause.

One time there is an extended pause is when drawing a pistol to an electronic timer. When the button is pressed the timer goes off at a random time between zero and thirty seconds. This forces a very difficult state. Some muscles are tenser than others but none are tense, that slows the draw. Difficult to find the right compromise.

I think of gunfights in the old west. Normally people are average fast but what happens when a normal person runs into a Jerry Miculek or Max Michelle? With electronic timers providing starts and timing they both were freakishly fast! I remember Max as a child of twelve or thirteen. He was setting records then. I don't know what records are now but many years ago Max was able to draw from hands over his shoulders and shoot five steel plates in 1.71 seconds! I thought I was smoking when I did it in two and a half seconds.

It would be interesting if pool or snooker got mainstream enough that sports medicine was heavily involved. The pause/no pause question might be definitively answered.

Hu

markjames said:

seems to me that most conspiracy believers
suffer from extreme and dangerous levels of sobriety

you need a martini, and then we’ll talk

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My kind of martini comes straight out a jar of dill pickles. Vodka optional. I read Roman soldiers drank something like it probably for oral hygiene - called it posca. It's good sippin' stuff.

jtompilot said:

My best cue I bought from W.C. Fields, it’s only slightly warped

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Are you saying there is going to be a surcharge?