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?

straightline said:

et al.


In His Own Image
Still, round or what, is a visual thing. We are told light goes in your eyeballs which end up making electrical signals which your brain has visual centers to decode, make the picture, etc...

So what is it we see?

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Once we realize that our eyes don't see and our ears don't hear we can go down some really weird rabbit holes. There are people that see music and/or hear things they should see if they were like everyone else.

It is more accurate to think of our senses as sensors like thermometers and flow meters and such and our nerves as cables. Our brains are the processors.

Once we realize these things are true we start opening up possibilities. We may find ourselves in some very odd places in a few hundred years.

In one respect I don't believe in the supernatural. I do believe there is a lot of the natural that we don't understand yet. One day our descendants will be laughing at how backwards we were!

Hu

GoldCrown said:

I have one if you change your mind...Will trade for your best cue

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

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

you need a martini, and then we’ll talk

sjm said:

Good post. Two things that are true: a) there are things we don't yet understand (Stonehenge and the Pyramids are good examples) and b) some of what we think we know will be proven incorrect sometime in the future, much in the way that Copernicus proved in 1543 that the widely accepted geocentric model of the universe was in error and needed to be replaced by a heliocentric model.

Still, we're not debating the origin of the earth or the universe here, just the shape of the earth. We have been photographing the earth from space for over sixty years and there are so many images suggesting a basically spherical shape that it is hard to reach any other conclusion regarding its shape.

Is it possible that we're wrong and that the many such photos are a cosmic ruse that has misled us? Yes, it is, but we tend to reach our conclusions based on the evidence in front of us, so at least for now, the earth is round.

Unless it's possible that pool balls are flat, however, this thread is not pool related,

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et al.


In His Own Image
Still, round or what, is a visual thing. We are told light goes in your eyeballs which end up making electrical signals which your brain has visual centers to decode, make the picture, etc...

So what is it we see?

I have him phone number

Still looking.