Tougher tables did not help USA pros for 20 years

Yes. Fargo rated handicapped tournies are all that are going in my area. It does de-motivate for sure. Hence, I only played in two all year. Won one, finished middle of the pack in the other. Spotting most of the time, sometimes quite a bit. I'm going hiking more this year. Pool rooms are for casual fun for this guy these days. Wait, then again, has anything changed? 🤪

Why all the complaining about Fargo rated handicap tournaments???? Everybody handicaps Action matches its called getting spotted!! Theres nobody thats every played Pool that hasn't asked for or been asked for a spot, NOBODY!! So get over the Fargo thing and play!

Hard to Find the Center of the Cue Ball

It sure seems like a lot of posters would benefit from reading and embracing Hal Mix’s Pocket Billiards Secrets.
Just because you’ve done something all your life, or a very long time, doesn’t mean you couldn’t perform better.

The issue becomes change is difficult and often seemingly impossible, for older players. Habits get formed that
are really hard to change and impatience takes control. They tend to become frustrated and revert to old habits.

Now that’s perfectly fine and basically they’ve limited their opportunity to improve other than through repetition.
They’ll practice, employ drills, hit lots of balls & pocket most too. The value and importance of center ball gets lost.

English is not needed or necessary on every shot, especially cut shots, when angular cut shots are so simple & easy
to predict & control cue ball location. But as long you can run the pool table, then you don’t need to change a thing.
Kinda agree. With all these books and no certified curriculum, people end up rote learning. Not even sure what that means.

Dominguez vs Guama race to 50 for 80+ per side

As it wasn’t Oscar’s poolroom, I’d be surprised if he had the proper tools with him and worked on tightening the rail bolts without the advanced consent of the owner/manager. If there were some missing rail bolts as he claimed there were, I would be even more surprised if he happened to have extra rail bolts with him to use.

It’s hard to fathom that a first rate poolroom like Brass Tap would have Diamond or Gold Crown tables that had missing rail bolts. That would certainly never happen when Tony Coates was the owner.
Oscar's new tag line: Have rail bolts, will travel!

Dominguez vs Guama race to 50 for 80+ per side

I’m sure Guama, along with everyone and their mother, were aware Oscar touched the table. Why didn’t he refuse to play or adjust?
It’s a way out.

You need an attorney and heavy artillery to play big today. Oscar is better off at home playing for 50/100.
Can you imagine? Binding contracts, big claims court, Trump could be world champion.

Hard to Find the Center of the Cue Ball

It sure seems like a lot of posters would benefit from reading and embracing Hal Mix’s Pocket Billiards Secrets.
Just because you’ve done something all your life, or a very long time, doesn’t mean you couldn’t perform better.

The issue becomes change is difficult and often seemingly impossible, for older players. Habits get formed that
are really hard to change and impatience takes control. They tend to become frustrated and revert to old habits.

Now that’s perfectly fine and basically they’ve limited their opportunity to improve other than through repetition.
They’ll practice, employ drills, hit lots of balls & pocket most too. The value and importance of center ball gets lost.

English is not needed or necessary on every shot, especially cut shots, when angular cut shots are so simple & easy
to predict & control cue ball location. But as long you can run the pool table, then you don’t need to change a thing.

Mid America lathe upgrade

Fit two replacement handles to the wheels of my Mid America Professional lathe today. The fixed handles they had were slightly inconvenient. Not only do these spin free, I made a little extender bar for the small wheel. Was pretty simple to upgrade, especially if you put them where the original handles were. Just take the original wheels off and punch out the fixed ones, then drill and tap, 10x24, for the new ones. Really simple great upgrade.
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Love the extension. Sadly it won’t work with the bigger wheel I upgraded. They would hit each other

Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

I have spent a fair amount of time in Italy over the last five years. I was curious what part of the country these were manufactured at.
After studying Google maps I noticed that the Becue factory shares a wall with a company that produces carbon fiber products of many kinds, including tubes.
I am not a betting man but it seems likely that the company next door may be where they could get there tubes from.
I'm not surprised the company next door supplies their tubes, the engineers that started Becue were already working in CF, my guess is that it was probably at that factory, they spent 3 years of R&D before releasing their 1st cue, they are still doing R&D , it's one of the things I love about Becue, they are not putting out something new just to say it's new, they are building different shafts for different types of hits, not every player will like the same type of hit, It's not that one shaft is better than another, they are engineered to play differently.

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