After all these years and now I find out CJ was playing disk pool.

Guy made a short vid to teach this to a beginner. Place a ball about 8-10 inches straight out from the side pocket. Line up to shoot it straight into the pocket. One practice stroke then pause at the ball and push it all the way into the pocket with the tip of the cue. It is supposed to teach the muscle memory of going through the ball and the extension after. It has helped a couple new players.

CajunPopeye said:

I was at a bar Saturday night talking to an older lady who was playing in a tournament there. She mentioned she had two Meucci cues. I grabbed mine out the case (darker cue in photos) and showed her mine. She gets hers out. I was excited. I've only seen one other M3 first hand. It was in a pawn shop. She received hers from a friend. I asked to see her shaft. It too is a 12mm shaft. I thought mine was an odd ball at that size. I find I shoot different with my lighter weighted Meucci than I do with my 21oz Joss. I believe the Meucci is 18-18.5oz. Anyone else break out their retired cues from time to time?

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I shoot with old Meucci Originals every day. I always liked Meucci cues but I liked Joss even more. Today I like to shoot with older cues a lot. I'm sure it's the nostalgia, and I like the designs of the ones I buy.

I would collect old block letter and gold letter Joss cues but the Meucci's seem a little easier and less expensive to collect. This forum has been pretty helpful. I've picked up a JR-3 with 2 shafts and a DH-1 I just had refinished from members on here.

If you have the time I would point you to the BU exams but given you're only playing 10 hours a week I'm going to point you to Bowliards. One set should take you about 30-45 minutes and will give a general idea of how you play. Don't think you'll play one set and know where you stand, play 10 sets over a 5 day period and post your results, and we'll tell you where you stand.



There is a website devoted to it; however, I have not used it, I have either used a piece of paper for scoring or used an online bowling calculator and screenshotted the end result.

This is the bowliards website..


This is the only calculator I have used online...



IMHO, the ghost is good for people who can run the table (either occasionally or consistently), if you can only run the table 1 in 10 times the ghost will always win and will teach you nothing, bowliards will give a more finite idea of where you stand.

Oh, yeah, nice stick up there. What's the double joint? Extension?

Reminds me of my Action Elite.



Everything you see less than $150.

GideonF said:

But a huge portion of the pool world just doesn’t play straight pool at all. Ever. Europe still does and pockets of North America.

Most of North America and most of Asia probably have large populations of 700 level Fargo players who’ve never played a 14.1 match. They might have run a 5 pack at 9b.

Now truly great players will still have the skill to run balls but they won’t know the strategy and the various break shots. I remember sitting at the 2000 US Open beside guys who knew the game scratching their heads while Efren played it all wrong and still ran many balls, but he’s Efren!

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I'm talking strictly the number. Especially those listed here.

qolbrand said:

from fargorates website:

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Way remedial IMO.

straightline said:

Reminds me of the guys at the bowling alley in Gardena. They could do 50s but spent most of the time doggin' it. I learned the lot of one hole from them but not shotmaking for damn sure.

Oh, but the point was while 14.1 isn't an indicator of overall speed, it's requisite to good pool. So I'm sticking with my 70 number and even calling it a minimum requirement.

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But a huge portion of the pool world just doesn’t play straight pool at all. Ever. Europe still does and pockets of North America.

Most of North America and most of Asia probably have large populations of 700 level Fargo players who’ve never played a 14.1 match. They might have run a 5 pack at 9b.

Now truly great players will still have the skill to run balls but they won’t know the strategy and the various break shots. I remember sitting at the 2000 US Open beside guys who knew the game scratching their heads while Efren played it all wrong and still ran many balls, but he’s Efren!

maha said:

thats how we rated a person. how many can he run. 50 and he was decent. few in the pool room ever ran 50.

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Reminds me of the guys at the bowling alley in Gardena. They could do 50s but spent most of the time doggin' it. I learned the lot of one hole from them but not shotmaking for damn sure.

Oh, but the point was while 14.1 isn't an indicator of overall speed, it's requisite to good pool. So I'm sticking with my 70 number and even calling it a minimum requirement.

thats how we rated a person. how many can he run. 50 and he was decent. few in the pool room ever ran 50.