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The Pause

3kushn
Chili Palmer said:
If you want to see me short circuit, force me to pause. I've messed with it just to try it but I am very much a rhythm player and pausing in the back stroke screws up my speed control and rhythm in general. I have also found that on hard shots I would have a tendency to jerk my arm forward instead of having a smooth stroke.

To each their own.
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Took me most of a year to just start getting comfortable with pausing on backstroke.
Right now, today? I'm feeling its baked in ..... kinda.

Maybe if I wasn't also working on a straighter stroke too, the feel I searched for could have come sooner. IDK

What I do know is my game has improved, but maybe that's only because of increased table time working on those 2 things.
Maybe I would have seen the same improvement by just working on a straighter stroke and screw the pause.

Who knows.

I'm thinking what I call a "painfully slow backstroke" naturally caused at least a slight pause without thinking. Slowing up the backstroke if you're naturally quick with it is also a painful transition that throws your natural/learned rhythm out of kilter.
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Built by a National Champion

Chopdoc
More than ten years later I have an update.

This cue was made by Harry Sims for Charles "Cicero Chuck" Buban, the "CB" initials on the cue.

As it happens, I bought it from the original owner himself.

@mr3cushion do you know him?

How did I find out? I should have known all along, it was in our original communications about the sale, and I have those records. Somehow I missed his name!

This is part of what I have from those communications in March 2013:

Harry moved back to St. Louis and eventually bought Airport Billiards after working for a time in both
Starlight Billiards and Cue N Cushions' rooms that he put a lathe in and did repairs. Harry
would come to my house and play Scrabble which he was very very good at. This stick as I
said hits very good both pool & three cushion. Three cushion usually is played with a much
stiffer tapered shaft but this shaft works well on both. After finishing work Harry would drive
down to Cue N Cushoin and play violin Louie a match. Louie Samporis played violin for the
St. Louis Sympathy and might be able to relive more stories for you though Harry at time had
a tendancy to put Louie & others down but that is a storie in itself which Louie can share. I
rather focus on the good in Harry at tell you he had an amazing stroke for a short man and
could get eleven rails. I have one more cue by Harry which I might list later.

Cicero Chuck
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How Do You Explain....

boogieman
lfigueroa said:
So tonight at dinner I mention to Gail that I was thinking about switching from my John Davis PDF blank conversion, mit ivory joint, to my Shelby, which I have given a several month respite.

And Gail looks at me from across the dinner table with dead eyes -- you know, the kind of eyes you'll sometimes see at a poker table when your two pair have been called by trips -- and she says, I quote: "What is your problem? You have two Gina cues -- the quintessential pool cue. Why haven't you been playing with those?"

Words fail.

Lou Figueroa
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lol, she's right you know. 😄
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