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Johan back at 2026 Mosconi Cup Healm

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sjm said:
Had this announcement come in October, I would have said "so what?" The actions of the Mosconi coach during the event itself make little to no difference, and there would have been little to no time for Johan to work with his team. This announcement coming in April, however, makes it a big deal. First and foremost, it enables Johan to work with the likely team members to prepare them properly.

In 2018, Johan took the team to his instructional academy in Russia and, after they trained there, had them compete in the Kremlin Cup, a Russia-based event having a field very similar to that of a Euro-tour event, giving him almost instant additional feedback on whether they had progressed. The winner of the Kremlin Cup was Tyler Styer, whose solid play at the 2018 Mosconi Cup figured in the end of the Team USA losing streak.

Second, the early announcement should also enable Johan to select Team USA earlier rather than later.

Third, Johan is unlikely to play favorites. He likes hard-working players who show their commitment to the game by competing a lot.

I am greatly amused by the pun found in the thread title, but I love it. The use of healm instead of helm actually makes sense in this case, because it includes the word heal. As for Team USA, heal'm please, Johan, for it is surely a time for healing
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sjm said:
Complete waste of time. There are some arm chair quarterbacks that claim if the they would have moved the lawn chairs around on the deck of the Titanic you would get a different result. 2 weeks or 4 weeks of coaching players that have been playing for years won't result in their AH HA moment and suddenly start playing better. If Johan coaches me for 4 weeks would I be able to beat Gorst? ADD a female player. They still won't win but everyone would like to Savannah and Centino.
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''Kicking Out''.... Your Forward Foot

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There's quite a few different stances over the years. Diliberto stood with his feet pretty much parallel. Marcel camp he used to put his opposite foot forward kind of twist his body a little bit. I've actually seen the opposite foot quite a few times.
Big Bob was so stretched out his back leg was often and under a table next to him. Shorter players like most of the Filipinos and orientals, they basically just bend the front knee a bit bend over the table and shoot. It's almost like they were built to play pool. I'm not so sure the shorter player doesn't have some advantage over the taller player.
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Michael Webb said:
Metal split die in a tailstock holder.
Pretty straight forward and simple.
Do the i.d. work after it's installed
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i can make the inserts and i do have the die holder on my lathee. I was just asking if there was a faster way to cut a longer length of rod to a smaller size, since this material is flexing when i try to do any length longer than 2.5 inches at a time
Your picture says Juma on the bottom, is that the material you used ,or are those hydex or maple
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Johan back at 2026 Mosconi Cup Healm

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SA96 said:
If SVB and Sky don't want to come to Johan's Mosconi Cup camp, then they need to be kicked off the team.

Team USA need 5 players who are fully committed.

Gorst
Styer
Bergman
Atencio
Thorpe

That's my 5 for the Mosconi.
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Is Atencio officially representing the US in MR events? I would think Francesso-Varner HAS to be in consideration, imo...he's young, and has already won a ranking event I believe. I don't know if I would bet against him vs. either Thorpe or Styer...
iusedtoberich said:
A couple guys were in the pool hall the other night, wearing "shorts". The counter was all wondering if they went for the other team. Then we heard them speak. Ah, ok, they are European!
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Reminds me of something my grandpa said to me many years ago. July in Alabama is HOT and HUMID, yet he always wore the same style work coveralls every day. I asked him once why he never wore short pants in the alabama heat.

His reply was deadpan and instant. "Because I'm a grown man." :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Unfortunately, I won't ever be than grown, or that much of a man!
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Johan back at 2026 Mosconi Cup Healm

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SA96 said:
If SVB and Sky don't want to come to Johan's Mosconi Cup camp, then they need to be kicked off the team.

Team USA need 5 players who are fully committed.

Gorst
Styer
Bergman
Atencio
Thorpe

That's my 5 for the Mosconi.
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Bergman has made no attempt to go to the tournaments to collect Mosconi Cup points so I am not sure how fully committed he is to the Mosconi Cup.
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Before I pull the trigger... am I making a mistake?

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WSBC said:
I didn't take it as you were trying to dissuade me at all. I welcome all constructive and well thought out opinions.

At 12,000 sq ft. I have plenty of space to add the black ball tables without impacting my ability to have 20+ normal tables. I'm going to work with an architect out of Kansas that has experience designing multiple large pool rooms to lay out the hall to maximize my monetization of the space while accounting for appropriate team based seating around the tables for league play.

The Junior league will be an in house BCA league.

The APA operator gave me the contact information for the local BCA and TAP operators in the area and USAPool is starting up in this area as well. Everyone I've run into in the APA leagues in my area are all mid to late 30s-60s in age. Also all the type of customers I'd expect to see in the hall.

I anticipate leveraging the Billiard Education Foundation to work with the schools to develop billiards clubs in the schools. Also one of my partners is retired High School teacher and will assist with communications to the schools / boards to facilitate conversations.
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I always thought that a high school pool league would be a novel idea....like any other sport like football or basketball. Maybe 8 or 10 local schools in a league, playing each other in a round-robin schedule.
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