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Left handed chalk - for left eye dominant players

Chicagoplayer
8onthebreak said:
For those of you who are left eye dominant and play right handed…read on. There is hope.

I’ll start with “WHY”. My Fargo rating has dropped from 603 to 587 in the past year despite my exhaustive increase in practicing. I recently met with an eye doctor and explained that the balls look dark and blurry at the other end of the table. I said I want to be able to see like a could 30 years ago. After checking everything out, he said, it’s not your eyes.
So I started researching “AIMING” Thinking it has to be an aiming problem. I landed on the topic of eye dominance which led me to “center vision” topic, and I realized that I am left eye dominant and I play right handed…so I suspected that I was not putting my eyes over the cue correctly.

Now that I have corrected my stance, I can see the balls clear and I now have “tone” when I’m down on a shot. It’s a lock. I’m back! Haven’t had that in years.

The problem: I find that it’s very awkward to get my head over the cue correctly, it feels like I have to stretch my neck uncomfortably to get my head across the cue, and I can feel it pulling on muscles in my neck and on my right side of my abdomen. I see why I “default” to bad posture/head eye alignment because it’s so uncomfortable to get in correct position. I can see that I’m going to have to make conscious effort to check myself on every shot that I’m in alignment…so I needed to somehow work it into my pre-shot routine to try to remind myself, so I have named the chalk “left handed chalk”.

Now, before every shot, I grab some left handed chalk, and the chalk reminds me of my need for alignment, this also means that I now chalk before EVERY shot. WIN-WIN.

I feel like being left eye dominant and playing right handed is a disadvantage, It’s an un-natural posture. I haven’t had “tone” on cut shots it seems, for years. It feels great to be able to see the balls again. If this can help someone struggling with the same thing, then it was worth posting. Just grab you some left-handed chalk and it’s a lock!

Credit to AZ community for threads helping me find “center vision” …something I didn’t even know existed!
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Left handed chalk 🤣🤣🤣
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JMM billet pool racks

JolietJames
Bavafongoul said:
Very nice………this is simple design but nonetheless elegantly done. Are there color options for the rack, like dark red, blue or green. The lettering would be more distinguishable with a different color and some folks have blue and green cloths. I think a dark blue version would also be a handsome version but you really can’t go wrong with jet black color.
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Thank you.
I would like to offer more colors but coatings are expensive. I get a discount when I bring more than ten to coat at a time. Black being the most popular color is the only justifiable choice for that much inventory as of now. I have a buddy who is trying his hand at powder coating and when he gets the hang of it there will be more options.
If anyone emails me with color requests I can price it and get back to them. It's typically 5-10 business days for coating if they have the color in stock. I suspect they will not be in much of a hurry to shoot one rack and they will probably charge me $50 for it. Again, once my buddy gets up to speed the price will come down but shipping will still be longer.
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From "aim by feel" to "aim at a point"

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I both agree and disagree.

If someone knows enough to aim at the fractions, and visually reviewing the results to find the consistencies/patterns and adjust to them, the yes that would feed into the 'feel' technique.

BUT, if the shooter is already aware of the expected results (see chart in thread), then s/he can already assume those to be the baselines, and use the fractions *for shots on those lines* (I would, however, give a nod back to the "feel" aspect, if you are talking about knowing how to ADJUST to those lines.)

At some point, this discussion will probably devolve into semantics, and require a more specific defining of feel. ""It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." ;)
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JMM billet pool racks

Bavafongoul
JolietJames said:
Designed for a league team captain's personalized rack.View attachment 868349
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Very nice………this is simple design but nonetheless elegantly done. Are there color options for the rack, like dark red or maybe Simonis tournament blue or Simonis green? The lettering would be more distinguishable with a different color and some folks have blue and green cloths. I think a dark blue version would also be a handsome version but you really can’t go wrong with jet black color.
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Pool player families and their aggression towards critics

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The Mosconi is it's own unique circus and even if I don't agree with how some of the parents react to well deserved criticism I find it more comedic than concerning. Most sane parents would be proud that their kid made it to the pinnacle of their chosen profession no matter if they win dominantly or lose tragically it's still an overall net positive. I think it just sets up an even more intriguing 2026 Mosconi from what changes are made event wise/crowd wise and team selection wise.
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Pool player families and their aggression towards critics

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bbb said:
you should go watch a juniors tennis match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I played junior tourneys in the 90's and never witnessed any parents acting out, tourneys would start on a friday and typically there may not even be any parents there but even if they were they weren't instigating drama. I coached hs tennis and there weren't any issues with the parents but watching my older nephew play travel baseball was a completely different story!!

I always thought that the elite tennis players in the state who's dads were either doctors or lawyers were the most spoiled kids until I watched my older nephew race 4 wheelers. One family had an RV with basically a garage in the rear and a motorized ramp to lift bikes/4 wheelers into it!!
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