I take a little of it back. The method is useful for kicks off the side rails. I don't think he has the length quite right. His method should put the bumper of his cue at the rolling-ball mirror image of the pocket. As a check, the bumper needs to be in line with the end rail. He doesn't check that, and the bumper will be less and less in line as the balls move away from the end rail.

His method of the end-rail kicks is off because the bumper is no where near in-line with the side rails, and the ball will go short for the shots he demonstrated. I guess you could argue they won't be off by much, but I don't like systems with built-in errors. In a lot of rooms, you can't get the bumper to the correct position because of walls and tables. I'm not sure, but maybe the long-way kick could be fixed by rotating half way and then parallel shifting.

The basic idea (corrected): Put the bumper at the location of the spot on the wall, then pivot around that spot to the cue ball to get the line of the shot, and note where on the rail you have to aim.

The basic problem: he doesn't put the bumper at the spot on the wall most of the time.

I understand he had a very good one handed stroke.

Sooner32 said:

It seems clear you love the APA. Great GO Team and all. I do not have to like the point system as a spot. I am not the only person that doesn't like it.

I do not give one flying fuck about growing the sport.

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Well, I'm rubber and you're glue, so whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

I'm not very good at this. I typed that backwards the first time. Maybe I should have used "I know I am but what are you?" - no, wait, that doesn't look right either. I'm probably going to get beat now by years of experience...

The 5 ball was orange. I guess they used old balls.

Mensabum said:

You most definitely can if playing for large coin!!
Lose and you're walking home to an empty house.
Increase the element of risk involved.
You'll figure it out real quick!!

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Losing a lot of money only matters if losing that money matters to you...

Thank you