dr_dave said:

FYI, I just posted a new video that discusses the WaxGate controversy following the recent $1M World Championship in Saudi Arabia. I break down example shots from the tournament, comparing typical and slick or waxed conditions. I also demonstrate all ball-reaction effects that are different with a waxed ball. Finally, I offer recommendations for changes that should be made to the game in response to move forward positively. Check it out:

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Contents:
0:00 - Background
2:42 - Example Shots
5:00 - Fedor's Banana Carom Shot
6:52 - All Waxing Effects
---- 7:01 - draw is easier
---- 7:06 - sidespin reacts less
---- 7:50 - rolling speed is similar
---- 8:05 - more speed loss off rails
---- 8:23 - pockets play larger
---- 8:39 - CB persists on tangent line longer
---- 9:40 - follow shots stall off rails
---- 10:40 - rolling kick and bank shots go longer
---- 11:20 - balls throw less
---- 12:31 - miscue limit no different
---- 12:46 - not all spin lost on kick
---- 13:33 - shallow-angle follow scratch more likely
---- 13:51 - massé shots are more impressive
14:32 - Recommendations
16:31 - More Info

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!

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Excellent job recreating those shots!

trob said:

I was always good with the trophies . I got rid of a ton of them when we down sized. I never cared much about the money I won.. I guess gamblers care more about that because it’s how they measure who won lol I got a job for money.
I guess my favorite example is of all the tournaments I won there is one I won with 3 friends. It was a large tournament that took 3 days. It was exhausting but we all played great. We all made great shots or had tough outs when it was needed. I was younger and the feeling leaving that tournament was worth more then the stack of money I got for winning. I have no idea what I spent that money on but the picture I have of the 4 us standing at the table with our cues after we won it has been hanging in my pool room for years and thats worth more to me.

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Trying to figure out why someone likes to gamble at pool is just a guess. there are too many reasons. Personally, I’ve never understood people with an “I love me” wall. I’ve never cared what others think.

I spent 30 years in the military and never hung a single award or medal up on a wall. When I retired, I tossed my medals in the trash. I kept the certificates my DD Form 214 that proved I earned them in a file somewhere. I could probably dig them up if I ever needed to but I can’t imagine why.

Funny thing is, I make and sell display cases for folks in the military who do want to show off their “I love me” items. I don’t get it… but to each their own. I’ll take $5 over a trophy any day. At least I can enjoy a couple of sodas with a friend.

When my mom passed a couple years ago, I was going through her boxes and found a trophy I’d won at a youth center 8-ball tournament on Fairchild AFB when I was 9. I hadn’t seen it since the day I won it in 1976. Even back then, the trophy didn’t mean much. What mattered to me was how easily I beat the older kids that I thought would win. The hardware never meant much to me. Maybe if it was a world championship or a Super Bowl ring I’d feel different… every little leaguer gets a trophy.

The funny part of all of that to me is, and I’m sure many pool players can relate to this… Pool was a huge source of tension between my mom and dad when I was growing up. I was extremely lucky to have two really unbelievably great parents and I believe happily married until the day my mother passed away. But if they were ever going to split, it would’ve been over his pool playing, and yeah it came close more than once. That’s what went through my head when I saw she’d kept that little trophy all those years.

I miss her every day.

I have this bender for sale if you’re interested.

dr_dave said:

FYI, I just posted a new video that discusses the WaxGate controversy following the recent $1M World Championship in Saudi Arabia. I break down example shots from the tournament, comparing typical and slick or waxed conditions. I also demonstrate all ball-reaction effects that are different with a waxed ball. Finally, I offer recommendations for changes that should be made to the game in response to move forward positively. Check it out:

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Contents:
0:00 - Background
2:42 - Example Shots
5:00 - Fedor's Banana Carom Shot
6:52 - All Waxing Effects
---- 7:01 - draw is easier
---- 7:06 - sidespin reacts less
---- 7:50 - rolling speed is similar
---- 8:05 - more speed loss off rails
---- 8:23 - pockets play larger
---- 8:39 - CB persists on tangent line longer
---- 9:40 - follow shots stall off rails
---- 10:40 - rolling kick and bank shots go longer
---- 11:20 - balls throw less
---- 12:31 - miscue limit no different
---- 12:46 - not all spin lost on kick
---- 13:33 - shallow-angle follow scratch more likely
---- 13:51 - massé shots are more impressive
14:32 - Recommendations
16:31 - More Info

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!

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I forgot one slick-cloth/waxed-ball effect. Can anybody think of it (or others)? I might need a follow-up video.

Chopdoc said:

I have been into ebony Dufferin Cues recently and picked up another one from a member here that just came a few days ago. That's the third one in the pics. Original butt conversion said to be Baxter, piloted 5/16x14 stainless collar, with short wrap added later possibly by Theewen, Jerry R shaft with ivory ferrule. Frankencue. In any case the work is very nice. I grabbed some pictures today but I had been playing with them and realized when I pulled them up on my PC I should have wiped them off. That ebony sure does show the hand smudges! Oh well, it's the real world. Here they are. Anything you see on the finish is just hand smudges. Yes, they play very nice.

Any thoughts on a more presentable bumper on that first cue?

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Bonus: My daughter was plating pool with me today. She hand made this purse with her art on it, so I set up this shot with the purse. It is fully lined with pockets and compartments inside and two handles that clip to the D rings, and it has a shoulder strap that buckles to each end that is not in the picture.

I think she needs to make me a butterfly case.


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Nice!

Bob Jewett said:

There is cloth that is very slippery and stays that way.

I've played recently on a home table with year-old cloth where it was impossible to make many standard position shots because the spin wouldn't take on the cushions.

Years ago a local room had cloth on their GC3s that was both very slippery and fairly slow, which is a strange combination.

But neither of those cases was Simonis.

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My brother in law has Proline or Proform cloth on his 8’ table. It’s so slick I was able to do the Corey Deuel draw shot without his stroke