Willie Mosconi’s cue from one of his 14.1 world tournament wins

Sooner32 said:

I am guessing my sayings would not be considered helpful. Yesterday was a particularly rough day for me as far as getting balls to go into pockets. If someone was recording me they would have heard:

Holy crap you suck!
How on earth can you miss a pocket by that much?
Why the fuck did you buy all this shit?
How the hell do you snooker yourself with three damn balls on the table?

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I am going to take you serious that you say such things about yourself. If so it is the wrong move. Watch old video of Efren. When he missed a shot he grinned, rubbed the back of his head, and reset. The miss and the thoughts about it were behind him. Seemed like a great idea but I'm not much on grinning and the bald spot on the back of my head was growing fast!

I couldn't do it in exactly the same manner but I could do the same thing. I acknowledge to myself that I had just made a dumbass move, then I follow-up by saying that isn't my normal and I move on.

Two things are important: First I bash what I did not the entirety of myself. I need mistakes to carry a penalty so I put in that one second or so of punishment. Now the mistake has been acknowledged and dealt with, I move on. If I left it hanging unresolved, I can't move on.

I shot a sixty round weekly pistol match for a few years. The framework and structure made it much easier to analyze than a pool tournament. I let one shot go a little astray most weeks. Taking a look at the results over the entire past season it was obvious that my perfect scores were just as abnormal as letting two or more shots go astray.

I would have liked to think that my normal was perfection, or even perfection most of the time. Nope, dropping a point or more on one shot was my normal. I still kept trying to improve but I didn't get upset about a shot going an inch or two out, that was my normal.

If a person finds a firm measuring stick for pool they can set firm and realistic goals. Most of us aren't going to be best every event, nobody else is either. Realistic expectations are a big part of putting our game together. If we are a top ten finisher at the moment we need to recognize that and try to move into the group of top five or top three finishers. At some point we start getting our share of wins but they aren't likely to come when we are a second ten finisher. Realistic goals and expectations are a lot easier to reach than daydreams.

Hu

Sooner32 said:

I am guessing my sayings would not be considered helpful. Yesterday was a particularly rough day for me as far as getting balls to go into pockets. If someone was recording me they would have heard:

Holy crap you suck!
How on earth can you miss a pocket by that much?
Why the fuck did you buy all this shit?
How the hell do you snooker yourself with three damn balls on the table?

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I am going to take you serious that you say such things about yourself. If so it is the wrong move. Watch old video of Efren. When he missed a shot he grinned, rubbed the back of his head, and reset. The miss and the thoughts about it were behind him. Seemed like a great idea but I'm not much on grinning and the bald spot on the back of my head was growing fast!

I couldn't do it in exactly the same manner but I could do the same thing. I acknowledge to myself that I had just made a dumbass move, then I follow-up by saying that isn't my normal and I move on.

Two things are important: First I bash what I did not the entirety of myself. I need mistakes to carry a penalty so I put in that one second or so of punishment. Now the mistake has been acknowledged and dealt with, I move on. If I left it hanging unresolved, I can't move on.

I shot a sixty round weekly pistol match for a few years.

Quesports said:

The life span of all pool gloves is not designed to last a long time. If they did that they’d sell way less gloves.

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I get about 9 months out of a glove and I play every day just about

Bob Jewett said:

So, after the 12 ball, the cueball hit the top rail, then the left rail, and then passed between the top rail and the 2 ball. That shot is impossible unless there is something very wrong with the equipment. Like loose rubber.

The other possibility is that the shot was very different from the diagram. Even so, if you did hit the ball at 10:30, there is no way the spin could have reversed to be right.

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Correct. After the 12, the CB hit the upper long rail then the left short rail, then came mostly straight up the table, above the 2 between the 2 and the upper long rail, while I expected it to come below the 2, between the 2 and the lower long rail (from the diagram's perspective.)

After playing with it this morning, I think I am remembering it wrong, and I must have hit it terribly wrong. See my response above to David in FL.

Thanks for responding.

I had one of these years ago and sold it to Joe Salazar at the DCC when it was still at the Executive West. I’d sent it to Dan and he confirmed the 18 pin was limited and it was maybe around 1970, coulda been a year or two earlier or later. Very neat old cues..

Yeah, I just set it up and hit it a bunch of times. I think I am remembering it wrong. In experimentation just now, I am pretty sure the CB was much closer to the top long rail, much less of a cut than I diagrammed.

I tried hitting it a bunch of different ways. The only time I got the reaction I saw last night is when I put a touch of right spin on the CB. So I must have been aiming very slight left, lots of top, but actually hit it with a touch of right. It's the only way the CB could get the reaction it did. Obviously I need to be much more cognizant of my tip position, especially when close to center ball.

I have had perception issues on some shots where I am actually setting up slightly right on the CB of where I am intending. Something to continue to work on....

Thanks for your response.

David in FL said:

It sounds to me as if you hit it so high that you had a forced follow that kept it much closer to the long rail than you intended and pretty much negated any left...

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skogstokig said:

these two girls have improved a lot. you simply don't beat rubilen at 10-ball unless you're a serious contender. same with tkach.

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Yeah, they're both in the final 16 in the winner's bracket, it's official to me that they're real contenders.

And Sav is also playing great in the doubles event, the pairing turned out to be pretty good.

So, after the 12 ball, the cueball hit the top rail, then the left rail, and then passed between the top rail and the 2 ball. That shot is impossible unless there is something very wrong with the equipment. Like loose rubber.

The other possibility is that the shot was very different from the diagram. Even so, if you did hit the ball at 10:30, there is no way the spin could have reversed to be right.

Filler and Biado losing was a bit surprising to me. It's nice to see parity in these events, though.

Teutscher keeps getting better. Not leaps and bounds but steadily. Great jumper, much to my surprise. He made a handful of great jump shots to beat Fedor and come from behind vs Manas. Small sample size, he could be top 10 in that category from what I’ve seen

Still doesn’t persuade me at times. He makes some big boo-boos now and then. But he recently topped 800 in Fargo. He’s doing a lot right.

Mcdermott has the Vanquish VQ1 out that is all carbon. I tried it at the Expo, nothing really special, kinda tinny sounding. Reminds me of a Cuetec.

I like Hawaiian Brian's Tad

I'm still looking, if anyone has one for sale...

Ebony nose Southwest Wu used to win the world 9 ball in 2005.

It sounds to me as if you hit it so high that you had a forced follow that kept it much closer to the long rail than you intended and pretty much negated any left...