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Flakeandrun
Kris_b1104 said:
What I find even more annoying is when players fail to get position, they have to point their cue to the spot on the table where they were trying to get to, and look all defeated because they didn't get there.

Like bro, everyone watching knows exactly where you wanted to be, we know you didn't intend to hook yourself. It makes no sense to me when they try to prove that they're not incompetent. It's so unnecessary and you don't gain anything from it. You played a bad shot, move on.

They also do it when they get on the wrong side of the ball, it's like they think we have no idea what kind of angle they needed to get to the next ball when it's painfully obvious.
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I do also find this annoying, but it doesn't distract or get in the way like wandering round the table. Getting into line of sight and wasting time when it's not their turn anymore.
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Pagulyan Carbon Fiber shaft?

Ģüśţāṿ
Icon of Sin said:
LOL. How can you tell from the 1 picture?
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Make the rhino image darker (adjust the contrast a bit) and change the tip. Not many CF shaft use that size of ferrule, most are shorter or longer.

My opinion doesn't mean much, but as soon as I saw it, I immediately thought it was a Rhino shaft. Plus they offer all the same shaft sizes.
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Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

ShootingArts
nataddrho said:
—“There are situations where a particular stroke works better than others. The old players had multiple strokes in their bag of tricks, roughly the equivalent of the golfer's bag of clubs. Mosconi used at least three strokes, more if you broke them down precisely.”

I completely reject the premise that some strokes work better than others, and this is Exactly the idea that I am trying to squash. They are all equivalent if your impulse vector is equivalent.

A horrible jab stroke is equivalent to a long accelerating stroke if you produce the same impulse.

I won’t say more since I’ve answered the OPs question for him. Stay warm!
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Ah, but some strokes are easier to get the impulse you want for a shot.

A pool player usually has three cues with him now, jump, break, and at least one playing cue. He doesn't swing any two the same, effectively using the right stroke for the job along with the right cue.

If all cues and all strokes worked equally well, nobody would be toting three cues!

Hu
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What is up with Earl??

Bob Jewett
iusedtoberich said:
... There must have been 30 or more pros his same speed in pool history and none acted like him. ...
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I've heard that Gene Nagy took a baseball bat to the jukebox. And there was Robert Cannefax who took a pocket knife to the tournament cloth he thought was too old. He also would stab himself in the leg with that knife when he was upset. He had a wooden leg -- I assume he didn't forget which was which.
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