Do you accept Zelle, or I can a money order cash or check?

If the Chinese stuck to American Pool and exported all of their players worldwide, I think their players would have eventually taken over the sport, just like they have in the Olympics. But if they stick to playing Chinese 8 ball in China, I think it will have zero effect on the rest of the pool world.

Actually I take that back. I don't think the Chinese players would have taken over even if they stuck to American Pool. The reason is the game is fragmented. They'd have to zigzag travel worldwide to compete in everything. They'd never be able to get the visas and the money support. Same issue the Filipinos face, who DO play only American Pool. Contrast that with the Olympics, the Chinese can train at home for 4 years, all get Visa's to go to whatever country its hosted at, and win everything.

Lowell said:

Is there anyone who doesn't think having a straight stroke is important? This is something even APA 3s work on

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Is there anyone that doesn’t think cue ball speed is important?
Is there anyone that doesn’t think chalking is very important?

Is there anyone that doesn’t think staying down in your stance
isn’t important or maintaining the correct contour shape of a tip?

These are pretty obvious like so many other aspects of pool that
don’t require any recital or explanation except for a pool newbie.

Highmiles said:

Have to go with larger diameter tip helping the most.

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Mensabum said:

They are more forgiving of stroke errors.

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Larger diameter tips are more often flatter - I think that might make them a little more forgiving. The drawback is if your tip isn't rounded enough it can limit maximum tip offset.

Full disclosure: I like my low-squirt 10mm dime-shaped tip.

pj
chgo

u12armresl said:

I just can't get into running around the table to try to win a match because of a time clock. If it gets down to the last game, the clock should shut off except for the 30 second clock.

Understand they are trying to do the opposite of every other league to try and stand out, but that running around is for the birds.

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I personally, like it when it comes down to the wire. Fun to watch.

middleofnowhere said:

Well I took a shot that watching pickleball Pete. I honestly couldn't make it through it. You can see it looks like it was filmed in just a couple of days and it makes Ed Wood look like Spielberg. I hope they do better by Mike, and it's more than just a crowdfunding scam.

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So you're saying it's probably not coming out in IMAX.

Lou Figueroa
shoot

no surprise its priced out of this world. maybe someone could find a few that were worth the price at this point in time.
or just what they wanted.

WORLD STANDARDIZED RULES
Unsportsmanship like conduct is defined as any intentional behavior that brings disrepute to the sport or disrupts fare play.
ALTERING BALL POSITIONS...Changing position of balls in play by any other method other than a legal shot.

To me it is just like raking the balls off of the table...END OF GAME.