Chuck Norris has to run two racks of nine ball to count.
He’s so fast no one sees the first rack.

Will Prout

Jaden said:

And apparently also the spelling of relativity...

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Thank the Lord for EDIT.
WP

Gotta say I've been intrigued by the Avids. Beautiful cues for sure.

These showed up at my door yesterday....played a rack with each and they felt right immediately. I'm digging the dark blue of the FK and the techy but understated feel of the Mohave. Performance is quite impressive, hits are solid across the stroke spectrum. None of the clanky like my Predator CF. They feel a touch light in the ass end compared to my other pieces but I'm liking it. I rarely need a glove for play and this shaft felt real nice. I mean, 2 cues that play about as well as you could ask, at any price, for under 750 shipped? Hell yeah.

All my tips are Sierings. These Avids came with the stock Everest tip and will be replaced with Sierings when they wear.

I owned a Viking player in the past, it was the Defender with a Vikore shaft. Loved the way it looked and hated the way it played. The shaft felt like a mop handle, the hit was amateur hour, laughably bad for me personally. My $40 one-piece Dufferin plays way better. Paid almost $1000 or so for it, blech....I've played with a Viking Crush for the last 10 years or so and it's mid (Siering diamond tip). Nothing against Viking, perfectly good American company, just my personal experience.

Cuetec is a sure bet for performance and value. Super important for me after having spent good money on bad equipment. If American made at value is important to you (it is to me), you might look at Pechauer's JP series cues. Mine is my baby to the point it'll often get in my bag over my Predator Sport and I paid $350 for it.

Hammered the subject into Google Ai.
Cool results.

"Flow is only possible when you don't have to "think" about your stroke."






Amazing how useful these Ai engines are becoming for any and all subject matter.

Rusty in Montana said:

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She’s uglier than homemade sin

middleofnowhere said:

I usually call that a 6 point.

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You’d be right, recuts aren’t points

A great player and man who changed my life in the way that I see, and play this game once told me “focus is the antithesis of flow”.

I think there is also a difference in hardness of coatings, so some are more scratchproof /dentproof than others.

Ive learned to just focus on one shot at a time and not get caught up on the results. Your going to miss.. your going to over roll or under roll position. Wipe the mental chalk board clean and start over.

On another note I’m a hyper guy by nature and since I don’t smoke weed or like to drink while playing it’s always been a battle. Melatonin ! Lol I take a couple before I play and relaxes me. I figured it calmed the mind so you can sleep so why wouldn’t calm the mind to help you play lol

skor said:

Took this one out to the pool hall tonight.
Started with a CueTec Cynergy shaft but I played like crap with it, I need to replace the tip, so moved to the trusty 314-2, nice combo.

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Nice classic look.

Bob Jewett said:

16-red clearances. I suppose it would be possible to have a 16-red 148 by missing the last black.

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yea, but they're also weird given that the prerequisite is an early frame foul from the opponent that renders a free ball.

ronnie is under pressure now. down 4-5 against a very lucky thepchaya uh-nooh (i just assumed he would lose his semi, apparently he didn't). 5 racks in a row for the thai.