GideonF said:

That rule is sort of a natural offshoot of their touching ball rule. It’s the snooker based rule - touching a solid you must shoot away from it but you are deemed to have hit the ball you are touching.

Their touching ball rule is weird to me, and especially weird in rotation. If you’re frozen to the 1b you should be able to shoot straight at any other ball, make it, then shoot at the one.

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Have you ever seen the cue ball touching 2 different balls at the same time after the break shot? In this scenario you must nominate your intentions! Here Marc Gough explain the rules to the players...

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Dynaudio said:

Thanks for all the replies.

There are no cue makers in Panama, but there may be a few people that can widen the inner diameter of the thread.

I’m just beginning to get into carbon shafts and I may be shopping for a few to try them out.

Thinking ahead, wouldn’t it be better just change the joint pin to a regular 3/8x10 pin and forget all this nonsense? It’s one surgery instead of several trips to widen a thread.

What do you guys think?

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jimmyg said:

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straightline said:

Lol. I met Johnny in his heyday. He was very personable - regular even, no apex crap. Hope he gets out of his PR difficulties.
But, Hu mentioned a zillion rail bank Johnny did on him. Been curious about that.

Anyway that billiard bank is amazing. Except for the scoring cushion, there's only one reverse in the whole thing! Any tricks to keep the ball on track?

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garczar said:

Coring was not done back then and straight-grain maple is a lot more stable/strong than highly figure BE.

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jay helfert said:

I am going to tell you something you may not ever hear from an instructor or learn from a book. You play your best pool in a semi conscious state. When your analytical mind is on standby. We used to calll that "in stroke," when you no longer had to ponder over the next shot. You were playing on automatic pilot. None of that walking around and pointing your cue. Just letting yourself play pool, free and easy. All that thinking does is slow you down. See the shot and shoot! Your first instinct is always the best. Think long, think wrong! The only time you slow down is when you must stop and think about a kick shot, jump or safety.

Watch the Filipinos sometime. I love AJ Manas. They don't waste any time clearing the table. They don't worry about the perfect angle or pefect anything. They just do their job, which is getting the balls off the table.

Get out of your head and into your game, and you'll do better!

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mr3cushion said:

Who, Miles Archer, Sam Spade's partner!

Johnny Archer 'Pool Player' wouldn't know what rail to hit first on this shot!

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