Brookeland Bill said:

Wher can you watch the videos of matches in one holey?

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Pool Action TV

Bob Jewett said:

Would you make an exception for Efren? He is a known chalk-inverter.

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SVB often sets his chalk on its side.

Badpenguin said:

After a warning or two, maybe just toss the chalks under the table?

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If you're playing on a ProAm just knock them into the pockets, never to be seen again.

Beautiful cue ready to be sold. Lets go.
Cue trade are acceptable.

Beautiful cue ready to be sold. Lets go.

fastone371 said:

Then I guess I would assemble my spare cue, it only says you concede if you break down your cue, not assemble one. Besides, people put their jump cues together during a match all the time.

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On that note: I noticed Szewczyk takes the whole butt off his AirRush and puts the gripped portion on the shaft when he needs it shorter. That would definitely classify as disassembling a cue. But it's not an issue because it's obvious what he's doing. Common sense, y'all.

Taxi said:

BITD Steve Gumphrey was the best 9 ball player in the DC area. With the break and BIH I would beat him, but without BIH I needed the break and the slop 7. This was long before the template came along, and my break has always been a POS.

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It always drives me crazy when I ask some of the "champions" to help me break better. It turns really quickly into a lesson on how to gap the balls the best way. I don't like that.

Black-Balled said:

And, cant utilize any rewards other than discounts on current purchase, sadly. You can't cash that account out/ use collected awards.

More than a few cashiers have said "wow, you have a lot of points! .you should use them".

No can do!

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Yep, just say, maybe Jenny can you use them

I may. I was hoping for an older one

This happened to FSR late last year. Something was up with his tip. Took a break after the rack and was talking to and showing the official. He grabbed his spare shaft and that was that.

If i were the official i wouldn't give them the time for a repair, but if you have a spare shaft go for it.

Bob Jewett said:

All areas are susceptible to wandering off the beaten path. Sometimes that's good, but nearly always it is a less effective way to play. I think would-be trail blazers should ask themselves, "Why is this a better way to play than what others are doing?" "It's my way," is not a very good answer.

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Agreed. You better have a damn good reason to stray from conventional wisdom. That said, SVB was way closer to conventional in his early career and then really leaned into that wavy stroke with a super brief follow through and an extreme preset in his wrist later on as he rose to #1 in the world. Mika Immonen came from snooker and had many centuries under his belt with a standard snooker piston stroke technique before abandoning it for his flowy Pinoy style which made him a killer and player of the decade in the 2010s.

Those techniques ARE better...and not just if you can practice 8hrs a day. SVB and Mika would not adopt those ways if they made them worse. More consistency and less susceptibility to breaking down under pressure.