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How good is your Stroke?

Cleveland_Rocks
I recently worked on my stroke, studying snooker mechanics and tips from from top snooker coaches. I created a set of drills based on high level snooker mechanics from top snooker coaches. One of my drills was to have a striped ball on the foot spot, and to shoot the striped ball down the length of the table and back. I would stay down and keep my follow through still until the striped ball came back to the foot spot. If the striped ball impacted my cue tip in any way, I would consider that to be a success. If it did not impact my cue tip (on the way back), that did not count as a success. Towards the end of my 5 weeks of pure stroke training I would consistently do this 21/21 times, with an occasional miss. Towards the end of my 5 week training, I was confident that I would do it 21/21 times each time I stepped up to practice the drill.

In addition, I would practice the "long straight in" shot. I would place the cue ball on the near side of the first diamond, towards the rail that I was shooting from, not towards the middle of the table. The center of the cue ball would be on a sticker about a ball and a half short of the first diamond, lower than the first diamond, so on the end rail side where I was standing. I would then place an object ball on a sticker about halfway to the corner pocket on a diagonal, which was slightly past the center of the table, straight in. Then I would record how many times I made the shot out of 10 tries.

I only practice on 9 footers, and on a 9 foot Gold Crown with fairly large pockets, once I made it 10/10 times. I would routinely make 5-8 out of 10.
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Johnny loses his mind on livestream

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fjk said:
Who can figure out the probability that a 697 beats a 754 50 to 28?
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The thing about Fargo, is that it does not matter how long of a break you have taken from the game, your Fargo remains the same, until you have competed again, in a Fargo event. And, I am not sure, but Johnny may only be competing in bar table tournaments, in recent times.

I see that he is playing pretty good on the bar table, so he may have been able to win the match, if it would have been on a bar table. Or, it may have been a much closer of a match. I do not know though.

Also, I see that Gabe has a fairly low number of games in the Fargo system, so most of his playing might just be gambling, and not in Fargo system tournaments.
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Age related decline.

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Jaden said:
Well let's see. Let me start by saying that I'm confident in saying that there isn't a definitive age where it becomes impossible to compete. It's not like you hit 40 and all of a sudden you're done.

It's not so much age that causes you to not be able to compete, it's more what comes with age and there are remedies. Eye sight starts to decline, lazik. Arthritis gets bad, shoulder, hip, knee replacement surgery. Bad lower back (potentially caused by playing pool for years), steroid injecitions, surgery etc.

I found out after my game declined that I had run away diabetes and massive arthritis. I got the diabetes under control and then found out that I had no rotator cuff movement in my left shoulder, had shoulder replacement surgery and after recovery I started playing well enough to compete again so I signed up for the Arizona open and the Phoenix open, then i found out that my right shoulder needs to be replaced too.

I start practicing like I used to, more than perhaps anyone besides Shane, and my back ( have had lower back issues since I was 17) started making that nigh on impossible. I had one injection a few weeks ago and it was likely in the wrong spot, or I also needed one in a different spot so that's scheduled for late July. We'll see how much of a difference that makes.

I'm still going to compete in both tournaments and depending on how I feel afterwards we'll see whether I continue to try and compete or if I hang up my hat and focus on Ontarget Billiards. I had to delay the surgery on my right shoulder to be able to compete; however the doctor said that if I put it off too long it may not be repairable. I play left handed so my right shoulder doesn't really effecct my quality of play, more so just the pain distracts my focus which is the same with my back pain, it just distracts my focus and anyone who's played top level pool knows that focus is everything in competition.

So we'll see how it goes.

Sorry for the rant if it came off that way,

Jaden
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Can we rename this story to the Johnny Archer story....age related decline
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Justin Bergman vs Tom Cousins

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maha said:
who is putting up the 100 thousand dollars they are playing for. is it winner take all.

or are the players putting up the money or a big part of it. otherwise in the middle is bullshit.

how come after the win you never see the winner getting a 100k check in his name. guess why?
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I'm with you, the $ amount in the middle doesn't mean much to me. It's promoted that way to make it seem like the players have a ton of pressure on them, in reality they're often free-rolling or close to it
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Age related decline.

Highmiles
At 79, my biggest problem is consistency and concentration. Some nights I have it, other nights, it’s a crap shoot. The worst time was after rotatator cuff surgery. I was physically unable to break for two years. I finally recovered from that and got some stroke back and now play at least two or three times a week. After two knee replacements, two rotator surgeries, quadruple bypass surgery and macular degeneration in my strong eye I feel truly blessed to be able to continue playing, let alone having occasional nights when I can be competitive. The bottom line is that if you love it, don’t quit. I look forward to every game I play and love being around the younger (everybody) players. I believe it keeps me younger, and it is a definite source of pleasure.
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Justin Bergman vs Tom Cousins

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fastone371 said:
I don't know if I would say Cousin's patterns are better but he does have a way of getting around the table with minimal cue ball movement. That seems to be a common trait for most Brits.
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That's how I'd define pattern play. If you can run out with minimal cue ball movement and all easy shots, your patterns are real good. I can't remember which event it was, but I seem to remember watching Tom Cousins carry his ~450 fargo partner deep in the mixed doubles tournament a few months back.
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Johnny loses his mind on livestream

gregcantrall
fjk said:
I didn't watch the match or hear exactly what JA said afterward. But a future threat of a slap isn't much of a threat in my book. In the old days, if you threaten to slap another man you'd get laughed at.
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Not necessarily. Uh oh Gramps is having a flashback. Okay the story 😉
It was at the seed 2 in Bellevue. We were in a money game, the wife and I. The soon to be husband for our daughter was engaged in sharking the wife. As she had jacked him up regarding her daughter and her displeasure with his behavior regarding same.
He was proud of his being able to distract with antics.
I spoke up to encourage him to ...uh knock it off. We was across the table from me and gave me the smirk. You know the adolescent response when they think they are Big Boys.
I stopped retrieving the balls and looked him right in the eye and offered to, "Slap that Smirk right off your face." It was no brag just fact. His face changed immediately and he receeded from the table to whisper to his wing man. I heard his wingman say, "it's under the seat in the truck."
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