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dquarasr · Apr 13, 2026

When we say a table is faster than another, I can think of only two reasons:

The cloth and the cushions.

New cloth is usually faster, and of course the type/brand is important. That’s not a function of “it being a Diamond”, is it?

Cushion rebound characteristics influence how much speed is absorbed by balls coming off them. This IS a function of the “table.”

Am I in the ballpark?

GideonF · Apr 13, 2026

uk_9_ball_convert said:
Coming from a British cue sports background I think you should call fouls on yourself even when there is a referee. We always do on league nights if we think we've fouled even when the referee doesn't call it and pro snooker players have often called fouls on themselves when the ref has missed it or alerted the referee if they feel the balls haven't been replaced properly and they've gained an advantage. Appreciate every culture is different, but I wouldn't want to win that way.

I agree on the snooker culture point and I have advocated on here that pool needs a culture shift in this regard. Regularly calling touches of the ball, or double hits etc. But those are things the player can feel.

I’m not sure what a snooker player would do in this situation. I mentioned in the other thread someone (Murphy I think) asking the referee to watch a replay of the shot to ensure he had hit the correct ball first (no foul was called initially). The ref watched it and it was a good hit. But I don’t know what he does (or should do) if the referee watches it back and says it was good and Murphy thinks the video shows he hit the wrong ball first. He might tell the ref “I think I hit the wrong ball first and fouled” but if the ref says no what do you do? At some point isn’t it the ref’s call on such an issue?

Jerry R · Apr 13, 2026

I just posted this in a different thread a while back. I bought this shaft from Diana Hoppe. It's one of the shafts Earl played with back in the day.
When I talked to Earl about it a few years ago, he laughed and went on for a bit about how those shafts were almost unplayable. He spent many hours at night in a hotel room with sandpaper trying to modify them into something usable. Pics don't show it really well, but he pretty much cut through all of the fiberglass layer to get to the wood on most of the shaft.

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fastone371 · Apr 13, 2026

I had a new piece of Great White with a magnet on it, a team mate wanted to borrow it so I left it with him and said I would get it next week. The next week I ask for it back and he informs it went down the pocket on the table, I said no problem, just get me another piece. He says he figures he don't owe me a piece of chalk because it was the guy he was playing that knocked it down the pocket and I should collect from him. You cant argue with that kind of stupidity.

u12armresl · Apr 13, 2026

Black-Balled said:
Pretty clearly says most here?

Agreed. Just checking as I think most ppl here can play more than a little.

Brother Ron · Apr 13, 2026

I have been considering trying Taom V10....
Maybe I will stick with my old Triangle and pre-flag Master chalk.

ShootingArts · Apr 13, 2026

gregcantrall said:
My visit to the refinery in Canada had us building scaffold to plus 75 feet. Tube and clamp. My first build with an experienced partner had him telling me, "you are incharge until I tell you you are not." I said, "Cool". We got er done .Even had some fun. And a great friend.

Glad to see you back posting! We call that tube lock down here. I have climbed close to three hundred feet on tube lock and 335 feet on a piece spanning about a hundred feet between two units. Hanging slick stainless sheets on an insulated pipe. The sheets were thin, three feet wide by five or six feet long. The wind was howling like usual up there, and I had to let go of about a half dozen sheets before the job was done. I suspect that razor sharp stainless could have cut somebody half in two if it hit wrong at ground level but I was working alone and doing the best I could.

Put together right I would have climbed tube lock to the moon. I hated even eight or ten levels of A Frame scaffolding that wasn't tied off.

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Bavafongoul · Apr 13, 2026

Deion Sanders…..who was a pretty good multi-sport athlete said that he couldn’t understand why golf was the hardest
sport he ever attempted. The ball just sits there on a tee, motionless with no defenders to avoid or guess what pitch is coming next. The ball just sits there looking at you saying show me what you got. It is like hitting off a tee in baseball.

In the fairway, the ball does the same thing. Go ahead and swat me,…..swing hard and straight….watch me fly,….but how come it doesn’t do that very much? He said golf was the hardest thing he’d tried to master. How about you? Pool is easy compared to golf and my experience has been that weather is never a factor in pool unlike the game of golf.

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