A Vote For Rempe Tape

Rich93

Rich93

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The best DVD I've seen so far for learning 14.1 is Jim Rempe's How To Run A Rack. It's available from Accustats. He takes you through several different types of break shots, tells you how to shoot them, then shoots them and runs the rack, providing commentary along the way. It's one rack at a time, not a high run.

One big improvement over other commentary DVD's is that he is wearing a microphone while he is playing, and the commentary is immediate - no trying to remember what he was thinking hours or days after play, you hear what he is thinking as he is thinking it. The thinking goes deeper than I would have expected - for example, he not only knocks a key ball into place to get to a break ball, he knocks another ball into place to get to the key ball he just manufactured. And you know that's what he is doing because he tells you what he trying to do before he does it. I wish more instructionals would be set up that way.

One other thought - the greats of the past somehow learned what they knew without the benefit of all the teaching materials available today, and, so far as I know, they went to the grave without sharing their knowledge. Times have changed for the better, for sure.
 
I have never seen that one, but I have seen Jim's "How To Run 100 Balls" video and I thought it was fantastic. Jim Rempe is one of my all time faves, and to see him playing 14.1 and talking about his thought process is awesome. Always loved his commentary on Accu-Stats even when he wasn't playing too.
 
Yes Mr Rempe is the man.

This tape alone helped me out alot, especially when he says it is okay to change your pattern if you have fallen bad on the ball you played for.

I Would always feel guilty about changing it up once i have committed to a pattern. Once i started re-calibrating patterns i started to notice a big difference in my patterns and run totals.

i really wish he would make another tape to explore other ares of the game we all know and love.

Steve
 
stevekur1 said:
Hmmmm i have a sigel video, but i dont think it is that one.
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Run out Pool by Sigel which covers 9 ball, 8 ball and 14.1 and features a 100 ball run with simultaneous commentary.

Perfect Pool by Sigel (not to be confused with the same named video he did with Kevin Trudeau a few years ago) which is again 9 ball, 8 ball and 14.1. In the 14.1 section, he goes over breakshots and how to hit them, creating break balls, how to approach a rack, how to clear areas before you go to the next.

I'm pretty sure we've discussed this before and that you have seen these.
 
yes i have, thanks for reminding me!

Thought there was something else that i may have missed !

Steve
 
Personally, the best tapes/DVDs I've ever seen are (1) Irving Crane running 150 and out against Joe Balsis in the 1966 US Open and (2) Mike Sigel doing it to Mike zuglan in a much later (1992?) US Open. Both are available and very instructive. If I had to pick one: Crane.
 
Great Tape

I have that tape too and like it a lot.

Funny thing about the tape though...

I've watched it so many times that I know exactly what Jim is going to say before he says it...so my wife gets a kick out of it because I routinely say what he is going to say next, using his same mannarisms and voice inflections, just before he says them...
 
stevekur1 said:
This tape alone helped me out alot, especially when he says it is okay to change your pattern if you have fallen bad on the ball you played for.
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I think that's the tape where he says "Dese guys look like dey know exactly what they're doing. Believe me, dese guys are changin' dere mind all da time".

Makes me feel a little better about my constantly shifting patterns.
 
Jim Rempe

I have taken lessons twice from Jim at his home in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania in the past year or so. The first was straight pool and the second was 9 ball. It is amazing standing aside of him and having him explain in person what is going through his head. I am a fairly good player (Run over 50 balls in 14.1) and I feel like a little kid (I am 55 years old) when he explains his thought process.

If you ever have the opportunity and/or the money I highly recommend taking a lesson with Jim at his home. He charges $125 per/hour with a 2 hour minimum. Well worth it when you consider you a paying a mechanic about $75 per/hour to work on your car!!!

Also Jim and his wife Sally are two of the nicest, down to earth people you will ever meet.

Wedge
 
Wedge said:
I have taken lessons twice from Jim at his home in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania in the past year or so. The first was straight pool and the second was 9 ball. It is amazing standing aside of him and having him explain in person what is going through his head. I am a fairly good player (Run over 50 balls in 14.1) and I feel like a little kid (I am 55 years old) when he explains his thought process.

If you ever have the opportunity and/or the money I highly recommend taking a lesson with Jim at his home. He charges $125 per/hour with a 2 hour minimum. Well worth it when you consider you a paying a mechanic about $75 per/hour to work on your car!!!

Also Jim and his wife Sally are two of the nicest, down to earth people you will ever meet.

Wedge
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That's why the Rempe DVD is so good - his thoughts on running a rack run pretty deep and his pattern play is great, and you get it all for the price of the DVD.

Frustrating though - even if I could think like him I can't execute like him. He gets out of position by an inch or two a couple of times during a rack, a little different, ahem, than my execution. Practice, practice!
 
OBX said:
Personally, the best tapes/DVDs I've ever seen are (1) Irving Crane running 150 and out against Joe Balsis in the 1966 US Open and (2) Mike Sigel doing it to Mike zuglan in a much later (1992?) US Open. Both are available and very instructive. If I had to pick one: Crane.
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I have both of these as well as both of Jim Rempes tapes. All of them are great. Run a Rack in Straight Pool is really unique, and similar to Sigels runout series for 14.1. A must see.

The Crane-Balsis match is one of the best runs you will ever see, as he opens it with a wrap around shot out of the pack, and pulls out two other combinations when it appears he has no shot.

The Sigel Zuglan is also a great run, as Sigel has to break out two balls tied up late in the run, almost runs of of shots to do it, but is successful.

The other amazing tape is the Ortmann/Rempe from the same tournament. Ortmann runs 129. Rempe gets up and makes a couple of balls, has to shoot a bank, makes it, gets a bad roll, has to make a long shot from the rail, makes it, has really hard going for about 50 balls, then runs up to 95 until he gets out of line on his breakshot. His run ends at 96, he plays safe. Ortmann plays save and scratches. Rempe finds a dead 8 ball, shoots the combination, but the angle he has to hit makes the cueball hit the one into the 8 and blocks the pocket.

This is one of my favorite pool videos of all time, runs of 129 and 96 in the same match.
 
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