Top 10 sweetest strokes of all time

> My pick here is Mike Sigel,hands down.

More modern era players I include in this very short list are

Souquet
Feijen
Danny Harriman
Corey Deuel
John Horsfall
Stephen Hendry
Allison

The player I feel has the best stroke of all current world class players,is also the player I feel is the current best player in the world,Thorsten Hohmann.

If you were going to build a pool player from scratch,he's the end result. Tommy D.
 
Dunno who I'd really pick as the best...it's such a subjective call. Here in the Pacific Northwest, I sure do love watching Glenn Atwell play. I'm sure his stroke is part of it...
 
popman said:
all of you don't know a sweet stroke when you see one. when it comes to the sweetest stroke ...there's only one guy who has that....

That man is: The One and The Only....DALLAS WEST!

He has the longest, smoothest and accurate stroke born of women....BAR NONE!

He puts EVERYBODY TO SHAME!
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I have to agree with you...sweet it is!
ruk
 
The first time I watched Rodolfo Luat's stroke, I was mesmerized. My game improved by a ball just by watching him.
 
Couple of players who quit the game too earlier in life. I know Mark is playing again. When Mark came into Chelsea Billiards he did some amazing things with the CB.


Michael "The Train" Coltrain
Mark Tadd


Young gun with unbelievable strokes has effortless power:

Mike Deschain
 
I'd toss in Irving Crane and Louie. When Louie was right that stroke was like a machine, like a robot that was hooked up to some kind of a computer that couldn't miss.
 
toby sweet
ed kelly
miz before he got too fat
jimmy moore
jim rempe
mosconi
crane
henderson
taberski
billy johnson/wade crane
cole
bustamone
buddy hall
onofo laurie


no particular order as each was perfect
 
Scotty Townsend is definitely in my top list. I have watched him dozens of time and he can just put something on that cueball that make you say wow.

If you think his storke is not smooth as silk, then try and reproduce some of the shots he does. Very fun to watch. He justs seems to barely touch the cueball and it will have so much spin that is unbelievable.
 
I fear we have a generation gap thing going here.
All of the top player's, in any generation, had effective strokes with very good results, or they would not have become top players.

But, as has been pointed out... Wimpy, Danny D, and Hopkins (for example) all had short choppy strokes. Keith's stoke, I would liken to Jim Furyk in golf...unorthodox, but effective.

I thought the OP was looking for the smoothest, sweetest looking stroke ???

There is no recent comparison to Kelly, Henderson, and Worst, when it came to balance, mechanics, fluidity and getting the job done on slow cloth, with older balls and equipment. The closest is Buddy...ask him about these guys.

Most of you younger guys did not get to see this, so you can be excused for making some very uninformed judgements.

Scotty Townsend, Keither,...beautiful strokes....you've got to be kidding. :eek:
 
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all of you don't know a sweet stroke when you see one. when it comes to the sweetest stroke ...there's only one guy who has that....

That man is: The One and The Only....DALLAS WEST!

He has the longest, smoothest and accurate stroke born of women....BAR NONE!



I was thinking the same thing.
Apparently, the experts don't like his stroke.
 
dmgwalsh said:
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Originally Posted by popman View Post
all of you don't know a sweet stroke when you see one. when it comes to the sweetest stroke ...there's only one guy who has that....

That man is: The One and The Only....DALLAS WEST!

He has the longest, smoothest and accurate stroke born of women....BAR NONE!



I was thinking the same thing.
Apparently, the experts don't like his stroke.
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Sorry straight pool nut, while Dallas had a nice looking stroke, he was primarily a 14.1 player, and as such, rarely had to be concerned with table length draws for shape, or extreme english.

Dallas would be way down the list on smooth but powerful strokes.
Thats why he is on few lists (except for his homies)

Not argumentative...just factual.

Dick
 
mixed cloth when I started playing

SJDinPHX said:
I fear we have a generation gap thing going here.
All of the top player's, in any generation, had effective strokes with very good results, or they would not have become top players.

But, as has been pointed out... Wimpy, Danny D, and Hopkins (for example) all had short choppy strokes. Keith's stoke, I would liken to Jim Furyk in golf...unorthodox, but effective.

I thought the OP was looking for the smoothest, sweetest looking stroke ???

There is no recent comparison to Kelly, Henderson, and Worst, when it came to balance, mechanics, fluidity and getting the job done on slow cloth, with older balls and equipment. The closest is Buddy...ask him about these guys.

Most of you younger guys did not get to see this, so you can be excused for making some very uninformed judgements.

Scotty Townsend, Keither,...beautiful strokes....you've got to be kidding. :eek:
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Dick,

I don't think any of the cloth was as fast as today's but we played on mixed cloth when I started playing. A lot of it was old and slick just because it was threadbare and hadn't been changed in living memory too so I played on fairly fast to very slow cloth.

I can still remember my embarrassment the first time I played on ten foot tables, deep cloth, and with a strong breeze coming off of the Mississippi River into the place with no air conditioning. One of those big ol' wall fans sucking in the bugs and humidity to try to stir a little air.

The old house sticks filled your hand, none of the toothpicks being used today. I still had many shots run out of gas before reaching a pocket for the first hour or so. Hard to believe that it took that much power just to move a ball down the table, much less bank one. A stroke had to be straight and strong if you were just going to bank a ball straight back, real umph if you were going to try to come off two or three of those slow rails for shape. Something else that goes unmentioned most of the time is that unless you were firing the balls in hot and hard you had to know the roll to every corner pocket because every one rolled differently.

It takes a different set of skills now and I wouldn't say that today's players are less skillful but it doesn't take the same stroke, knowledge, or adaptability to conditions to play with today's equipment. More of a sprint than a distance event now. There really isn't a need for the kind of a stroke that was needed to be a great player fifty years ago.

Hu
 
George Brundt...

I remember seeing George play at the original Romine's High Pockets on 27th and Wisconsin. When he would hit the ball it always looked like there was no effort involved.
Best comment I ever heard from him was about when he would walk in to a tournament, unknown, grab a house cue and snap off the tournament!
Was really sorry to hear when he passed away.
 
My selection was left off your list! Harold Worst.

My selection was left off your list! Harold Worst.

Whereas I enjoy seeing pretty, fluid or silky, soft and smooth, even side-arm and slip strokes and powerful strokes, I'd think that by "sweetest strokes" you probably mean "greatest strokes." The greatest strokes of all time should be judged by what those strokes had accomplished as far as degrees and consistency in measurements of spin, hit, and direction. From that viewpoint I'd have to go with the great Harold Worst.

Eddie Robin
 
top 10 strokes...

Here's my list:

1 Corey Deuel
2 Nick van den Berg
3 Effren Reyes
4 Ralf Souquet
5 Shane van Boening
6 Earl Strickland
7 Toby Sweet
8 Thorsten Hohmann
9 Steve "never missed a rack" Mizerak
10 Mika Immonen

Tom Penrose
 
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