When I checked about an hour ago I saw that Curly Howard had made 64 posts in a day. Bingo - he had to be that person whose name we may not mention, having the initials FL.
Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:
Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.
Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.
In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:
Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.
Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.
I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:
Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.
Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.
In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:
Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.
Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.
I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
Many of the pool concepts we take for granted today were originally hashed out on RSB by the folks Rich mentioned. It was great while it lasted.
