Hey AZBers,
It's been about 9 years since I've got enthusiastic about billiard sports. Back then I attempted to 'fast learn' US 8 ball for the IPT.
Over the last few months I've been energized to practice more often than I have in years. I've got a 7 foot English 8-ball table in my lounge room and a few weeks ago I added a 12 foot English Snooker table to my garage. I had to take down my US 9 foot table to make room for the snooker table.
Nothing fine tunes one's game like tournament play, so I've started lining up tournaments to play in. Unfortunately, the predominate sport in my region is English style 2-shot pool. It's a leveler type of game, like 1-pocket, but with a different type of strategy, often reflected in pocket blocking, but at the high end of execution, it can be an aggressive game requiring high accuracy, as proved by ex-proponents such as Darren Appleton, Chris Melling, Jason Shaw, Gareth Potts, Darryl Peach and World no.1 snooker player Mark Selby.
On the weekend just passed, I played in a qualifier for the largest event in Australia. In the last 8 of this double elimination, race to 5 tournament I ran into a British Lions (UK Team) representative Temujin Dixon, and the game was recorded on video by Dan of Cueball TV, who does a great job with video on pool events.
My match is covered in the first 80 minutes of this video. Commentary starts at around 8 minutes into the video. There are some streaming problems around 15 mins in which last for 3-4 mins, but most of the match is well covered at good quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR_l-QqBRl0
Hope you enjoy. I know I've got some improvement ahead of me, but thought some of you might enjoy seeing a fellow member out there having a go.
Match goes to a decider btw. Maybe a bad gambit by me at the end, but that's part of the comeback process.
Cheers,
Colin :wink:
It's been about 9 years since I've got enthusiastic about billiard sports. Back then I attempted to 'fast learn' US 8 ball for the IPT.
Over the last few months I've been energized to practice more often than I have in years. I've got a 7 foot English 8-ball table in my lounge room and a few weeks ago I added a 12 foot English Snooker table to my garage. I had to take down my US 9 foot table to make room for the snooker table.
Nothing fine tunes one's game like tournament play, so I've started lining up tournaments to play in. Unfortunately, the predominate sport in my region is English style 2-shot pool. It's a leveler type of game, like 1-pocket, but with a different type of strategy, often reflected in pocket blocking, but at the high end of execution, it can be an aggressive game requiring high accuracy, as proved by ex-proponents such as Darren Appleton, Chris Melling, Jason Shaw, Gareth Potts, Darryl Peach and World no.1 snooker player Mark Selby.
On the weekend just passed, I played in a qualifier for the largest event in Australia. In the last 8 of this double elimination, race to 5 tournament I ran into a British Lions (UK Team) representative Temujin Dixon, and the game was recorded on video by Dan of Cueball TV, who does a great job with video on pool events.
My match is covered in the first 80 minutes of this video. Commentary starts at around 8 minutes into the video. There are some streaming problems around 15 mins in which last for 3-4 mins, but most of the match is well covered at good quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR_l-QqBRl0
Hope you enjoy. I know I've got some improvement ahead of me, but thought some of you might enjoy seeing a fellow member out there having a go.
Match goes to a decider btw. Maybe a bad gambit by me at the end, but that's part of the comeback process.
Cheers,
Colin :wink:
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