Hello.
I am intrigued by the inside of the pocket being numbered mentally 1-5.
For the life of me I cannot calculate how that can be done.
This is a photo of a corner pocket on my table (the side pockets have been shimmed up the same way).
When I bought the table, I explained to the installer that I did not want a table to play matches on. I wanted a table to TRAIN ON with the toughest possible conditions. I wanted slow cloth, 4 1/4" pockets all over, and I wanted it installed in a shed out back with poor lighting, terrible humidity conditions, and any other miserable thing he could think of.
My reasoning was sound. If I trained under bad conditions, it would be duck soup on equipment that was really good. (In fact when I have it recovered eventually, I'm going to have the pockets shimmed up to an even 4 inches)
Now, having said all that stuff, will you please look at this photo and try to explain in writing here, how there can be 5 entry spots into that pocket?
I promise you, if you hit the corners of this pocket, even slightly, the object ball is going to rattle. You MIGHT get away with it, if there is favorable "get in" spin on that object ball. But if it's raining, the object ball is going to rattle.
I've been fooling around trying to find 5 entry spots on this damn fool table of mine and all I can come up with is 2, at the most.
I am intrigued by your teacher's procedure.
Always interested in differences of methods from real players like I know your teacher to be.
Thanks.
Lowenstein.
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