How straight did (does) Buddy shoot?
- Thread starter L.S. Dennis
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Seeing how robbie robot here has no vision system i'll take Buddy.
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reminds me of that drinking game "take a shot every time Buddy misses".........nobody got drunk
My favorite tournament was the US Open Nine Ball, I think 1998 , whatever year Buddy won it . He was on a different level. Mika played extremely well also. I know Tang Hoa came in second but I only saw a couple of his matches and one was against Buddy in the finals. I think Buddy could have given everyone the 8 and still won the tournament easily.
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L.S. Dennis
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If anyone could have given a match to ‘Iron Willie’ it most assuredly would have been Buddy!reminds me of that drinking game "take a shot every time Buddy misses".........nobody got drunk
I think Iron Willie was developed to test deflection of shafts at that time during the 90’s maybe Bob can chime in on this. And I’m not sure if Predator was involved in its development or not. The thing sent the cue ball absoliutely dead straight much like Buddy’s stroke!
What always stuck with me in my SIU college days was about ''Cecil'' was this.
In 9 ball.
He always seemed to be within 24'' or less of his next ball/shot every time.
We even called em back then in jest ''super cecil''.
During the Beanie and Cecil cartoon years.
In 9 ball.
He always seemed to be within 24'' or less of his next ball/shot every time.
We even called em back then in jest ''super cecil''.
During the Beanie and Cecil cartoon years.
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For sure it was Predator’s baby...developed in Jacksonville ....also they timed the cue ball coming off the tip.
Smutzc
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What time frame were you down at SIU? My father in law always talks about playing pool in SIU. Where did you play down there? If I remember correctly, I think he played at gatsby’s ???
Buddy Hall was so revered for his pool skills that in the late 80s when I repaired cues at the Atlanta pro pool events, that when he got up and walked across the building several young men with stars in their eyes followed him around the poolroom. He came up to get a tip put on one day and asked to see my box of LePro tips and picked one out. He just looked at the bottom of the tip and said that is a good one and had me put it on. Every one of those young men asked Buddy to pick a tip out for them and they changed their tips even though most had decent tips. Later I asked him what made those tips better than the rest in the box and he just said, Because I said they were.
67-71
And cue man, I took learned this trick.
When I get a new box I always open em up/turn em all over and look a the flat bottom.
I'm lookin' for the ones that have NO grain on the flat surface....they look like a flat piece of chocolate.
If they have no grain in em I take all those out, usually about 8-12 in a box of 50.
Then I tap em (sound) on the counter to confirm which ones are most compressed.
These I use for my cue, and the remainder I do for my customers, with a guarantee if the tip has a problem the get free replacement.
In the 17 yrs I did tips an hm with a lathe, probably replaced 2-4 in all those years.
When I get a new box I always open em up/turn em all over and look a the flat bottom.
I'm lookin' for the ones that have NO grain on the flat surface....they look like a flat piece of chocolate.
If they have no grain in em I take all those out, usually about 8-12 in a box of 50.
Then I tap em (sound) on the counter to confirm which ones are most compressed.
These I use for my cue, and the remainder I do for my customers, with a guarantee if the tip has a problem the get free replacement.
In the 17 yrs I did tips an hm with a lathe, probably replaced 2-4 in all those years.
i recall a story of buddy watching a great player practice and someone asked buddy if he could beat him.
buddy said "SURE"
they asked how can you tell
buddy says
he plays position for 3 feet
i play position for 1 foot
i will miss less in a long session
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That guy plays like a machine.
I heard they used Buddy’s stroke to calibrate the accuracy of some of the early laser levels before they were put into production
If you remember he endorsed a product called??? the stroke trainer???
A clear tube of some kind when away from the table to groove your stroke.
A clear tube of some kind when away from the table to groove your stroke.