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My local room specifically bans curtains, as well as wearing pants well below your waist.
A challenge to forum members: Shoot through the curtain
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"The pocket" in music is probably as difficult to explain as CTE
It's a feel. Even with the click, there is a pocket that can be found, tho not always, nor required. The style of music helps determine how important it is.
A "hook" is also difficult to explain, tho not as tough as "pocket". The hook is the part of the song that "hooks" you, that catches your attention, or is more easily remembered. It can be the chorus but can just as frequently can be an instrumental portion of the song. A guitar line, or a bass line, will often be what grabs you in any given song. Again, they style of music can dictate whether or not you might have noticeable hooks.
<----weekend warrior in bars all around here, been playing drums for 45 years
Quoted for groove."The pocket" in music is probably as difficult to explain as CTE
It's a feel. Even with the click, there is a pocket that can be found, tho not always, nor required. The style of music helps determine how important it is.
A "hook" is also difficult to explain, tho not as tough as "pocket". The hook is the part of the song that "hooks" you, that catches your attention, or is more easily remembered. It can be the chorus but can just as frequently can be an instrumental portion of the song. A guitar line, or a bass line, will often be what grabs you in any given song. Again, they style of music can dictate whether or not you might have noticeable hooks.
<----weekend warrior in bars all around here, been playing drums for 45 years
Most pool players have said to give up on aiming systems and stick with ghost ball and intuition which comes with a lot of table time. But I think a straight stroke is also a key.
Ghost ball works because the target is essentially the same size as the ball in front of it. IOW you have an exact model with little perspective distortion. Flaws are many though. You are making estimations instead of calculations. Makes it easy to learn but also unreliable for the "most" that tout it. Not blaming ghostball for the handful of champs in existence but it sure fits the model. Under opposition, what happens to the guesses? The better players skirt this by tucking in and maximizing cinches. Good method huh?
I think a good aiming method should enable a desk guy to get to a table and literally not miss anything.
Well there goes my Saturday outfit!!
If you can't hit em where you sees em, you're shit out of luck!!
I missed out on the big ghost ball phenom cuz I wasn't playing when it was promoted or whatever.
When I did start playing again, I just picked up where I left off w the same old aiming system I always used.
Must have lived under a rock at the time bcuz I thot all players aimed like I did.
Boy was I asking for it!!
I basically started with the Mosconi pamphlet. Cant remember what it said about ghost ball but I'm reasonably certain it was in there. What I took to heart was the electrical tape contact alignment. lol...I missed out on the big ghost ball phenom cuz I wasn't playing when it was promoted or whatever.
When I did start playing again, I just picked up where I left off w the same old aiming system I always used.
Must have lived under a rock at the time bcuz I thot all players aimed like I did.
Boy was I asking for it!!
I started with Mosconi too, but don’t remember much about it (60+ yrs ago in the rec room at the boys’ home) - what’s “electrical tape alignment”?
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