Recent content by BC21

100% agree that good awareness/observation is a must. That and the standard postional concept of sending the cb toward/into the next shot's postion zone (rather than across it) can drastically improve a player's postion play very quickly.

Nah... just knowing the book was useful to you is awesome. Thanks a bunch for the positive comments! 😊

Pick your spot. Visually imagine exactly where you want the cb to strike the cushion. This gives your mind the best opportunity to make it happen, much better than simply telling yourself not to scratch. You also have to practice these types of shots in order to get a solid understanding of...

Excellent post!

You're right... the CB's would all have to be equal distance from the GB to be so equally-spaced like he shows in his setup. Still, his main focus is showing what the basic quarter overlaps look like from the cb's perspective, and he does a good job with that. The fact that the setup isn't...

Your line to the ghostball is a few degrees off, too high. The ghostball, being farther away, is much smaller than the closer cb's, almost a third smaller. His angles aren't nearly as far off as your lines show. When watching the video, one can see that when he changes the camera angle to get...

He is simply showing the visual overlaps for the basic quarters. The angles are irrelevant. It's more about recognizing the fractional overlaps, not identifying angles. In other words, no one needs to know the cut angle if they can just look at a shot and recognize the cb-ob...

With a pool cue then, unless all the mass is in the last few inches of the butt, this definition indicates that we push the cue forward and pull it backward. And that's the common sense way of looking at the whole pushing/pulling bit. Anyhow, you are 100% correct in saying, "not that any of...

I would add that when lining up to send the cb to the marked GB spot, pay attention to where the aim line hits the object ball. If the cut is thinner than a halfball aim, pay attention to how far away the aim line is from the ob edge. You can even visualize and reference specific aim points on...

Oh yeah, even with my extension there are some shots that feel ok, the hard to reach shots. It allows me to move my grip hand back farther, which "feels" normal, but the bridge length might be 2 or 3 times longer than normal, and that looks and feels wonky. Occassional use of the extention...

Heard a comedian talking about how women just really want men to listen. They want us to listen to their concerns, their worries, their dreams, their problems... but they don't really want us to respond or provide any advice or solutions. So, he said he was having lunch with his ex-wife...

For some players, little differences in weight, or in grip hand placement or bridge length, can be a mental distraction. If something feels off, or not quite normal, it can affect performance quite a bit. And it doesn't matter if it's a real difference or an imagined difference. Once it's in...

What about this: Let's say there’s a person pushing a car out of the street. This person has the driver side door open and is pushing from the open doorway so that they can guide the steering wheel when needed. Using your cue mass example, where there is "always mass behind and in front of...

I started to play one game the other night with my cue extention (8 in) threaded onto the butt of the cue. I had used it on a couple of shots while playing scotch doubles (my partner must have enjoyed leaving me those hard to reach shots). Anyway, I decided to just leave the extension on for...

Yeah, I agree. I remember the thread that "debated" the whole "pulling or pushing" when referring to moving the cue forward. Fact is, people can call it whichever they want, but pulling or pushing is best defined by the action of the arm muscles being used in relation to where the balance...