ESPN is still mentioned for getting pool out to the public. Here's why that's not going to happen. I really like this guy's insights to various businesses that have screwed up.
So, somebody is watching an important match between two top players and the score is hill-hill and the player is down on a critical shot, trying to run out. That spectator is so disinterested in the shot and the match that they decide to stand up and wander around without apparent purpose...
I've been around the Bay Area for a long time, and I don't recall hearing of Fred. You might try contacting Lee Simon, the owner of Buffalo Billiards in Petaluma. He's been in Marin/Sonoma his whole life.
Well, there was a flight from NOLA at noon on Monday that got into London at 6AM on the first day of play (Tuesday). The current format has all 256 players playing on the first day. The first match was at 11AM. Tight but possible. It seems that Fedor was on a later flight from NOLA. I think he...
If that's your practice routine, I think you should expect progress to be very slow if it happens at all. For the first six years I played, I arranged for my practice time to be free or very cheap.
How about instructors where you live?
All banks and kicks depend on the cushions and cloth. That means there is no one perfect system. There are also all the user errors, as Pat mentioned, as well as the effects of throw and any side spin that gets on the object ball.
What most players don't understand is how hard banks are...
It's possible that the rubber band thing could actually help people who have stroke issues, but it seems to me to be too far removed from the mechanics of normal shooting.
As for the Arthur Murray foot templates...
... I have had several beginning students whose natural stance was with both...