Recent content by breaknrunjr

Are you still playing as often as you used to and reading the books and watching the videos? If not, that could be one cause of your poor play recently. Also, If your play has only been suffering for a few weeks or months, you could be in a slump. Personally, I like to play through my slumps...

I don’t disagree with you here Superstar. In fact, at the end of my post, I mentioned that whether or not earplugs or earphones actually cause disputes over hearing is an issue in itself. I did say that more disputes happen when people don’t hear calls, which I stand by because I have seen...

I really must do something about these long posts I keep writing Over the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing a few instances where forced hearing (no earplugs or headphones) has been called into discussion. Threads that address this subject are usually longer in length (3 pages or more) and go...

My apologies for the small novel written in response… Sometimes I start typing and I don't know when to stop. Anyway... I used to use ipods during competitive play. However, I never had the earbuds that you see most people use with ipods. Instead, I had the big headphones that cover...

I'm not a big fan of breaking with my playing cue. I like to put a lot of power into my break, and as thin as my Z2 shaft is, it might just snap like a twig unless I decided to start adopting the softer break, which is almost impossible to get good results with on tables that don't rack well...

In my opinion, you lost a popularity contest, not a pool tournament. In a "true" double elimination tournament, coming from the losers side to the finals, you would have had to win the first set (winner side race to 2), and then win a 2nd set (loser side race to 1) to win the tournament. There...

I have two stories to share. The first happened about 5 years ago give or take. I was playing in the weekly handicapped 9-ball tournament and I wound up facing off against one of the bigger names in the area (not a world champion or anything like that, but still a solid player). I think he...

Well said! That's exactly how I felt watching that match. I don't necessarily feel like Pinegar was deliberately trying to be underhanded either, but Frank did exactly what he was supposed to do in that kind of situation.

I'm not what I would consider to be an A player myself, but this is a really interesting topic to me, so I figured I would add my two cents for anyone that might be interested. The first thing that I feel is worth mentioning is that this topic tends to go into the mental aspects of the...

I'm sort of competitive with the ghost playing 9-ball even (races to 7), but I'm not quite beating the ghost consistently yet. However, I allow breaking in the nine and playing combos on the nine to count as wins. I'm not sure if I'm wrong in doing this, but some of the threads I've read on...

If the thought of a scratch never entered your mind when you shot those two 8-balls, then your problem may lie in not knowing well enough where the cue ball is going after a shot. However, if you knew that a possibilty for a scratch existed before you actually hit the cue ball, your problem...