Recent content by Carolina_Giant

I got to play a few casual games with Skylar back in 2013. He was literally asking everyone in the Rio who had a cue on them if they wanted to play a rack. He was a heck of a player, but back then it was at least semi close shooting. Attitude wise he was big in the world of Junior Nine ball...

I was thinking more of a Johnny Archer, Earl Strickland level player who from a young age just picked up a cue and seemed to have natural aptitude for the game and rose to prominent heights. For the referenced league players, repetition would lead to some improvements, but a lot would depend...

In my experience, the key seems to pick a form that feels comfortable and be consistent. Mike Davis may look like a See Saw when you watch him, but he made it onto a Mosconi Cup Team and is a heck of a player. I got to talk to him once about his stroke. He said he knew it looked weird and...

Honestly, I think it depends on the power of your imagination. I say this because at one time, there weren't really teachers. There were people who played more than others, and envisioned new strategies, new shots, new patterns, and studied ways to become better players. However, one key...

I've had two vikings, a joss, a few actual sneaky petes (one piece sawed in half and a joint put in), a few McDermotts, and some Players cues. I always keep coming back to the Vikings. They've also always been plain design as well. I've had the attached one for 5 years and it's never given...

It will be interesting to see Johan's coaching against Chamat's coaching in this one. As I said in another post, I see mirror players across the teams. I'm just glad the US has Hatch back on the team. He may not always be the most consistent player, but he's the heart of the team and will be...

We've run into this sometimes locally also. So a new rule was created: You win the weekly tournament, you have to sit out for a week. No splits allowed either, have to play the race out. It's been a great change so far. Monthly's not much you can do there unless you wanted to implement a...

I see this cup hinging on 4 players: Shaw and Vandenberg for Europe and Thorpe and Shane for America. Shaw is the hot hand coming into the event and he sunk the winning 9 ball in last year's cup. If he keeps the fire up for the week, he'll be a terror. If he doesn't, could be very close...

The us has to keep developing players like Woodward and Thorpe and giving them chances to succeed if an American is even going to have a chance of winning the open in the first place.

6:30pm - Naoyuki Oi vs. Francisco Sanchez Ruiz 8:30pm - Jayson Shaw vs. Billy Thorpe 10:30pm - Thorsten Hohmann vs. Ko Ping Chung Evening TV matches according to Accustats

And he'll still be beating up on all challengers probably till they lay him to rest :)

Earl is sadly out after losing a hill-hill match. Niels is out after Woodward hit his gear, and NVB holds on to win as well. Sadly, Kiamco's week is now at an end after losing 11-6 to Dang

First of all, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing such an uplifting story! Second, for a child that age if you are going to give them a game to "practice", I would say start out with six ball. It's the easiest way to start learning pattern play and rotation. If she's already beyond that...

It's official on the Team Europe FB page: Joshua Filler is the second named Mosconi Cup member along with Ralf Souquet. This tells me that if NVB wins his current match, he likely also will retain his third place in the rankings and be named the 3rd member of the team. After this week, no...

Couldn't agree more, with regards to America at least. It always has been easier to sell pocket billiards as an event worth going to see and fund in places like europe and asia.