Recent content by Grilled Cheese

EARL. Now, if the question was some indirect shot, like a kick, bank, carom, multi-rail whatever ... EFREN

This move makes sense for Fedor. His career was being threatened by the shameful actions of these sports bodies who take sides with governments in the realm of international politics. It's not limited to pool, it's everywhere. Hive mind stuff ... reminds me a lot of the irrationality of what we...

I've been out of the loop for many years, but if I recall correctly, the main motivation of the change of colors going back was not to assist color blind people, but because it had some kind of preferable effect for television reproduction to distinguish the balls. I guess under lighting and the...

Purple 5 is an abomination.

The tubes would be a step backwards in terms of security for the cue. The whole philosophy behind JB's design is that the shafts and butt do not come out when the case is tipped or turns upside down. It may be rare, but cues can come out of an open case a variety of ways. One example would be...

Short version: The APA is not for you. At least it is not ideal for accomplishing what you want as others have said. Can you get better? Sure. Any matches/play will work toward that. However, it's sitting around for 4-5 hours only to play 1 short race. Figure, if you're at least a SL6, then...

That's right. The rise of suburbia also killed pool. Less urbanized environment means people started doing more outdoor things. None of this is controversial. Brunswick did analysis of this way back and this is why they changed their tables. Started making tables suitable for homes, cheaper, to...

Ah, the classic what is wrong with pool thread. Technically, nothing. Rather it lacks a position of privilege. Let me summarize... 1. Still hasn't shaken the stigma of being associated with gambling, smoke filled rooms, low-class criminal element, and scumbag type culture because to be...

Faster placed players like this is the only thing keeping the sport alive. Not trolling here. Too bad they are a minority of players. I don't watch much pool anymore because of the slow play. Got better things to do than watch some "pro" stare at a routine shot for 3 minutes that an APA SL4...

Elk Master is the best. Consistent within the box, low cost. If Efren can play with them and do what he did, you have no excuse. They are also amazing when pressed. Snooker players play with tips similar to the Elk Master. People claim non-layered tips are not consistent. Well, sometimes...

It is true that various other players that you cited dominated particular decades or years. However, Earl was right up there across all those eras. And as I mentioned before, the tournament record, especially US Open and World Championship is where he really pulls away.

This isn't even a debate, Earl Strickland is the greatest 9 ball player of all time. His contemporaries agree. Efren is great because he played all games at an elite level, but he didn't dominate the main game everyone played (9 ball) the way Earl did. Yeah, I know, everyone loves the fancy...

Exactly. In the one video it is demonstrated that the harder tips make the CB go longer on that lag shot which was an effort to use the same stroke speed to control that variable as much as possible. This means more speed for harder tip. Thus, when doing the spin test, the CB should be measured...

Better implied "more" .... That was the context of much of this thread.

The key is the tip speed has to be exactly the same at CB contact. As well as contact point. How that gets done mechanically doesn't matter as long as it is measurable to a very fine degree and repeatable. Some home made cue robots I seen through the years on the web used springs, some used...