Recent content by His Boy Elroy

I'm offended! I'm a basement player. You can't help after 47 years learning the colors of 1 thru 8. You can't help learning that the 9 - ball has a yellow stripe if you watch enough matches on TV or YOU TUBE. Twenty four hours ago though, if someone had asked me what color the stripes were on...

HEY! I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING! I was looking at the balls in post #3. I'm 58. Since age ten I've spent many, many thousands of hours hovered over stretched green cloth. Ok...I just noticed for the first time.....There are seven balls higher numbered then the 8 ball. The first of those balls (...

Alrighty....since no one else wants to talk to me I had to find my own answer! :D John Schmidt provided it while commenting over the video of his own 366 run. Says he during the first rack, " As you can see I'm kinda just flying around the table. Now if I was in a match and needed 50 balls in...

Wait a second! I just put in on again. It WAS 227. At this point I'd advise everyone just to ignore me. In fact......seems this is already the case! :D

OK...I had a brain cramp there. it was 247...not 227

I just finished watching Jayson Shaw's 227 run from the the Derby City Classic on YOU TUBE. It was interesting. I think about 3 times he found himself in a serious pickle and had to take considerable time thinking before pulling a rabbit out of a hat! For the rest of the 57 minutes though, he...

So does Dallas West still live in Rockford? Is his number in phone book?

CJ Wiley once posted in this forum that his best students were golfers, carpenters, scientists, and dancers. ( I may have forgotten 1 or 2 other professions. I'm sure he listed those 4 though.) It's well known that many pool players are also golfers....and visa versa. Carpenters swing hammers...

It's great to hear things finally got worked out! In previous posts you mentioned that you sent your rails to Mark Gregory and he sent them back to you with superspeeds installed. How do you like them? Which brand of cloth did you settle on?

Does anybody notice how Wiley's cue ball seems to " Casually stroll" to it's next destination after making contact with the OB? That's the T.O.I effect. It's not exactly what he teaches on his video. His video targets intermediate players who are new to T.O.I. When starting out he teaches...

Alright.....about 29 hours ago I dragged this back from the third page. No one posted after mine. So now I'm dragging it back from the second page. I'm not quitting until I get an answer! It's a 3 - short rail bank. He called it in the corner pocket it eventually dropped into. That's clearly...

Alright! I just read this on page 3 and nobody has any answers....including me. Let's start again.....the first shot posted by the o.p...... HOW THE HELL DID HE DO THAT! Obviously; he hit 3 short rails and pocketed the ball. Watching it though, it's iobvious the OB had to have...

I'm not knowledgeable about ramps and kid players. Maybe that's the right way to go. I started playing the summer I was eleven. I forget how tall I was; but, I remember I was 4 foot 10 the summer when I was 14. :) I shot sidearm. It didn't stick with me like it did with Keith McReedy. (...

Are you saying that all tables, with the exception of Diamonds, are designed in such a way that if it's taken apart after the first installation, the second set - up will produce a table that has a lessened quality of playability? Where are they discussing this?

I've been working a bit lately on my transition from going back with the cue to coming forward. Watching pros I've noticed that some stop and have a pronounced pause at the stop. With most though, it's difficult to tell if they're stopping or not. I've been thinking though.....How is it...