Recent content by j!dub

I've been to a few events like this is the past...not with JA, but others. I'd be reluctant to do it again and here are reasons why. 1. It wasn't really a "pool school". It was 4 hours of some exhibition to players at all different levels of the game and a lot of story telling. IMHO, if you...

Hate to tell you this, Roy, but my ENTIRELY PERSONAL belief is that the ref effed up. The key statement you made is "He got out of the chair, walked back to the end of the table, looked at the 8 balls I had made and walked back to his chair. At the same time I raked the balls and started...

This may sound like a dumb question, butttttttt..."Who ended the game prematurely?" Did you start raking balls and pulling balls from pockets or did John get out of the chair (essentially conceding the rack) and move to begin the next game?

You're can't have a level cue on a break shot...it's impossible because your cue has to come above the rail. Your issue is controlling the cue ball. The best thing do is learn how to had a dead perfect stop shot on the head ball every time. It's going to be a pain practicing these at 4...

The 5% was just being pragmatic...a 5' cue with 6" of stroke means the distance behind the CB has to be all above the table bed...not many shots fit into this range.

Exactly...almost every shot is a tiny jump shot...(hence the dime test to prove it to yourself). A secondary cause COULD be a cue ball rolling with good crisp pace...at the moment of impact with the object ball, even very well waxed balls, the cue ball will naturally want to "gear up" on the...

Yeah, he knows...tough economic times...but I have it on good authority that there is somebody starting on it in a couple of weeks...I understand all the 9's and Pro-8's are getting done. And I won't quite go worst in Columbus...but c'mon, Cushions has never really been a player's room since...

Check it easy enough...put a dime a couple of inches in front of the CB. My guess is you're going to see the initial hop on every stroke...so are you talking about a hop when it hits the object ball? j!dub

I know I'm going to hate myself in the morning for asking...but.......... ...Wouldn't a shaft with Zero Deflection result in an incredibly high Squirt coefficient on anything other than a perfect vertical axis hit? Deflection = shaft getting out of the way Squirt = ball getting out of the way

Ahhhh...Ida Mae. The lady being referenced in the OP is a very special type of person. She has a passion for the game that very few of us will ever understand. The amazing thing was she also understood what she didn't understand so we were all trying to come up with new ways to impart the...

If it's a brand used on the Eurotour then you probably don't have much to worry about from the standpoint of playability. Pockets are fairly standard and can vary by quite a bit as far as width, angle of the jaws and shelf depth. One of Jack Koehler's books has several pages dedicated to these...

OK...thanks for the note, Trent...don't know who the guy was, but I'll address what I do know. The young lady you saw must've bought the glove after I left because there were no gloves while I was there. As far as wearing it wrong-handed, I discovered 2/3rds of the way into the first session...

Hi...I'm the villain being :bash: in the opening post. Wow...so good to see so many old names...Lou, PJ, Mully, JimBoCt, and of course those three I'm forgetting to mention. OK..OK, I confess, I'm just doing this for the sheer joy of screwing up young pool players to contribute to the chum...