Recent content by JBailey

Humility. Since that answer is too short to post, practice as well.

I learned to jump and masse by placing a scrap of cloth under the cueball to protect the table. I got the scrap and permission to practice from the room owner. Our room allows us to practice jumps and masses the week before they refelt the tables without a cloth under the cueball.

I usually didn't have any problems. I went during off peak hours and I would usually buy a drink or two and tip. They were just happy to have someone in the bar.

You could find a bar table to practice on. I used to use a stripe as the cueball and the cueball as the object ball. Since the cueball comes back out you can get a lot of practice in for cheap.

A couple years ago or so I learned about the value of developing a consistent eye pattern. My pattern is to focus on the aiming point on the object ball until I am completely down in my shot and have taken a practice stoke or two, Then I focus on the cueball for a few seconds, couple practice...

I'm sure many of the people who post here do attend events or, at least have attended, but I'm wondering how many are like me? I have never been to a Pro event. I have been playing pool for 13 years and I have never met a pro or watched one play live. I find this sad. I have spent so much...

I would push for pool becoming a high school sport. Offering pool in school would help introduce younger people to the game and get some parents involved too.

BTW, If your interested, I have a solid black, black joint, no wrap, no buttplate cue for sale. cheap! Just kidding, Bill Stroud I would buy a cue like that. I like my playing cue to be plain. I agree that it would be nice to see more art in cuemaking. Every time I look in the cue books...

I dont play in bars very often anymore, but I used to play in them all the time. My favorite way to play was left handed ( I'm right-handed ). My misses looked genuine, because they were, I got practice shooting with my offhand, and the other guy usually couldn't run a table so it was easy to...

I'm not an instructor. For what its worth the drills that work best for me are the simple ones that allow me to work on everything that happens before the shot. I like to shoot 15 stop shots each day. The shot is easy and I can focus on each aspect of my preshot routine and execution. I also...

I am comfortable shooting with my knees like that although they aren't completely locked out. I have them bent just slightly. I have been playing for 13 years. I shoot with a very basic McDermott. That is our pool hall. Most of the competition in the area is on barboxes so that is what I play...

Thanks Steve, I will have to work on the grip, I seem to have developed a habit of gripping the cue at the end of my stroke. The stance is very comfortable for me I have been shooting that way for the last couple of years after I noticed my stroking arm was hitting my body and messing up my...

Actually not using side pockets on a barbox is generally good advice. I would have to agree that it would have been simpler to use less draw and play for the corners. It would have been even better to have left myself an angle on the 5, but I'm not perfect.:)

The pockets measure four and a half inches, the only place pockets of that size are considered "buckets" is on this forum. No table within 50 miles of me has pockets tighter unless it is someones home table. I can only play on the equipment I have available to me anyway.

Here are the videos Sorry for the low quality, I only had a digital camera to work with. Side view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVFFs4QS1M Front view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUWz0dfsCF8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnicTre-Taw Back view...