Recent content by JCIN

I am doing well. I hope you are too. We had some good times with Mark. I remember playing snooker with him at your house. We both enjoyed that.

Its hard to calculate just how much Mark did for American pool over the last quarter century. I know he changed my life in that time. I also know he did the same for many others to one degree or another. His legacy will be the friends he made, people he helped and things he created. I think...

Damn. I knew Sherm when I lived in Cincinnati in the 90's. Bought a cue from him and visited his shop once. Always a very nice guy and absolutely loved the game.

I am doing well. Thanks for the kind words. I did get to do a lot of cool stuff and meet a lot of interesting people. Most of it because of this forum one way or another. Someone told me on Facebook that this thread popped back up. Wild to go back and read some of the old stuff. Flying chalk...

IMO the Executive West years are exactly what Johnston City was. That was Greg's vision for it and he made it happen. I feel lucky to have seen something that will never happen again. The world is different now. Those early years were one of those perfect intersections of time, place and...

I have put together a Teechip store to sell some of the classic T-Shirts and some prints that people ask about from time to time. The way it works is orders are taken for a week then whatever sold is printed and shipped. Shipping is quoted by teechip at 7-10 days after the sale ends. I have...

I didnt watch the Ko/Dennis match but I paid attention to social media and the forums and I saw something that made me just shake my head. John French is backing Dennis and right after the match is over announces he will be staking the Ko brothers. I have read that he talked about it during the...

I have had this for about seven years. I owned the cue it was made for less than that. Its a long story how I ended up with one SW shaft but I did. About six years ago I took it to the SouthWest shop and was able to get the ferrule replaced with some of the very little micarta they had left...

Two new TAR Prints are now available. This is a shot I took of Shane in December 2007 in the basement of Lucky's. This was taken in 2011 at the TAR Studio. Lot going on in this photo. These prints are 20"x30" in size and come shipped in a cardboard tube. Price is $40 each shipped...

So I took a look at our new friends post history: 2012 he posts a Lambros for sale. First appearance on AZ. Only other post that year is to bump a thread about the action pool tour (Started by username manfromoz. Thats Ozzy before CSI-Ozzy was around): "Bump for a fantastic tour!" Whats...

Its going to take me a minute to get to the point but stick with me here.... Over the past few years I have gotten into custom knives. The parallels between the custom knife market and the custom cue market are many: -They both are made up of mostly one man shops and a few larger ones...

The Darren Appleton Story Presented by Predator Cues is now available for free on the TAR YouTube channel. Enjoy a forty six minute interview with one of the most dominate players of his generation telling his story from the beginning. Andrew Cleary and I wanted to put this out for free so the...

NOW AVAILABLE!! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/perfectpractice2 The newest release in the TAR Instructional Series: Darren Appleton Perfect Practice 2 presented by Predator Cues. In this follow up to the very well received Perfect Practice you will see World Champion Darren Appleton take you deeper...

There seems to be some confusion or miscommunication or just normal internet noise about the status of The Action Report. Some of that is probably my fault so I want to clear things up. This gonna be long so for the TL;DR crowd: TAR is still around just doing things differently. For the readers...

Coming soon is the newest release in the TAR Instructional Series: Darren Appleton Perfect Practice 2 presented by Predator Cues. In this follow up to the very well received Perfect Practice you will see World Champion Darren Appleton take you deeper into the mindset and skills required to take...