Recent content by MattPoland

No shade but that’s wild to me. I’ve always subscribed to the belief that once you’re down on the shot that you should never move any aspect of your stance or else you’ve already missed the shot. I can appreciate that the bridge hand is serving as an anchor in this case and you have lived...

I’ve never seen anyone use BHE by shifting their torso/stance. Is that actually a practice in the wild? I’ve only ever seen people shift their back hand and be willing to cue askew to their body.

I think it will be harder to get all the very best in the same place. US Open. World Championships. And then after that they have options on where to go. But it’s tricky because even if every field isn’t the most prestige all start field it can be, there’s so much world talent out there that...

Sounds like we each understand where the other is coming from. That’s sufficient for me.

I only use running vs check to describe the rail action. No need to use the same term for two different phenomenon when other already accepted terms already exist. Otherwise we’re back to the kind of unhelpful equivocation we get with cueball vs shaft deflection. I exclusively use the term...

Left hand english on this shot would be inside English and it would be running (widening) English .

Here’s what I say. Draw a line from the cueball to the object ball. If your tip and the target pocket are on the same side of that line, it’s inside english. If the tip and pocket are on opposite sides of that line, it’s outside english. Depending on the cueball trajectory to the rail...

I think he doesn’t care if he’s right or wrong and has a strong appreciation for the idea that all his shenanigans spur up social media engagement and regardless of the look, it’s good for bringing attention to the production. And with that he’s mostly having fun with it.

Ray Hinton made a pretty good clip just now. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HSLLJd3oh/?mibextid=wwXIfr

As a rule of thumb, I never use my ears to judge a shot because it can be too unreliable. Part of that is because I shoot with an older tinky Revo that can make very routine shots sound like miscues sometimes. Circumstance, observation and ball action should be more than sufficient.

You’re right it doesn’t show the illegal technique. At that point I just quote the rules: And then point out in the video you see the tip, cueball and object ball all immediately separate. The tip-to-cue-ball contact time is exactly in line with the timing seen in normal shots. And that a...

I like sharing this 22 second clip to illustrate why it’s not a push. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxamisDXFcw8IOuzMGp-LWehTtwsSa3IeE?si=wDa7TGojbd-ayTvv

I’ll echo what I said in FB. Looks like no foul to me. It appears to obey both tangent lines.

But if you try this with the cueball in the corner of the table, you're just tracking for hitting nipples or scratching. Nothing good will happen. Really, anywhere from the bottom half of the table will fight you because even if you avoid the scratches, your paths will involve starting...

I know not everything in pool obeys geometry. There’s physics too with rail compression and spin. But I think this is still the gist of why it works and that at least gives you a sense that there is an ideal distance and what that is and why… Let's talk about what works and what doesn't and...