Recent content by nataddrho

@El Toro I understand how you are feeling. Emotionally separating yourself from your ideas is a learned skill. Like anything else it is something that you have to practice and get better at over time. I know all too well. Everybody in the world has great ideas from their own perspective. Ideas...

I see what you mean.

The title of the thread is “drills”. What drills can we do that help improve alignment. Just because you don’t need drills anymore doesn’t mean other people can’t benefit from them.

Much better

Would anybody be interested in a group collaboration for an AZ Billiards product? I think that this would be a fun project, since many of us like to make stuff. The goal would be to market and sell a premium product with the profits going where ever they need to, probably to maintain the site...

This is correct. There is an optimal speed to hit object balls to maximize pocket acceptance. This is something that I rediscovered many times and kept forgetting, even though I knew about this advice from many sources. The thing that really made it stick for good was when I decided to choose...

Then why comment at all about advice in a thread if you only play for yourself and don’t care? Just to troll I suppose. George Fels has useless advice… I think not.

If you expect high accuracy with fast shots without even verifying to see if you have accuracy with slow shots (and at the expense of not looking “cool” to your friends for a while) then you should dig out a foundation and build a nice comfortable house on your plateau.

I have to admit I don’t know how many times I need to relearn perfect speed control before it sticks, but I think this last time it finally has.

I think that was his first line in his straight pool book, from what I remember.

Contrary to the OPs post, I couldn’t be happier to see participation trophy wins disappearing, as well as excuses for not cashing out because of anything other than your ability to play to the highest level. I can’t wait for pool to turn into a white collar activity like tennis or golf, and...

Nobody ever talks about speed. Chronically shooting everything too hard will completely mask your true ability. Play very slow shots with pocket speed for a few days and you’ll be amazed of how much more accurate you really are. After convincing yourself of this, you’ll forever add proper speed...

For straight shots I agree.

This was tried multiple times, at least one that I've seen 10 years ago was trying to use a special tip with a microscopic surface similar to that of gecko feet. It didn't work.