Recent content by nataddrho

Magneto. Good luck shooting me instead of yourself.

They are all accurate if you have a smooth forward stroke. Long and slow to let the mass of the cue affect the ball. Not a short stroke with muscle generated speed, then you’re dead. That mostly goes for all strokes.

I was doing CrossFit the same days I would go to tournaments and I was fine. I think it can only help.

It depends on if you just want to make the point or if you are moving the object balls into position

Nobody in my generation would even know what this is, and I'm over 40. Everyone wears sneakers now.

How do you know what hitting a cueball "right" is, without feel?

I only have to clean three instead of 15, but I use the exact same method you use with Aramith cleaner and two different hand towels.

I didn't read the other thread answers, just answering directly. This would happen to me after a few hours of playing, maybe in every fourth tournament or so, or sometimes when I would play friends. Sometimes they would even say "Nathan, are you alright?" It had to do with my pre-shot routine...

Just another addition… body English in general is a manifestation of hope from an incomplete prediction of what is going to happen. Take the time to run your mental simulator on every shot, think about what the cue ball will do, what the object ball will do, what other balls in the path of the...

Swaying into the shot, also a common problem in golf. Start watching your final back and forward stroke with your lower peripheral vision. This will give you feedback that you aren’t hitting the ball where you think you are. Once you do this for a while and convince yourself you are hitting the...

I use Aramith Prestige balls, $250 for a set of three, best balls you can buy, with Predator Pure Chalk, hard (green). I still sometimes get a chalk mark that sticks to the cue ball. Though it happens much more frequently with Masters chalk. You can easily hear the ball micro-jump if it rolls...

I was practicing this stroke about a year ago and I was really liking it. It only works if you are already accurate with tip position but is great for shots against the rail

If you block out the tree branch is looks like a top view of a flying red-headed bird

You can be almost frozen and perform a side masse to prevent a double hit. You can also be completely frozen and kick the cue ball off of the opposite rail and back to make the shot.

Permanent advancements in technology almost always consist of multiple improvements at once. Almost never just one property. Synthetic rubber can not yet replace natural rubber’s polymer chain disorganization, and things like airplane landing tires must be made of natural rubber because of the...