Recent content by oscargrouch

Think you're looking at it as 9 Ball instead of more like straight pool. When you think about it, that's really what they're going for while keeping it as the "exciting" (oooh!) game of 9 ball. Who can just make more balls or make their handicapped number first, as opposed to a game like 8 ball...

This is what I don't understand. You put the CF in so it can be hollow (or filled w foam which I presume adds negligible weight), thereby reducing end mass blah blah it's lower deflection. So then what is the point of filling the CF with wood?

What's the point?

Thanks. I'm trying to do the bucket with the buffer but with the buffer on top and a lazy susan on the bottom. Been putting pieces of carpet between the balls but it's either too loose and the balls go to one side and the buffer falls on one side or it's too tight and the balls aren't spinning...

Can someone who has a diamond or has the diamond sprocket measure and post the diameter including the balls? From ball edge to ball edge? Thanks.

No, but if there's a video and it's similar to the one for the SVB-Chohan one pocket match then it might as well not have happened.

I mean you could just order whatever someone else wanted. Just agree to a surcharge. A finder's fee, if you will. Retainerrrr!!!

What's the value of the spot when it comes up?

Believe that the rule in APA 8-ball is that, if your opponent shoots your balls, you can let him keep shooting them (in the same turn) until he gets to the 8. If you let him shoot the 8 he either wins by making it or if he misses your balls are now his. If you stop him before he shoots the 8...

What does that mean?

Seems like there should be a standard, like a rolling ball hit from a rail should rebound at an equal angle if rolling at the speed that will return it exactly to the starting rail. Did Brunswick have target math for what they wanted? Did Diamond? Or is it just, meh, that seems to work.

The LD shaft is supposed to be LD because it deflects instead of the CB deflecting, so, if anything (although certainly it's really nothing), the LD shaft would miscue more, as at the border line of whether your poor stroke hit the CB far enough to the limit of your tip, the LD shaft would...

At what minimum angle could the cue ball have traveled from the OB direction that would have made it legal? Is it 91 degrees since the CB has backspin? Or something less?

But at this point shouldn't it be defined? i.e. the cue ball can't travel forward at less than x angle from OB direction for distance y between CB and OB? I'm not arguing that the shot was legal, but the ref's claim that the CB traveled forward is not entirely accurate, as it went in a...

Another MR fail is that they can't work with Simonis (or someone) to get new cloth that doesn't play "new." Unless they want it that way...