Recent content by qolbrand

this was the next day. i gotta take a break for a while. i just end up frustrated and devolving into bad practice. time to switch things up and come back to it when i have the goddamn mental discipline that i am apparently lacking to do something other than get worse. maybe i’ll play the...

i had a half hour to play today, so i squozed in some of this. i missed many easy balls. but it was a fun change of pace.

thanks man. i think i’m realizing that i dont get to just snap my fingers and be a straight pool player. i can practice all the different theories and order of operations and end patterns and make the damn balls, but not all at once. if i could, i would have by now. the end patterns do seem...

yuck

depends on what god you believe in, i suppose. wpa has always always been my baseline but most of the players i encounter in the wild respond with “you mean bca?”

i still havent seen anything about anybody doing this here. i imagine there’s just not a lot of demand for such a thing

for me, it was sitting on the rail and the back of my cue knocked it in. it was a leather chalker i made 10+ years ago with a piece of pagulayan in. the chalker has very strong magnets in it and i was worried it might get stuck to something inside the table. i failed to retrieve it and...

I sent this still in particular because when i watched it back i wondered why i didnt take the 3 first. seemed more important to get rid of the 1, and i didnt think of the 3 as “useless” until i watched it back. i guess thats something if i’m on the right track. i took a week off before this...

paging @Straightpool_99 whats the smart end pattern here? I got through it but it felt dumb.

https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/show-us-your-home-rooms.182377/ you should skim through this thread

ryan is good people, make him play more pool. Welcome to az

i know!!! it’s a real bummer. you might have missed the part where i talk about trying to slow down. I go back and forth. My last practice sesh i was averaging 30 seconds a shot. i stare and i stare and i measure angles and tangent lines and set my cue on the rail and all that shit and...

i don’t think good 🥴

this might have been an even worse idea, but i believe my intention on the 9 was not to roll forward so far and break the stack with the 8 using the balls uptable (and maybe the 1) for insurance. but, as so many of my racks often go, i find myself scrambling to find a new pattern. I’m going...

thanks, thats motivating to hear. here’s a condensed version of yesterdays heartaches. roll off got me on the 11 at the end. gotta remember to keep the cue ball just above that speed.