Recent content by RareHare

Here's my test - If you can play while smoking a cigar and experience no disadvantage, your playing a game, not a sport. Pool is a game.

This is what got me turned as much as I'm now turned. When I let my arms relax, the cue basically touches my belly, which tells me that pointing it out straighter is unnatural, so I turned my body instead. I did see this on some video clip on the net. It worked wonders very quickly. p.s...

How personal is the stance, and what I'm really asking about is the placement of the feet (not upright v. bent, etc.). I have been playing only a short time, and I spent a lot of energy fixated on my elbow looking for a repeating motion. Focusing on my arm didn't seem to help much. Then I...

Google "fire on ice calendar" or "curling calendar" and it will never be boring again. Don't believe me? Go ahead, give it a try. Edit: Removed link b/c NSFW

This is worth a read before forming opinions about Wal-Mart pricing on higher end merchandise: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snapper.html

This is so perfectly understandable that it should be part of the BCA rule book.

Problem is no one outside of the pool world knows who "Earl" is. You'd be preaching to the choir. More people know "Fast Eddie, " a fictional character, than Earl. Hollywood has always had the ability to make heros, and ALL sports need heros. A film about Mosconi would create lots of...

My 16 year old daughter is 3 weeks out from ligament tightening surgery. She pitches softball and has genetically loose ligaments ("multi directional instability"). You can try lots of PT to strengthen the muscles, but the shoulder "socket" is so shallow that you usually can't get enough...

Gone???????

Allinger's Billiard Academy, Philadelphia, PA cir.1910

Thanks. I'm a bit of a car detailing nut, so I've got loads of product. I also happen to have butcher's wax for my wooden kitchen table. I put some Klasse All-In-One on the shafts of some house cues and could not believe the difference it made. Klasse is an acrylic based product, not really...

Anyone ever put a "wax" product on a cue shaft?

Yes Scott, all good advice. I'll leave the book out. I'll play when he asks. p.s. Nice website. I sank the Triple Side Bank Shot on the first try! We won't talk about the following 20 tries.

My 14 year old son just discovered the pool table that's been in the basement since before he was born. He's started playing every night. I'm torn between just letting him play and wanting to correct things. I know my son. He'll take a little advice, but not too much (otherwise it becomes...

Maybe so. I am, however, quoting from an autobiography, and it's not like Mosconi needed to pad his credentials. Here are his direct thoughts on this thread's subject matter, taken from page 9: "Most of the great players are naturals. They pick up a cue stick and it just feels right, they...