Recent content by ShootingArts

I think you are 100% correct here. I didn't think you could bend a robust fargo that much. A few possibilities, some more nefarious than others. With no proof of anything but playing his heart out we have to give the benefit of the doubt here. I have seen people benefit vastly from just having...

I'm a long ways from top tier these days but anything I compete at, including pool, I expect to start in the top tier if I am unknown. Nothing pisses competitors off worse than an unknown coming in and robbing the place! I did when I hadn't been competing for a year or two with pistols. Came to...

I found the ultimate aid about fifty years ago. It has six pockets, tighter than any pool table. Far more theft proof than any of these gadgets I see. A snooker table turns the trick! If you want square pocket corners, I think a russian pyramid table has those. No idea what they cost now but...

I started watching the ladies in between Jean and Dottie and the modern players, when the woman's tour was just getting going. The evening gowns were a nice distraction. The pool was painful for the most part. While there were about a half-dozen fairly capable players if you bet Allison and...

A pendulum can work well if you can get very low. When age or injury forces a higher stance it becomes impossible to "lock" a shoulder since it can't be locked anyway. Soft tissue at maximum extension can make it feel locked to some degree. As soon as you can't get maximum extension on the soft...

The pursuit of perfection, and free beer, made me a pool player. Definitely not in that order! That is a much more typical spread. When you get out on a table like that as often as not you will win in pretty good competition. It is easy to think the pro's play like we see on TV and video. That...

I have no idea who DCP really is so I can only work off of what he says and the pictures he posts. Every runnable table he posts is beyond runnable, it is wide open. Top players even upper level amateurs look at a table with one or two problems and decide how to solve those problems before their...

Glad to see you back posting! We call that tube lock down here. I have climbed close to three hundred feet on tube lock and 335 feet on a piece spanning about a hundred feet between two units. Hanging slick stainless sheets on an insulated pipe. The sheets were thin, three feet wide by five or...

I am sure this has been said already but I haven't read the whole thread. Anybody that doesn't think an object ball could be thrown should have been in the place when a minor league baseball player lost his mind one night. Those balls were thrown eighty or ninety miles an hour and about eighty...

You have to get the table broken in and get used to playing on it. Almost certainly looking at a month or more playing by yourself. Start logging hours actually hitting balls. Pick one set of balls(pool balls that is) and play with them too. One playing cue, one type of chalk, one glove if you...

I watched a bit of The Hustler last night. Reminded me of Mike copying Paul Newman before the final. Funny in a way but I think the con ran in the IPT was Mike conning Kevin. I suspect that Mike really thought he could turn back the clock with the heavy cloth but the train had left the station...

People, fair warning an almost totally off topic post about racing. Straightline, when I was racing dirt there was a track the owner tried mightily to make perfect, track and grounds. Just inside of turn one there was a small mudhole. My left front tire went into the mudhole every lap! The track...

Efren had $200.000 on the line best I recall. When he reaches and shakes his shirt it is an indication his heart was beating like a triphammer! Mike was one of the few people with a winning record against Efren at the time. Efren was even nicknamed the bridesmaid for awhile because he came...

Racing has more rules than Carter has liver pills! The World of Outlaws started out great. That died when they couldn't beat local cars with big engines on big tracks so they outlawed the cars they couldn't beat. Then they became one more racing organization. Fantastic racing but they aren't...

There is a huge difference on the mental side of things when you are clean or think you are clean and when you know that when the video is reviewed it will show fouls. You lay a six by six on the ground and dozens of people can walk it. Put the beam 200 feet in the air and very few can walk...