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I used to get off the sled to eat at Mulatte's or Las's and then hit the two lanes. Breaux Bridge south and west was prime territory back then. Dropping below Lafayette was good too. South and maybe fifty miles or so west was all sweet. I didn't go north as much but I would think Opelousas and...

Fifty years ago I knew pretty much every challenge table south or west of Baton Rouge. Didn't want any part of the New Orleans jail, it made a dungeon look like Club Med and you could get lost in there for months, no paperwork! I made a couple of trips but normally Bridge City was my usual...

Greg, We disagree so seldom it seems strange! Going through a deep hole forces you to move the stick straight in all directions. Very hard to do with any stroke, particularly the pendulum. I tried a level hole, I tried tilting the hole slightly. Neither one worked real well. I had to do some...

The old masters of cue building weren't trying to build a better cue than a one piece cue. The goal was a cue that played as well as a one piece cue and didn't need a snake coffin to tote it around in. Hu

Nothing is so confusing that we can't make things worse discussing it on AZB! Some, including many pendulum stroke advocates, try to maintain that there has to be a pause when going from the back stroke to the forward stroke. True enough if something is restrained from moving up, down, or...

On with the hair splitting, it isn't or hasn't been for many decades a valid engineering or scientific term if that suits you better. According to the scientific guidelines, you are always accelerating in one direction or the other. Never saw it myself but neither "decelerate" or any of it's...

I tried level speed a handful of times over the years. I never was able to get it to work. If I try to hit at a constant speed I am usually decelerating when I hit the cue ball. (I do know decelerating isn't a word but everyone understands it!) If someone is able to maintain a level speed at...

A friend most of the way across the country collects rifles like some collect pool cues. Shooters all, but he has quite a few of them in his safe. He has got it figured out though, He buys different variations of Remington 700's with the composite stock and stainless action and barrel. He sneaks...

One word, "smooth". I was jerking the start of the last forward stroke for years, A gradual start to that stroke seems very important to me. Of course we can keep backing that up. A smooth transition. Smoothly slowing before the transition. A smooth start from addressing the cue ball...

Just to practice follow through put another ball about four inches in front of the cue ball. Aim and shoot like you are trying to hit that ball. Hu

At my peak I only needed over half a tip of sidespin once or twice a session. Rare, but I have played four to six hours without ever using more than half a tip of side. As you say, speed and angles. Once it starts working you get shape for the next shot so speed and angle works again. I have...

Congratulations on your win! There are a lot of losers in a tournament and only one winner. Winning is always an accomplishment. Winning does get easier once you break the ice. Some people never do. I met a man at a big invitational benchrest event. He had been competing for eighteen years...

Being an acute observer I noticed it is a fifty million dollar bra that doesn't fit! Hu

It struck me that I was playing pool more hours than I was working so I logged pool hours for three weeks several times years apart. The longest I have played pool was 48 hours straight, on the natch. I have played 36 hours straight probably over a dozen times. Eight to twelve hours was pretty...

Musta been pure hell for his poor mudda! When I was addicted to pool I spent 60-80 hours a week on a pool table, often more. I was working 50-60 hours a week at a full time job or business too. Fortunately I was young and dumb and sleep was for old people! I didn't have the gift to go with the...