Recent content by ShootingArts

One night I played for the sales agreement on my business and the commercial property it sat on. One game of barbox eightball. The game was hard enough and the pockets tight enough it took twenty or thirty minutes to play that game on a Valley table. Hu

I never understood people bragging about beating someone and then admitting they were getting the lemon crush and the other person had to play one handed jack up with his weak hand and with his eyes closed! (this part isn't directed at HawaiianEye or anyone in particular) Funny thing about bar...

I did that too, missing and noting where the cue ball went. My favorite thing was hitting points on coin op tables when practicing by myself! I saved a lot of quarters and tuned tighter than aiming at pockets. Offering those easy pickings in a bar was more than everybody could stand. Before long...

Still find yourself trying to index the CF shafts? I never have quit trying to index the CF shafts that have no sweet spot to turn to. Hu

For years I used that three rail kick to verify that both the table and I were in calibration. That three rail kick from both sides or all four corners if the table looked sketchy was the gold standard along with a couple speed control shots. Depending on the condition the table appeared to be...

I forget what they called the soft ferrule when they didn't want to call it a ferrule. However, I always figured that the soft ferrule was to kill the resonance and keep the carbon fiber shaft from sounding like the hollow glass shafts. Using foam in different places to tune the shaft is...

The academia can provide a framework sometimes. Problem is sometimes the exceptions become the rule! One thing interesting that I did as an experiment. I messed around with a book at home, maybe Banking with the Beard. I was using a program on the computer to memorize the shots, maybe VP3. When...

Not what I recall but then again, that was a long time ago! I'll differ to your memories, they seem more detailed than mine. I used to ride one of those AMF Harleys every month or two. I tuned it then had to take it for a test ride. It was almost new and I had just tuned it. In a dummy move I...

Your fault I am drug off topic! You made me remember the ladies in my mom's family. All of them could cook off of the same recipe and none taste remotely the same. All great though! I saw a cookbook by a cajun lady. Almost worthless because every recipe ended "season to taste"! I just got back...

A-M-F I don't think Brunswick ever recovered from the AMF takeover. Hu

I am a fair hand kicking and banking but never have made a system work. Watching Buddy's video on the clock system now. I couldn't help noticing that eleven o--clock went to the cushion out from the diamond and the one o-clock, maybe two o'clock system went directly to the diamond. Appears his...

I think the proof is in the pudding. Great players play. Not so great players play with numbers. I'm not directing that at people on this forum, just many years in pool halls and watching matches. Pool players rarely learn about numbers until they start wanting to market something. I pretty...

I hated six ball! Never had a good break for six balls and with only six on the table I often lost the money I had just won playing nine ball. I often played ten ball by the real rules or with the same rules as nine ball and one extra ball. I did it just to avoid playing six ball. As a general...

I might allow a rack with both using it. From what I found out about those cheap balls and the measle ball I tried for months, I don't think playing with the other person's pool balls would fly. A far bigger advantage than I once realized. Reminds me of a privileged few using a private set of...

You would have still had an advantage knowing your rack but not as much of one if you both used it. I never cared if people used their own cue ball or set of balls. Then one day I brought a cheap set of balls to a quality pool hall. I bought these balls for thirty dollars with the original...