Recent content by ShootingArts

No jump cues but jump rods were common in some areas. Just a metal rod around sixteen-eighteen inches long with a tip glued on one end. These were often specifically outlawed. I let people use them unless they demonstrated they were good with one. Same thing with jump cues until recently...

The secrets to the world aren't secret anymore! The circle track racers were the worst, followed by pistol shooters. I would be talking to a racer in private. "I have learned a great secret, I will tell you but you have to promise not to tell!" They tell me the secret. "Dude, that was published...

Never know about teachers. My second grade teacher taught us that there was clean dirt and dirty dirt amongst other things! Hu

Best I recall smallpox vaccine was based on chickenpox. Hu

I was reading a little about shooting guns last week. The things that were innovative and known to only a few of us are common knowledge and accepted practice now. I suspect the same is true of pool practices. I have pretty much stood still for decades, the rest of the world hasn't. Hu

The subconscious is always listening and it doesn't know the difference between what you say as truth and what you say as modesty, even false modesty. I hired a man. Good worker in all respects. His only flaw as I saw it was that he tended to blow his own horn a bit much. One day I talked to...

The electronic timers of the time clicked a tenth of a second before they buzzed. I couldn't hear that click so that was a tenth lost right there. Then when the timer buzzed I had to be very careful to identify the buzz, starting on a false sound would disqualify the run at the least. There is...

It galled him bad enough I was ten years or more older and disabled and he still couldn't beat me! The event shooting steel plates down in the parish was broken into divisions. Doc and I started in the same division and were finishing first and second for awhile. I always had the bigger chunk of...

One of my doctors took up shooting competition. I mentored him, built a few guns for him, helped him be well grounded. He was a big athletic guy who had paid his way through college with a tennis scholarship. One day he laid down a nice run then froze, gun still out. I looked at him. "Do you...

Probably the best advice these days. Not worth getting into anything physical or involving the law and courts. Anybody that acts out with equipment is a gnat's ass away from violence with a person. Aside from injuries you might suffer there is the danger of defending yourself too well which...

Story time. Those not interested have been warned. With my bad ears I am slow on the start. I can't go on the first click without risking a DQ. I have to be sure what I am hearing. Once I start I roll pretty good. I have a bad habit of starting to do something for fun then finding I can...

I don't know where the line is but you are right, at a certain point we are not weighing things, we work off of endstink which may be the unconscious or perhaps muscle memory. I'm not too sure. People hang names on things but I don't know what is right as far as the things they believe. There...

Perhaps. I think it was a matter of the unconscious mind sorting out what was needed and interacting directly with my body. There was no processing needed and I think none done. The conscious mind is barely a thimbleful of processing in a small corner. It makes a lot of noise and is given a...

The shots I am talking about are never ready for prime time. Either the angle is too thin or the bank is low percentage, no way to make it much higher. My high run, banks in regulation play on a snooker table, was six balls. I had ran that several times and had I not moved away from snooker...

Hero level pool was one of the cheaper things I did at hero level. Hero level pool was just taking a lower percentage shot than was wise. A hero move on the circle track was gonna get you in the newspaper, one way or another!