Recent content by ShootingArts

While a few people in your corner is nice, the whole world is nicer and I am sure the entire pool world is is rooting for you as well as many that don't play! Hu

That is a table that demands respect from children and adults. Beautimus! Hu

I was just noticing yesterday that the board was short on "Jay" posts. Hang in there, we need you! A youngster to chase and teach pool and life too. You are going to have to make this just a bump in the road. I watched a youtube video a few days ago. It featured you with your original equipment...

We boxed under the stadium on rainy days for PE at my school. I looked like an easy target. I wasn't since my brothers and I had been pounding on each other a few years since my mom got tired of us tearing up our clothes bare handed and got us boxing gloves for Christmas. A good Christian and a...

Had a friend, actually an acquaintance, when I was about that age. We ran with the same crowd and he had a respect issue. He was a second or third dan(don?) black belt and a few inches taller, considerably fitter. He wanted to try boxing in the local league. I had a couple pairs of real sixteen...

Side tracking first to catch up on some of the rambling. Janis? Never surpassed. Kelly's Heroes and Oddball in particular? One of the greatest movies ever, particularly war movies. This parenting question is far too vague on multiple fronts. First, is your daughter the leader of the pack or...

The last time I competed fairly regularly I lived on the West End of the twelve mile bridge. Crossing that bridge took between twelve minutes and close to three hours. I had a major surgery. Allowed two hours for the drive, took closer to three. I wasn't worried, unlike a pool tournament, they...

The last time I competed fairly regularly I lived on the West End of the twelve mile bridge. Crossing that bridge took between twelve minutes and close to three hours. I had a major surgery. Allowed two hours for the drive, took closer to three. I wasn't worried, unlike a pool tournament, they...

The main thing is that people living at the pool hall have little or no couth. There is a correlation between sloppy manners of pool players and good, even great, play. A correlation doesn't mean there is a causative effect. You spend a hundred hours or more at the pool hall each week and you...

A home table is a good reason for cleaner chalk and with what I have spent on other equipment I sure wouldn't grudge spending on equipment that made for better success competing if I still was. I have spent over a thousand dollars to gain less than a tenth of a second or a hundredth of an inch...

I clean rails at least once a day at the pool hall. I don't have a kitten if somebody else puts chalk face down though. As already mentioned perhaps the GOAT puts the chalk face down, deliberately. Has for a lifetime. I sometimes wonder if it is tongue in cheek towards all the people making a...

Far too many years ago to remember! Not as much after drying as you would think watching the bubbles come up. At a guess two-thirds of the soaked wood is going to be cut away in later turnings. Bearing in mind this is a guess but I doubt a finished soaked shaft weighs a half ounce more than it...

Competing with other people is a part of practice. The issue is that when you are focusing on winning you are focusing on the shots and patterns you are comfortable with. You need to practice the things you are just learning too and that generally means practicing alone. Neither form of practice...

Looks like the shot or a very close cousin. They seemed to be struggling a lot then I noticed the table pockets! On a pool table those shots aren't particularly difficult. Hu

Looks odd. As soon as you try it you quit caring if it looks odd. People think they have set up a low percentage shot then find that it is a duck. It is a shot that has made me a nice chunk of change. Hu