Recent content by ShootingArts

Small table, I can't remember the ball at the moment. Might have been big, talking within a year or two of 1990. Big ball was fading but still a fair number around. It's getting harder for me to get dates right on shit that happened over thirty years ago. Had a major heat incident a few years...

A young Johnny Archer called and laid out an eight rail Z shot playing me that made Efren's shot look like a hanger. It finally ran out of stem and stopped in the jaws without touching them. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, and all that but had that ball rolled less than another inch it would have been...

Gotta say yes and no. Efren tries many more of those shots than most people so more would fall by simple percentages but also the more you shoot a shot the better you get at it. We are looking at probably three things: Luck, experience, and people remembering the great shots more often than the...

Because it wasn't necessary to test something doesn't make it false. I bought a measle cue ball, the real deal thirty dollar one. Shooting a three or four rail shot it rolled two feet further or a bit more than the red circle ball I competed with. Several more people wanted to try the measle...

Not hard to find posts about me using the ping test to select shaft blanks when I created shafts. Far from snake oil or hocus pocus I never had anyone bring back a shaft that passed the ping test, normally with twelve growth rings or more. I got excellent shafts for myself using at least eight...

A company went to japan to arrange a partnership with a japanese company. After almost a week of intense negotiations the American delegate thought real headway was being made. As he put away the paperwork at the end of the day he said he felt that they were thinking on parallel lines now. The...

Can't find the post I wanted to respond to but this will do for a start. Samoans are monsters! Big, mean, and their toughness isn't even on the human scale. There have been a few in the NFL but I always thought if I were a NFL coach I would go to Samoa for my entire front line! First I have to...

Right you are! You can train that part of your brain to not say anything negative. For a few years I took all negative words out of my vocabulary. Sounded pretty contrived sometimes when "No" was all I was saying and it took three sentences to do it but when I quit saying negatives I...

I have found that "Smooth" works for about anything from pool to a two second and change run at steel plates. Driving a race car into a turn at 100 plus, all kinds of things. You can be quick and smooth, quick and jerky rarely worked. Still prefer the conscious mind pretty much shutting down but...

Sad truth, tournament play there is only one winner and a lot of losers. The deeper you go the more the loss stings too. Hu

Controlling breathing is almost unbelievably powerful. While it would seem breathing is a result rather than a cause, as I can tell you know, it is a closed loop. Control breathing, control emotion. Hu

Breathing is a sign of the condition of your nerves. As several more people have already said, breathing can be the key to controlling your nerves. This is also something you can practice anytime anyplace. Shallow quick breaths will ramp up your nerves. Deep slow breathing can relax the nerves...

After giving it more thought I would shoot the shot myself. I might not make the shot but you could make book that the follow through would end up upside the guy with the gun's head in one smooth stroke! Hu

There are a handful of flaky moves that can happen with Calcuttas. I have seen them ask players if they want half, if the player is even present. I have seen them not ask. I have seen bidders refuse to sell the player half. I have seen players get sudden spasms when this happens. Lots of...