Recent content by ShootingArts

The swipe stroke works maybe one time in a hundred or less. Fantastic spin, equal to a masse shot. Unfortunately most people have less control of a swipe shot than a masse shot. I was mislead in my youth and tried the swipe shot for over a year. One shot in hundreds, it was magic. So like...

Not directed at anyone in particular but after competing at many things one of the funniest things I have found is that many people will argue that the rules of physics don't apply to a particular pursuit. Most would agree that gravity, inertia, and inclined planes apply consistently. I had...

One big flaw I see is trying to piece mill skills. Take one bit from one player, another bit from a different player. The bits assembled from a bunch of great players often adds up to crap. Several different things I competed at, I found it best to try to learn from or copy one strong player. If...

You have a point but take a look at Stephen? Hendry, snooker playing legend. A long pause before the last forward stroke and it is tight and compact. Snooker players in general seem to have a medium stroke best of my recollection. Not real short or long. I think one of the biggest flaws pool...

The answer is both. There have been mechanical pool cues. One was on the market not too many years ago for around a hundred dollars, might be still out there. The computer pool games answer your question I believe. VP3 I believe it was let me duplicate a shot over and over. No creativity or...

I would agree with you without that one phrase, about needing the same impulse. I could jump to the moon with the same impulse as a lunar rocket. Most of us have seen crazy things in a pool hall or on a bar table. Not repeatable without perhaps the ability of Venom, but as a one time instance...

I had a friend that wrote the same way if I understand you correctly. He wrote left handed and backwards at the same time as writing right handed. The left hand text was at least equal to the right hand other than being backwards. I would be stretching things to describe writing from either hand...

Lou, the first three sentences are mine, the rest his. The qualifier, "if you produce the same impulse" makes his statement true. if you produce the same impulse is the catch. What he has said is if two impulses are exactly the same they will give the same result. True enough, but the different...

I don't know about the guys that play on tables without pockets but Ronnie might be the best to knock balls in holes in my lifetime. Hu

Ah, but some strokes are easier to get the impulse you want for a shot. A pool player usually has three cues with him now, jump, break, and at least one playing cue. He doesn't swing any two the same, effectively using the right stroke for the job along with the right cue. If all cues and...

I haven't paid much attention to pro play in years. I have to admit overall level of play for both men pro's and women has improved fairly recently. I notice Allison Fisher is still hanging in there though. She has lost a little bit to top women today but no doubt in my mind that age and...

Sounds reasonable. The reason I tried to develop a constant speed stroke. Next to impossible, I never succeeded. Using gentle acceleration I developed cue ball control within an inch playing position. I have to admit that I used precision position play to block myself more often than the other...

Face to face I explain to people that you can't really accelerate through the cue ball, only try to. On the net rather than explain things for the umpteenth time I might simply say accelerate through the cue ball. Trying to coast or maintain a constant speed are both impractical. We have...

The catch to not trying to accelerate through the cue ball, which I know is impossible with a typical cue, is that the arm has many muscles, not just the major ones we usually consider. If the arm relaxes the muscles will not relax evenly and nobody has perfectly balanced arm musculature anyway...

I usually just say Speed and Angle. I think I'll add Spot and use this too. I like the acronym. ASS is definitely needed to play pool well! Hu