Recent content by sparkle84

From what you've described, NO. League play is virtually worthless. If you're a low 500 you're better than most league players already and will learn nothing except maybe some bad habits. Playing tournaments or matches with better players would be more helpful. But a few hours per week just...

Going faster doesn't have to affect focus. The time you're down on the shot is not excessive, it's everything you do in between. One way to speed up is handling the chalk differently. You make a shot and then walk to where the chalk is. Then you stop, pick it up and chalk the tip and put it...

I guess this comes from never actually going out and playing someone in an actual poolroom. Bob is correct. If you check the comments on your video you'll see I pointed out the same thing. I also mentioned your pace of play. It's painfully slow which makes watching very difficult. You play...

As well as your explanation being very confusing, it also bears no resemblance to straight pool that I can see. What exactly does (what I highlighted above) mean? If you both get 15 min. then when time is up you stop. How can you run out of time?

Yeah, unfortunately I was there. It was SVB vs Max Eberle. Thankfully Max scratched on a side pocket breakshot needing less than a rack (5 balls I think) or we'd have had to endure an 8 hour final match. It was painful.

Get back with this when it can go thru a freshly opened 8 ball rack with tied up balls and obstructions all over the place. Figuring out wide open 5 ball runouts doesn't take much effort. With the kicking vid shouldn't the 1st option given be the one with the highest percentage of hitting the...

I don't watch the women pros much so can't comment on that. One thing I have noticed though in the amateur ranks (good players) is that it's not unusual for men to play subpar against women they should beat. It's happened many times against Samantha Easton in the Under 650 and similar...

Uh oh, I think you'll hear about that.

For me, wasted talent or achievements are not the issue with this guy. It's his arrogance and lack of respect for the game, his opponents and fans of pool.

That's his MO

Potentially, possibly but the physical may be necessary to give feedback that refines the mental to a higher level. You may be right but I've run into a lot of guys with a high pool IQ but their intelligence drops considerably when you converse with them about anything other than pool. With...

This is an excellent post. It's pretty much what all good, experienced players do. As it relates to Doug, the OP, it's way more difficult because of lesser experience. He'll take more time to analyze and decide a course of action. Nothing wrong with that. During the course of the run he may need...

Well, that's ok. Once things devolve into name calling and proclamations such as "I promise you I'm right" and "I don't give a shit what you think" you've reached a point where further discussion is fruitless. I could have mentioned other things that were clearly wrong but stuck to the...

You seem angry. Not sure why. I suppose it's because I'm questioning some things you said. This is a public forum, a place where people go to discuss ideas and topics that interest them. Someone puts forth a statement and others are free to agree or disagree. Usually if you disagree it's nice...

No, unfortunately it didn't clear up anything for me. Clarifying after the fact that your example was only meant for a certain group of people, while misleading, I don't really care about that. We (or should I say you) are talking about the fact that "The only benefit to ld technology is that...