Recent content by taojones

tempest in a teapot I love the game and regularly teach people what i can not to make money but to have a better game. walking up to some wood pushing barfly and cleaning his clock is just not fun for me. the information in your videos is simply the truth . the basic information can be found...

i just noticed in your last post you jack up your cue. that will masse your shot to some amount for each degree you add to the stroke from parallel. a center ball hit is hard enough a jacked up center ball hit is a real chore. (think of the center of the ball as a BB in the middle of the ball ...

naji i have been reading the posts from cj and bob jewitt (hello bob this is bill pellegrini) here's a way to truly test what they have been telling you about the accuracy of your hit get yourself a cue ball with one of those red dots on it and carefully place it at vertical and horizontal...

there are two basic ways of calling your shot one way is "call Pocket" that is where you name a ball and a pocket and its good no matter how it gets there the other is "call shot" where you must describe the entire shot . no official rule book uses call shot bars seem to like it because it...

there are 2 ways the bar table separates the cue ball from the rest for the return . one way is the bigger cue ball (actually a billiard ball) 1/8/to 1/4 inch bigger and the second way is to put a steel magnet in the center of the cue-ball to deflect it into another trap or cause a spring to...

back spin is not considered "english " it would cause the cue ball to diverge from the expected line in the direction of the shooter depending on how hard it was hit . side spin if induced by a dirty ball or chalk spot on the cue ball would not effect the path of the ball until it hit a rail as...

it looked to me like he had a force follow on the ball and it rebounded off the other ball skidding then the ball took the top when it slowed down and headed towards the long rail reverse would have just doubled his speed off the long rail the first time it hit. i think he got lucky a bit not...

i thought it was a Balibuska if i recall it was owned by Pete Taskarella he had it for sale a couple of years ago it was signed by newman mosconi and gleason

i think you should worry more about the quality of the tip you are using. if its mushrooming that bad your storing the cue wrong or hitting way too hard

hey papa red if you read Bob Byrns book Mcgornty you would get a background of all those old time players! most stayed broke or owned their own halls i believe Mosconi was pretty much the only one who ever made a real career of it touring and collecting exhibition fees. it has always been feast...

i use an unusual cur tip Keith Hannsens black widow they are hard and do not deflect because they cant distort on contact . when i have given them to people they find it takes a while to adjust to the fact that the tip is doing an extraordinary job and stuff they used to do is unnecessary and...

i am usually more concerned with where the center of the object ball actually is i usually look where it touches the table and imagine a rod straight up from that point .i make my gestamates from that point as to where i want my contact point. the center of the cue ball i imagine as a bb in...

sparkle i meant the discipline of getting a real center ball hit that a hard tip demands will improve your game. try this drill if you will get a cue ball with the little red dot on it set it up to face you centered chalk your cue and hit the ball then look where your chalk spot is on the...

i use Keith Hannsens black widow tips. they are the hardest thing you will find . the idea of the hard tip is that it will not flatten when it hits the ball and possibly deflect the shot. Keith treats them somehow and they behave like a tip should . the chalk is what provides the grip to keep...

i change my own tips, a good thing to have is one of those sanders that square up the ferrule. if your in the outback you might find one in the hardware store to sand dowels. it's a disk with a clamp for the stick to hold it at 90 degrees while you sand off old leather and glue. after you...