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    Any Advice on how to shoot jump shots with accuracy?

    Can you post a video somewhere and link it here? It’s hard to diagnose with text. Also - how many hours per week do you practice jumping? And total hours so far? -td
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    Premium Chalks – Are They Worth It?

    Taom - all the way to the bottom!!
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    Chalk brands

    There are a few brands now that are similar to Taom, which many regard as the innovator in this space. Taom Predator Pure Kamui Roku *How The top 3 are probably the most visible in terms of corporate reputation. How is less popular in the US. There are others that behave very similarly...
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    3D Printed Cue Extension

    Onshape does a good job for this natively. In Fusion, I have to program new threads because I never liked the coil. But, when dovetailed with the canvas image, the programmed threads in Fusion do a great job. -td
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    3D Printed Cue Extension

    I did this for my jump butt. Now my extension rides in the main pocket. I had to make a bumper for the butt, but it works perfectly. For my Propel, I made the extension ride on the top [screw into the extension bumper]. That also worked well. -td
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    3D Printed Cue Extension

    In fusion, you can also import a canvas [image] of the thread and get the offset faces just about perfect on the first try. Most things require the thread pitch, and then offsetting 4 different faces somewhere between .1 and .3. You can get things looser or tighter with almost no test prints...
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    Do you ever get the feeling that the Fargo Rate of a player just does not seem right?

    You can't really use a single data point (one match) as a predictor for whether Fargo rate averages are correct. If those two players played over and over and the result was lopsided, Fargo would correct for that. But anyone can win one match. On that day, Player one might play 100 points...
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    What Is The Best Jump Cue?

    I've shot with many different versions of the high end cues, jump-break combos and some mid-tiers as well. I used to think that my Propel was the best cue out there. BUT, that was until my brother came to visit and had a Raven jump cue with him. It's a $300 jumper and I was super skeptical...
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    Dynasphere Challenger Ball Set

    Mine arrived. Nice set! -td
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    What’s going on in Poland?

    It's really not something new for Poland - they are consistently one of the countries with multiple top 100 players. The US has been plummeting and got passed by POL around 2022. Top 100 [pull from historical FargoRate images for each year] POLUSA 2017615 2018813 2019712 202079...
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    If the Fargo rating system existed back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, how many of those top Legendary players do you think would have been an 800?

    What do you mean statistical settling? Fargo was used for many years before Shane's 824 in 2015. I think once you get 1000+ robustness and over 2MM data points, the rating would be fairly accurate. I could be missing something though. Separately, given the Fargo creep, having 800 rated...
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    If the Fargo rating system existed back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, how many of those top Legendary players do you think would have been an 800?

    Well, here goes a long brain dump. There is no objective score for pool, so it's not possible to use that as a baseline for "who is better." For example, the 100m freestyle swim is always 100m. So it's easy to see who is fastest across time. It's fairly objective to say that the best a...
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    Dynasphere Challenger Ball Set

    Thanks. Got a set there. Looks like only one set left. -td
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    Dynasphere Challenger Ball Set

    FYI, couldn’t find these on your website Tom
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    Ko Ping Chung -- 99 balls in 3 minutes

    Sorry for the second post, I should have added this as well -> the full version [a little over and hour]
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