Recent content by Vlado312

It was a carom player that told me not to use my pool cue! I have an OB Phoenix, a rather stiff 'AA Grade Hard Maple' ' 11.8mm with the 'OB Hybrid Taper (pro/conical)' If the odds are it wont get messed up, I don't want to play with anything else!

Hello, I'm a pool player recently getting into 3c and I was told not to use my maple pool cue because of the risk of damaging the shaft on the cue heavier balls. But would I be able to safely use a carbon fiber pool cue? The reasons I want a pool cue is largely because of the taper. All the...

Vlado's Billiards.... someday :D

I think I started shooting around that age, maybe a few years older. But the thing I would recomend is to just play the game. Don't worry about stroke and stuff just play. And especially if you can get her to play with some of her own friends on your table. I quickly grew a passion for pool when...

I set up mirror a small mirror so I can see my elbow with a fixed line in the background and looked at the mirror as I practiced just hitting a ball until I got the motion down. The next step would to be to measure out the distance from bridge to cue ball to where your tip ends at the end of a...

Oh I havn't forgotten, looking forward to it!

Ok thanks a lot guys I've got a good idea on how to go at learning this whole position play business.

I would say the biggest flaw in my game is position play in general. Even if I can make the shot, often I don't know the best path to choose for the cue ball. And then if I have an idea for the path, sometimes I can't execute it because I'm not sure how much spin on the ball will give me the...

I remember a while back someone made a great video with Greyghost that explains piston and pendulum strokes, as well as other important things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u52gKAehqo After about 7:40 he gets into the specifics of the stroke, good stuff before that too though.

Thanks, I'll try to alternate a little practice and soem play durring a long session today and see how I hold up :smile: And I'll try the one pocket ghost when I can clean out the 9 ball ghost!

Hey, It's 3 in the morning and I gotta stop studying for 15 min to get a little "billiard buzz" for energy ;p I was hoping to get some feedback on this practice schedule I'm trying to set up. What I've been doing has been too disorganized so I want to try writing it out and sticking to it. Most...

If you never play big matches of course you'll never win ;p Anyway, I'm still a new player but in the few tournaments I've played about 10 minutes at a table is all I need to get my game as good as its gonna get. I just like to shoot a few stops, draws and follows to reassure myself that the...

Gambling in the sense that I want to take a good chunk of the other person's money, no I wouldn't against a close friend. Except one friend who I know is at least at good at pool as I am, and we've been playing high stakes (for our bankrolls :smile:) since the 7th grade. My close friends and I...

Thanks for the advice Johnny. As a not yet above average player I will try to keep these things in mind. Even at my level I think I'm pretty hard on myself when I do any of the things you mentioned, especially when I feel like I could have done better if I had only thought ahead. But as you...

Thanks for posting, very interesting article. It is kind of depressing that billiards has been in such a similar state for almost 50 years now. But I have hope for the future. If there are so many people that somehow find the kind of passion for billiards that I see here on AzB, then there...