Recent content by VTEC John

Just my two non-expert cents. If you drop your elbow perfectly straight, no problem, but it adds a variable to the stroke that can go wrong (hello, me). Second, ff you drop your elbow and it pulls your shoulder down with it, you've added another variable to the stroke that can go wrong (Jasmin...

I don't know what this device is, but I wish I'd had one when I was learning.

Yeah, there are numerous ways to describe and/or diagram aiming, but aiming is child's play. The real challenge is stroking perfectly straight so that you send the CB where you've aimed it.

Skyler's game strikes me as tired; Jesus the opposite. As for Tyler and Billy, Jesus all the way. I hope he achieves to the level of his talent.

I'm sad to report the passing of an active and fairly long-time member, Dennis Bossa, known here as L.S. Dennis. He was my close friend of many years, a great husband, a car nut, a guitarist and an avid, intelligent follower of politics. But all combined, those things did not remotely compare to...

As we all know, playing pool has always been a road to riches. The oligarchs of our sport, like Bob Jewett, make the really big money by manipulating the market for pool books.

Wrapped cues offer some give or cushioning reducing hand fatigue over extended play? Nah.

I don't fault Robin. Balukas trash talked during a match and it pissed Robin off. She decided, OK the hell with you I'm lodging a complaint. She'd have no way of knowing what the TDs would do, but she had every right to say she didn't like what happened. Which is not unreasonable if an opponent...

You may have good mechanics that simply break down during the course of a session for any number of reasons: becoming tired; your head/cue/shot line alignment gets out of whack on long shots due to your vision; your opponent is putting pressure on you and you start gripping the cue tighter or...

If you prefer to hit the cue substantially harder than it needs to be hit--to get it where you want it--inside English is your meat. Good luck with those multi-rail kicks.

Yes, your point was pretty clear and I agree with you: it's absurd to use a piece of equipment because some pro uses it. Unfortunately, that's not what the thread is about: the OP went nowhere near discussing that or recommending anything like that. It raised a question about the numbers related...

"WHY THE F&*K does there need to be a list of players using this-or-that shaft?? What is the point??" Because people are interested, that's why. They want a piece of data about a trend in their favorite sport. I don't need a warm-fuzzy feeling about what shaft I'm using. I'm just interested...

What brand of joint pin adapter did you buy? Thanks.

I expected this to be close as I think they play equal, but Kristina has a better break and Seoa has a very slight edge in kicking and safeties. Seoa broke poorly (her weak spot), but so did Kristina this time, so Seao had a slight edge. It couldn't have been any slighter. Great match.

Yeah, that was pretty obvious. The only way to keep it unmarked is to not use it. Holds true for a lot of collectibles.