Recent content by wigglybridge

Neils Feijen, for all practical purposes. he's 85% blind in one eye. more generally, keen eyesight is greatly overrated and used as an excuse for bad play which has nothing to do with it. for example, Thorsten Hohmann sometimes plays tournaments without his contact lenses, and Mark Williams has...

very interested, and enjoy your commentary greatly! but Please ditch the music. couldn't finish the first video because it was so obnoxious. even in the 2nd video, it was too loud and distracting. it just doesn't add anything -- your subject is interesting enough!

yes, but it's very expensive... a pressed Elkmaster. like i said, if you're not in for 25 cents, look elsewhere.

Welder84 has it right: it has close to zero to do with age. or eyesight. Niels Feijen is 85% blind in one eye. Thorsten Hohmann plays major tournaments without his contact lenses sometimes. Mark Williams wins snooker championships with hundreds of thousand of dollars on the line, you can see...

this doesn't Sound dramatic, and it doesn't Look dramatic like a movie shot, but go ahead, try it. about 10 years ago i walked into an unfamiliar room to play some straight pool. usually that brings mostly blank stares, an occasional nod, and a lot of ignorant guffaws from people who think i...

thank you so much, Bob! i had a bad copy of this, probably 2nd or 3rd generation, from youtube some years back. it's wonderful to see it more clearly!

the sweep in Samm's stroke that Kaz mentions also jumped out at me. amidst the focus on the subject matter, did either of you notice it, Dr. Dave?

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no, if you actually had the book i'm talking about, then you'd know that you DO see it being done on the dvd. for ~ 2 hours. nothing else but the last 4 balls. dozens of different players, a hundred patterns. it's the best resource in pool by a very wide margin.

uh, K2 and Mike, you should be aware that Phil Capelle has done just this. look for "Break Shot Patterns" online. book and companion DVD. one of the best and certainly cheapest investments you can make in a book for 14.1.

they can't stop you from eating a banana or two 45 minutes before the game, though, Bob.

as i said above, this used to be my day job. i'm a sound engineer, pool table owner, and have done what you're trying to do in multiple rooms. round bamboo isn't going to do squat for the noise you want to reduce. putting flat sheets behind it isn't going to do much more (although it will do...

retired sound engineer here: i've done this quick & dirty with mover's blankets that i had lying around. they do kill a lot of the most objectionable noise. i put them up when i had my table in a cement block walled room and they made a huge difference. very easy to put up, especially if you...

what terryhanna said: i use the frontfacing camera on an old iPhone 4; works super, the resolution is just right plus the videos take so little room i can leave it run for hours, uploads fast. i've got 2 newer iphones but greatly prefer this one for practice.

with John Schmidt now being Mr 600, i was thinking to have a number, too. in honor of a recent run, "Mr 28 & Straight" seems appropriate.