Recent content by WobblyStroke

Some people do mess themselves up with their practice strokes. The two main advantages of no practice strokes are target focus and stillness. Fran laid out nicely how micro adjustments kick in when we're down and perceiving the shot differently than when standing. On top of that, amateurs...

There's a guy I know who made this jump recently. And yes, he was a forever 5/6 in league until this year of devotion to the game. All it took was spending no less than 6hrs a day, 5-6 days a week in the pool hall working on his stroke, tactics, and mental game :p Bob's right tho, moving up...

Centennials are my favorite balls. The look of em is just (chef kiss).

This is very true. A particular grip orients the cue on a particular angle across the body. In order to get that cue on the shot line while maintaining this natural angle relative to the bodyy, the body needs to be positioned a certain way. If you alter the grip in a way that alters the way...

Thinking about your stroke while playing is a recipe for sucking. Just about every study comparing performance when internally focused (what is my body doing, how am I performing an action, etc) vs being externally focused on target/task, the externally focused group massively outperforms the...

Even mere top local players pretty much always have an ingrained, seemingly subconscious preshot routine that they go through on pretty much every shot. There is a lot of advice on preshot routine, including the examples posted above. While I agree that foot placement is near if not at the...

Neat. First instinct at full speed is that it can't be legal. Slowed down, Bob nailed it.

Caitlin Clark fans. But tbh, I love the Reese memes.

I trust your theoretical insights. What you wrote makes perfect sense and Dr. Dave agrees with the cloth as primary factor. Not backing off would be asinine lol. As for cushions swelling, you can google it. It's a thing, tho it would really have to be extreme/prolonged humidity to get past...

I stand corrected. But the cushions do firm up as pores fill. With regular humidity, pores fill and old cushions play faster...even with new slick cloth on em. As you get more excessive prolonged humidity, cushions will actually swell and the bounce gets reduced compared to normal. Then...

Not really sure what constitutes rubber being 'waterlogged', but mere high atmospheric humidity speeds up the rails by firming them up as the water fills up the pores in aged cushions. The grip of the cloth wouldn't make a straight on hit rebound faster than usual, which is exactly what...

A quick line to remember in high humidity is "slow cloth, fast rails". Esp if the cushions are older, the humidity fills the pores in the rubber and really firms them up. They get bouncy and bank/kick short. Cloth, on the other hand, gets muggy and slow. Balls get a bit sticky too so...

Not a chance. The early high level coaching and intensity in training for both just wouldn't happen in America. I'm not sure either would even pick up a cue by the time they were competing for world junior titles.

I kinda feel bad for guys who actually ran 100 or paid their way through collage back in the day bc everyone will just assume they're a gas bag like anyone else who utters those words. Got to play a few guys saying such things and despite my collage days pool playing paying little more than my...

Good point. Many of the old timers with high stances gripped the cue way up in the middle of the wrap which you almost never see anymore unless the guy is playing a 65" cue in a low stance. When I played higher, I def didn't grip as far back as when lower.