Nevel was right handed.
List of left-handed pro players?
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Maybe his baby sitter knew who he was.
I did have a question mark about Larry.
If you want to watch the best left handed player just watch Joshua Filler.
Yes, As well as Jayson Shaw and Wu Jiaqing.
In snooker, Judd Trump, Neil Robertson, and Mark Williams are lefties.
Some pool pros practice playing opposite hands to help with those awkward shots that come up from time to time.
Yes, that's definitely true, but Dan DiLiberto noted that the invention of the cue extension (circa 2002) significantly reduced the need for opposite hand shooting. You see a lot less of opposite hand shooting (and use of the bridge) today than you did twenty-five years ago. Danny used to make me laugh, as it seemed that every time he saw a player screw on their cue extension, he'd comment "I wish I had one of those when I was playing."
Yes, slip on extensions (often vacuum tubes) were around in pool before that, but I clearly remember when screw on extensions began to show up in pro pool, and have taken accurate note. Players were not nearly as effective using slip on extensions as they would later be with screw on extensions, which is why so few pool players carried them before 2002.
I don't remember seeing any use of cue extension in pool at all up until I quit the game and stopped following what's going around in 2010 or so.
First time I've seen extensions being used in pool was when I got back to pool about a year and a half ago... I'm sure it's been around longer but I just don't recall anyone using it between 2002 and 2010. maybe you meant 2012?
In snooker as I said, both screw-on and slip-on have been around well before 2002.
I had one when I lived in Arizona 2002
No, they popped up in about 2002, but the first screw on extensions were believed to negatively impact the balance point of the cue stick, so their popularity was not immediate. I first tried using a screw on extension in about 2006. Certainly, by 2012, almost everyone was using one in pro circles, but by then, cue manufacturers had long figured out how to have a screw on extension that did not significantly compromise the balance point of the cue stick. Like most innovations, they got it wrong before they got it right.
I must take your word on this.
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Good info here. Perhaps these variable length shafts for different occasions were the forerunner of the modern cue extension. I love stuff like this. For example, few realize that the bumper pool cue was, in fact, the forrunner of the modern jump cue. While most date the origin of the short jump cue to the early 1980s, Marcus Collier, world bumper pool champion many moons ago, entered a pool tournament and executed a jump shot with his bumper pool cue almost sixty years ago.
i think archer had a pink slip on extension quite early. the first good screw on extension i saw and tried was longoni 3lobite maybe 15-16 years ago. one third of a turn and it was on. very well engineered, i would have bought it if it were compatible with my old cue at the time.