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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    OK, OK. Lou Figueroa list edited, lol
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Dalton Leong and Hawaiian Brian would occasionally pass through the Bay Area and hover at a room I frequented. Had the chance to go to breakfast with them late one night/early one morning after the pool room closed. I was just a kid listening to their road stories. Terrible to hear Dalton was...
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Fran, thank you for your thoughtful analysis. So a couple of things: you’re right, I don’t walk and look around unless it is a very tight fit on a particular shot. And mostly that’s because I’ve been playing for over 50 years and am pretty good at visualizing spatial relationships. However...
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    Bolm vs Dunn hill hill for 228k in middle

    I seem to recall he’s into a lot of things from snow removal to making wine (as in owning a winery). Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    In Italy right now so I guess I have Latin on the brain — can’t swing a dead cat without hitting something with a Roman inscription on it. Here’s a pretty famous one in Sicily. Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Si. Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    If you’re hangin’ with the homies try: ir machacar la areana. Lou Figueroa then run
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    To my ear I think you’re right with either of those: ite batere harenae or tere harenae. Lou Figueroa lost the Latin memory cells long ago
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Damn Jesuits made me take two years of Latin, lol. But no, at least google translates says it’s right. Of course plus uno modo ut pellem felem. Lou Figueroa Leo
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    じゃあ 勝手にしろ. Lou Figueroa
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    * Your Pro Pool Clinic with Tom Kennedy, Matt Sherman *

    The guy who owns the pool room I frequent is Aaron Judge’s batting coach. Lou Figueroa had a good year last season :-o
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Ire libra harenae. Lou Figueroa
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    Soaking Leather Tips

    Some of the best tips I’ve played with are those that came with Schons. Then there’s the original Mooris Ernie sends his Gina’s out with. Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Go Pound Sand. Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Go pound sand. Lou Figueroa if anyone *ever* deserved being told that it’s you
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    I just read — from the beginning — the 16 page thread sparkle84 referenced in another thread from a few years ago: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/why-did-jose-hit-the-9-this-way.496232/ Anyone even remotely considering paying you so much as a penny for a single solitary lesson...
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    You said: “I will make your game much better in a one-hour lesson. …my claim for the upcoming clinic is you will go up several handicap points/an entire letter ranking in a day, from "C" to "B" and so on:” Clearly, you were using the C to B as an example. So, nevermind, you’ve revealed your...
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    Pool in Peru Report

    Gail and I visited Cusco and Machu Pichu about four years ago — second morning she came down with a bad case of elevation sickness. Fortunately the hotel had medical on staff and after some oxygen and breakfast she was good to go. Lou Figueroa
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    What Do You Look For in a Pool Instructor

    Pretty sure. Lou Figueroa
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    Beeler's Virtual Billiard Academy - Pool Lessons

    Or maybe the thing about “instructor of the decade” was just a wee too much for most of us to swallow, lol. Lou Figueroa
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