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Tell them to dump a few sets or you'll ship them to Minnesota... ;)

Hi Mike. Thanks for the kind words. Looking at that list brought back some memories. You know, I fell short of the goals I naively set for myself when I was a 14 year old, wanting to be the best in the world. I never reached the level I hoped for or got my game looking quite the way I wanted...

I believe it is skill dependent. For me it is much easier to run racks playing bar table 8 ball. I simply miss far, far less often on a smaller table. Yes, you have smaller landing zones and more congestion, but I happen to have very good cue ball control so for me the gain in pocketing far...

I’ve been there. Bad for your game in the short term, good in the long term. Think of it as an investment, a 401k for your run out game. 🤣 Hope to cross paths one day!

Hey White, don’t worry, I’m quite relaxed. You’re absolutely right. All tables are real, all can be fun games. I don’t think it’s black and white. You could have an 8’, a 7’, a 6’. I suppose you could make a 2x4 table as well. Or a 12” toy table. Or maybe a phone app where you can play video...

I spar regularly with some of the top players in the area. Sometimes for fun, sometimes $50-100 a set. You just don't hear about it because I'm not making posters with 20k in the middle and streaming it on social media. We only see what we see, so we don't see anything we don't see. Doesn't...

How many 800+ Fargos do you know that are holding a 40 hour a week job? Maybe they got to 800, quit and started working. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm asking for examples of your players that were 700+ while working and part time competed their way to 800. I don't see any examples.

As a player over 700 Fargo in MN I can tell you why I don't play many others (well, I do in non-reporting cheap sets at my house). I am not allowed to play in the majority of local events and won't sign up for handicapped tournaments. This leaves me a handful of maybe 2-3 tournaments a year...

Youtube is a correct answer, and social media as a whole. I'm not sure that the numbers of pool players have increased, but I would say that the number of recreational players who have been exposed to professional pool and professional pool instruction has increased substantially. In the past...

Just finished an awesome three day bootcamp and wanted to share a fun breakthrough. My student was having trouble drawing the ball because of unwanted body movement. He knew in his head he was trying to do too much on the shot, but habits die hard and he wasn't experiencing the movement the...

It's refreshing to chat with you. Most people online get so escalated they stop making any sense. Even when we are going back and forth you always seem reasonable. I appreciate that. We're probably really, really close on how we see this. I guess the only question is whether knowledge...

JV, you have created a hypothetical situation custom made to support your point of view. You've made the assumption that he has flawless mechanics, doesn't steer, and abandons his practice after a handful of attempts to seek out a shortcut online. This is a laughable hypothetical. A safer...

I love your last sentence. That is for sure. The best advice I ever got on how to learn any shot is to miss it 100 times. I'm with you that your first line of attack should be to hit the shot a bunch of times and try to get a feel for how to make it go in the hole. It's only if that...

There is a super common phenomenon in which people understand intellectually the mistake they are making but are surprised at how hard it is to correct. Draw shots are a great example. Telling someone to 'hit here' is great if it works. But if they spend years shying away from that spot then...

This is a common sense approach. Pay attention to the results of your shot, if it doesn't fall look at if it was thick or thin, then make the appropriate adjustments. Why get more complicated than that? Here's why. I introduced the idea into this thread that because draw takes better on...

I'm guessing you're missing thick. The amount the back spin influences the cue ball direction depends on thickness of hit. On a straight in shot the back spin can bring the cue ball straight back. As the cut angle increases the back spin starts blending with the residual energy which...

Great suggestion! I can't attend this year as I do have a bootcamp scheduled for that weekend. This is why I made this post, I need to plan further out. I'll put it on my list for next year. Thank you for the help gang! I'd really like to get a reasonable line up of tournaments...

Private message sent. Thank you!

Thank you both for some good suggestions. I'll look closer at the CSI events end of February. I take most of January off generally for tournaments as the DCC is a long event and in the past I've played Turning Stone, so generally February-April I am working hard. But if I miss TS I may be...

Thank you Stu! I wasn't at the Turning Stone because I didn't get signed up in time and it looks like the same fate befell me for January as Mr. Zuglan told me that tournament already filled two weeks ago. It's getting hard to get in the door these days, hence why I started the post asking...