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I once saw a guy slam a Cognoscenti butt pin first (G10) into a wooden bleacher, leaving a 1/4" deep hole in the bleacher. He had a lot of confidence in that G10 pin (it survived without problem). As for buying anything with the Barringer name on it, you might want to read some of his poor...

Nicely written, and an enjoyable read !

I have to wonder if Shotmaker is one of those who breaks like Mike Sigel, bending the shaft to an almost impossible angle. I've seen this type of break crack shafts at the joint, sometimes without even damaging the trim rings. It is especially prone to happen with a laminated shaft. Customers...

I will suggest a format that many of you will not be able to wrap your minds around, but if you try it, you may like it. Try this: 1) mandatory push-out after the break 2) you never have to accept the table after your opponent misses It is still BIH. This takes the luck out of the break shot...

I think both Earl and the woman were wrong in this case. But I learned something from a Filippino stakehorse, something about how it is that the Filippino players play so well .....in their home country, the pool halls are anything but quiet. There is a racket in the stands with people...

I have a theory about the impossible bank shot ..... I suspect that the cue ball is hitting the object ball twice. The object ball bounces off the cushion and then hits the cue ball again, giving it the proper angle to go in the hole. If you look at the angle of the cue ball after it has...

What is your source for such information ? When I shoot certain masse' shots, I am striking almost directly downward on the top of the cue ball. Is that an illegal stroke ? Why couldn't the same, but shorter, stroke be used in fouling intentionally ?

I will believe Vernon Elliot's bank shot and Efren's cut shot when I see them in person or on video, and not one minute sooner. Pure poppycock.

I did an experiment to investigate the relationship between new cloth and the frequency of skids. It seemed to me that a slippery cloth would allow more throw and more skids. To prove this, I put a piece of 2' x 3' plate glass on my table in the area of the spot. I froze 2 balls on the glass...

You really summarized it well, and something tells me that you are a scary good pool player.

By skid, I mean the occasional incidence of extreme throw. If the object balls are polished or waxed and become very slippery, do they tend to throw and skid more ?

First, we need to agree on a definition of skid. Let's say that you're shooting a 30 degree cut shot to the left corner pocket with center ball (no English). Because you know about contact-induced throw, you probably shoot the shot as if it were a 32 degree cut shot, and the object ball should...

I find it interesting that nobody responded to my post about why there might be more skid on new cloth. Was my post difficult to understand ? Basically, I said that the minimal friction under the object ball on new cloth will allow the friction at the cueball-object ball interface to have a...

If balls skid more on new cloth, I would suspect that this is mostly due to the slipperiness of the new cloth. By being slippery, it would allow one ball to more easily throw another ball (a skid). Given any amount of lateral force being applied at the point of contact between two balls, the...

I think that is the worst kind of skid because it is so hard to avoid, but it seems to happen on soft shots. Somebody on this forum recommended shooting more firmly to avoid the vertical skid, and I think that person may be right. Can anybody confirm this ?

Earl must feel like there is a chunk of him missing, and that chunk is a piece of his integrity. It was caught on tape for the whole world to see, and he can't take it back. It is a lesson in life for all of us. The tension that Earl must feel about that incident will last forever. There is a...

I would just masse' around the eight ball to hit the one and make the nine, without the cueball going to the side rail.

I would not be facetious in saying that pool is an empty venture. It won't make you rich and it won't give you peace. It is just something to do. If you enjoy it, then play away. But don't expect it to do anything for you. In fact, it could be negative in a few ways .... for example, there...

Santos can deliver the goods. Several years ago, Santos was playing with a new cue against Bobby Hunter for $5k, 9-ball, 8 ahead race. Santos ran 9 racks in a row to win.

I've seen warping caused by a case whose tubes were not straight. A shaft can warp overnight in such a case. You can test the case by taking a warped butt or shaft and inserting it into the case at various orientations (one o'clock, three o'clock, five o'clock, etc.). If the warped butt or...