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I agree with everything you said, and would like to add that there is too much importance on the break. Pushouts are always interesting, so why not have a MANDATORY pushout after the break ? That would guarantee an interesting saftety battle or difficult shot in every rack, while eliminating...

I have never understood why the top female players don't do better against the top men, witness the IPT results. I love watching Allison and Karen at the top of their games, and I think ESPN has been missing a great opportunity to match either of them against some of the top men in Billie Jean...

I think that a reduced or free entry would bring more women into an event, though it is still technically sexist. I can actually understand the desire to get more female participation, but I doubt that paying top woman achieves the goal. And I think it would much more fair if a woman's ability...

Could this practice be any more sexist ? If the TD wants more female players, why not give them reduced entry fees (or perhaps free entry) instead of paying high woman, and then make them really earn their prize money ? That is still sexist, but not as bad. And does a woman have the right to...

Do you have a new case ? Often I have seen a shaft warp because the case has a tube that isn't straight. You can test for this by taking your warped shaft and insert it into your case using every possible orientation. That is, rotate it a bit each time you reinsert. Try it at 1 o'clock, 2...

Not to be argumentative or abrasive, but I don't like the stop shot on the key ball because it requires perfect shape. If you're not quite straight in on the key ball and you really needed to shoot a stop shot, you can be in big trouble (especially if it's a shot into the side pocket ...that...

Take a lesson as soon as possible, just to make sure that you're not practicing bad habits right now. Even worse, you might be programming your brain inappropriately on every shot right now, if you don't know a few important principles. For example, if you don't know what collision-induced...

The difference in the feeling of the 2 cues is probably a difference in inertial mass. Two cues of identical weight and balance point can have substantially different inertial mass, something that you will notice when you rotate the cue. It takes a lot of advanced math to be able to plan and...

JAL, thanks for the url.

Would you please say this again in a different way ? I just cannot understand what you said. I think you guys are on the right track. The problem seems to manifest on soft shots. A person could shoot harder, but maintain the same amount of rotational energy in the cueball. This would...

Here's the situation .... shooting a soft, straight-on follow shot with the expectation that the cueball will travel about 18" forward, but something strange happens at impact. It seems that one or both balls hop a little bit and the cueball only goes about 6" before stopping. There's nothing...

Tournament directors can help eliminate sharking by announcing at the start of the tournament that: 1) sharking will not be tolerated; 2) the first sharking incident results in loss of one game; 3) the next sharking incident results in loss of the match. And the tournament director needs to...

If the tour qualifier tournament never happens, should all of the people who paid $2k be reimbursed ? I'm talking about those who did not finish in the top two of a qualifier. It could be argued that they didn't make it anyway and they have no claim, or it could be argued that they were...

"Linda, Come on, come clean. That was a phony email reply, right? KT is too intelligent to spell words incorrectly and not capitalize the names of folks he respects. The sentence construction does not sound like him at all. -Jerry" Unless this post was meant to be completely facetious, it...

I am disappointed that anybody would attack Linda's credibility or intentions, as happened in this thread. But it reminds me of why we needed the IPT in the first place ..... pool, unlike golf, has a horrific reputation that keeps it from getting big sponsor money. Sponsors throw big money at...

One of the highest goals in human endeavors is to create an effect. We play pool to impress others, and the ultimate win for us is to "play like God". Tiger Woods is popular because he has demonstrated that kind of human potential. The same is true for Pele, Michael Jordan, and (for many of...

I think this is a wonderful idea. It immediately fixes the issue of lucky/unlucky breaks. Right now the break shot is the most important shot in the game, and it is by far the luckiest shot in the game, and that is not how it is meant to be. Calling every shot would make the start of the game...

The ref is the one who made the mistake in the Harriman controversy. The ref is not supposed to explain a rule to a player or answer a question BEFORE the shot. The player shoots the shot, and THEN the ref makes a ruling. It is up to the player to know the rules. The ref is not supposed to...