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  1. Rocket354

    New WPA Official Rules of Pool … Learn About All the Changes

    Any idea how these WPA changes will filter down to CSI and therefore BCAPL? I'm most curious about the all-ball fouls rule.
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    Lifting Weights before a Tournament?

    If you lift weights regularly you should not be getting "sore." For me, I feel like I do worse the same day because my muscles are still recovering. I don't feel like I can deliver the cue as precisely on average (although I do on occasion surprise myself). So I try to play on days I haven't...
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    Ultimate Pool USA Boston Shootout

    Agree. I do not like watching 8-ball much, but enjoyed this event. I still have reservations about turning pool into essentially speed-pool, and think the 6ball shootout should just be one more rack of actual pool, but the event did keep my attention for the duration which no 8-ball event before...
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    Ultimate Pool USA Boston Shootout

    I watched a couple of your matches and did not realize I was watching a fellow AZB'er. Congratulations! Great showing!
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    Ultimate Pool USA Boston Shootout

    I would like to know these answers, as well. Edit: ok I see the answers above. Would be nice if the stream included this information at some point or periodically because I watched quite a bit and never heard/saw an answer.
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    Ultimate Pool USA Boston Shootout

    Yeah, if anything that might have been his version of a compliment to her, rating her higher than other partners he's had. "See everyone else? Do what I say and we will win!"
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    Ultimate Pool USA Boston Shootout

    I'll grant tone-deaf and can come across as an a-hole, but from my observation he treats his male and female doubles partners the same way (for better or for worse). He is just laser-focused on winning and playing the correct way and that comes across in directing his partners to a somewhat...
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    How often do you see your local players with a really good, and solid Pre shot routine?

    I can speak from experience here: have you put on any weight? Also, I promise your mechanics can drift over time, even if you don't notice it. (Also, can speak from experience.) I recently rebuilt my stroke for the second time in four years, at the direction of Mark Wilson. I was worse for a...
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    Bring Your Own Pool Balls - BYOPB?

    Bring your own balls if you want to play with your own balls. No gatekeeping on that decision. I bring my own if I'm playing with intent (practice or matching up with someone) at an otherwise grimy pool hall. So not often, but once or twice a year on average.
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    How often do you see your local players with a really good, and solid Pre shot routine?

    Indeed. The idea is that doing things the "textbook" way will make your journey to being a strong player faster and easier, not that it will happen overnight. If you continue how you are and put in dedicated practice, maybe you get to their level after say (just throwing numbers out here) 3000...
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    How often do you see your local players with a really good, and solid Pre shot routine?

    An almost universally accepted school of thought is that a person's grip should be where their arm is perfectly perpendicular when the cue would be impacting the cue ball. For most people 5'10" or above, that will be quite far back on the cue.
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    Do you have special shoes for shooting pool?

    Crocs when I'm playing at home. Comfortable, easy on and off. Skecher's relaxed fit for when I'm out. Same as the above, but a little more presentable for being out in public.
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    Van Boening vs. Gorst 10-Ball Race to 120, Rematch June 2025 -- General Comments Thread

    I'd love to see that matchup. Would almost have to be 9b though I think.
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    Stats -- Shane Van Boening vs. Fedor Gorst 10-Ball Race to 120, June 2025

    Yeah I don't know how much worse Shane's break was than it normally is (I assume at least somewhat, by some objective metric) but what really stood out to me was how dialed in Fedor's break was. Not has hard as SVB, but very solid, while squatting the cue ball perfectly and having seemingly 2-3...
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    RIP Cyclop?????

    I have and still play with Cyclop Hyperion, bought in 2020 (right before the brand ceased). I also have and play with Dynasphere Bronze, bought some time in '21 or '22. Both play great, better than anything at any pool hall I go to. The Hyperions are on my home table and the Bronzes are in a...
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    Need advice on a new table purchase.

    I've played on Diamond, Rasson, and GC and all are quality tables. However, one other aspect to consider is resale value. Life happens and at some point you may want (or be forced) to sell, and my concern with Rasson is the demand and resale in the states is nowhere near as strong as the other...
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    Pool in Europe vs USA: 7-foot vs 9-foot tables

    But that's not necessarily true. In the analogy you gave, having the swim club is a reflection of, not a cause of, having the better swimmers (because the better athletes did not change to another sport). That example demonstrates correlation, not necessarily causation, and doesn't really answer...
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    Pool in Europe vs USA: 7-foot vs 9-foot tables

    Thanks, Mike. I appreciate the response. Your video starts with comparing "9ft vs 7ft tables" and that it is self-evident that "7ft tables are holding back pool" but you don't actually spell out which aspect of that you are testing or evaluating. Spelling out that "[w]e're interested in the...
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    Pool in Europe vs USA: 7-foot vs 9-foot tables

    Late to this party, but that was a wholly unsatisfying video. In similar populations, given how Fargo is constructed, shouldn't we expect to see similar #s of people at each rating bracket? Conceivably, if one population plays wholly on 7ft tables and another wholly on 9 ft tables you could...
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    Predator Challenge of Champions. Fedor vs Filler vs Biado

    And sounded like he was talking through an old can and string setup.
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