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I was mistaken. It's actually 836. He's trying again today.

He ran 832 balls last night. He made one incredible bank shot to keep it going in I think it was the start of rack 37 (or 36).

I finally had a breakthough. Normally I only have time to play once a week. This week I had time to play Monday, Friday and then again yesterday. Yesterday, I could tell almost immediately I had way better feel with the cueball and I wasn't as afraid of tougher shots. I wound up running a 48...

I switched over to 9-ball in practice recently because I think it does more to get my pocketing, cueball control and stroke sharp. Once I feel a bit more confident in all that I'm going to switch back to 14.1 and see if I can break out and at least run a 40. Not running a 40 in so long has been...

If I ever start playing regularly again, I'll spend some time learning a few systems (especially for multi rail kicks). But it always bothered me that you have to make adjustments from table to table, for speed/spin, and even day to day on the same table due to weather. I always felt like I...

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The one thing the OP is correct about is that the more misses there are, the more opportunities the weaker player will have to get to the table. Of course he’ll be missing more also, but it does open the possibility of the weaker player getting a couple of easy layouts and winning games that the...

I don't see Fran nearly as much as I'd like. We mostly see each other at parties and funerals (ugh). I'm sure she could help a lot if we had some practice time together. Life keeps interfering with my love of pool. :rolleyes:

For me, what tends to happen without the movement of my shoulder is that my elbow moves out like a chicken wing or my wrist twists a little at the very end of the stroke but sometimes a hair BEFORE I actually strike the cueball. So it all breaks down and I lose accuracy. It's like on some...

if I need to do a lot with the cueball, I tend to lengthen my bridge and vice versa. To get the necessary follow through to remain accurate with a longer bridge, it seems my stroke has to be longer also. I guess that could come from where on the cue I place my back hand as someone mentioned, but...

I've been working on my mechanics and stroke recently and came to sudden realization that may be obvious to others, but wasn't to me. I first starting playing pool in the late 70s in NY when most people were playing 14.1. Back in those days I used a very short bridge and short stroke because...

Time is passing but I'm still not playing much better. I feel like I'm working out some of the kinks in my bridge length, stance and stroke that are translating into better shot making, but somehow I still can't put it all together and run balls like I used to. I guess playing just once a week...

I know there are often marketing issues and even politics involved in things like this, but I think these things should primarily be determined by some objective measurement of MERIT. If her FARGO rating is high enough to belong and there are no players that are clearly better trying to get the...

It seems to me the more you play the faster your development will occur and the higher the ulitmate peak will probably be, but there's a place for setting aside some of that time to work on specific shots, speciifc position shots and your form/technqiue where you know you have weaknesses within...

When I first started playing (late 70s) almost everyone used a closed bridge. I remeber having debates about open vs closed, but closed was way more common. It wasn't until I started seeing smooker players some to the US that I started seeing more open bridges. I guess the snooker players were...

When we are talking about great strokes are we talking about accuracy, power, smoothness or some combination? In theory I would think the less movement there is between the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder, the greater the accuracy will be. But less movement can inhibit how much action and...

I think this is mostly correct when it comes to aiming center ball shots (with some exceptions), but I think players miss a LOT of shots because their aiming adjustments for squirt, swerve, speed of shot, distance of shot, cloth type, ball conditions etc.. are not correct when they apply varying...

I understand the basic physics and interactions well, but since the playing conditions are not consistent that means the behavior of the cue ball and object balls vary with the conditions also. That means making adjustments for the amount of English, speed of the shot, cloth, cleanliness of the...

I agree. I just started playing again after a very long layoff (30 years). I'm not sure why, but I've been using more outside English to both help me pocket (throw balls towards the pocket) and play position. I find myself struggling a lot with the fact that one table I play on has an...

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