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I am a big proponent of Grip, Stance, Posture, Alignment and a natural stroke that takes no thought (other than set up) IMO....the relationship between the grip hand (grip) and the back foot (stance) is an important part of natural straightness of stroke...but also timing of hit. Here is a...

Practice for perfection.......You may not need it at all times...but you should still strive for it....Why? If you want to win at all games sometimes the difference is that "dime".....Example....If you are playing 1-pocket....The difference between freezing the guy to the rail and not can be a...

I have always noticed shane has a bit of hitch....or as I like to refer to it a pump fake in his stroke right at the end of the back swing when he starts his forward motion.........It reminds me a lot of a forward press that quite a few people develop when putting in Golf....it is like a trigger...

I would go not necessarily who is the "BEST" pool player...but which player had the most influence on the game....which were the "game changers" or Icon's of pool....When you think of pool the names that you associate as the image of pool.......That being said. Willie, Earl, Efren, Allison

I don't think anyone is completely faulting the jump.....you are setting yourself up for a controlled distance on the jump........The problem with the jump is....I would expect most decent players are going to pass it back.....for this reason.....You now have to jump...you have very limited...

With online streaming and content creators getting into the mix more and more at events......What are some "ideas" that could be implemented by online streamers.....or professional coverage in general.....what would make you want to watch? Here is one......Since there are now multiple cameras...

Thanks Fran....great point! I just played around and revised the method a bit....Instead of (the feeling) of hitting the contact point with the front of my hand....I took the hand out of it and moved it up a bit to where I am using the feeling of hitting the contact point with the thumb side...

What I want to know is......After 9 years....Did the OP wade through all the shit and make it to Pro Speed???

Reminded me of a guy I used to play (gamble) with on the regular........I was already in the fairway......He hooked his drive off the tee into a fairway bunker (guaranteed loss of hole).........He cocked back and was ready to launch his driver into the Arizona desert with plenty of rocks and...

I tend to look inward when stuff like as in the OP.....and shape/position is probably the biggest killer of my game....I shoot myself into hard shots that although I may make...at some point I end up missing and selling out.....or in some cases it is just a bad safe. Thing is I can lag the...

Chances are.....there will be other players that can't run racks...and/or are not consistent at running racks...and I would bet pretty much every player in the field will have "some" weakness. Perhaps go in to the lesson and let the instructor know exactly what you said here.....I have a...

Interesting....Perhaps this is the reason it works so well (at least for me).....There is always "some" method of contact point being aimed at on the OB.......That is always the "target"........(Once aligned and at the pause ready for final stroke).....I feel like forgetting about the tip and/or...

In my return to pool...I am putting in more "developmental" time for my game....working on a lot of things that (in the past) I just glossed over and never gave the due diligence it deserved and most likely kept me from being the player I probably could have been......It is that old...

Old school (1-pocket) player gave me a powerful tip one time on how to improve CB control.....He said to just throw two object balls on the table and basically play 1-2 rail billiards with a twist....instead of just trying to shoot a ball and go 1-2 rails hitting the other ball.....try to go 1-2...

I agree.....That should never happen in a US Open event....poor guy just did not have a clue........Unfortunately....you have to look no further than people driving on the streets.....I drove a box truck for 15 years.....By my calculations.....80% if the people driving on the road are pretty...

I knew I would know you.....Nice shooting...I saw Nikon Kid's FB post....That 700 brand is right around the corner for you.....No more easy tournaments for you.....

Thus the comment..."smooth hard"......I want to get the ball rolling...but I don't want it to bite on the rail and stick there.....IMO blasting it would cause that to happen as you mention...........but if you smooth it you can get the ball to release and hopefully enough to get out past the 7...

I get the jist of what you are saying....However...... Bethpage Black is actually a municipal golf course......And the US Open is actually kind of the exception in that they tend to hold the event on more "'public access" golf courses..... Granted....just like a Super Bowl game stadium......Any...

I will cut them a break....The free Youtube streams are low budget pool enthusiasts content creators (relying on Patreon Sponsoship) to bring free coverage to fellow pool players......IIRC....some of the commentators are not even on-site....they are actually sitting at home connected in with...

In that case if you pocket a ball (calling safe) the incoming player has option........So I am not going to "blast" it...but I am going to call the one and hit it "smooth hard" to get the CB out enough to see the 2 and play a safe from there....