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well, no 50 this year. i leave for Sweden tomorrow (2nd of the 3 legs is an overnight flight on Christmas Eve, ooog). haven't had much chance to play the past week or more, trying to get everything done i gotta do before i go. did manage to hit a 30 closely followed by a 24 in the pre-dawn this...

i'd like to publicly thank the people here who've put up videos, and encourage others to do the same. if you haven't tried making a video of yourself playing, you'll learn a whole lot by doing it. you don't need fancy gear -- i do perfectly usable videos with just my iPhone, or these days...

Sunday, June 16, 9:15p. ran a new high of 42 quite cleanly. (as Steve Kurtz points out, i don't have a Delorean; should be December. guess i'm not liking the cold rain!!!). had the world's easiest, classic break shot, exactly parallel with the ob and about 2 feet away, and missed it. wasn't...

noticed his bridge at the 14.1 Challenge at Super Billiards Expo this year. back in the 60's before i stopped playing for 40 years, somebody was using that bridge, but i don't remember who it was, or whether they were a local or road player. this was in the Golden Cue in Kingston, NY, and Buster...

well, Thorsten & Schmidt can breathe easy for another day, anyway. played for a few hours tonight, and it was more like hitting dog turds than rolling billiard balls. i wasn't missing shots so much, but the white one had a mind of its own. perverse SOB. at least a bad day now is running...

finally finished work around 8p, and played for a couple of hours. wish i had the camera running, pretty sure (but not positive because i was consciously Not counting, dammit) that i ran 3 racks and significant change at one point. definitely had at least three 20-somethings. not too pissed...

thanks, Danny! good ideas, all! much safer routes than the ones i chose...

David Sapolis has put up a nice review of my recent video. it reflects quite a bit of work on his part, including some drill suggestions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQhrqqe-PI&feature=youtu.be

glurghehahtha... while waiting for CDs to burn today, i was shooting some, ran a really nice clean 29+ (didn't have the count before the 1st rack because i was sandwiching this in between stints of working, so should only count it as 29, but it might have been as high as 35), and had an...

wishing we could All get together for some 14.1 somewhere.

so do i get a plushie toy, like at the county fair?;)

hey, i called it! (my 2nd choice).

woooooohoooooooo!!!! got back from work a little while ago, and... ...just utterly Smashed through my old high (30, 2x this year, most recently on Nov 13) with a 41!!!!!!! it wasn't pretty, but parts of it were wicked clever. and it started off in the most unlikely way, with a series of...

can't tell the color, but the ball at the far left in the cluster, into the lower right pocket. my 2nd choice is the 1-ball in the upper right corner.

can't believe the amount of attention and help you've all given me, and BlackJack offering to step in as well. wish i could play scotch doubles with All y'all!

Steve, thanks for the picture, it makes this so much easier! at the moment of the pic, i was definitely still thinking of the 11 as the break. if i could reliably hit the ball soft [!], i think your answer would have been the best one. sometimes i don't see the obvious, simplest path, though...

Dan, i did consider that briefly, but it would've needed a fair bit of inside and top and i'm never certain in that particular geometry exactly where the cueball will end up. i remember thinking there was a possibility i could end up threading between the 2&11 (or bumping the 11) and ending up...

you mean the 1st rack, right, Steve? and you are 100% right. the other Steve/sparkle was also trying real hard the last time we got together to get me to hit shots softer ("no, even softer than that"), and as he pointed out above, i was in general over-running shots and hitting things too hard...

i want to add my continued thanks to sparkle, who has been kind enough to help me with my game, and his comments are bang on. i'm at a very exciting stage, just getting enough accuracy/position to start to be able to play smarter, and he's keeping me at the edge of my seat with suggestions for...

oog, i was wondering when someone would ask that question, Dan;) i was Actually trying to slide over and bump the 9 to stop me and then shoot the 3; as with some of the other shots later, the angles in the video are deceptive, and this one was steeper than it looks, so i was worried about...