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At 1:10>> i was going to end up with a very steep angle if i went above the ball. and for some reason, i actually Like that long shot up the rail; go figure! didn't think of developing a break ball with it, though -- cool idea! At 3:30>> actually, i Selected the right angle; but i didn't...

not a Portugese guitar -- a bad octave mandolin, belonging to my gf's now-deceased college prof. i do play a wild variety of ethnic instruments, but no Fado. sorry about the lighting, for now it is what it is -- it's her house.

i'm still battling both Youtube and Vimeo, each of which has a vendetta against me putting up video in the format i'd like. Vimeo will let me keep it in portrait mode, but the audio is a quarter second ahead of the video. that said, i've just put up one, and would love to hear comments...

well, this looks kinda silly coming right after Danny's post, but it's good for me: had a 30 today, 11/13/12, following on my 30 from April. kb to break, then ran a pretty clean 2 racks, had a very nice break shot but stuck it to the pack, managed to squeeze one more ball in but couldn't get...

"The only thing I would say is you don't have to stick with the pattern you are planning if you get out of line. On your final shot instead of staying with the 7 ball when you were shooting over the 14 you had an easy shot on the 9 and could have come one rail back to the middle of the table to...

rule #11, totally, Steve! your first one sounds like that run of Danny Harriman's, was it like 199? and the cue ball finds a kiss to make it through a gap it shouldn't have and scratched in the corner. if life is a beech, sometimes 14.1 is a son-of-a-beech.

the thing that's odd, Fenwick, is that Sometimes i am, too. i'm one of the guys shouldering the low end of the totem pole here: high run is 31. but one night, i had two 29's almost back-to-back, just an inning between them. and the first one was... my first rack of the night, no warmup at all...

here are the 10 basic rules of thumb for 14.1 position play: 1. if there is any possibility that the cueball will scratch, it will. 2. if there is simply no possibility whatsover that the cueball can scratch, it will. 3. if for some reason the cueball fails to scratch, it must hang in such a...

wow, lotta diversity of opinion! it's kinda hard to argue with Tony Robles, Sean! and it sounds like a very sensible way to tune your stroke. i guess so far i've been doing loosely what Pushout suggests, and it seems to work better if i start out just stroking easy shots and progress from...

maybe this is due to my ability level, or maybe everyone has it to some degree... it usually takes me a good hour+ to even Start playing well. that first hour is excruciating. then finally i lock in on some fundamental that's gone screwy, usually jumping up, follow through, or fast backstroke...

i want to take time out here to thank sparkle84, Steve Matthieu, for helping me out. Steve had been angling to meet up with me for some time to play some 14.1, and i finally found some time free on a weekend, when i normally work, so we could get together in Ivory Billiards in Holyoke, Mass. it...

i've been trying to improve my pocketing accuracy and simultaneously my sometimes-comical position play (aren't we all), but having trouble focusing on both; often i'll take -- and make -- a difficult series of pots intentionally as a drill, each time picking the hardest open shot on the table...

i'm solidly with the 9-foot camp. i've watched some 14.1 and some rotation on 10 foot tables, and it doesn't interest me. as someone else mentioned, i'd like to see big runs and comparability with other events.

MCP: turn back Now, while there's still time to save yourself. it's too late for the rest of us, but you don't have to be dragged under too. "abandon all hope, ye who enter these gates" -- Dante, The Divine Comedy

damn this addictive game. how many innocent people have starved to death to play "just one more rack"? why don't i take up something benign, like cocaine?

ok, somebody wanna enlighten me? what's a "power band"?

thanks for the direct link, Sean. turns out it doesn't work on Macs with Safari, at least, but i appreciate the effort. i could (and did) skip to that spot manually, but i also took the opportunity to watch the whole video again, which i think is one of Blackjack's best critiques -- maybe partly...

Corey Deuel uses them a Ton in those videos at Bill's house. like, he goes out of his way to create them, ignore and destroy more conventional breaks to get to behind the rack ones, etc. i find them by far the easiest break to control the cue ball, as stated, i almost never fail to get a shot...

several pro's Do use pocket chalkers -- or, more often, they use belt-clip ones. and i've never heard anyone call either Darren Appleton or Danny Harriman "amateurish".

"I was really irritated by the clanking of the new precision metal triangle -- the Delta-13. I think it was in use at a US Open 9-ball, and it sent chills up my spine every time a ball clanked against the metal. Well, the came out with a new model that has added thin layers of cork against the...