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Yes and failing to switch to the top view when the player is blocking the view of the table for a critical roll.

Phelan's 1850 book has sights on the rails at the correct places: I don't get the feeling from his text that this was his creation. Phelan's 1856 patent (covering rail cushions, not the diamonds) illustrates standard diamonds: https://patents.google.com/patent/US14290A/en The patent...

The 235 game or whatever it’s actually called? https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/taiwan-235-carom-pool-rules-4-balls-carom-played-on-9ft-pool-table.422209/

Bob, you're correct on all points of course. The (possible) advantage to "The Balls" is that they don't require any setup like a training ball and provide more tangible feedback (beyond just watching how the stripe or dots rotate). The Styers have some videos of their drills using this...

This event has grown on me since my original post. The coverage is exceptionally good. Hopefully more of the FR 800+ players participate in the future.

It won’t answer your particular question, but Burt Spain’s book has good background on those early days and his efforts to make blanks himself.

I’m confused. There was a shootout tournament and now an open tournament? Appleton won the shootout and play for the open is ongoing? Great to see Darren back on his feet regardless.

I watched some of it but bar box 8ball is a tough watch especially with A- players. But the production was good and I hope it continues.

This event started today with streams on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/-ItkRq-pTFU?si=iaasrSwbTHU0x67J I suppose any tournament with decent payouts is a good thing. It is mildly amusing to see the players race around to beat the clock. Tyler ran out a rack in probably 20 seconds...

Jake Dyer (Hustler Days) recently posted a short article I wrote about Calvin Demarest, an early balkline champion who lost his mind and tried to kill his wife. Jake’s site had other good content on pool history as well. https://poolhistory.com/calvin-demarest/

If wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a dilapidated table with good slate instead of ordering new slate?

I tried but the public domain image sets for pool balls are weak with just a few hundred images. I think to do it well someone would have to label tens of thousands of images with balls of different styles, in different lighting conditions, and with different cloth colors.

It would be neat if you could use image segmentation to automatically create a chart using a camera image.

Only witchcraft!

It would be interesting to see if the cue ball has already left the tip before the shifting weight moves to its forward most position. I suspect that it does not depending on stroke length and acceleration due to the minuscule time the tip remains in contact with the cue ball:

Are you asking about the kit that Tyler Styer sells? They are super light and a small fraction of what an actual ball weighs. Like a ping pong ball the size of a pool ball.

It’s not surprising that none of the main actors and actresses ever appeared in another movie.

It’s a lot better than most of the pool movies of the last 2 decades.

I didn’t see the story behind who found it? Do you have a link?

Amazing the stuff that turns up after all these years.