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I heard their best player is like really good. His dad and brothers taught him how to play the ram shot.

Could the difference in the cushions between pool and snooker account for this? Specifically what I’m thinking of is potting a thinnish ball near the rail. My table originally had slow shaggy cloth and I could hold the ball off the rail on some fairly thin cuts. But when I switched to fast...

I’m not sure it works quite like that. Different cloth speeds usually necessitate different approaches to position play. For example, on slow cloth you can kill the cue ball even with some pretty thin angles, whereas you may need to go up and down table or side to side on faster cloth. You may...

Some of the regional series are co-promoted I think. And then there are indeed smaller tournaments that have hitched their wagon to matchroom. Arguably this announcement is mostly a branding thing, but that’s not nothing because they did have to formalize their calendar into a tour. But yes, a...

I’m not surprised to be honest. Unlike other occasions, Matchroom is an actual threat and the WPA feels the need to reassert itself. But I find it amusing that by all but abandoning 9 ball, the WPA is essentially giving matchroom what they wanted in the first place in a round about way. If all...

I would still pay to see it. I think this meant more to way more to John than Jayson, so it would have been cool to see him pass the 526 (and 600) mark. Plus, I think Johns game is easier for me to emulate than Jaysons lol.

Dammit, I thought he was releasing his 626.

Based on my coaching from other coaches, I would say sort of. I think the lines won’t line up partly because you are transitioning from the high planar to low planar to position, but I’m not certain for that. But coaching from Nic Barrow has instilled in me that you want to keep your head on the...

I’ve been working with this product for a few months so there some things I feel are worth clarifying. Vision centre is core to sightright but it’s not the entire method. Most snooker coaches teach some variation on vision centre, and stepping inward to the shot isn’t unique to sightright...

Arguably it’s partly what makes growing pool difficult because so much of the games income goes back to the players. If pickle ball is paying little to no prize money, then it has more money left over for promoting and advertising. A friend of mine is active in our national curling...

I did get unusually distracted while at the table after 2016…though since he’s out of power I can blame Trudeau. Damn him and his dreamy hair.

It might have something to do with sort of a choice overload since you can go through a rack in multiple ways while still doing it “properly”. In every other game there are fewer “obvious” choices since you have more limited orthodox options. I find that from week to week my 14.1 game can vary...

I like this because you can choose to focus on specific break balls. I’ve spent time on this deliberately chose to practice getting position on non-traditional break shots.

I think we will have a better picture of pro preferences in about 10 years because most of the current players grew up with wood shafts. I feel like in the early 2000s there was still a long list of players using standard deflection shafts and now most players are using some form of LD whether...

Rotation Chinese 8 ball, take what you make?

I would reserve excitement about the prize money until we see the full payouts. They have a history of very lopsided pay structures. I really don’t see it taking off in areas where American pool is popular. It’s an easier game to get into while still offering a deep challenge for high level...

Yes! Must be the problem, if they were 4.25” I’d be off to the races. That and a new cue.

My cue might be the exception. I can’t seem to make a ball with it and it couldn’t possibly be my fault. Or maybe it’s the table….

Those who are saying “who cares” may sound flippant, but I think it’s a fair question and important to answer in the discussion. Why does the distinction matter? And why should this discussion take place? I have noticed that everyone has their own personal definition of a sport and it is...