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My daughter has weekly counseling with an OCD specialists who gives her strategies for dealing with it (she's been doing that for over a year) and has a medication that works well for Anxiety and OCD. Tremendous improvement since finding this good combination of medication and therapy. She...

100%. It's all taper/construction IMO. My SW is stiffer than my Schon.

A lot of predators with unilocs have lasted for years and years and won a lot of championships.

That's more cue/shaft taper than joint. Don't you think?

There is no best. Edited to add: The cue taper, balance and TIP are far more important.

I don't remember my feed going down when I watched it live from Deon's phone/stream. I just saw Jayson running those racks like an ALIEN.

Take it and RUN, Lou! :D

Wow - I wish I had seen that! Am I wrong in thinking that FUSCO was a few balls under the rest, at least? In 90...Varner was on the craziest 9 ball streak of winning. He won like 14 majors in one year and won the US OPEN in 89 and 90... so I like him for 9 ball. Sigel, almost right there with...

YES! I've practiced this, and learned this exercise from a champion. Great advice

Great question! When I was a teenager there was an older gentleman who always commandeered the front gold crown, and played straight pool. And he was a good B player. And would run 30s or more quite often. He LOVED straight pool. I remember he played with an old Captain Hook MEUCCI.....and from...

Are you able to pick up a cue and think, oh this feels good. Don't worry about the weight...or the diameter of the tip, etc...just it "feels" good when you stroke it and hit a few balls? Well...find that cue and just use it for a year straight without checking out all of those details. My...

It's your prerogative. The Asian Champions (KO, etc) LOVE and SWEAR BY the Southwest Cues - high deflection, etc. Look at Kevin Chang as well when he played (and won the US OPEN) with his beautiful SW. I've had my Southwest a few years now, and I have the traditional taper on one shaft, and a...

I bought a REVO and it was nice. I then tried the CUETEC and it was nice as well....but I still prefer the 314. I've used some variation of that shaft since they came out...and it feels like home when I hit a ball with it. I've known a LOT of good players who love that Z. Dennis Orcollo, Joshua...

I'll share one more story. I knew an old time who lived in KY and hung out at Varner's dad's pool hall in those days (late 70s/early 80s). He said that he specifically remembered when Allen was number one, and Nick's father - Mr. Varner said, "Well, he knows he has an open invitation to come...

I have a great Hopkins story. When he was starting to become number 1, and had a world championship or so under his belt - maybe late 70s, he came through Richmond and played a local legend Bobby Beaston (RIP). Now, Bobby was a grump old man when I knew him...retired truck driver...cared...

Never cared about weight. If I pick it up and it feels good, the balance feels right...that is all that matters. Then play with the same cue and your brain adjusts until it becomes an extension. Most people I know or knew who were always switching cues or gear junkies were never good...

Jayson is Mr. 714. I watched the stream live and the run was beautiful. I personally don't care what any "committee" states. If anyone wants to establish a new record, they know in their heart that 714 is the number to beat.

At TIMES Hopkins could be successful? There was a period where he was #1 at everything...and #1 gambler. He was a legit monster for decades and multiple hall of famer. Just saying. His name lies right up there with the best of the best.

SAME! I never use insurance. Good luck collecting it if you needed to, anyhow.

Hey Lou, Like you, I suspect, the Air Force allowed me to play all over the country and make lots of friends as well. The scariest Airport experience I had was not necessarily pool related, but it was coming home from insert third world country, with a young Captain, going from said country, to...