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Can someone who has hit with it tell me how it compares to the hit from a good full-splice cue? (Rocky, I'm assuming you've shot with it; please feel free to shamelessly promote the P3.) Flex

I sure wish I could play like Buddy... At 32:57 Buddy shoots a long kick shot with top left and does his cue go up at the end or what? At 35:23 Buddy shoots a medium speed shot with follow and drops his elbow about 5 inches. He makes the shot. At 38:02, Buddy shoots a relatively soft shot...

Interesting video. At about 3:19 in it, Davenport shoots with that beautiful, smooth stroke, and drops his elbow about 5 inches, from what I could tell. I find it instructive to watch the way top players do things. In one of Kim's shots, he shoots and twitches his closed bridge hand while the...

Scottjen, There is one thing that you mention in your post that I really understand: when the pressure is on and you feel you need to really go through the ball and let your elbow drop, because you'd rather make the ball that have the "perfect" stroke... it might just be that the "perfect"...

There are elements in your answer that seems to echo a bit of what Mark Wilson had me do to improve my stroke. In particular, he told me I was too loose, and that I needed to tighten up my stroke a bit. He gave me specific things to change and showed me how to change them, and also a process to...

Scott, I'm a pretty humble fellow. The "sometimes not" in my prior post particularly refers to almost impossible draw shots, at least almost impossible for me, on carpeted tables, with moon rocks for balls, over ghastly distances from cue ball to object ball, and where major draw action is...

Maybe that's why I don't have much trouble drawing the rock. My player is about 19.4 ounces with an 11mm milk dud tip...

Yesterday, while playing some 8 ball with friends, playing on a dirty, slow 9 foot Gold Crown, I needed to draw the rock to get shape on the ball before the key ball. Not getting shape on this ball would mean safety time was at hand. The rock was about 3 diamonds from the object ball, which was...

With all due respect Randy, while rising up may be problematic, following straight through the cue ball may help increase consistency on force follows, at least it does for me. I tend to pot those shots more often and get what appears to be added spin when it's needed. Perhaps I'm wrong, but one...

Yes, he does indeed let the tip of the cue rise when shooting a force follow. What's wrong with that? Flex

That's what I'd think. A tournament where the level of play is not likely to lead to someone breaking and running 3 or more racks is one thing. However, at the top levels -- at world class pool -- where some break and run 7 racks or more, that kind of intentional double foul could have an...

Should be loss of game, perhaps loss of match. The TD should be called to make a decision.

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This thread should be renamed to: Moves to get action Flex

Works great for me.

Ah, the infamous elbow drop!! All the top pros do it. Just check out Mike Davis! Most of them do it after the cue tip contacts the cue ball. The big elbow dropping seems to occur mostly on power shots. Should we mere mortals try to eliminate excessive elbow drop? Of course, especially if it...

Making a sub-forum for the aiming threads will subject them to a slow death!! Is that what you really want? I don't think so. Should the main forum be reserved for questions about tip height, and tip hardness, and how to shoot a short straight in shot, and what does getting the 8 ball mean...

What does it mean when someone says their game went up two balls? Does that mean you consistently run two more balls per run in 9 ball? Or that you do the same in 14.1, or one pocket? Or is it just a way of saying your game really improved? Flex

Hmmm... I hope your proctologist doesn't use those! Those would totally screw up a shaft. Flex

A few days ago, I called Stan Shuffett to ask him about his Pro One aiming system, and specifically if it incorporated the use of englisn into it. He told me, to my surprise, that it was especially a system for shooting with center ball. He did say however that once the correct aim line is...