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There are many underlying motor-control principles that apply to a wide variety of movements. It is no surprise to me at all that Corey Deuel and Earl Strickland, two of the most talented players ever and absolute naturals, were also excellent golfers.

I need to make my way into the friend group that makes these types of bets and actually pay out. This eclipses the best bet I won off a friend by a mile... As a hairy-chested Spaniard, he had to shave a big heart on his chest and walk around shirtless for a few days at the beach while camping...

A lack of clearance is a common problem that many people subconsciously just stroke around, whether it be their hip or chest. That said, this problem of the elbow coming out can be happening for a variety of reasons, with a variety of solutions to the cause of the common symptom. This makes it...

There was an old hustler's line: "Putting a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog." Well pool jerseys are worse.

Even if your vision is fixed and good, adjusting to a new vantage point for your shots in the lower stance combined with the more accurate info your brain is getting from your eyes can be difficult to adjust to. I went through a much lesser version of this as I only used contacts for pool and...

6'3, 330. I win :p I hadn't played seriously for many years and didn't even have a breaker. If in a rare match I would use one of my other cues but mostly I just broke with something off the rack. Well I finally needed to bite the jump cue bullet despite my disdain for the gimmick stick...

Nice that you are back in a pool playing phase. But given that when you're not in league, you don't play at all and that you have some ball slapping sessions as 'practice' only some of the time even when you are playing, maybe you just don't care enough about pool and nothing anyone writes here...

Wow. Sweet cues. Rack is nice too. The out of light thing may be responsible for my Cocobolo not changing much if at all... it sits in my case when not being used and it is not currently my main player, tho I did play it cpl days ago and am flirting with the idea of bothering to adjust to...

Good news, my Cocobolo is def reddish and has remained that color for the last 8 years. It's a Lucasi. Maybe it changed somewhat and I just haven't really noticed as I was unaware that the coated wood even could change color to a significant degree, but if there was a change, I haven't...

Well done all. I haven't laughed this hard in a thread for quite some time. Just a series of A+ comments.

Nah cuz this happens at fairly high speeds too and the effect of transfered spin is just too small. Tinman mentioned it in his post, and I see it a lot too.... Inexperienced players often 'fail at the conceptual level' as Earl likes to say and try to hit a shot that just isn't there. Namely...

Spot on. So many people learning things are held back by poor conceptual understanding as much as if not more than their lack of experience. Take beginner golfers as an example: the intuitive way to use a golf club by getting under the ball to help it up and how it actually works are...

*hits the ball better than all but <1% of golfers. ;) And honestly, there is no chance in hell 1% hit the ball better than him. He's a phenomenal striker with that impossibly close figure 8 of his.

Busty was a monster on the 3.5" pockets in some gambling rooms in Asia. There was an article that was posted on here around Chin Shun Yang's death. Busty took everyone's money on the super tight tables till Chin Shun Yang relieved him of carrying it around. Tables weren't slower in Busty's...

I had a lesson recently where I showed the student how to build his knowledge of cueball reactions in this manner and he said he didn't have the patience for those types of drills and seeing where each spin hits on the second rail. I merely replied, "well you will have plenty of time in the...

That last line killed me lol. Tho to be fair, I think there's a lot of good that can come from a thread like this, with more experienced players pointing out what would become obvious only after many many balls were hit. Def a time saver, but certainly no substitute for hitting a bunch of...

CJ used a resistance band as a training aid and attache the ends to the bridge hand and the grip hand. In the backstroke, elastic tension builds and then springs back, leaving the player with much less to do to bring the cue forward (if anything at all).

That detail was missing in ur initial description of misjudged spin. I'm def in agreement with you that simplifying things is best. My contention is, that in some cases, like the ones I mentioned in my original post, spin simplifies the shot and makes things easier.

Not quite the rough patch people go through as they first start using spin ;). Misjudging shots happens, even at the highest level, even if you are shooting the highest percentage shot. A couple misses in a match doesn't say anything about the inferiority or superiority of his approach to...

Thats just what he tells state champs like u :p