Search results

I think a player has the right to see how his shot turned out and unless he turns and gives you a smirk or makes some comment, I don't see how it could be considered rude or disrespectful.

Here's a paper on "Effects of temperature, wind speed and air humidity on ammonia volatilization from surface applied cattle slurry". It's pretty straightforward to extrapolate the results to pool. ;) Seriously, though, I don't doubt that humidity affects collisions; I have played in small...

Definitely wouldn't throw it away on pro tour; there's no revenue, so no return on the investment. Instead, I'd open an Internet cafe with pool tables. I'd make sure I don't have enough computers to meet demand. Kids play pool while they wait. Soon there's a waiting list for pool tables and...

Freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from criticism. JA has -- and used -- the right to speak his mind. Everyone on this thread -- regardless of whether they agree or not -- has the same freedom to say what they think about his statement. Personally, I like what he said. If nothing...

I sometimes practice a 2-rail version of this.

Here's a thing http://www.crowdcrux.com/debt-crowdfunding-sites/ Even though it says "debt" all over the place, I think they're generally loans/crowdfunding sites.

It seems like there are two types of crowd-funding projects: charity and seed funding. The charity type is pretty obvious. People ask for money for various reasons (medical bills, honeymoons, pool streams, etc.) and in return donors get to feel good about themselves. What I have seen with...

Some of that is going on, but at the same time legitimate criticisms of the idea are either ignored or dismissed as "hate."

I'm not a "hater", but this is not a product I want to buy for the following reasons: I don't know the players. I don't care who wins. I don't like "reality show" formats. I don't watch online streams because of quality and availability. Accu-stats DVDs are higher quality than the streams...

You may be right. There are anecdotes about Mosconi that say he could run 500+ balls without much effort. I can't find the source right now, but Charles Ursitti claimed Mosconi once ran 500+ balls in a practice room and shrugged it off as if it were nothing.

I don't know... ninjas? I also don't know how you can compare pool and basketball. The only similarity is that they both use balls.

Of course. The question is why can't anyone beat it? I think there are players today who have the innate ability to do it, so why can't they? In my opinion, the answer lies in why Mosconi was able to do it in the first place. When he ran 526, he was doing pretty much nothing but playing...

Congratulations on the milestone! I just looked at my stats. I joined NAPA in 2011 and have played 113 matches. I also played APA 9-ball for a year or two but haven't been a member for years so I can't look up my numbers. I'd estimate that I've probably played 130 matches since I started...

I think it is true. Everyday pool has more competition for people's leisure hours. For sports, we have the big 3: football, basketball, and baseball. Golf's popularity is falling but is holding on, hockey is still around, soccer's getting more popular and as more and more kids play lacrosse, I...

I answered the premise of the original post (that we replaced bonus ball with 9-ball) and made the assumption that everything else remained the same: that the matches were held in Las Vegas, teams "represented" cities around the US, etc. From that perspective, no I'm not kidding. So ok...

No. "if you build it, they will come" doesn't actually work. They needed to tour and compete in the cities the teams supposedly came from. And they needed to do pool clinics in each of those cities, and they needed to promote the hell out of it, and they needed to play basketball or...

Because if we don't have that, the only way to compare ourselves with each other is penis size, and then these guys are going to feel really bad. :D

If you say so, charlie.

I don't share your low opinion of the others on this forum. I suspect the real reason we don't already have fancy terms for routes is because no one has needed them before. Players who benefit from route discussions know enough that saying "high-inside to come back out to the center" is enough.

Personally, I thought this was a joke at first, then I saw how many diagrams you came up with. So I thought it was a joke that went too far. Apparently you are serious. This appears to me to be an over-engineered solution looking for a problem.