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I said 1 million balls was BS. You say 10,000 is enough for most guys to get pretty good. And the next 10,000? And the next? That's not too many balls. Easily made in 6 months. That would make this game pretty easy. I'll admit, at Hard Times, Bellflower, the tournaments were full of...

No... and yes. The shot is the total of what your eye(s) see, everything. "...I see no difference in the shot, both of them look exactly the same..." They don't both look exactly the same. Simple proof: use the technique I describe how to correct for parallax. Compare before and after...

Intelligent. Like knowing when to quit gambling or drinking. Efficient, as well.

Let's have some fun. "Getting to a million balls isn't nearly as hard as the OP thought..." Make a fist. Now raise and extend one index finger. Now, retract it back into your fist. If I offer you $1000 to do this 1 million times, would you do it? No? Then how much? For free because you'd...

Give me a break. You mean to tell me that you believe hitting a million balls "with focus" means that this is enough to remedy, expunge all your flaws? If this is true, then most everyone who is not a champion or at least a pro who has hit a million balls must have an extremely vanishingly...

If you are not consistently delivering the cue stick precisely on every shot, in other words, if you still have flaws, statistically, you may still make shots. So, if you are not fooling yourself, even though you may have made the shot, technically, you missed the shot. But I guess it all...

You look for a debate? You make a false premise then argue in support of everything I've said. There is a reality. But you can choose whatever you wish to believe.

My original post was intended to show that repeating the same mistakes over a million times won't improve your game. The assumption is that shooting a million balls will insure you will break old habits. Obviously this is not necessarily true. It is all about close observation of what you are...

Take it or leave it. Whatever you are doing, just make sure you do it every time. Exactly the same. You can tell because the cue ball will react the same way. Once you have perfected exactly how to miss shots, you at least know you can be consistent. Now, look for each and every flaw, one...

Here's another I heard back in the day: Cole beat a guy out of some money but wouldn't pay up. Cole told his father. So his father took Cole back to the poolroom. Cole's father told the guy he better pay up or they'd have to go out back and hash things out...

Not much of a story. Just some filler I heard. Bucktooth used to own a poolhall in Castro Valley. He hired Cole to work there. He didn't last long. Cole was playing pool all the time and not taking care of the counter. I'd think Cole was probably 14 or 15, because when Cole was 16, no one...

Here's one for ya... Cole Dickson vs. Richie Florence https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/cole-dickson-vs-richie-florence.273731/

Give me a couple of weeks/months and I will prove to you that any average person with average eyes and intelligence with no physical handicaps can be a great player. That is, if they have the "knowledge." See, if you don't know where you're going and/or know how to get there, most likely even...

Hey there. Where you from? I'm from Fremont. A high school buddy of mine used to play golf with Cole. He told me about Cole wrapping his clubs around a tree because golf was hurting his stroke. My friends name was John Treglown (or something like this.) John had an older brother that was a...

Did you read the one I posted in this forum a few years back about when Cole played Ritchie Florence? Search for it. Let me know.

As you say, it is not a grind for you. I am referring to someone who is making an effort to get better as he practices for at least 2 hours every day, yet is not making progress, for whatever reason. Imagine hitting a million balls and still not reaching the goal after many many years...

"At best"? Sounds like I'd quit you after about 5 minutes. pj chgo Even most of the pros are not racing around the regulation 9-ball table. And I'm not talking about the pros. I'm talking, conservatively, about someone with none or limited knowledge and experience pretty much starting from...

I see. I don't know what the action is like at bars these days. If you frequent a single bar or only a few, your level of play is well known. Are you in it for the money? Many years ago, there was action on bar tables. $5 ring games in 1975. You could make a living, maybe, with your stated...

You're a funny guy. What was your win/loss? How many balls did you make, how many balls did you miss? How many shots do you / did you, know / not know what the hell you were doing? I suppose the idea is if you don't know what you're doing or have limited knowledge, by just practicing you will...

At best, it takes 30 seconds to make one shot. So a million balls takes 30 sec. times 1 million balls equals 500,000 minutes. 500,000 minutes divided by 60 minutes per hour equals 8333 hours. Let's say you practice for 2 hours per day, every single day. 8333 hours divided by 2 hours per day...