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It is counterintuitive, almost the opposite way of perceiving the shot. Imagine if you were the greatest pistol marksman in the world, wouldn't you position your feet the same every time Before you start fine-tuning your Aim?!? After a week or two you'll be in the body position and aiming at the...

Yes, it's different when you have a set reference for the body position every time, it's just two, then let your mind calculate the angle from there.....Center to Center or Center to Edge......on long, super thin cut shots I align Center/Center then try to hit the very edge, it keeps me from...

That's right, I forgot about 'Rags to Rifleman' and Jay's is a classic! Haven't seen the ones on Danny and Grady. St Louie Louie has a great book written on him by a. man in St Louis, his name escaped me.

Even "walking into the shot" indicates a player is looking at the Shot Line first, before setting their body position. And "aligning the upper body" first also indicates they are looking at the Line of the Shot before setting their body position into the ideal body position to play pocket...

There's one approach that works for everyone, it makes the student do something opposite of what they've always done. Most players look at the Line of the Shot FIRST, and what I teach is how to put your body in the ideal position to play pool FIRST! This may not seem like a substantial...

Yes, I learned long ago that facebook, forums and groups aren't real people, they are a version of themselves they may not show in person. I'm pretty much the same, posting videos about my pool adventures verify that. I have some videos coming up that will blow some minds, but the Truth is...

The footwork is the real key to alignment, once a player understands how the left foot controls the body positioning of their left side and the right foot controls the body positioning on their right side they are entering a higher level of understanding. It's amazing to me that this part of...

Yes and many celebrities used to come watch the tournaments. One time I was going around the corner towards the card room and a "kid" ran around the corner cue case in hand.....I thought people should keep their kids under control and right then someone said it was Gary Coleman from 'Different...

There are many different levels of fundamentals, I've experimented with several throughout my career. However, when I found out what all the champion players were doing I took 2 weeks and changed how my body connected so I could go down on each shot the same way and with the ideal perception...

This Adventure takes me from the Bicycle Club Casino to Dallas and then Hawaii. This showcases the Bicycle Club Casino where I played Efren in the finals of two tournaments in a row, me winning the first and Efren winning the other. LA was where the best tournaments were held, Jay Helfert did...

I just told one of my favorite stories (and you'll appreciate it too) on You Tube and will post it here later tonight. We had so much fun at those Bicycle Club tournaments, with Robert Turner and did you run the one when they had the California State Championships AND the Bicycle Pro Event...

You're a lucky man, I probably should have went to the Philippines in the 90s I would be ask this morning what I wanted for breakfast in Tagalog. When I look back we were fortunate, my partners set goals to win $1000 a day, I remember Jr Weldon and I went on a trip for a month and averaged...

I usually traveled on the road with expert gamblers sometimes two which was even better. Some of the best trips I made was with beautiful women and in this case Zia was my partner, she looked like Cameron Diaz' younger, prettier sister. We traveled many states and won a ton*, but Zia had a...

I am looking forward to turning Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming in the near future, there's several friends I'd like to visit. Unless I'm in the mood for skiing I'll probably plan for springtime. Mountain biking in Montana sounds like an amazing experience and I'll make a point to bring mine. Maybe...

The players with the longer bridges also are standing further from the cueball because they are using longer cues. Remember there's ideally 3 things that must be in sync, where you hold the cue, the distance to the cueball from your right ankle bone and the bridge length. Shane for instance...

Thanks, I have stayed pretty safe traveling considering the state of the nation right now. People are getting stranger and stranger that's for sure, I'm not sure what they are injecting but it's making them "eccentric" to say the least. I was doing some extreme mountain biking earlier today...

Yes, I use a resistance cord (like a large rubber band) and a routine that I pull the band back and let it snap directly back to where my hand is when cueing the cueball. I stumbled on this back when I was 21 and had a friend from Canada that was a top notch hustler. For 3 weeks I went into...

When I was hustling pool on the road we always had to ready to do what was necessary to stay safe and win the cash. In this story I was at the Homestead Bar when the police raided the place, they had all kinds of "activities" going on, from a blackjack game in the back to high stakes pool...

There is a transition time with every player, it's just a matter of how abbreviated it is. We call this "The Gathering of the Shot"....and players like Buddy Hall do it beautifully - this is one of the reasons he was known to have the best cue ball control in history. It requires energy to take...

This is my latest "Adventures on the Road" for those of you that remember the days of the Road Player. Join me as I share my adventures with "Lil Richard", Dalton Leong and what it was like the first time I got stuck up at gunpoint on Lake Street in Minneapolis....and without a gun in Gentleman...