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And this is the kind of elitist mentality that turns off Americans from "embracing [insert foreign thing here]." If Barry wasn't so far up his own ass, he'd see that Americans tune in by the millions to watch Golf every weekend, with Major tournaments drawing 10 million plus. What game is more...

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Basketball is the 2nd most popular sport on the planet. Baseball is the 5th. http://biggestglobalsports.com/

You'd make a 147 before you'd run a 10 in 3 cushion. Snewka is an accuracy competition, archery on a 12 foot table, while 3 cushion is the most imaginative and creative cue sport on the planet. Pool isn't far behind with its innovation of jump shots, bank shots, combinations (illegal in...

No anglo country aside from your island really embraces soccer, since they've created superior national games for themselves (Aus: AFL, Canada: Ice Hockey, United States: Football and Basketball).

At the risk of coming off like a close-minded asshole, hopefully never (if "embracing it" means phasing out pool/relegating it to 2nd place among cue sports in the two countries). I think pool is the better game (not necessarily 9 ball, but just pool in general). If any cue sport is to be...

Yeah, I got the Ivicas confused.

Ivica is an AZmember. Congrats to one of our own:thumbup:

Jean shelled a prime McCready 11-3 some years ago. It happens.

Strange perspective. I mean, no cue sport player on the planet has mastery over anything, since if they did, they'd never miss, but center ball is much easier to play with than English. So much more consistent and accurate. For the rotation games, spin does get you the dough, too, since...

I'm once again getting back into the game and haven't yet had the opportunity to play on the latest and greatest Simonis cloth and rubber, but back when I played more (in the 90s, early 00s), balls would just die if not hit with running English. And I played on nice Gold Crowns with Simonis down...

Center ball is easy. It's why it's recommended that beginning players build their game around using the vertical axis first and then gradually work in the use of English, with all its swerve, deflection, speed control and throw issues that decrease consistency, accuracy, and can hamper a...

Also worth mentioning is that a player's use of spin can be heavily determined by where they live and what the climate is like there. I see why Jaden advocates the use of spin. He's from my neck of the woods (Inland Empire) and the stuffy, hot humid conditions of this place pretty much demand...

Welcome to the forums, Ron! Definitely one of the strongest players ever to come out of So Cal. Maybe Jay Helfert has some stories?

"You've" never dominated pool. Appleton is the only Brit to make any real noise in American pool. And he hit his stride right after he spent time in, you guessed it, the Philippines. Chinese 8 ball is a gimmick game. I don't pay much attention to it. The break and run percentages are about the...

The forum pretty much agrees that the Philippines and Taiwanese are the best pool players in the world. And for the best cueists in Europe, I'd give it to the Belgians. The rate at which they produce world class players in the world's most difficult and imaginative cue sport (3 cushion) is...

Lol........

I'm with you on bringing the power stroke back into the game. And I think your multi-rail idea can be seamlessly integrated into the rotation games (i.e., position on the money ball needs to be 3 or more rails). If we're going multi-rail, I think it'd best flourish on a 10 footer where you have...

Thanks. Virtual Pool is also a good tool for practicing pattern play. As for shifting from the game to the real game, I found it to pretty seamless, actually, but of course nothing beats real table time. I just found it interesting, considering the big deal everyone makes about aiming and this...

I've found the latest version of Virtual Pool 4 to be very, very faithful to the real life game. Sure, it can't model for climate, clean or dirty balls, cushion compression and such, but generally, the aim points there are consistent with the aim points in real life for vertical axis hits...