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Agreed. I appreciate the game, but it just isn't very interesting (sorry Ron) and very mechanical. It's a game that prioritizes accuracy above all else and gameplay is very "by the numbers." There's some imaginative safety escapes at times, but shotmaking in snooker is dull. The precision is...

Indeed! Not sure if you caught my post in another thread, but I'm currently rebuilding my game from the ground up after a long layoff, and am convinced (for my game, anyway) that a great majority of issues in shotmaking are caused by poor alignment and sighting issues not stroke and "aiming"...

He's in stroke right now and might be entering his pool playing prime (28 years old, perfect age where the marriage of your physical skills, knowledge, and experience seem to come together). I think he would've beaten Shaw if that race were longer. He was hitting a gear. Only issues are...

This is the number one reason, I think, why it's hard to improve at something later in life, and not because older people "can't" learn but because they are unable to since they can't commit the necessary time like a 15 year old who lives in a pool hall or gets 3 hours of instruction every day...

Another inspiring case in Jen Barretta. Never held a cue before 30, fell in love with the game after a visit to the pool hall, and became a very, very good player through pure sweat. Her FargoRate is quite good, 12th best in the US. Yeah, she's quite below the women's best, but it's still an...

Indeed. What's great about pool, is that knowledge and nerve is more important than pure talent and even mechanics (although your mechanics do need to be good, but I'll take the older player with knowledge and experience over the young gun growing up with an instructor holding his hand). With...

Untrue (although you're probably being hyperbolic for the sake of banter), but the U.S. still dominated the Euros in the early and mid-00s, one time beating them 12-1. Those teams often had: Mika, Ralf, Thomas Engert, Marcus Chamat, Thorsten, Niels, Ortmann, Van De Berg, and Steve Knight. The...

I would suspect that the English broadcast gets significantly higher ratings than the Spanish broadcast, despite the former having more commercials. I though that was your point related to my OP, you highlighting the fact that since pool is watched more in the Asian speaking world, it won't...

Yep. I'm once again getting back into the game after another long layoff. Had no problem getting my stroke back rather quickly. On that note, I also think pool players make too big a deal about "aiming," as well. I've been playing a lot of Virtual Pool lately, a game where you always have...

As a first language, you're right. But I meant that most non-native English language speakers can also speak English at a high level, so the amount of people who can speak and understand English is higher than the amount of people who can speak and understand Mandarin (at least I think). China...

Yes, of course, the English speaking format, the most widely spoken language in the World. But English speaking commentators can be hired.

If we count full rack rotation as a "rotation game," then it's not even close. Philippines reign. 9 ball/10 ball, I see like this: - Pristine tournament conditions, magic rack, race no longer than 13, Taiwanese are the favorite. - Regular pool room conditions (older cloth, wooden racks...

While smashing an idiotic argument from a notable blowhard in another thread, I found some interesting stats about pool television drawing power, specifically in Asia: - 20 million Filipinos tuned into both the '06 and '07 World Championship Final. Worth mentioning is that the tournament was...

That no one watches pool and that pool isn't a draw on the level of snooker. Cold hard facts disprove everything you've blathered about. You can do it, big guy. It'll only hurt as briefly as passing English food through your bowels.

Yep. The ratings and player participation numbers bear that out. 100 million in China alone for the 2014 World Champion Women's Finals compared to 30 million for Ding's highest rated match there in the past 5 years. And in the Philippines, where you can say they see pool like the UK does...

Incidentally, those were also the ratings Ding drew in the 2011 World Championship Semi-Final: Like I said...Cute. And Eften is a superstar in the Philippines. Pan is a superstar in China. Yada, yada, yada. Lol. Calling the World Championship "one off dog and pony shows." Can you ever just...

Ahh, finally found some ratings from the Philippines: https://poolepicenter.wordpress.com/a-bit-of-history/manila-pool-mania/ Makes sense, those were the years the World Championship was hosted in the Philippines with Alcano winning in '06 and Roberto Gomez facing off against Peach in the '07...

Beat everyone for real money while the "World Champs" were struggling to pay the rent.

"Edited out this reply since it's superfluous to the devastating blow I landed to your shit argument below."

No wars. I think we all agree: "Use the vertical axis the most, use English when necessary."