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I'm not seeking attention, just answers. I won't speculate on the rest. But I have to ask, if what you say is true, why do you bother to engage them in the first place? If their threads aren't receiving any attention, that means nobody is reading them. Why bump them to the top just to state...

Probably would. Duckie provides us with great comic relief, along with a few other players who ride to the pool hall on the short bus. Would you deprive us of our little giggles?

I was going to buy Ron's material a few years ago at SBE, but he couldn't and wouldn't answer a single question about it right there in person. He seemed to just want me to buy the material first on faith alone. I passed. I do smart stuff like that all the time. SEE I know very little about...

You INVITED us all in for f*ck sake!

Piss off. I bought the DVD in good faith, gave it a try, asked for advise here and got nothing but grief from all of you... except for Stan. You even called me a hater, so I contacted Stan on FB (after he said he was done with this place) and asked him if he saw anything I wrote that was...

Whatever. The point is that he isn't here just to "stalk" CTE users. Besides, no stalking is needed, they are easy to find since you find them posting in every aiming-related thread, even GB. There's something very weird to me about how similar CTE users have gotten to fundamentalist...

Most excited? Hell, that's the only time I've seen him excited at all. Lol When they were down 4-2, they both looked beat and disgusted with their poor play. I turned to my wife and said, "They're done. They just can't handle this kind of pressure." So glad I was wrong. :)

Pat contributes a ton of very useful stuff to this forum, and has for years. Bashing CTE is only a sideline.

Glad you got good stuff out of Tor's videos. If you are already well into understanding CB control and position play you owe it to yourself to purchase his DVD series on pattern play (Secrets III). It's really inexpensive and it takes you to the next level of knowledge necessary for competitive...

I'm curious about your opinion on the Diamond shelf. To me it is tough, but "just right" (i.e."fair"). If you hit the shot right, the ball will fall, but if you jerk it you will be punished. I like the 4.5 inch pocket openings, along with the Diamond facing angles. I read somewhere that the...

Now, that has to be the silliest thing I've read on this place in a long time.:rolleyes: Number 1: Ask Darren about that. It's his words you quoted. Number 2: A player who has been at the game for more than 30 years and still plays poorly probably has a lot worse problems than aim. Assuming...

Another vote for Tor. He has an extensive collection of videos on YouTube. Start with this one and you will have enough useful material to work on to keep you busy for the first year or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-VDuGzJS4 After you have mastered everything in this video, go ahead...

As he says, he was sucked in, too. He never said you don't need to learn how to aim, just that you don't need an aiming system. He also said it (aiming) comes naturally if you have solid fundamentals. I mostly agree with that statement, but I'm a bit lacking in my fundamentals like most of...

I was being gracious. There are whole subsets of shots that don't really require any sort of aiming in a strict sense. Dead combos, balls sitting in the jaws, straight-in shots, etc. Many shots that come up in play are so easy that you are only concerned with playing the white because the...

I came across this blog entry on the "Sneaky Pete Mafia" website. Darren speaks about practice and preparation. One part that struck me was his feeling about using systems and how they affect your enjoyment of the game, as well as reflecting on the real skill you possess...

Do you know if Colorado is one of these states? The reason I ask is that some time ago a very close friend of mine lost a finger in a pipeline accident while working in Colorado, and he got basically nothing from WC for his loss. The guy was a world-class fingerstyle guitarist before the...

Yes, it absolutely depends on where your room is located, and for a lot of complex reasons that can be hard to pinpoint and are not always intuitively logical. I'd say the ideal temp/relative humidity is one which you can easily maintain and that doesn't harm the building (or your health) over...

Interesting. And I've always thought is was HAL 9000 who's been making all my decisions for me.

I guess all we can assume is that there was no initial backspin on the ball, since the flat tip is contacting the CB exactly at the equator. ;) Another thing to consider is that none of the shots were made with what I'd call a typical crisp snooker potting speed, so throw would be even less in...

On the first (3/4 hit) cut he seemed to use less force and the CB didn't roll along the tangent line, so it must have picked up forward roll, but in the thinner cuts he seemed to slide the ball a lot harder and the CB followed the tangent line, indicating the OB was struck with a sliding CB.