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I've been teaching my friend for about two months now. A guy came up to me one day and told me my friend is breathing wrong. To me it made no sense. How do you tell how she's breathing from watching across the poolhall? It makes more sense to me to focus on developing a good rhythm rather...

Laura, you can use the line system you were talking about this way. Imagine a line going through the pocket and the OB and remember the point on the OB (this is the contact point). Imagine another point on the OB that goes straight through the OB and CB. Double the distance between these two...

It's a strike when you run all 10 balls after the break. It's a spare when you run them out in two turns. When you get a strike, your score from the next frame (both turns) are added to the previous frame. If it's a spare, you only add the points for the first turn (inning? I dont' know...

Thanks Bruin. I thought I saw it, too, but I wasn't able to find it. For some reason I was thinking 160 but I knew that was too low. Well now that I know, I have a lot of work to do.... thanks again.

Hi. I once heard that they use Bowliards to determine pro status in Japan (and maybe other parts of Asia). Does anyone know what the cut-off score is?

My boyfriend and I befriended a young player at our local bar tournament. He was new in town (he is a student from another country) but has been playing pool for a couple of years now. One night at the bar tournament, his opponent (a stranger) scratched on the 8 ball and our friend won the...

Thanks Ceebee and Joseph. I will consider making a suggestion to her and tell her to go get lessons from a pro, but I don't think she will ever do it. She only comes in on Tuesday nights (lady's night at our pool hall - 2 hours free). After the 2 hours she likes to play 8 ball games with her...

Hmm I guess she just has to watch the balls and see what happens to them first. She's an adult, an athlete, and I wanted her to know why balls react the way they do when they collide. Yesterday she told me she thinks it's weird that we don't aim the cue ball straight into the pocket even...

I was wondering which aiming systems people in here use. I'm teaching a friend how to play pool and she doesn't seem to understand how to aim. When I started playing, I learned the ghost ball system. I also learned doubling the distance. Someone told me the "light sytem" that someone had...

There were few articles in the billiards digest that talked women competing against men, including the most recent issue. I get several different types of reactions from players who watch me play. Good, experienced players are respectful and supportive of my game. Players who have no clue...

To this day, I still don't really know what a dominant eye really means. If it the same as handedness, then it would be my right eye, but I have better vision in my left eye. People have asked me which one is my dominant eye but I can't tell which one it is. I wear contact lenses and my right...

Hi Laura I'm not familiar with the APA system but I've played in VNEA and BCA. I just wanted to tell you my experience in leagues. My first year in league was in VNEA. The team really wanted my boyfriend to play, but he was not interested in league. He wanted me to join to gain...

I read in some magazine a while ago to use alcohol on your shaft to get the dirt off. It won't look like new, but it'll be clean. I keep packages of alcohol swabs (can buy them in drug stores) in my cue case. Just wipe the shaft with it and throw it away when you're done. I try not to get it...

I think my cue has the fiberglass coating.

My break cue has that same coating on the shaft and it wore out after a few months. Now it sticks to my fingers and it gets very difficult to break well (impossible to play with). I use a shaft cleaner/finish but it goes away quickly. The bottles keep breaking and leaking on me, too. I...