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It does, but when my torso is more upright, it seems meets my ribs faster. It's only a problem when I shoot hard, or when I use my ribs as a positive stop to play very close balls without making a push shot foul.

A home table... Hmm that'd be good, if only I could convince my significant other to let me have one at home instead of spending thousands on fuel to drive down to my favorite pools halls and pay the owners of the premises by the hour for the privilege of playing :) At any rate, I want to be...

That's what I thought too, but seeing my friends who aren't much shorter than I am play with their back straight as arrows, I wondered. I don't know how they manage to keep it up without getting back problems. One of the guys in the club also has the weirdest position I've ever seen: he's very...

Hello all, I'm 6' tall and when I get my chin down on the cue for long shots, I tend to lower my entire body by bending the knees. If I don't do that, I get lower back pains after 2 or 3 hours of playing. What's more, I've always thought it was better for positioning on various tables that may...

and I'm both really proud of myself and a bit ashamed. My friend Kevin is the proverbial 9-ball player: he likes fast games, he loves the luck factor in the game, swears 8-ball is too slow for him, and 14.1 "bores him enough to commit suicide". This afternoon, the pool hall was empty, save for...

Dakota Cues, at the risk of repeating myself, drills are great if you are already aware of possible position defects, and more importantly, how to correct them yourself. If you don't, the drills will hurt your game bad, as you will train your mind and your body to play wrong: sure, your game...

Thanks. But I do need to make one thing clear: I probably had no business replying to this thread, as I am NOT an professional instructor, and I am NOT certified or anything. All I do is teach pool basics for free to beginners who join our local club. So these were just MY drills, and I didn't...

Not sure what "mother drills" are. Perhaps it is one of mine. Here's some of the single-ball drills I do when I assess a table I don't know: - The old classic: ball on head line, shoot straight toward the foot rail, stay down on the table after the shot, ball comes back and, if you did it...

Thanks for your replies guys. Really interesting read. I'll endeavour to find Joe Tucker's book, although it's out of print. I don't play 8- and 9-ball as much as I play straight pool, so I'm not too used to thunder breaks. At any rate, I don't find them very elegant. So if it's possible to...

Add a red ball and play 3 cushion on your pool table. The extra pockets and drag compared to a carom table would make the exercise quite interesting I suppose. Or you could simply adapt a pool game's rules and require that one cueball hit the other when a ball is pocketed, else it's a foul. I...

Hey guys, Our club received good players from another club for the league championship. 3 very good players each played each a race to 8 in 8-ball and a race to 7 in 9-ball against 3 of our good guys, so I stuck around to watch. All the visiting team members seemed to break their racks like...

I measured the density of a piece of turkish walnut and it is a little over 0.7. I agree that it would make a beautiful cue, especially the sections we use here for luxury stocks, which have many waves and burls. The sections we use are closer to the center of the bark and seem a lot darker than...

If I am interested in doing the butt myself, it's because it would be on the cheap, as well as what I would like exactly. The wood costs me zero (they are rejects from Mauser stockmaking), the metal and the coloring cost me zero (we have a cyanide bath at work), the openwork pieces and their...

I personally hate linen wraps, and I'm not too keen on leather either. They are just too slippery for me. So I add one of these to all my cues (funnily enough, I can't seem to find them at the usual online stores). Rubber grip sleeves provide plenty of grip, and attract dust and grime instead of...

Hi guys, Thanks for your advices. I hear ya on the quality of the wood, it does make sense that it should play better than a production cue. Although I must say, my Meucci does play really nice, and we've been together for 10 years. Maybe I got one of the good ones, who knows... I also...

Hello again guys, I have a question for you cuemaking pros: I'm sort of thinking about getting a custom cue made, but I'm wondering if it's the right approach for me. Here's why: What I'm after in a cue is playability. I'm no specialist, but I suppose it has to do with weight, balance...

What I meant was I don't care about losing or winning (at least during the match), but I do care about making correctly executed shots. This said, that doesn't mean I don't care about my performances in the league. When I play against someone who is under or on par with me, or if I play for...

I found out long ago that there are two kinds of billiard players: those who play to win, and those who play for the joy of playing well. The former tend to become bitter and turn nasty as soon as they loose one game or two. Those are the ones that go tell their friends how lucky you were, or...

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I don't really need the Justa bridge, but I love gadgets :) And who knows, it might turn out to be really useful... Incidentally, another special bridge I'd like to try is the Flexi rest: has anyone tried it?

Hello everybody, I'm looking to buy a Justa Bridge thingy (photo here --> http://www.pooldawg.com/product/justa-bridge-billiards-bridge) to try out. I'm in Belgium and my local pool store just doesn't seem to know anything about it - or about any portable bridgeheads for that matter - so I...