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On the flip side, there is an argument to be made that a more efficient shaft in effect magnifies your speed control errors, and a less efficient shaft in effect reduces your speed control errors. I'm making no argument as to which of the differing inherent benefits/drawbacks between higher and...

Correct, if the compensation changes (which I thought everyone knows happens when a backhand english user changes bridge length) then the amount of squirt you end up getting changes as well, and that was the way I intended it to be read, but in hindsight I can see how others could read it...

I think the "this new bridge length would in turn change the amount of cue ball squirt you would be getting" wording is technically correct because "getting" is an "on net" thing. I just didn't specify what the on net factors were since I thought it was obvious. Had I said "would in turn...

Additional weight in about the first 6-8 inches or so of the shaft will increase the amount of cue ball squirt, and less weight in that first 6-8 inches of shaft will decrease the cue ball squirt. The closer the weight is to the tip (within that 6-8 inches), the more it will affect things...

It could be that the only reason that they have now gotten back to you now, after 5 weeks of multiple phone calls and texts, is because of this thread and wanting to do damage control, and that had it not been for the thread you may never have heard back or gotten a reasonable resolution. We'll...

Because knowledge and physical ability are two different things, and coaches are only valuable for the knowledge they can pass on (and the motivation they can give, etc). Their physical abilities are mostly immaterial if they have the knowledge, and the knowledge is almost always, if not...

You are playing on a table that you know has a camera and is streaming, and you are well aware that various people can and do watch the stream remotely. Spectators are always free to bet amongst each other on any matches they want to, with no obligation whatsoever to include or notify the...

From this particular angle, where you can hit the pocket point with about a quarter of the cue ball as he does here (very little risk of scratching, and you have maximum leeway on your speed control since you are playing to hit the point), and where the 8 still stays pretty close to the rail (so...

I can't even make a single ball on a 4.75mm pocket table so you you might be doing pretty well! ;)

For most companies including Amazon, a big portion of returns, especially if they can tell it was opened or used (and for some companies it is always what they do if they can tell it was opened), are resold at a loss as being used items, because they are now just that, used. Sometimes they will...

Maybe it is just me, but a thread where a member is offering a product for sale (even though that wasn't apparently the intent when the thread was initially started), especially a longstanding and good contributing member, does not seem to be the appropriate place to be bad mouthing their...

It's always the player's right to take half, but in all the calcuttas I've been to, and that is a whole bunch of them in many cities and states, I can't recall the auctioneer immediately asking the player if they want their half each time each and every time they get sold during the auction. It...

Lots of people have used a flat faced shaft on a piloted butt and I've never heard of anybody having any problems with it, or anybody who could feel any difference (though I'm sure there are some who are going to claim they can).

Those prices seem a little low to me just based on gut. Seems like a lot of effort on your end for those prices. I would also think that everybody who is going to buy them at those prices would just as easily buy them at say $10 and $20 plus $2 shipping anyway. Seems like a pretty cheap...

Keith's sidearm stroke is always attributed to his having started playing so young, but there doesn't appear to be as much sidearm here at age 12 as there was later in his career. It doesn't seem like it is straighter because he might be stretching just a little for this shot, but perhaps that...

You can see a list of the top 100 female players in the world (that Fargo is aware of, and that have had enough activity in the last couple of years to warrant inclusion), along with their Fargo ratings, at the link below. It defaults to the Top 100 World, so just click on "Top 100 World -...

The accepted calcutta "rule" everywhere I have been and heard of has been that the player has a "right" to buy half of themselves from the winning bidder (up until the brackets are drawn), but are under no obligation to have to do so.

This is my thought as well, this game would be a massive safety fest. There are just waaaay too many times you wouldn't be able to avoid a stripe if you tried to continue the run and so you would play safe. Any time you would need to kind of turn loose of the cue ball to continue your run, it...

Sounds like Washington state would still care lol. I think most of the calcuttas that get found out are because somebody who was mad at the people running them or mad at the venue reports them, or someone running a competing event/tour reports them. I don't think there are many pool players...

I think there is some inherent unfairness in some people getting to lose twice before being out of the tournament while others are ousted from the event on their first loss (wherever that cutoff point happens), so there is some tradeoff. I don't think anyone really disagrees that that is...