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No prob. He also has a facebook which I linked for you as well as a youtube video showing some of his equipment and that may also help to give some feel for what type of cue making philosophy he has. https://www.facebook.com/CuesDirectly/

David Brainard of cuesdirectly.com specializes in them. I've never owned one or even seen one in person for that matter but I've seen a lot of owners of his cues give reviews and they report nothing but praise in every way. He is also one of if not the most affordable so that might be a plus...

Other than that you are using the wrong measure for GOAT I agree with the rest that there is a pretty good chance he will also become the most accomplished of all time as well. I have less confidence that he will become the most dominant of his era but there is a small chance. For the record I...

He is already the greatest of all time. He is not yet the most accomplished of all time, which is what you are talking about, but that is something completely different. Greatest of all time is about skill. If there is or ever was anybody that could have said "how can you be the greatest of...

It's right there in post #1, and then again in the post right before yours (#5).

Mandatory push out after any break for every break where a ball is made on the break would accomplish that. It would seemingly help with a number of other issues with the game as well but I would have to see it played that way for a bit in order to know for sure how much I would like it or not...

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Yeah our posts crossed being three minutes apart. I must have either forgotten to refresh or took a break during my post though because I hadn't even seen easy-e's post above yours that was 13 minutes before mine where he had already mentioned the time mistake!

I think he meant to say 48:30 (about where the video time stamps to) instead of 38:30 and he is saying that for the shot at 48:30 Michaela should have positioned herself right over the shot instead of staying back behind Filler about 10 feet away.

I've had the same experience (Airbnb, haven't used VRBO). You can usually find a nice house or condo within a very close easy walk of most of the major hotels that pool events are held at that are nicer than the hotel and will be cheaper too, particularly if you are sharing with one or more...

That used to be the best easy way to do it but now you can just pause a youtube video and use the "period" and "comma" keys to advance the video forward and backward one frame at a time. This works so much better for analyzing things like this. What I see is that in the frame where the three...

No, you think you are hearing a double click but for hits this incredibly close you simple cannot rely on what you think you hear as your ears and mind and other acoustic properties can play tricks on you. It is not uncommon that provably good hits will sound bad and vice versa. For any shot...

It is only an extremely tough call to make if you are trying to rely on seeing which was hit first, but it would be silly to try to rely solely on that when you have other tools at your disposal, namely looking at how all the balls reacted and using your physics knowledge to try to find the...

What did you mean by "additional effects" that are outside of the physics, can you give an example? To me the "additional effects" are just more of the physics (because all the effects are part of the physics) but perhaps there is something that isn't occurring to me. I definitely agree that...

While it sounds intuitive and lots of people claim it, I see zero evidence that low deflection shafts of any kind (wood or carbon fiber) improve someone's level of play. In fact pretty much all the evidence says it makes no real difference at all. Willie played straight pool for ~60 years and...

I too look forward to seeing your demo and hope that you include more in depth detail and programming stuff than what many would have interest in or understanding of if you aren't opposed to sharing some of the finer details as well.

This was actually a pretty easy call to make with a little understanding of some very basic physics which really any half serious player and certainly all referees should already know anyway, and then taking a few seconds to think things out. As the referee the hard part here is just forcing...

Not to side track the thread but the one and only reason that record stood so long is because nobody plays straight pool and nobody cared about that record and therefore nobody made any real effort to beat it. Finally one guy (not even an upper tier pro) decided he cared and broke it within a...

I think it is pretty rare that sound alone can be reliable enough to make a call based solely on that. With this particular shot it would be completely impossible to make a reliable call based on sound.

In a recent interview when talking about and defending the purple 5 ball, Emily Frazer among other things said something along the lines of "we haven't had any players shoot the wrong ball yet" with the clear implication being that this proves that switching a standard traditional color over to...