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  1. gregcantrall

    Practice what I Preach

    Oh boy Feb 14, luckily I checked in time to rush and get the candy. Well the cold fingers prompts one handed start. The modified Chase drill, one handed, left vs right. Should provide interesting Challenge while following fitness protocol of full stretch and squat, every shot. It's a fitness...
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    "Drive for show and putt for dough." Comes to mind.
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    Besides it can impress a lady when in a courting mode. 🤷‍♂️ 😉
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    Hopefully I can reach a logical conclusion without hurting feelings. 😉 So the precision application of side is an advanced skill that definitely deserves practice. Grady Mathews promoted rail first practice that got whitey to the same target using different angles. A scales type drill that...
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    Staying in Stealth mode was not hustling it was hunting. 🤷‍♂️ Staying plain ball and riding the 9 at every opportunity, kept me in the soft ring games. Taking wild attempts at the money ball was an effective. Uh stall. Never missed on purpose, just tried semi impossible shots. 🤷‍♂️
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    Oh yeah he used the net the same way. The ball catching the top of the net and reaching the other side was unreturnable and oh so Lucky.
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    Marty Reisman perfected his precision of strike to a degree that he could return a ping pong ball with the edge of his paddle.. His skills as a hustler kept him in Stealth mode.Getting huge spots and holding his paddle like a hammer. His winning shots just brushing the edge of the table were...
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    The scene from Quigley Down Under fits my feelings regarding side spin. The KISS method fits my outlook on playing pool. KEEP IT SIMPLE Silly. 🤷‍♂️ My latest experiment of practicing with my phenolic tip break cue as my shooter has been enlightening and rewarding. My study of and...
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    Answers to Common QUESTIONS About Using SIDESPIN ... When, Why, and How to Use It

    First my logic for playing different techniques could be conditions familiar. Perhaps accustomed conditions with less than pristine conditions. 🤷‍♂️ Oh I would suggest a ⚠ caution to suggest learn centerball vertical axis First. My experience provided a few prosperous encounters at 5 a game...
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    broken cue ball

    Perhaps different degrees of hardness. 🤷‍♂️
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    broken cue ball

    Back in the day, when the table was a quarter, it was a quarter for the jukebox if a ball hit the floor. The bouncing ball always drew a chorus of QUARTER .
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    broken cue ball

    I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the ban of phenolic tips. My logic question is, how is the collision of the cueball to head ball different? I have seen cueball and even 1 ball failures. The ring game tables were high mileage and saw some powerful breaks. The occasional trip to the...
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    Practice what I Preach

    Finish the thought Finish the shot The Swing thought Well in baseball it was hit the pea in the center of the ball. That transfers well to billiards as well. With the phenolic tip the target zone on whitey gets smaller. The precision available is increasing with the hazard uh devastating...
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    Practice what I Preach

    Self. Hypnosis mixed with meditation. Ah uhmmm. The Power of Positive. Don't ever, shoot with a Don't thought. Period get up and start over when the Don't hits, as the subconscious doesnt process the Don't part. It reads it as scratch. I saw it, on the part of my opponents multiple times...
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    Practice what I Preach

    The Secret Formula for 3 ball. Place whitey 4" from center on the headstring. Strike the cueball in a manner to have it pop straight back. 6 to 8 inches is my goal. The rest is up to lick, er uh luck. 🤷‍♂️ The cue rests on the line with whitey come back a little short at 4 inches shrug and just...
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    Practice what I Preach

    His miss deeds this morning. Well not this morning . That morning as I was doing my morning fitness on the pool table and the sun was about to rise when I heard him putting the finishing touches to his final barricade. 🤷‍♂️
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    Practice what I Preach

    The last chapter first. My interaction with law enforcement after. The intro is loading now. 🤷‍♂️
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    Practice what I Preach

    The grinder first removed the grade stamps on construction grade lumber. Shrug 🤷‍♂️
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    Practice what I Preach

    It's knotty pine. The figuring is done with a disk sander or body grinder. A technique I learned making waterbeds back in the Day. Rustic was the style and they sold like hot cakes . Well one year at the fair they sold a $99 special. That was unfinished and had a $30 profit. I made 15 in a day...
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    Stupidity

    I thought the Many Bar Motel was the Mini Bar Motel. 🤷‍♂️
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