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What are these Road Rules you mentioned? Can you provide the list or is this just an informal way of saying "a good player knows" to do something? Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvhqJ8Ynl5E A little motivation to start the week. :wink:

Likewise, thanks for the fun read!

I just became a good, upstanding gold member today. Please put my name in the hat. Thanks!

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Good advice, Matt. A while back, I made changes to head height based on this Tom Simpson article, which discusses the vertical axis perception error. https://www.pooldawg.com/article/pooldawg-library/how-to-shoot-straighter It helped me a lot, because I just was not seeing things properly...

I am lucky to have a video projector/raspberry pi system for pool drills, which has a module called structured aiming. https://www.icatraining.com/product-page/comprehensive-aiming. It's a bit expensive, there are cheaper systems if you research. You could also design your own routine with...

If I were Roy, he could solve this pretty easily. Have players agree to use the same brand of chalk or have each player sign off on letting the other guy use a certain brand. Have players agree to a limit on the number of chalk cleaning requests per day. Make sure they clean the cue ball...

Yep, I know. Kristen Wigg is frickin awesome, too.

This parody is spot on. ESPN screwed over the sport of pool. The clueless announcer (Mitch Laurence), excessive sponsor mentions, commercial breaks between every rack, and the TV studio/library feel made a crappy impression. Imagine, if they had delegated to Accu Stats instead? The charisma...

Regarding focus to aim shots, I believe this develops naturally, if you put in the time to practice aiming. In the last 6 months, I've been practicing 30 mins+ nearly every day on structured aiming drills. Besides getting a feel for how to aim each shot, my focus skills are getting better...

I know, I can't believe that guy is thinking about buying kiwis-- so tart!:cool:

I think the interpretation of timing has kind of a "choose your own adventure" angle to it, so it can mean something different to each person. Originally, I thought it had to do with how long you spent in the pause, if you do the Set-Pause-Finish stroke. However, that is something entirely...

Well said regarding pendulum stroke. On a slight tangent, would you agree the reason for a wrist snap action is just to get extra speed on top of a smoothly accelerating stroke and reduce the extra body movement and longer backswing required if no wrist snap is used? If I watch Alex Pagulayan...

Wow, you worked for that information! Yes, I’m beginning to think timing is really an incorrect label and it’s really about what speed to hit and tip placement. Most likely, the timing part is a given with a few exceptions among good players.

I only meant intending to hit the CB with more speed, but you hit too early. You’re probably right that only Chuck Norris could make the graph have an increasing only speed curve slope even after impact.

Hah, just read this! I think you could still do it, but the graph would have a hiccup upon contact (no acceleration), then deceleration for small time, and then increasing acceleration to reach an even higher speed peak.

Nice graph! Thanks for sharing Bob. Just curious, if you got that graph from the QMD3 stroke trainer or some other tool? Also, did you happen to notice examples of bad timing, when the stick was decelerating or still accelerating on impact?

Yes, after watching the video again, I see what you mean. In his graph of speed over time, the max acceleration would be when the slope of the line is greatest, which in his graph happens before max velocity has been reached. So, I guess timing is all about hitting the CB at max velocity. I...

If you consider the cue tip is depressing into the cue ball and there is a very small amount of time when these 2 bodies are touching, then you want to maximize force during this small amount of time. Force is mass x acceleration (not velocity)...