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Best thing to do is to just take the line out of play. I just pretend the line for the kitchen is exactly the same as the endzone line in football. So the width of the circle or the diamond is an invisible 'wall' about a half-inch think (or whatever, never bothered to measure the thing). I...

I'm an 8-ball player, mostly on barboxes now. If given a choice I'll always choose to play 8-ball over 9-ball. We basically play BCA rules, except 8 ball breaks and 8-ball breaks with a scratch aren't wins or losses. I've played plenty of 9-ball for 30 years now, in league, gambling and...

I didn't know about them either until just a few years ago. Met and befriended a guy who's about 6' 9" who had one custom made by some guy off Ebay. Know another guy that got the McD one about a year ago; he's 6' 7".

Sorry to hear about your health issues. Have you considered using a pool cue extension like McDermott's? http://www.mcdermottcue.com/pool-cue-extensions.php You could buy a serviceable, but inexpensive standard-length cue for now and just throw an extension in there until later when you can...

If it were possible, I'd "thumb's up" the last two posts. :thumbup::thumbup: There.

At first, about 35 years ago I couldn't afford much more than about $150 for a cue, but I liked the game well enough that I knew I was going to be playing for the indefinite future, and I wanted something better than a bar cue. So I got what I could afford which was an entry-level McDermott...

One other thing I'll say about bar pool rules. As I mentioned earlier, I believe that bar rules are intended to give weaker players a better chance against better players. For instance, none of my co-workers can really play, though a couple are decent shot makers. But if I bear down just a...

Until about 10 or 12 years ago I played a fair amount of 'bar rules' pool, and most of the rules I see here are familiar to me. And having lived in seven different states and having traveled quite a bit for work, I've seen a lot of variations on the basic set of "bar rules." In many cases...

So last night before league I tried this on a barbox, four different ways. Once with just center, then center-high, then high-left, and high-right. Only high-left was really undesirable. Overall, I think center-high would be the best choice; just a lot less to think about. It didn't require...

In my purely amateur opinion, pool cue performance, like golf clubs or fly-fishing rods, quickly reach a point of diminishing returns. Once the price point exceeds, say $400, IMO you're starting to pay more for how a cue looks vs. how it performs. I just picked that number out of the air; it...

Everything's already been said here, including getting some lessons, so I won't try to add anything new. What I will say is try to keep things simple when actually shooting the ball. I have a kind of 'mantra' I try to use when shooting draw (other shots as well, but we don't have to go into...

This is how I would do it. At least on a barbox. The trick, in my mind, is about speed. I want to hit the cue hard enough to move the 3 a few inches to make both the 2 an easier shot as well as giving me adequate room to make the 3 after. Hit it too hard and the 3 might bounce too far...

Not to argue with you, but I don't have to drop my elbow for this drill. I had video proof at one time, before my computer took a crap about ten years ago, or I'd post it. Former pro Roger Long was my most recent instructor, and he took the video. And he never mentioned to me that I was...

I had heard that he was a Meucci guy, but I was curious exactly what model he played, or if was a complete custom job.

Thirty plus years ago, I had the good luck to befriend a hustler that helped me improve my game in basically all areas. One of his first pieces of instruction was to take an empty beer bottle and place it against the rail just past the side pocket and tell me to stroke so that the cue tip...

Great story. Out of curiosity, did you notice what cue he was playing with? Or did you get into any kind of conversation about cues in general?

As a former high school soccer coach (4 years), track coach (3 years), judo instructor (9 years), fishing guide (7 years), fly fishing casting instructor (8 years), Basic Handgun Instructor (2 years), and flight instructor (CFI, CFII, MEI) (4 years), my advice to you is to get your fundamentals...

Some good looking cues. Based on the level of detail, probably out of my price range right now.

You can get a cheap set of good-enough digital calipers from Harbor Freight for like $15-20.

I was an athlete in high school and college, playing football, soccer and ran track, until I blew out my knee and fractured my ankle, so the answer for me is "no, playing pool doesn't make me an athlete." Yes, to play well one needs to have better-than-average hand-eye coordination, but that's...