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Maybe for just a couple of cues, alternating throws, but he'd get killed if they had to throw 100 cues, winner tosses.

Oh absolutely, Kim, and thanks for posting more pictures of your setup. I remember we talked about this. I didn't realize at the time that your belt was sitting in a pulley position...looked to me like it was just wrapped around the outside of the pulley and ready to slip off any second! I think...

Personally, I think US players would do well to play a lot more 14.1...at least more than just once a year.

Actually, the head stock just lifts off. If you do that, then you can slide the carriage off the left side after you've removed the lead screw retaining collar and the lead screw bushing block. That was specifically included because the gentleman I made the video for asked about removing the...

Why didn't Skyler just play for the 3 in the side? :eek: I can't even figure out where he was going with the cue ball.

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Even with the errors, watching Morris and Woodward is completely different than watching anyone else from the US. If it was just those two, we might have a chance. They've got a great attitude and fight in them.

Ha ha...even one of the commentators just said the same thing. He's the only one that seems to think he can win.

Man, Rodney is really showing what he's made of. He's the only one that's going out there fired up, optimistic and with a smile on his face. Maybe HE needs to be the next captain.

Oh...forgot about that. I had Chris send me an extra block. I wanted to experiment with constraining the lead screw in the middle because it does sag a bit, and the straighter everything is the smoother it runs. In the end, I didn't find that it really made too much of a difference when...

Obviously they're all playing on the same equipment so it's not going to effect anything, but I can't believe some of the balls I've seen go in over the past few days. Every table I've ever played on, new cloth or not, would spit a ton of these balls back out.

We lose because Europe has a better team, but the European crowd is kind of obnoxious. I actually like seeing a fired up crowd, and if you're a pro and can't play with a little distraction, you shouldn't be a pro. Even at the mediocre level I play at, stuff like this doesn't bother me. People...

After watching our MC performance for 2 days, I'm pretty confident that winner breaks would favor the Europeans.

If I grant you everything you're talking about, that might account for why the US isn't dominating Europe at the moment. It does nothing to explain why we can't even get to 50/50 with Europe, which is what you would expect in an alternating breaks format if, regardless how good the other team is...

The crowds are a little rowdy...ref should definitely drop the hammer a bit more when the US team is shooting. Rodney Morris was very classy after his win. I seem to recall that the crowd was still booing him. That's really pretty crappy, no matter where you're playing.

So US strengths are pattern racking and praying that a European doesn't somehow make it to the table? That would be truly pathetic. We're all playing by the same rules and we're getting killed. We'd better be able to bring a bit more to the table than funny business with the rack.

Which rules would you change back? I'm not sure how that could make any meaningful change in performance. Straight pool rules haven't changed significantly in a LONG time, but Europeans are starting to kill us there too, save for a handful of US players. Schmidt and Sigel come to mind, but I...

You're all very welcome.

Just curious about something. In the US, at least if the attitudes on AZB are any indication, it seems like pool is all about gambling and hustling. Personally, I was never really into that and I tend to treat it as a serious sport, but I think I'm in the minority. In Europe/Asia, is it the...

It is the norm here when there's a ref at the table...which is practically never. Anyhow, don't you hear the European team when someone's getting down to shoot over some balls? "Hey, watch your shirt!" They're all paying attention and helping each other win. They behave like athletes on a...