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You know better. This site and forum is all about Pool, in particular. Your post didn't say that, in contrast, it was the best advice you ever got. It could only be construed as just a statement of your own particular point of view. Okay. Fine. If your post / statement is what your point of...

I've thought about what you just posted. And I'm sure others have, as well. I think you should think about it, again, too.

When you post it would be nice to know if you are replying to another comment. Otherwise there is no additional context. But I'd say most people do care. From the railbirds to your opponent and backers and side bettors. You can be psychologically undermined if you are thin skinned or easily...

It was a long time ago. Let me describe the inside. When you walked in, on the right and left were regulation pool tables. I'd say at least 5 on each side. The foot or head of the tables were toward the walls. And there was an isle down the center of the room. The real peculiar thing I...

Does anyone remember Barbara Billingsley, the actor who played June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver as the Beve's mother? She played the "Jive Lady" in the 1980 movie Airplane who says, "Oh, stewardess, I speak jive!" I laughed my ass off back then when I first saw that scene. Anyway, is there...

I don't know what you are talking about. I quoted, "You compete like you practice." I don't know where you came up with, "play like you practice"? The quote I posted is self explanatory. You can take it of leave it.

"If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times." "You compete like you practice." Developing the skill to shoot center of pocket allows you to shoot anywhere in the pocket at will. It helps you quickly get in stroke and stay in stroke. But most importantly, there is a reason all the...

It was nice to find your intelligent and insightful post when I woke up this morning. I can imagine a boxing coach. He's trained maybe a hundred fighters. After scores get the crap beat out of them to the point where they quit because they can't take the punishment or injured, there is this...

I mentioned this, I think at least twice before. I was at a tournament in, I think it was at Town and Country Billiards in Daly City just off El Camino Real, around '76. Tony Annigoni played out of there. "And a big welcome to Kim Davenport. An up and coming player out of Modesto." I asked...

Reality sucks, don't it?

If your trainer has flaws in his stroke, how can you expect him to solve your stroke problems? If he can't run racks, how can you expect him to teach you how to? Etc. Better find out.

If you can't see the shot: don't shoot. If you can't see the shot line: don't shoot. If you can't see the cue stick center axis: don't shoot. If you can't align the cue stick onto the shot line: don't shoot. If you can't lock in the cue stick alignment: don't shoot. Intent, focus...

Come on... A 9-foot off the rail thin cut shot across the table is definitely a hard shot, just to give one extreme example.

"And just about anyone can be taught how to do this using a precise step by step approach that can also be used to aim and shoot any shot." "can also be used to aim and shoot any shot."

Why I never became any good at playing pool until... I first began going into Fremont Family Billiards in my home town when I was 15. A high school buddy told me about it. I used to play the pinball machines at the bowling alley on the other side of the parking lot. He mentioned that he used...

Tommy Kennedy is another good example. He not only shoots for center of pocket but minimizes everything that can be minimized to eliminate error prone degrees of freedom. It is laughable how some "knowledgeable" pool experts trash talk Hopkins and Kennedy because of their style of play when...

Bingo!

You are not talking about not being able to hit the center of the pocket. You are talking about your strategies/tactics for not aiming for the center of the pocket. Duh. But you've never intentionally not aimed for the center of the pocket when that was the only way to win, and you end up...

There is one thing every single professional pool player does. He/she delivers the cue stick as perfectly and consistently as humanly possible. The only question is: how will you do this? Opinions are like... everyone has one. Advice? How about knowledge. How about technique. How about...