Search results

https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/where-are-you-all-from.561987/ I made a similar thread earlier this year, these were the poll results:

Your aim, over time, grows to be as strong as your technique's repeatibility allows it to be. Noise hurts learning. Amount and quality of practice, talent, eyesight, aiming method and many more things play a role too, but the preciseness & repeatibility of your technique is the biggest factor...

I also predicted 4 finns in top16. Now just hope Riku wins the whole thing, would be a great boost for his career.

16-cup starts tomorrow morning, only 2 finns left.

Considering that ~60% of the participants are finnish, not a single one of them qualified to the 32-cup from the winners side. Not too promising :D

Pretty sure he is 16

This is a good approximation, just practically not as precise as the mirror method I explained. So preferable if precision isn't mandatory and/or you can't be bothered to spend extra time.

Perhaps we mean different things by the mirror system, but the way I do it requires no visual judgement/guesswork/intuition, just simple steps to measure and memorize a point on the rail. I'll clarify how I do it, perhaps there's some key difference that might help you: 1. Stand behind the...

The basic mirror system (using your cue to measure the exact mirror point) is, in my opinion, the simplest and most accurate at achieving this goal for 1-rail kicks, and any number/math-based systems that also just give you the mirror point seem like a waste with no extra benefits. The only...

Finnish pool player here, sadly didn't have the chance to go watch this live. Will be rooting for all of our countrymen :D Fargo-wise the best ones around the 770-790 range are (in no particular order) Mika Immonen, Jani Uski, Casper Matikainen, Petri Makkonen and Kim Laaksonen, out of which...

I'm not sure if you are saying this because people are replying in a simple "just HAMB and you'll figure it out" sort of way, but if so, I wouldn't say it reflects their thought upon your skill level at all, but rather that HAMB truly is the answer to these things for most players, especially...

I agree with this. I visualize the entire shot (path of OB and CB), and get an intuitive feel for how much to adjust. I visualize the ghost ball and then adjust from there depending on the spin, elevation etc. Work on your fundamentals, then get some reps in for all kinds of spin shots and it...

Of course, but the point of those qualifiers should be to exist as an method for the non-pros (700s and below, maybe 750ish max) to have a chance at getting to play in the US Open (which they know they aren't gonna win anyway) for a cheaper price, if they aren't willing to pay the full entry...

That seems pretty shitty for those 650s and 700s trying to battle it out for a place. A 800 should just get an straight up invite, even if they aren't active in WNT events.

To clarify, I meant entertainment value as in laughing at those hacks and wanna-be's. Not for everyone, but I can imagine some pros will find it funny, obviously not as something they'd do regularly.

Entertainment value.

How is top any different? The same logic goes for all spins.

What is cue abuse?

Your PSR doesn't look consistent. Try stepping into the shot more identically every time. Pay extra attention to where you step, and where your cue hand naturally falls. Try to find a way of stepping into the shot such that the cue will always have the same position. This will also make it...

To put it into a mathemathical perspective, let's say that every shot has, among many other factors, a distance difficulty factor D, which is calculated by summing the two vectors (lines) of the shot (CB->ghost ball and the OB->pocket), defined as a value between 0 and 1 such that: - 0 is the...