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Disagree Just for the record, I disagree. If it goes outside the cloth (including the cloth on the rails), it is a foul. The wood is not part of the playing surface. If I am wrong, please let me know, but I am pretty sure I remember reading this in print somewhere.

Has anyone used a mini cam on their arm/cue to get a cue-eye picture (video) of the stroke? I would think it would show quite a bit of fault but I can't think of how to make it work without becoming part of the stroke (a wire coming off the cue and/or the weight of the camera/battery may affect...

I suppose I'm a B player, I can run racks when I'm playing well but I sometimes mess up easy shots/leaves. I play bar box 8 ball in tournaments and leagues. I try not to play "for fun", I always am trying to improve when I'm playing, even if it is just against friends. I practice a lot, and...

The Poor Founding Fathers The fact that the brilliant design of the bill of rights/constitution is being balled up and repeatedly thrown in the trash must be causing the writers to turn in their grave, kicking and screaming. The bill of rights was written a few hundred years ago, when people...

Ndta I don't think I'd actually try it in league, but the rules are written so poorly and so misunderstood that I am willing to cause some uproar to get someone to do something about it. To run a league with the size of tournaments we have with one sheet of poorly worded rules is astounding...

I'll sell these for $40. If anybody else wants one, I'll make em and sell em for $40.

Legal Pushshot in ND? Mike, In North Dakota NDTA leagues, the league rules specifically state that push shots are legal. Does this mean that the long-duration tip-ball contact shot you made in the video is legal? If it is, nobody is using it, but I'm going to. If my ball is on the rail near...

Chewy in ND I'm too young to know anything about Chewy back in the day, but the stories are legendary. I know a lot of good players that say Chewy was the best around (Minot, ND) for a long time. Having met him once, he seemed like a nice guy for most of the night. He won the 9 ball tourny...

More Clarification? I saw a description once where it appeared that the intent was to keep the two object balls near the same rail and thin the CB off the first, into the rail and into the second, keeping the balls near the same rail for another similar shot. In true straight rail, do they...

Can someone explain straight rail billiards? It sounds like it is a separate game from 3C?

If an object ball is close to another ball that is "almost" blocking the target pocket, can the ob be made easier if the cut is one direction or the other? In other words, can you "push" the ob around the edge of a blocker ball? In this situation, people say "you are on the wrong side of the...

Looks Good I also have the un-tucked shirt problem (the other problem is baggy cargo pants don't hold pocket chalkers well). I'd like to try something else (in lieu of a pocket chalker), especially since my chalk costs $3.00 a cube. Thanks

If you read the last page of BD that just came out, it talks about Allan Sands' kicking map. If you go to www.billiardgods.com, you can see what they are talking about. Apparently it comes on CD, and find a map showing the cb location and a map showing the ob location, and it shows ways to...

I agree, it sounds silly I thought it sounded silly too, but Kim was not joking, he was actually slightly disgusted that the vietnamese were doing it. He said in the broadcast it was fact. I think Kim is pretty smart, so I got to thinking. Anyone else hear it in the broadcast? Anyone else...

I keep my eyes open for ways people cheat, and I heard something interesting on the broadcast between vietnam and USA. Announcer said that the vietnamiese were tapping the table (rails) to slow down the cb for position. He said it should be illegal, but it isn't. He said it was an effective...

Strange World I have a lot of friends that smoke and I hang out with them all of the time. I put up with the smoke because I want to hang out with them and I want to play in leagues and tournaments. We have a new pool hall that is no smoking, and people are going there as much as they are...

Circular It is fun to see someone bash someone for bashing other people. I know it shouldn't be, but the irony is just plain fun. It is like the eye-for-an-eye theory, but no eyeballs are involved.

So the glass is always half full with you? I hate to even voice my opinion of this rosy outlook on the IPT, but it is just too annoying to read. If I wanted to start an argument, your comments would be the best thing to say. I guess you can put roses on a pile of garbage and call it...

clarification Clarification: In the book, the diagrammed shot is the only way to get shape on the next ball, I should not have shown the 2 ball in the corner on the CueTable. I do not believe the author was implying that the "5" ball is used to redirect the ball (as the other replys have...

This shot is shown in a book I bought, the author claims Buddy Hall made this shot on ESPN. Does anyone know if it is shown in any accu-stats video or online anywhere? Does anyone think it is possible to get this action? The graphics in the book are so bad, I can't tell if the author is...