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Pattern Play Pattern play is intelligent selection of shot/shot sequence to make it easier to win. In 9 ball, it is pretty obvious what ball to shoot, but good pattern play would allow for easy position play into the easiest pocket for each successive shot. For instance, if you are shooting...

APA Commercial I like watching the APA commercials. They promote it as a "get out and have fun" system rather than a "learn how to play pool like Allison Fisher". You see people on the commercial eyeing balls from weird angles (the one guy that gets his head down on the rail and eyeballs...

For some, there are no other options I live in a town of 35,000. We have one pool hall and quite a few bars. There are very few tournaments around here, so league is our only option. I started 6 years ago as a pickup player in a medium-low league and was instantly hooked. I went from being...

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How do I get it? Do I have to send a shaft in to get it done or can you sell it in a bottle?

I have the cue track, big stroketrainer, and Joe's stroke trainer. I buy things like this because I believe in the power of stroke memory and practice. While all of these items work to some degree, there is something inherently different about using a guide than when you are free stroking...

I don't know the situation and it is none of my business, but all he said was that you got a great deal because he misquoted the price to begin with. If you run a consumer-centric business like this one, you can't tell someone at the last minute that you misquoted the item and it is actually...

As I understand it, this book was the precursor to "racking secrets". I have the book somewhere, but haven't read it for a while. It is a well-regarded book. I think it is on bebob's website, among others.

We have not started yet, so I am anxious to see how it works next week. I will let everybody know. I can think of a few people that will probably try to rack to their own advantage and if there are any obvious "bad" racks, I will take pictures and send them to the league and post them here. I...

why? To me there is no difference between 1/2 inch from the spot v.s. 6 inches from the spot. If you could move it ahead (towards the head rail) 6 inches, you (as the racker and the breaker) might have a good chance of making both wing balls. If you move it back (towards the foot rail) 6...

Does anyone have advise on searching for information? For instance, search for break cue to find out what break cues people are using and the search engine deletes the word cue because it is too small. Then you get anything with the word break in it. Also, search for a cue type, and it must...

Few rules Not in this league, only rules are 8 in the middle and 8 on the break is a re-rack. Someone could put all of the stripes on one side or all in back or some other pattern and be legal. I've seen Racking Secrets and most of that 8 ball section is making the 8 ball, which doesn't...

I play in a local barbox 8 ball league and they are starting "break your own rack" for the first time and the only rack rules are that the 8 ball must be in the middle (no random rule like 9 ball). 8-ball on the break is not a win. I consider myself an honest player that plays within the...

Only bad breathing is bad I think breathing correctly is critical to your sport, especially pool, shooting, and golf. I would like someone to tell me the correct way to breathe and make it part of my stroke because I do think your breathing needs to complement your stroke, not work against it...

It will never be for sale, so I wouldn't worry about it. Nothing bothers me more than comments like this on a website that is intended to further pool/billiards knowledge. For those of you that offered constructive advise, thanks. Now I know the considerations when talking to people about...

I am interested in original schulers (dark wood only) and broken shafts/butts with the joint not damaged.

I have a dark wood, no wrap cue that I want to get painted. I'm thinking of a red/white, and blue stars/stripes theme. Does anyone know someone that can/will do this? Obviously, I would want a good cue finish for durability.

I live in a town of 35,000 people, we have one pool hall with 7 bar boxes and we have a few bars with 4 bar boxes and several smaller bars. We have a local league system run by the coin op's and there is a good regional tournament for the league system in North Dakota. Other than leagues, our...

??????? Palm down? To get my palm down, I'd have to cock my wrist away from my body. I prefer to have my wrist hang straight down. I have no consistency with a cocked wrist. Please elaborate if we are talking about the same thing.

Harry Potter Learns Spellcasting I let a lot of these "why do people do something this way" posts go by. Maybe it is good for chatter, but other than that I'd ask "why do people care how people do something"? While I usually don't have the time to respond to the op, I'm avoiding work here, so...