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SPF (Set / Pause / Finish) Thank you, Scott, for taking the time to elaborate on SPF. I guess I need more precision or detail in my explanations than most people who just "get it." That's what I like about Mark Wilson's book. I have access to an excellent PBIA/SPF certified instructor and...

I'd agree that this is what's happening. I don't know if I consciously "roll" or "flick" my eyes from the cue stick to the contact point, but I'm aware of the straight line made by the cue stick as I'm dropping down. It's hard to know for sure exactly what my eyes are doing, but I feel like I'm...

My Experience Too! Yes! This is what I do, too. I also came up with this kind of leftwards side-step or "dance step." By recording lots of practice sessions using painters tape, I'm confident that the toes of my right foot are consistently falling back on the shot line after the side-step...

Sounds Right to Me This sounds right to me. It’s the “confirm your aim” part that I’m wondering about. (This is getting down to a really minute level that’s almost unconscious.) Do your eyes trace a line from the cue ball to the contact point or do they stay fixated on the contact point? I’ve...

Painters Tape I used painters tape just like Mark does in the book. I even bought a laser level to make sure I got the lines straight. I hate to say it, but one day of trying left me fairly crippled for a week. I’m not hung up on “comfort,” but my flexibility is probably below average even for...

Dancing Players I haven’t watched the second and third parts of the clinic yet, but having read the book I think I know what’s meant by the “dance step.” (That phrase isn’t in the book that I recall.) “Dance step” sounds like a catchy phrase to describe what Mark demonstrates in the photo...

I struggled with this part of the book, too, especially getting my right foot completely perpendicular to the line of aim. I had to come up with some kind of adaptation that worked for me, but I’m not happy with it. I discussed this with another well-respected instructor and I think it comes...

Thanks for the Confirmation It’s good to hear someone else does this, too. Do you have Mark’s book? If I remember correctly, he talks about the eyes “traveling” along the line of aim from cue ball to contact point. That part of the book gave me pause. Words are funny things, though - they...

Hudl Technique vs. Coach’s Eye I could be wrong, but it looked like Mark Wilson was using Coach’s Eye instead of Hudl Technique. I’ve been using both of them and Coach’s Eye is the one with the more barebones interface. I’ve been surprised to find that Hudl Technique is actually a more...

I think I understand you. You’re talking about a moment that is after the last practice stroke but before drawing back for the final stroke. This pause before drawing back seems to naturally slow down the backswing as well. I admire, by the way, how you describe in one sentence what takes me a...

Holding a Gaze on Point of Contact with Object Ball This is fantastic, concise advice. If I understand you correctly, this is holding a “gaze” on the object ball contact point just before “pulling the trigger” with the final stroke. This happens towards the tail end of the entire shot...

At first glance, this seems like a reasonable explanation, but the experts studying this phenomenon think that everyone born before the 1700’s read out loud instead of silently. I confess that I’m not an expert on this subject, just a layperson who finds it fascinating and a bit perplexing...

Russ, could you provide links to some of the LMS vendors used in Europe? I've wondered what the market for League Management software (LMS) is like in Europe. Ron Florax is a Dutch programmer living in Ireland who has done a fantastic job with the CueTracker website. It seems like a natural...

Your post reminded me of an article I read once … It said that silent reading was a fairly new phenomenon. Apparently, until the last few hundred years, most (maybe all) people who could read did so by saying the words out loud. Here's a link that summarizes the different theories on silently...

Drill-Down in CueTracker for Snooker Now that I'm done ranting about how much work goes into building apps, I'll register my thoughts on how the FargoRate app could be improved. I'll come back later and share some ideas in detail, just in case Mike Page or Steve Ernst is listening in for...

I can attest that Mark Cuban knows what he's talking about. I have personally coded iPhone and iPad apps. Few people--especially otherwise savvy business folks--realize how much work is involved in building even a simple app. Two co-workers and I together spent nearly 5,000 hours over the...

https://cdn.ymaws.com/bca-pool.com/resource/resmgr/press_releases/schmidt_new_high_run_record_.pdf The BCA reviewed the unedited tape before formally announcing that Schmidt broke the record. That gives credibility to the claim. I’m sure the BCA has its faults, but it is the recognized body...

Running Out at Golf I watched a big guy named John Francis who was one of the best players in Northwest Arkansas run five holes at golf back in the early 1990s. (Ron Haley the cue maker was another player of that caliber from that area in those days.) Here’s a video of someone running all six...

Inventing New Games This topic of inventing new games interests me because I recently learned about Saratoga, the game invented by E. J. Glode, and that got me thinking of ideas for a new game of my own. http://www.pooltipjar.org/saratoga-pool/ I’ve been working on an idea for ring games...

That was my impression, too. I actually feel bad for champions like Greenleaf and Schaefer who were made to go along with such silliness. It sounds like they basically stood on top of a concrete snooker table to play putt-putt miniature golf. But I can see how this might have given somebody...