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The trend in golf putting instruction for a good many years has been to get as much of the small muscle movements out of the putting stroke as possible: wrists do not hinge at all in any direction through the stroke, the hands do not change position, and the elbows remain at a fixed angle. The...

I've been playing with various things to do in my retirement. I have a wide range of skills from business, as well as some hobbies. Pool has been one of the hobbies, mainly from years ago, but now I have time to play again if I wish, and some of the knowledge needed to look into a pool hall as a...

Does anyone make a good set of 7 reds, 7 yellows, and the black 8-ball, as used in England, in US size balls (2 1/4")? Also, does anyone make a set of snooker balls with only 10 reds, as they do for playing snooker on English small pool tables, but in US size? (I think I can get an entire set...

My dream table was a 7' Diamond Pro (for the drop pockets with my bad back, and lack of room for a bigger table), one piece slate, pro-cut pockets. The cost was unjustifiable. I checked into Valley's, and it seems their best home table is the Panther. But it's still a ball return table, and I...

Does someone make a set of heavy duty rubber pockets that can be used to replace at least the more standard iron shapes and leather pockets? I'm asking since the quote for replacing or repairing the existing pockets exceeds the current value of the tables (Olhausen Remingtons) themselves.

They don't exist, of course, but what are some good alternatives that get close? Background: I was in a nice restaurant/bar with some tables that were recently nice, but needed much repair. I asked a guy who had been there for years, knew the (rich) owner, etc. He said the owner finally got...

Please base your answers on what would make the room the most likely to survive. Figure a suburban town of 30,000-50,000 people with a big older blue-collar population. The only competition in 5 miles is a couple of bars with 2-4 Valley bar boxes. 1. What's the best number of tables to have...

I thought things would "come back" after three decades of not playing. So for a few months I've been trying to make or let that happen. But tonight was the last straw. I suck. And I'm getting worse. I'm wasting time at the table, I'm not enjoying it, and I've had enough frustration. Here's the...

The 2010-2011 BCAPL definition of "ball in hand" includes: "The cue ball remains "in hand" from the moment it is picked up until the next stroke is taken." The problem is that "the next stroke is taken" is vague, and either main interpretation is probably not what is intended. If it means when...

If the cue ball goes in a pocket for what would be a scratch, but returns to and remains on the table bed without contacting anything but the pocket itself while in the pocket, is it a scratch? I think it isn't, but am not sure.

I put a 1/8" black vinyl pinstripe (Autozone:grin:) from the joint collar to the start of the tip on my playing shaft. I think it will be an interesting thing to try shooting / practicing with. There's nothing against it in the BCA rules on equipment I can find. First try, on the kitchen table...

My current favorite room has maybe 40-50 one-piece house cues. Most are in need of some kind of maintenance. A new tip, a reshaped tip, a new bumper, shaft smoothing, etc. These are mostly Lucasi one-piece cues, so I assume not so bad, with a few old Dufferin "made in Canada" ones mixed in. The...

The format I would most enjoy would be to play sessions of a few months in individual competition. I'd want to play everyone on the list a couple times, in matches of decent duration (no "race to 3"), and have basic stats collected over time to see where I was in comparison to the other players...

When used on 6'-7' tables, will the use of a 48" cue have a noticeably deleterious effect on one's game? Can you use the same stroke and other fundamentals with a 48" cue? Obviously something has to change, having 9"-10" less cue will affect the geometry of your body, arms, etc.

I'm thinking about building a playing cue from an extra-long graphite driver shaft. It would be 54"-56" and weigh about 8 oz, or about half what a cue typically weighs. All I know about how it might play is that as the weight of the cue approaches the weight of the ball, the momentum transfer...

I'm thinking of flat 1/8" to 1/4" metal plates - maybe even lexan with reinforcing fibers to reduce the coefficient of expansion.. One plate with a 2.245" round hole and another with a 2.255" hole. A handle would be nice, and a way to put it on top of a 5-gallon bucket. Procedure.: two gauges...

Two tables in a local room have opposite problems. On one table, slow shots, in either direction, parallel and close to each long rail drift toward that rail. On the other table, on one rail, slow balls drift off one of the long rails, but shots down the other long rail don't drift at all. The...

Warning: this is a nerdy post for a pool forum:grin:. I hope some folks will wade through and comment. I think the difficulty of potting a ball from the spot is directly related to corner pocket width (the distance between the points), starting at pocket size = ball size, the smallest pocket...

Tomorrow night, 9-ball tournament, double elimination, slop counts, loser breaks. "Compressed" handicaps, everyone is either a 3 or a 5 (as in "race to"). Against at least two weekly players, just "playing my best", I won't win 3 before they win 5. So I want some ways I can steal a game or two...

It can't be an uncommon case: an old ruptured disc left a couple vertebrae a little too close together, and sometimes they squeeze a nerve. The straight-leg, straight-back stance of youth is not possible. Are there common remedies for dealing with back pain while maintaining decent form? It...