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Are those 8? foot tables?

Weird how he botched that shot at 34:21

Hey, if I started playing when I was 8 and was taking private lessons from a world class player at 14, I'd be playing purely by feel, too. But almost all of us don't have that luxury, you see. I don't worry that I'm endangering my future as a world class professional billiards player. I know...

Here's more from the same hack:

If you really want to ruin your game, you could watch this "15 system" and make conclusions about the 18 off a ball. This guy is one of these also-ran billiard players that never learned to play by feel:

I learned the diamond system from playing pool and reading Robert Byrne's book 25+ years ago. It's what got me into 3C to begin with. It's a different world here from where you grew up in, or Europe or Columbia or Korea. The game came dangerously close to complete and total extinction in...

A system is a baseline. You know if the ball is at a certain place and you hit it perfectly 1/4 or whatever, you know pretty much the exact line. You still need to adjust for things like deflection. A system is not a ghost that plays for you. It's taking one of 10 variables out of the...

I don't. I've never met another human being that did. I count myself lucky there are people that know 3 cushion. Don't contaminate yourself, my friend. Feel it, don't math it. Stay pure. Yoda say:

Two statements, side by side: and

if you think playing on different tables is never going to change your feel system, again, I got a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, super cheap. I've never noticed much of a change on my system play on different tables, either. Slight differences? Sure, even within a game. But major...

Of course. Even pool players know the diamond system these days, and all kinds of kick and bank systems. They have to, otherwise they would not be able to make safeties and get out of safeties. Especially in 9 ball. If you think all these pool players can suddenly play 5 rail safeties by...

I'm also curious, since Bert posts here, how things are in Europe these days. I've heard things like it's considered an old fart's game there. Which is weird because the game almost died out entirely in the US and now it's undergoing a little bit of a renaissance and when it shows up on Reddit...

Maybe I don't get it. You're saying if the OB and CB are parallel to the rail, about 1 1/2 diamonds from the long rail, anywhere up and down the long rail you hit exactly the same ball hit and english and you always get to the corner? Or you're saying it's all pure feel?

Not true in the past. The problem now is, generally you're lucky if there's a billiard table, period, within driving distance of you. Never mind having different types of tables and the whole infrastructure to support this graduation through various steps. Maybe it's changing a little bit...

"By utilizing the inlaid diamonds on the rails of the table the so-called system players have become mere mechanics and not billiard players in the true sense of the word," Schaefer said. "If the diamonds are removed from the table the key to their science is gone..." - Jake Schaefer, 1928...

Averages would go way up because then people would have to play by feel. It might be a month or two once the crutch is removed, you need to rebuild a little strength once you're off crutches, right? but then averages would be higher than ever. I don't get it - I thought diamond systems were a...

How do you figure a basic natural 'diamond system' type 3 rail shot? Just feel? When I found that side rail number system, it was the greatest thing to me. I just instantly know where it's going and then it's easy to adjust from there.

What does? Practice? Everybody practices, very few people are world class. Feel? Lots of people play by feel, very few people are world class. "Endless" calculations lol. 2+3 = 5, hoo boy!

I don't really get the argument anway. Let's say I want to learn to golf. You're saying if I can't get Scottie Scheffler to teach me, there's no point in bothering with lessons? You can only learn from someone who's in the top 1%? If they're not a world class golfer there's no point in...

There's no replacing starting to play at 8 years old and having a father who's a great player to teach you as well. Or just starting young and being surrounded by serious league players. Past 1940 or so, being born American pretty much guaranteed you not being a world class billiard player...