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I read some people's writing and just hope they are doing like I used to do years ago. I would lead a person or a group I was standing in down logical steps, none of which could be disputed. Since each thing could have more than one answer it was possible for every step to be true and the end...

Guys, Y'all need to read the cyclic theory of evolution. It explains everything and is much more fun than the straight line with a few detours and dead ends! The scientists of a few thousand years ago were quite certain we had discovered or invented everything of any consequence. Of course...

AI is intelligence without morals, or true intelligence for that matter. It is derived from information fed to it. Garbage in will always create garbage out because it has no reasoning ability. It seems to reason sometimes due to the information it is factoring in that we aren't seeing. AI is...

Why would acceleration always be used in calculations and proofs if deceleration is perfectly acceptable? You made my point well. Thanks! Hu

Watched a lot of his videoed matches long ago. I can't remember him having an issue with power. He always had all he needed. An unusual stroke but no lack of power. As you say, his stroke did everything it needed to. Hu

I think it is even simpler than that, type A and type B people. How many serious pool players do you know that are good at taking orders or working on a team? I worked OK on a team because I cut out my own task or tasks. I was fine with somebody over me giving a task, not so good if they tried...

Why restrict yourself?(grin) Many years ago I thanked two of the biggest shit stirrers on the forum in my end of the year thankyous. One was on one side, the other on the opposite side. I thanked them both for their "Inciteful posts". A couple of people called me down for the typo, most knew...

Which just confirms it isn't a consistent pause. He didn't put in a visible pause in the first half of the nine ball set. If he did use a visible pause later it is proof it isn't consistent. I preferred a smooth transition to a visible pause which by the nature of the beast breaks your shot...

... and you thought it was a typo? Hu

That "consistent/repetive part is the thing. Twenty years or longer ago few of the top pro's, particularly US pro's, had the same stroke. All self taught or taught by those without a guideline, they did whatever got them through the night! It was hard for some of them to go undercover, their...

Just a couple of bangers here but if they are using a pause it can't be seen in the half dozen or so games I watched. Hu

That is an issue with a lot of drills. We can develop compensating errors that make that one shot work but it won't work unless all the factors are the same. The old drill to hit a ball straight, headspot to foot spot, off the rail, back to the stunned cue ball on the foot spot and it goes back...

I used to get off the sled to eat at Mulatte's or Las's and then hit the two lanes. Breaux Bridge south and west was prime territory back then. Dropping below Lafayette was good too. South and maybe fifty miles or so west was all sweet. I didn't go north as much but I would think Opelousas and...

Fifty years ago I knew pretty much every challenge table south or west of Baton Rouge. Didn't want any part of the New Orleans jail, it made a dungeon look like Club Med and you could get lost in there for months, no paperwork! I made a couple of trips but normally Bridge City was my usual...

Greg, We disagree so seldom it seems strange! Going through a deep hole forces you to move the stick straight in all directions. Very hard to do with any stroke, particularly the pendulum. I tried a level hole, I tried tilting the hole slightly. Neither one worked real well. I had to do some...

The old masters of cue building weren't trying to build a better cue than a one piece cue. The goal was a cue that played as well as a one piece cue and didn't need a snake coffin to tote it around in. Hu

Nothing is so confusing that we can't make things worse discussing it on AZB! Some, including many pendulum stroke advocates, try to maintain that there has to be a pause when going from the back stroke to the forward stroke. True enough if something is restrained from moving up, down, or...

On with the hair splitting, it isn't or hasn't been for many decades a valid engineering or scientific term if that suits you better. According to the scientific guidelines, you are always accelerating in one direction or the other. Never saw it myself but neither "decelerate" or any of it's...

I tried level speed a handful of times over the years. I never was able to get it to work. If I try to hit at a constant speed I am usually decelerating when I hit the cue ball. (I do know decelerating isn't a word but everyone understands it!) If someone is able to maintain a level speed at...

A friend most of the way across the country collects rifles like some collect pool cues. Shooters all, but he has quite a few of them in his safe. He has got it figured out though, He buys different variations of Remington 700's with the composite stock and stainless action and barrel. He sneaks...