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  1. gregcantrall

    Practice what I Preach

    Wow, just wow. Lefty came from behind in the Morning Fitness Chase of 16 shots. Tied Game. 🤷‍♂️ Is definitely a win win. Off to great the sun.
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    Practice what I Preach

    You have heard the fart football joke. Right? Half time, time to change sides. Comes to mind. 🤷‍♂️
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    Practice what I Preach

    Cold morning at 41' The cold finger coffee cup challenge. 3 ball left vs right, one handed, with coffee cup optional. With 10 second timer. Okay so lost count the final 9 was missed. Don't like that. 🤷‍♂️ But I Can get over it. Can Man is a favorite Nick. 🤷‍♂️ 😉
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    Practice what I Preach

    Just waxed my balls is a favorite ice breaker. The difference is significant. And the find a feature in the cuebsll to strike with the cuetip. Easy-to-use. 😉
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    Practice what I Preach

    2.1.2026 Sunday Sermon Ah the memory Survival of the fit Who's got Big Balls Oh those were the days. The pumpkin cueball required a different strategy. Er uh well a different course around the trafic on the table. Where as straight pool skills reward precision cueball placement. Stop and...
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    Overview Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer known for his accuracy and ability to hit consistently straight shots. He was nicknamed "Pipeline Moe" and "Rain Man" of golf.
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    Check out Moe Norman .
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    Meet My Coaches

    The short practice is 3 ball. Period. Break em and make em. Period When that becomes routine or boring. Break em kick em. Start making 3s and 4s. I got nicked, Kicks Like A Mule in the ring games. Edit: and oh yeah I started practicing kick em as I could catch and recycle the practice balls on...
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    Meet My Coaches

    Guess I should credit Backward Jan now. 🤷‍♂️ 😉 His ability to communicate made his lessons a huge value at 20 per once a week. AND NO Gambling while enrolled in the 6 week course. Money Well Spent. I made it back the first outing after restricted. 🤷‍♂️ Restricted plate would be my uh 1 and...
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    Meet My Coaches

    Okay well Coaches in the title warrants a tribute to My Coaches. Sports coaches 😉 Grandma was my favorite life coach. 🤷‍♂️ My first little league baseball coach was blown off of 2 ships in ww2. He pitched equally well with either hand at a semi pro level. The military bases had quite a league...
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    Meet My Coaches

    Coaching For Dummies, comes to mind. Er uh lawyers insist I enter a disclaimer ....hmm Less is More is a favorite lesson that requires a rerun alert. 😉 At a mixed Scotch Doubles bartable event with strong female field, the draw was short one female, so the house donated the cook. I drew the...
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    Meet My Coaches

    Dan Louie is A favorite!!! Got to watch him defeat Parica twice in the last Tahoe event. . Parica had taken everyone's money at the previous uh Texas event. He spoke of a better player in the Philippines and none could believe. Then along came Efren. 🤷‍♂️ I was in Dan's corner when he took...
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    Meet My Coaches

    Well the Key to winning 8 ball is solution first that Always starts with Making the 8 ball. BACK TRACK with the steps available and map a path . Then evaluate. 🤔 awhats the odds.hmm. If it doesn't look good then find a way to leverage more problematic balls to a better spot. My favorite 8 ball...
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    Meet My Coaches

    A Camel is a horse built by committee. 🤷‍♂️ My favorite analogy. The build it yourself program is a beginning. Getting lucky with the choice of lessons is Huge. Just a factor as the fear factor training is uh forged in fire. I tried to balance my schedule with a lessons budget that allowed...
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    There's a difference between a jump shot and a hopper. 🤷‍♂️ Mike Massey demonstreated the imperceptible hoping of cueball and object ball. His Shrinkaflex well knowledge of that property in the material the balls are made of. "The harder you hit them the more they shrink." Was his explanation...
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    Well the older wool blend clothes made shots available that the nylon centric clothes make much more difficult. Just as in baseball there's curve balls then there's the sliders.
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    If I remember correctly Ronnie used enough inside that the cueball curved and gave more of a full hit on the object ball. That kind of accuracy in the strike to whitey one handed was impressive.
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    Playing peekaboo

    So much here that I can identify with. 👍 I found that the best way for Me to deal with the distraction attempts was to escalate my adrenaline level. Confront them directly and to the point. My favorite confrontation came playing Lake City Red in a tournament. My words were along this line...
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    Why is running English always (or at least usually) used for multi rail kicks?

    That was my first warm up shot on a new to me table. The rails, cloth and weather are variables that makes for calibration adjustment.
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    Myth or real - Stroke smoothness as a requisite for certain shots

    Ronnie Allen could execute a one handed spot shot where the cueball doesn't hit a rail. Not head spot to foot spot but out of the kitchen with spotted object ball. An accomplishment that showed a significant profit when executed with the one attempt wagers filling all the pockets of the table.
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