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Simple solution: mandatory push-out after the break ! This would take away the luck of the break and make it more of a chess match.

Of course he can replace the handle. It just won't be a full splice cue any more.

Don't listen to the "experts" who have responded so far. Go to the Ask The Cuemaker forum and pose your question again. If the forearm itself is not warped, there is probably a chance that the handle can be replaced and then rewrapped. You might find a cuemaker who can do it for about $100...

It's good to see that many people have pointed out that the cue ball cannot depart on the tangent line because the collision is inelastic. Now to stir the pot a bit, the angular variation from the tangent line is not a constant. The more straight-on the shot, the greater the departure from the...

You must be kidding. Although he covers most of the strategy in the game of straight pool, his book is full of mistakes. For example, he will refer to ball C in a diagram, yet there is no ball C in the diagram. He does something like this on almost every page ! I found it very frustrating to...

Why would a big sponsor want to associate his good company name with a sport that has such a well-deserved rotten image ? We see Strickland foul against Charlie Williams and the whole world sees it (except the ref), and Strickland plays on. Then Strickland goes home and wonders why there isn't...

I think you are half right in what you say. If you're using outside English, you are actually minimizing throw of the object ball. This is because the striking surface of the cue ball appears to be standing still in relation to the object ball (no sliding friction) when you're using the proper...

That's exactly right ! When I first learned one pocket, I didn't understand at first why I hated the game even when I won. Then it dawned on me ... it is a very negative game. On most shots, you're trying to put a knife in your opponent. In all other games, you play in a positive frame of...

This has been the most useless thread, mainly because you seem to be unable to let new information in. It's not about being bright. It's about mental filters. You've been given several ways to test that which everybody else already knows to be true. Just conduct the tests and prove it to...

You are correct in what you say, but here you are talking about 2 balls, in which case the second ball has it's trajectory changed by the transferred spin on the first object ball. The original poster was talking about a single object ball. The spin of one ball will throw the next ball because...

It isn't the transferred spin that changes the trajectory of the OB. In fact, spin (right or left) doesn't affect the path of any ball, including the cue ball. When throw occurs, it is because the OB takes off immediately on a revised trajectory. On a very clean set of balls, or waxed or...

Don't listen to the guys who are discouraging. Keep taking lessons, and take them from various people. Each instructor will have something different to say or add, and some of what they teach you will be wrong. Don't believe anything that any of them says, but listen carefully to them and try...

So you will "limit your intake" around non-smokers, but you still expose them to your SHS. I guess that means you have some respect for those around you. You are only going to give them a little bit of lung cancer. You are so kind ! The truth is that you have so little respect for yourself...

I can see why many would question the greatness of such a shot, but those are the ones who haven't seen Dan Louie at the height of his game. Louie has concentration that is rare. Put that together with sound fundamentals, a great stroke, and a brilliant mind , and watch out !

UPS sucks big time ! If they don't lose it, they'll break it. Filing claims with them is a nightmare. I quit using them a long time ago. Never had a problem with U.S. Post Office.

I'm not so sure that it's a Kersenbrock. I have one (a real one) and the pin is different. My pin is center drilled for use with a live center on a lathe. Your pin has some kind of weird useless void.

The most accurate way to measure the balance point is to place the cue on a table, put a piece of string under the cue, and lift the cue with the string. When the string is positioned at the balance point, the cue with be suspended horizontally without tipping either way. This is much more...

Do you think that the powers-that-be haven't already considered this possibility ? I think the model that pool needs to follow is that of professional golf. The image of the game is very carefully maintained by strict codes of conduct for the players. Rather than emphasizing the seedy...

Some of the guys on this board will never get it. They enjoy starting threads about bar fights between top players, and otherwise perpetuate the seedy image of our sport. Then they wonder why potential sponsors don't want their good company name associated with this image.

One theme that seems to be consistent with smokers is that they don't care about the welfare or happiness of non-smokers. A smoker feels that any non-smoker should be either willing to risk personal health by breathing second hand smoke or just stay home and miss the enjoyment of playing pool...