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There hasn't been any "crackdown." The government has been on a decades-long PR campaign to make the harmful effects of the nuts very clear. It's akin to the American anti-smoking movement. A lot of the working class, less educated folks are still functionally addicted to it though

Ugh those stupid areca nut chews...you can tell he chews it a lot from the color of his teeth. Taiwanese culture is courteous and higher class than China 99% of the time, but there is an ugly side to the culture as well..

I used to think it was the money thing as well but there are well-funded Americans who don't travel anywhere close to what they should be doing internationally. And I wasn't talking about bravado at all, I definitely think it's mostly laziness lol

I've noticed this as well. Do you think this has to do with the "American mentality," i.e., America is big, America is great, America is awesome with talent, that the motivation or financial feasibility of traveling abroad a lot dwindles? This is something I've noticed in arenas far beyond pool...

Have you seen Chang Yu Lung play? Look at Taiwan's 2015 WCOP championship run and some of the shots he made and say they're not capable of "painting Picassos" again. Do Taiwanese have more boring styles than others? Yes. But that lends itself to consistency. American players are creative but in...

I'm Taiwanese-American. In addition to what has been mentioned, we fundamentally consider billiards a sport and thus treat it as such, with structure, discipline, and logic. Ask an American adolescent if pool is a sport; you'll most likely get a blank stare. When an exacting discipline such as...

They also run leagues in competition with the APA. Rules are the professional rules so a step above the APA rules and the players in BCA tend to be more serious and of higher caliber. Self-selection, I suppose.

Really don't want a bar table, they're ugly and it messes with my game when I show up to league on 9-footers. Plus there's plenty of average quality 7-footers on campus already to use to punish myself with tough position drills. Yeah I know doing the cloth and rails will be expensive since I...

I'd like to think that nookie is taken care of with the earnings potential of my degree ;)

I'm looking at a place that claims to have a 20x15 living room, so we'll see how it turns out and if putting a table in the center will still allow for a TV. Might be squished but it'd be worth it :grin-square: Just wanted to ask you pros first what the options are at this point. I think I'll...

Thanks for this, Perk! Great news. Where do I find these? Online? Showroom? Super noob here, sorry

Hey all, first time poster here. So I'm a C+ player going off to grad school, thinking about investing in a table to ease the academic grind. Apt should be big enough for at least an 8-footer. What I'm looking for is a table that plays well, won't break the bank, and potentially be resold after...