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Can anyone link me to the downloadable lists of currently-registered players and teams for the 2016 BCA nationals? I looked at it a month ago when I registered, but now I can't find the link on either the BCA or CSI web sites. thanks!

I wouldn't even trust myself to wipe left-handed. Once, when I was having back pain, I spent about a week alternating left-right during practice against the ghost. It greatly helped with my back, but it was like playing Scotch doubles with an APA 3. One of my friends, a solid "B" player, is...

Yes. I visited his shop in Florida about 10+ years ago. He was playing in the front room with Ewa when we arrived, and took us on a brief tour. He had some nice CNC gear, but he seemed a little new at it all and I don't know who he was learning from. He used to run ads in Billiards Digest...

Sort of an inverse reply, but Mike Erwin (who started with Meucci in the early '70s, then went solo a decade or so later) once told me that he was lucky to make 3 balls in a row. Truth or exaggeration, I don't know, but I never even saw him hold a cue outside his shop. Though he left no doubt...

About 12.5, give or take a little.

Interesting ... looks identical to the Talisman.

I have several customers who request the same. They don't like a large change going from old to new.

Is that a Hercules or a Talisman?

My personal cue, Gradient tip, with dime contour. This one is played about 3 months. Freshly-installed Triangle, also dime contour.

This sounds crazy, but back in the '90s we had a regional 9-Ball tour (Texas Express / McDermott) which played by those rules. I think many players had not run across it before, and it was sort of a novelty. More than once I saw a ball moved and the opponent "replacing" it to a location...

Dammit, last night you told me 160 :grin: And you didn't tell me about the magic chalk.

Most capped ferrules have a tiny hole in the top. The purpose of this hole is to allow excess glue to escape when the ferrule is installed on the shaft. Otherwise, the incompressible fluid would keep the ferrule from seating completely. Sometimes the tiny hole in the top of a capped ferrule...

Interesting, I've also used that same "leave a little of the old tip" trick to avoid sanding a ferrule (or an OB carbon-fiber pad). However, I only do this if the prior installation was also my own work. I don't want to stake my reputation on the integrity of someone else's glue job. On...

To answer the question you originally asked, tips will feel softer when new and tall than when old and short. Imagine placing two identical springs end to end. The force required to compress the taller stack a given distance becomes 1/2 that required to compress a single spring the same...

Good information. So, to summarize, you are saying that no tip was never restricted for jump shots and regular play, and some were only temporarily banned (until 6/1/12) for breaking.

Jay, that sounds exactly like what I saw in 1974. I was a relative beginner at the time, and thought I was doing well just to hit a ball I kicked at. Seeing Ronnie Allen in his prime seemed little short of magic. And he made these unbelievable shots one-handed, all night long. What he really...

Hi Rip! Yes, that was a great trip for me too. Looking back at these old pictures made me wonder about Carol, is she still playing? I have not kept up with the old crowd.

Interesting topic, new information.

Since someone else already resurrected the thread, I'll contribute these pictures from May of 2002: