Another 57 ball run by Marop

I like his style. I wonder what cam he's using - the video looks good.

What size table is that? Just curious.

Dave
 
SpiderWebComm said:
I like his style. I wonder what cam he's using - the video looks good.

What size table is that? Just curious.

Dave
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Hi Dave, I'm the friend of Schmidts that was on the confrence video with you and John from you house a few weeks ago. The table is a 9' Metro, both Schmitty and Corey Deuel have played on it. Made them both sign it for future sales potential:smile:

Not real proud of that run, got in trouble a few times and took a lot of time to try to get out of it.
 
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I like your patterns. It's def the weakest part of my game - ball choice. Gonna check out the vid a few times. Tell John to call when he gets a chance-

What cam are you using?

Dave
 
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SpiderWebComm said:
I like your patterns. It's def the weakest part of my game - ball choice. Gonna check out the vid a few times. Tell John to call when he gets a chance-

What cam are you using?

Dave
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Panasonic GS90 firewire directly to lap top using Windows Movie Maker. No tapes to deal with, everything directly to the hard drive, keep what I want and delete the rest.
 
Marop said:
Panasonic GS90 firewire directly to lap top using Windows Movie Maker. No tapes to deal with, everything directly to the hard drive, keep what I want and delete the rest.
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I use windows movie maker as well. I need a better cam--- i like the quality.

Nice run!
Dave
 
SpiderWebComm said:
I use windows movie maker as well. I need a better cam--- i like the quality.

Nice run!
Dave
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me too. I also use Movie Maker thanks to spiderweb mentioning it earlier. What kind of camera is that. I also need a new one. thanks. Oh ya nice video thanks again.
 
Marop, I'm only through one rack so far but I immediately noticed that on your 3rd shot, when you're playing the 11, you had the opportunity to kick the 14 out perfectly for a break shot.

There are a few things to note with this - first, it's possible that by doing so you could cause a problem for the 9, but you should have enough control to avoid this. Also, the 9 would still have several pockets even if the 14 got in the way.

Moving the 14 would have entailed no cueball risk whatsoever, as you would have still had either the 8 or the 13 afterwards.

Finally, at the time you played the 11, you had no other good breakshots on the table. Except, interestingly, for the 14 - at first when I saw that you didn't kick the 14 into position, I figured that you were intentionally leaving it there for a behind-the-rack breakshot. However, you shot it like 3 balls later when you didn't have to :), so I knew that wasn't your plan.

This is just a quick observation. I definitely like your rhythm at the table. You look confident and have a nice stroke.

- Steve
 
Hey I just realized who you are, Marop! I met you at the tournament!

Was really nice meeting you - you seem like a good guy!

- Steve
 
At 12:39 into the video, it looks like you have a great opportunity for:

1-4-11 (bump the 9)-14.

I can't tell if the 11 can be made from that side of the table, but to my eye it looks like it can.

Please don't take the fact that my two posts are "critiques" to mean anything; they are minor blips in an otherwise nice run.

- Steve
 
Marop said:
Hi Dave, I'm the friend of Schmidts that was on the confrence video with you and John from you house a few weeks ago. The table is a 9' Metro, both Schmitty and Corey Deuel have played on it. Made them both sign it for future sales potential:smile:

Not real proud of that run, got in trouble a few times and took a lot of time to try to get out of it.
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What kind of cloth do you have and do you have a dehumidifier? Those balls really separate nicely.
 
Thanks Steve, glad you took time to watch. I take anything you say as constructive criticism as your patterns are always very good. John points out the same things to me, it seems I see what to do better from a spectators standpoint than when I'm actually at the table. It is definetly a work in progress.

If you get the time look at the other two runs that are posted in the forum and don't be afraid to chime in.

Bill
 
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What kind of cloth do you have and do you have a dehumidifier? Those balls really separate nicely.
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The cloth is Simonis 860 about 3 months old. The A/C is running most of the time I am playing so the room is pretty dry. The balls are polished daily in a Ballstar cleaner. All these factors contribute to the balls seperating nicely.

At the World Championships in NJ the balls were being cleaned with some kind of cleaner that left them dull and sticky causing numerous skids and the balls were not seperating very well. All of the sesoned 14.1 players were complaining but not much was done. Just prior to the Hohmann/Souquet match Ralf used Schmidt's ball polisher on the set of balls they were going to use as both players wanted it that way. Ralf ran 47 from the break and Thorsten ran 150 and out. As you can see conditions due make a difference.

Bll
 
Marop said:
The cloth is Simonis 860 about 3 months old. The A/C is running most of the time I am playing so the room is pretty dry. The balls are polished daily in a Ballstar cleaner. All these factors contribute to the balls seperating nicely.

At the World Championships in NJ the balls were being cleaned with some kind of cleaner that left them dull and sticky causing numerous skids and the balls were not seperating very well. All of the sesoned 14.1 players were complaining but not much was done. Just prior to the Hohmann/Souquet match Ralf used Schmidt's ball polisher on the set of balls they were going to use as both players wanted it that way. Ralf ran 47 from the break and Thorsten ran 150 and out. As you can see conditions due make a difference.

Bll
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My ball polisher is water and paper towels but that and the humidity make a difference.
 
Bill, you're a better player than I, but I figured I'd share a pattern choice I noticed that might have been a slightly easier out. At 5:50 if you had drawn back off of the 1 into the 10/13 to move them slightly, you could have left the 2 as the key ball off of a setup ball low on the table.
Something like 1, 15, 13, 8, 14, 10, 7, 11, 2, 5
Not sure exactly how it would have worked out, but close to that I think. I just think the 2-ball is a great key ball if coming from low on the table.
 
At 11:38, sticking or slightly drawing back off of the 2 would allow you to get rid of the 10-ball, freeing up the 9 and 12. Shooting the 10 two rails to try to fall on the 12 would allow you to bump the 9 out for a break with the 15 as insurance.

I now see you eventually take that 2-rail shot on the 10 after pocketing the 11, 14, and 15.
 
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Also, at 17:55 a safer way to bump might have been to play the stripe in the side, 2-ball, bump 4 off of 14 having the 11 as insurance.
 
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