any really tall pro players?

WildWing said:
It's my impression that tall guys use long cues because they don't have much of a natural stroke with a short cue. By contract, a short guy using a long cue doesn't make sense to me. He'd have to spread his arms out too far just to get his hands on the wrap area. Big guys use big things. Uh oh, did I say that...
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I was a golfer before I was a pool player…..use the right club for the shot….my 57 inch cue hits stronger than longer ones and I still got three inches behind my right hand.
I feel the cue should accommodate the cue ball….it’s up to me to make the adjustments.
 
pt109 said:
I was a golfer before I was a pool player…..use the right club for the shot….my 57 inch cue hits stronger than longer ones and I still got three inches behind my right hand.
I feel the cue should accommodate the cue ball….it’s up to me to make the adjustments.
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If you have a 6'3 wingspan and your back hand is three inches from the end of a 57" cue then you must A) have an extremely short bridge B) have the arm placement of Oliver Ortmann C) the stance of Minnesota Fats or D) all the above
 
pt109 said:
Bob Ogburn might’ve been the tallest. Bernie Mikkelsen was 6-5….with long arms….he could pick a ball from a GC from the other side of a side pocket.
I’m only six feet but with a 6-3 wing span….I play with 57 inch cues….I’ve always wondered why more short guys don’t use long cues…..tall guys don’t need them.
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It was fun watching Bernie play as well and cutting a ball on the blue spot into a side pocket from the brown spot.
 
pt109 said:
Bob Ogburn might’ve been the tallest. Bernie Mikkelsen was 6-5….with long arms….he could pick a ball from a GC from the other side of a side pocket.
I’m only six feet but with a 6-3 wing span….I play with 57 inch cues….I’ve always wondered why more short guys don’t use long cues…..tall guys don’t need them.
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Dave Bolman was very tall. I used to run around with big Bob a little bit and his size did get in the way. He had a very spread out stance. In a pool room his leg might be under the adjacent table. And in a bar forget about it, everything was in the way.
 
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How tall is Emil Gangflot?
 
pt109 said:
Bob Ogburn might’ve been the tallest. Bernie Mikkelsen was 6-5….with long arms….he could pick a ball from a GC from the other side of a side pocket.
I’m only six feet but with a 6-3 wing span….I play with 57 inch cues….I’ve always wondered why more short guys don’t use long cues…..tall guys don’t need them.
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Isnt your back hand always hanging off of the rear of the cue?? I'm 6'1" with a normal? wingspan and my rear 2 fingers were always off the rear of the cue. I had a 2" mid cue extension made to make my cue 61", its perfect.
 
if your forearm is perpendicular to the butt and a few inches behind the balance point you are about right.

doesn't matter much about bridge length on that part.
 
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pt109 said:
Bob Ogburn might’ve been the tallest. Bernie Mikkelsen was 6-5….with long arms….he could pick a ball from a GC from the other side of a side pocket.
I’m only six feet but with a 6-3 wing span….I play with 57 inch cues….I’ve always wondered why more short guys don’t use long cues…..tall guys don’t need them.
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Bob was at least 6'-7"!

The 'Tallest' I've ever seen was 'Watusi Slim' (7'-1" from Chicago!

Always gambled High for his speed!
 
pt109 said:
I was a golfer before I was a pool player…..use the right club for the shot….my 57 inch cue hits stronger than longer ones and I still got three inches behind my right hand.
I feel the cue should accommodate the cue ball….it’s up to me to make the adjustments.
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In golf, height has nothing to do with club length. I'm five foot ten. My college roommate was six foot eight. We both used the same length clubs, because his hands reached down his body to exactly where mine did. No difference in club requirement, as far as length.

I would tend to argue that pool is different, as very tall people tend to have very long arms. My old roommate looked like he was playing with a matchstick when he used a 57-inch cue. He later went to a 60-inch cue, and it was more natural. To each his own though.
 
WildWing said:
It's my impression that tall guys use long cues because they don't have much of a natural stroke with a short cue. By contract, a short guy using a long cue doesn't make sense to me. He'd have to spread his arms out too far just to get his hands on the wrap area. Big guys use big things. Uh oh, did I say that...
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Makes it hard to remain anonymous. Everybody remembers the big guy that came in.😭
 
middleofnowhere said:
Dave Bolman was very tall. I used to run around with big Bob a little bit and his size did get in the way. He had a very spread out stance. In a pool room his leg might be under the adjacent table. And in a bar forget about it, everything was in the way.
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Ask any tall guy how many times he's hit his head on something.
Perhaps that's what did it??🤷🏻‍♂️🤯🤕🤔😂
 
skogstokig said:
i'm listening to scott frost and boyes commentating the battle of the bull, and young riku romppanen is playing. apparently he's grown a foot or so the last years. scott says he's around 6'6". made me think that among the top pros over the years, has there been anyone that tall? i don't think kaci is? was buddy hall?

in snooker there's ricky walden but he got back problems fairly soon into his career. being that tall seems like a disadvantage
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Tall Jeff Sparks is 6 ft 7 inches and was at his peak in the early 70’s. He beat Buddy Hall twice playing even nine ball in Houston in late 70 or early 71! He also beat one eyed Tony twice playing even nine ball. Beat Greg Steven’s with the last two in nine ball and he could give Greg the last two!

Jeff was as good of a niner as I’ve ever seen with the exception of Luther Lassiter! Mike Sigal beat Jeff playing even nine ball back in the day after I quit playing I believe per Tall Jeff, but if I was still around I would have staked him to play Sigal again. Jeff was a powerful niner and as straight a shooter as I’ve ever seen. Ever great player has a loss occasionally. Nobody is unbeatable but Jeff was about as good as it gets playing nine ball.

I beat him pretty hard in Johnston City in 1971 at even one hole but I was top two or three in the world. That was my best game. I broke even with Buddy Hall playing even nine ball in late 70 or early 71! But I wasn’t really better than Buddy and I’m sure I couldn’t handle Tall Jeff he was a Monster nine ball player.

I don’t know any player in the early 70’s that could hang with Tall Jeff, not Ed Kelly, not Incardona, not Cole Dickson, nor Jersey Red or whomever. But anyone of those players might beat him on a given day if that makes any sense lol. There was a smorgasbord of great Niners back in the day including myself but I was approaching the top ten but the top ten was a group of Monsters that could run ten racks any given time.

Point I’m making is Tall Jeff could beat anybody playing nine ball any given day! Magnificent player of all games but especially nine ball. I didn’t want anything to do with him in his nine ball game. Way too tough!

Nobody was better than Jeff in his prime! My hats off to him
 
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