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Fast sings like a canary

Cactus Ed said:
Hey Fast, what size diameter tip do you like on your pool cue?

Would it be generally true that with a smaller diameter (say, 12.5mm) that a player could create more spin reaction on whitey whereas a larger tip (say, 13.25mm) would lend itself more to a solid, center-ball type game?

Pros and cons of small and large diameter tips, if you will.

Myself, I seem to prefer a larger diameter tip. I even had a very small diameter shaft made just for snooker, but still get better results using the pool shaft for snooker. Go figure.
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I play with a Meucci and Bob and I are in total agreement on two things. The proper weight of a cue should be 18.75 ozs and the tip 12.75mm. I have a lot of shafts and some are red dot, black dot, but most of my tips are 12.5 to 13mm. As long as I am in that range for me it does not matter. I would rather play 9 ball with 13mm and shoot my artistic with 12.5mm.

When I was the house pro at Mr. Cues in Atlanta we had two snooker tables. When I got on the American 10' table with the 2 l/8" balls I had a shaft that was ll.5mm. When I got on the 12' English table with the 2 l/6" balls I used a shaft that was 10mm.

When I came up and played my best pool in the 60's I used ll.50 for all games. So what is best, what is the answer, there is no answer. Go out and fine what works best for you my friend.
The smaller tip does not hold up as well so do use a triangle tip.
Yes, it does put more English on the ball. You see some Billiard players using very small tips on the larger heavier Billiard ball.

I would never go above 13mm and I advise most players to put on a lepro or triangle at 13mm and learn to play with that. If you sand with those colored papers, you are soon going to be down to 12.75 any way.

Ed the secret to great pool is learning to do nothing with the cue ball. Keeping a slight angle and floating from angle to angle. When you learn how to do this then you can play with total center ball which makes your potting and accuracy go sky high because you eliminated the throw of the object ball. When you do lose an angle or your opponent leaves you a stroke shot to bet back in the game it's nice to know you can juice up the ball with English and come with the shot.
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Re: Fast sings like a canary

fast larry said:
Another Fan sends me a private email:

How you control slow-mediun-fast speed on the cue ball. I found myself some hiting to soft some to hard.
Any way to practice your stroke speed?

Fast responds:
In our Power Source pool school we have a shaft marked with rings. What we teach you is to have a very short stroke and a long follow through. Most players we see have this reversed. They have a long stroke and a short follow through. Yes you see Earl on TV with this 11" long stroke. Yes Earl makes that work. No I do not teach that.

Go to the rail and begin to stroke up and down the line where the cloth tucks under the rail. Begin to use a very short stroke, then each time stroke 3 times then do your normal follow through. Is your cue tip on that line at the end of your stroke. If it is not, you twisted and you need a swing repair. Each time keep letting your stroke out longer and longer. What you see is the longer out your go, there goes also your stroke control and accuracy. Prove it to your self. So short stroke is better is obvious. That is why the greats, Greenleaf, Mosconi, Hoppe who had all the great high runs had very short strokes.

Hoppe played with a heavy Ivory ball on a 10' table and used a 5" stroke and his follow through was over a foot long. That is what I like to see. The power is not in the long looping flopping around warm up strokes. The power is in the follow through. Many times I am seen making a follow through to the joint.

My shaft with the marked rings teaches 4 strokes. A 5-7-9-11" stroke. No two shots are the same and depending on the shot, you choose on of the 4. Total accuracy, no real power needed, 5".
The majority of your pool shots should be with 7". Normal power shots at 9". Only extreme grip it and rip it goes to 11". Learning these 4 stroke lengths also gives you the speed control you seek. Trying to achieve that with only one stroke that is a foot long cannot be done unless you have the talent of a Earl who plays 16 hrs a day and has talent and feel far beyond you.

Try my method, you will like it and the shorter strokes will allow you to make the soft contolled rolls you wish to master. I have other drills in the school that will develop that as well but no time and space to go into that here. :D
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fast larry said:
Another email from another Fan. Here is his quote:
Larry, don't publish my name please. I am one of those people who took a lesson from a BCA instructor and did not realize I was taught to ball skid. When you pointed that out in your articles It was a big wake up call to me. I also golf as you do and you never hit down on a putt. You don't chop down and skid the ball, you roll the ball. You hit up through the ball to give it over spin so it runs true. Your concept was the roll of the ball in golf and pool should be the same really got me thinking.

The shock was to realize the guy I paid out money to teach me a system you were saying is wrong was actually wrong.
You are right on this. No wonder these people are hunting you down. You are making a lot of people look bad.

You posted your follow and draw concepts on CCB and it caused a flame war on you. Then you spilled the beans on the BCA instructors school. It did not take long for those people to put up a posse and do an old fashioned lynching on you.

They convinced a lot of people you were a Looney tune nut and should just be ignored. Larry, that is what they wanted, your teaching to be ignored. You threaten what these people believe in and do. You got called some nasty names and then you got into a dog fight with them. You got a lot of people against you. They won, they shot you down and got you tossed off of that board.

You came on AZ and were doing really great. After a while they came for you here do and the dog fight broke out once more. You are gone again, once more they won, they shut you up. You have to just stop fighting back with these people. Just ignore them. You seem to be a different guy now and your posting and handling things much better. I see you zinging the BCA boys once more. They are going to toss mud on you again. This time, duck and cover. Learn from what they did to you the last two times. We do not want to see them run you off again.

Do not fight or respond back to them. We are a lot smarter than you may think. We know where they are coming from. We will sort this out. Just please take the high road and do not go down in the dirt with them again. In time, who you are, what you teach, what you have done and accomplished will be realized and accepted. Do not let some internet board destroy that. Until that acceptance comes just keep being the nice guy we are seeing now and learn to bite your tongue when somebody tries to cut you down.

We are all glad to see you back on. Your posts are now filled with good solid stuff that is helping me to be more respected in my league because I am now playing smarter and people around me see and like this.
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Fast books it out of Dodge

Sorry dudes, Fast has to jump in the get away caddy and make it for the airport.

Well boys all good things must end. The old Fast dude has to book it out of Dodge. This was beginning to be a cool thread. Who knows where it would have gone. It probably would have ended up hotter than a brand new Puerto Rican credit card. I must now close it down, Fast has left the building. Parting is such sweet sorrow. I promise when I return I’ll put the thread up and we will do it again. I bet it will be a barn burner.

I am heading out on my 3rd world tour. I will not post or be on AZ again until I return to the USA on Jan 11th, 2004. The world is a big friggin rock, it takes time to go around that puppy and do it well. It’s really easy to do, you just keep heading west every day and eventually you run into North America. There is no way to miss it. Even I could not screw that one up. I’ve done it twice before and it does work. This rock really is round, no kidding.

I am heading out to Burbank to film a couple of prime time TV shows, then up to S.F. Then it’s to Japan, China, Indo China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia. Any one in that region who may want to see me can book me now. I will be the Far East for a full 2 weeks and I do have some open dates. My base of operations will be in Singapore. You must go into my web site for data. Just put your mouse cursor over the below underlined link and left click to open this web site, or hold down your ctrl key on your key board and hit left click of your mouse at the same time to see it open. http://www.fastlarrypool.com

If you want to contact me you email me in Atlanta, fastlarry@bellsouth.net
That email will be sent to my HQ in Singapore and I will respond to you from there. I am not taking my laptop with me so all normal communication with the USA will be suspended until 2004. If you send me normal emails or leave phone messages and they do not involve the tour or are not an emergency, I deal with them on Jan 11th next year.

I am outta here and my final words are Hasta La Vista, Baby.

May God bless and peace be with you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall. VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Especially on Bali.
“Fast Larry” Guninger
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Larry,

I don't know if you play one pocket but I have a question for you. This is on the WEI table. START(
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the guy needs 1 ball and I need both. Both balls are frozen to the side rail close to his pocket and the cue is frozen on the same rail towards the head string. How would you go about shooting this shot. Would you take a scratch and try to play the cue behind the balls or would you try to knock them out and if so how would you. I put 2 examples of what i was thinking of doing.

Thanks larry,
 
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Larry,

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the guy needs 1 ball and I need both. Both balls are frozen to the side rail close to his pocket and the cue is frozen on the same rail towards the head string. How would you go about shooting this shot. Would you take a scratch and try to play the cue behind the balls or would you try to knock them out and if so how would you. I put 2 examples of what i was thinking of doing.

Thanks larry,
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Sorry, FL has never played a game of one pocket in his life and does not ever intend to. He plays every pool game you can imagine but this one. He has very strong emotions about this game. How he feels about it is the exact quote Willie Mosconi used to say about it. Talk to him about 3-cushion and watch his eyes light up. He loves that game. He used to love to play snooker on a 12' table before he went blind in one eye. He had to give that game up. Now all he can handle are 8 or 9' tables.

You are asking the wrong guy, he knows nothing about the moves. Ok, I asked him anyway and this is what he said, you are screwed, pay the man and move on. Postions like this you lose from most of the time. When you do escape them, they are rare and yes it is sweet. How you play it is this :are you a shooter, a shot maker or a ducker.

I am a very agressive shot maker, I would probably go for the mother simply because I know how to make the shot and have done many times in the past so & it is in my cpu banks and I know I can make it on the first snap. It's a world class bank shot and you can see me make it on my video tape I sell on my web site. I call it the shot of doom. I cross bank the ball, the cue ball banks across the table to pot the 2nd ball in the side table on the opposite side and then caroms up talble to pot the third ball in the corner then the cue ball comes back down table to the end rail which would have a perfect angle for the cross bank of the 2nd ball. I used to make shots like that just to mess with people. When I published that shot in 1993 on video It has made the rounds. Yes I can and do cross bank the 10 in the opposite corner pocket.

Yes that is almost impossible to believe it can be done. I used to bet on that shot on a 9' table for any loot you wanted to put up. The problem is it is so damn tough to make I asked for 25 snaps. It would be if you gave me 15 I might bet, but trying to make this shot in one is nuts. For me, with my skill, it's at best a 1 in 10 shot. I call these hail mary shots, sometimes you get lucky and they fall and every ones who sees it thinks you walked off of a flying saucer.

When that shot cross banks the cue ball goes up table and back down and I could bank the 2nd ball in several different ways. Yes I could get out from there. Reality is it's a damn fantasy shot, a video shot, it is not a real world shot. I would duck and play safe and pray for a good roll.

I would not do the cross bank safety diagramed simply because that one tends to come in too hot and probably would have a higher chance of producing a bad roll. I would shoot the long slow curve down the long rail and try to come in under the two balls praying the cue ball hits them and makes the rail and then leaves nothing. this is a duck safe shot if I ever saw one. Hell this shot is so damn impossible I might just make the puppy and run out from there and put it on my new upcoming DVD just to show you guys I am not blowing any smoke about this. There is an old saying, let sleeping bears sleep. You don't walk into the bears den and kick him in the balls and wake him up. If you guys start sending this stuff to me, you are going to wake me up and have me doing this stuff again. They will see it and go off all over again, that shot cannot be made, that guy had to cheat to do it, he uses smoke and wires or computer generates them. That's why I stopped shooting them, there was no reward for making them other than being called a liar. :D
 
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Question on your backround

Hello Fast Larry,

I am a league player just like yourself. I find Pool fasinating and love to read about the Pros. I'm just curious, out of the Pros on this website, you are not listed in the "Pros" section. Why? Also, I would like to know some of your backround like who you've beaten in competition? What tournament? What was your record on the Pro tour? What Championships do you have? I cant seem to find any info on you, other than your website. Thanks for your responce!!!!


Brian
 
Re: Fast books it out of Dodge

fast larry said:
Sorry dudes, Fast has to jump in the get away caddy and make it for the airport.

Well boys all good things must end. The old Fast dude has to book it out of Dodge. This was beginning to be a cool thread. Who knows where it would have gone. It probably would have ended up hotter than a brand new Puerto Rican credit card. I must now close it down, Fast has left the building. Parting is such sweet sorrow. I promise when I return I’ll put the thread up and we will do it again. I bet it will be a barn burner.

I am heading out on my 3rd world tour. I will not post or be on AZ again until I return to the USA on Jan 11th, 2004. The world is a big friggin rock, it takes time to go around that puppy and do it well. It’s really easy to do, you just keep heading west every day and eventually you run into North America. There is no way to miss it. Even I could not screw that one up. I’ve done it twice before and it does work. This rock really is round, no kidding.

I am heading out to Burbank to film a couple of prime time TV shows, then up to S.F. Then it’s to Japan, China, Indo China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia. Any one in that region who may want to see me can book me now. I will be the Far East for a full 2 weeks and I do have some open dates. My base of operations will be in Singapore. You must go into my web site for data. Just put your mouse cursor over the below underlined link and left click to open this web site, or hold down your ctrl key on your key board and hit left click of your mouse at the same time to see it open. http://www.fastlarrypool.com

If you want to contact me you email me in Atlanta, fastlarry@bellsouth.net
That email will be sent to my HQ in Singapore and I will respond to you from there. I am not taking my laptop with me so all normal communication with the USA will be suspended until 2004. If you send me normal emails or leave phone messages and they do not involve the tour or are not an emergency, I deal with them on Jan 11th next year.

I am outta here and my final words are Hasta La Vista, Baby.

May God bless and peace be with you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall. VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Especially on Bali.
“Fast Larry” Guninger
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Here is an update, I am now 14 days out into my world tour. I have now gone down under and crossed the equator and am half way around the world from you. I am off the Java sea off the north coast of Australia. Just finished up a 5 day engagement in jakarta, back to singapore to appear in 6 different locations, then off The Thailand, then to Borneo to play the plance for the sultan and down to Bali. Having a ball and the tour so far is a smash success. See you all soon. Have limited access to cpus or time to get on them, they are working me like a dog, doing 2 clinics and 2 shows a day.

Merry Xmas to all my friends in the states, it's in the low 90's and being on the equator during xmas is always weird, no snow. There are a lot of expaits down here and Xmas is celebrated and the streests are covered in lights in Singapore just like we do at home for xmas decorations.

Fast Larry Guninger
 
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fast larry said:
Here is an update, I am now 14 days out into my world tour. I have now gone down under and crossed the equator and am half way around the world from you. I am off the Java sea off the north coast of Australia. Just finished up a 5 day engagement in jakarta, back to singapore to appear in 6 different locations, then off The Thailand, then to Borneo to play the plance for the sultan and down to Bali. Having a ball and the tour so far is a smash success. See you all soon. Have limited access to cpus or time to get on them, they are working me like a dog, doing 2 clinics and 2 shows a day.

Merry Xmas to all my friends in the states, it's in the low 90's and being on the equator during xmas is always weird, no snow. There are a lot of expaits down here and Xmas is celebrated and the streests are covered in lights in Singapore just like we do at home for xmas decorations.

Fast Larry Guninger
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Here is an update, my mgrs are billing it as the "Grand Masters world 2003 tour"
I am 17 days out into the trip. I am in singapore for 5 days of eengagemeents and am at the Gallery Hotel and have cpu acccess.

Japan and China are behind me. Was on china tv and will be on Asian ESPN this week. Still have indo china, Boreno and Bali to work so I wont be home for Xmas.

The tour is going great and pool here is like it was in the us in the 60's, the people are pumped about the game.

Merry Xmas to all of you fine people on the board, I send you my best wishes,
Fast Larry:D
 
hey fast, saw you on tv last night. Will you be doing anyshows here in Singapore?
 
Fast Larry wrote,


"Quote from a email from a player who I do not know sent to me:



> Hi Fast Larry, I would like to say that I read your
> reply on the person's question of how to keep a
> straight and consistent stroke. I noticed that you
> said that BCA instructors teach people to be 'ball
> skidders'. What you speak is the truth, my friend. How
> you described what your tip does after a shot is the
> stroke of a champion. Most BCA instructers cannot
> train someone to play at a champion level. They teach
> the 'wrong' side of pool. They teach basics and
> fundamentals, and certain advanced aspects, but the
> problem with them is what they teach leads to a
> dead-end in the skill of the student. In order to play
> like a champion, someone honestly has to learn quite
> the opposite of what many of them teach. They teach
> people to press into the table. Just like you said,
> they teach people to be ball-skidders. I am glad to
> see that the internet pool world is not only
> table-pressing chumps who study the intricate physics
> of the game but can't run a rack! You and maybe two or
> three other people whos posts I have read seem to be
> the only people that know how the game should really
> be played! Perhaps someday when I have some free time
> I would like to fly out to Georgia and take a lesson
> from you, before I learned how much you know.
God bless, hope to see you soon!

HaHaHaHaHa.

Fast,you've lost it.

Gabber

BTW, I,m not sure but I think the BCA has at least 5 grades of Pool Instructor.To reach the highest level takes about 5 years. If you are going to ' knock' a person or organisation, at least get your facts right.

PS what have you done to rackemup?He doesnt post anymore????
 
Hi, I will be in Singapore until this tuesday, I am staying at the
Gallery hotel. I did a long show for ESPN sportscenter yesterday that that should run next week. I shot a ball out of quills mouth and potted a 9 in the corner so you know that's getting aired. I gave them some really cool shots to put on. This will air all over the pacific rim.

You will be seeing articles coming out in the straiits times and two smaller papers this week with pictures of shots I made.

They set up a brand new gold crown iv with simonis right in the middle of the China black disco floor and I did a show with the disco lighth twirling over the table. That one was very weird, made 45 shots in a row, tough shooting in the dark.

I have already done shows and clinics in most of the major rooms in town, most of my activities will be at east side and china black for the rest of the week.

I'll be heading up to work indo china and will be based in Thailand there in Bankok. Thai and Singapore airlines are the two greatest carriers on earth, they put USA airlines to shame. USA airlines are now nothing but greyhound buses with wings. Singapore is one of the worlds greatest cities, I could move and live here, some body make me an offer. The worlds best looking women hands down. All hotties. Great food, great bars, great pool rooms, I wonder if I have died and gone to heaven. This place is very hip, very cool, just awesome.

After China, I am playing the palace for the sulton in Borneo, I always wanted to play the palace. Jakarta was also a blast, Dodge City, everything goes and usually does, my kind of town, the wild west, was I ever at home there. They had me at the park place which was a 5 star hotel, it was magnificent.

I am doing mostly clinics and private lessons the rest of the week, so if any one wants to work on their game, call the Gallery hotel for me and leave a message for Larry Grindinger, my stage name is Fast Larry Guninger, but I am registered under Grindinger. We even have a pool table at the hotel. :D
 
Gabber said:
Fast Larry wrote,


"Quote from a email from a player who I do not know sent to me:

yES GABBER, YOU ARE CORRECT, I promise to never knock the bca instuctors ever again. They were slamming me into the dirt on ccb and that is how that got started, but two wrongs, never make a right.

They have their methods of how they teach, I have mine. They are my best business souce becuase most of my students come from them when they realize what they were taught does not work. The power Source pool school will be filming all of my instructional techniques on DVD's when I return. Then you can see who you think is right, or which method you prefer. Thank you sir for your solid advice.

Rackemup, sir, do you have any concept of the damage, hurt and loss of business this person did to me. He cost me at least $15,000 I can measure. Don't feel sorry for him, feel sorry for me.
You are mostly dealing with people who post using names without real identities. If they get into trouble on one, they come back using a new handle. He is probably around. We basically became two pit bulls fighting to the death, which was really dumb on my part, but that thing became very personal, I have proved everything I have ever done and nobody is going to call me a liar and a fraud without me going on the mat with them over this.
I pray that unfortunate incident is now all behind us and we can now all be friends and my time on this board can be used in a constructive way helping people to play better. I do not want to waste one moment arguing or fighting with another person, life sir, is too short for that and my time with you is short.
A blessed Xmas wish to all of you as I won't be making it home for Xmas. My wish to the board, my intent to deal with you in the future is one of peace.



> Hi Fast Larry, I would like to say that I read your
> reply on the person's question of how to keep a
> straight and consistent stroke. I noticed that you
> said that BCA instructors teach people to be 'ball
> skidders'. What you speak is the truth, my friend. How
> you described what your tip does after a shot is the
> stroke of a champion. Most BCA instructers cannot
> train someone to play at a champion level. They teach
> the 'wrong' side of pool. They teach basics and
> fundamentals, and certain advanced aspects, but the
> problem with them is what they teach leads to a
> dead-end in the skill of the student. In order to play
> like a champion, someone honestly has to learn quite
> the opposite of what many of them teach. They teach
> people to press into the table. Just like you said,
> they teach people to be ball-skidders. I am glad to
> see that the internet pool world is not only
> table-pressing chumps who study the intricate physics
> of the game but can't run a rack! You and maybe two or
> three other people whos posts I have read seem to be
> the only people that know how the game should really
> be played! Perhaps someday when I have some free time
> I would like to fly out to Georgia and take a lesson
> from you, before I learned how much you know.
God bless, hope to see you soon!

HaHaHaHaHa.

Fast,you've lost it.

Gabber

BTW, I,m not sure but I think the BCA has at least 5 grades of Pool Instructor.To reach the highest level takes about 5 years. If you are going to ' knock' a person or organisation, at least get your facts right.

PS what have you done to rackemup?He doesnt post anymore????
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Re: Question on your backround

APA7 said:
Hello Fast Larry,

I am a league player just like yourself. I find Pool fasinating and love to read about the Pros. I'm just curious, out of the Pros on this website, you are not listed in the "Pros" section. Why? Also, I would like to know some of your backround like who you've beaten in competition? What tournament? What was your record on the Pro tour? What Championships do you have? I cant seem to find any info on you, other than your website. Thanks for your responce!!!!


Brian
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Hey, how ya doin, I was an apa 7 also when I played in the leagues. Send me the source to my email fastlarry@bellsouth.net and I'll right them and ask them to put me on this list.
I play on the world tour of the IAPA, my sport is Artistic pool. I am a world champion in that sport. It is a sport just like 9 ball, 8 ball, snooker or billiards. That makes me a pro. Go to my website, there is a letter from the apa declaring me now to be a pro player and graduating me from the amateur ranks into the pro ranks.
My definition of a pro is this, half the 9 ball pros men and women out there now work a day job and play pool on the weekends. They call them selves pro's, to me, a true pro, is one who makes his entire living with his cue, full time. That I have done now for a decade, that makes me a pro in the truest sense.
How many 9 ball pro's can take off lilke I have just done and circle the globe playing pool and live on the road for over a month, that is the true definition of a pro sir. International travel is 4 times higher than us travel.

Just because I never played on the pro 9 ball tour does not mean I am not a pro or in their class. Most of the Artistic players like me all make much more money doing what we do than they make.
We play with a cue for money, that is what a pro does sir.
The type of game should not matter.

I have been making more money doing what I do than what the leading money winner in 9 ball has ever made in the last 20 years. Why would I want to stop doing what I do and play 9 ball. Even if I become #1, I take a pay cut. For the last 20 years the mans number 11th ranked player make llK US, and spent 12K to go to 12 events to make llK. That is why I never played 9 ball, they never put up enough money to make it worth my while to even consider it.

In time, the great artistic players like Mike Massey, Tom Rossman, Charlie Darling, Rick Wright, George Middleditch and a dozen more I could list will all be given their due and proper respect as cueist in their own and very difficult sport. :D
 
Thanks Larry, but I think you missed my question. I was curious how you did on the ARTISTIC/TRICK SHOT Pro tour. I can find stats and info on the great artistic players like Mike Massey, Tom Rossman, Charlie Darling, Rick Wright, George Middleditch, but I can't find anything on you. I can pull up different competitions they played in, but nothing on you. I just found that odd...


Also, the website that doesnt have you listed in the "Pros" section is this one; AZ Billiards.

Thanks,

Brian
 
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APA7 said:
Thanks Larry, but I think you missed my question. I was curious how you did on the ARTISTIC/TRICK SHOT Pro tour. I can find stats and info on the great artistic players like Mike Massey, Tom Rossman, Charlie Darling, Rick Wright, George Middleditch, but I can't find anything on you. I can pull up different competitions they played in, but nothing on you. I just found that odd...


Also, the website that doesnt have you listed in the "Pros" section is this one; AZ Billiards.

Thanks,

Brian
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hI bRIAN, I played on the TASA world artistic tour from 1995 to 2000. During that time I took on all challengers and won a world title in 1999. Full details of this and how I made all of my world records are posted on the chat board billliards-pool.net, go into the top tab and open turorials, everything you want to know is there, it is quite long and extensive.

I turned the world artistic championship over in 2000 to the BCA and WPA and they began to run it then. It has been written and explained a dozen times by me how I became crippled then, retired and did not work, compete or hit a ball for over 2 l/2 yrs. That is the reason you do not see any activiity of me there, I could not walk up to a table let alone play.

I am making a recovery from my injuries and am in the process of making a comeback which began this March. I am 21 days out into my world tour which has proved to me that I have the strength and endurance to return to world competition. I have informed the IAPA that I will make my comeback with them this March 2004 at the Allen Hopkins expo. I will play in all of their competitions in 04 and see how I do and if I still can compete.

I am now on the board of directors of the IAPA and help them in planning the world artistic events and writting of the rules and shot selections.

If you need any more specific information feel free to email me at fastlarry@bellsouth.net, remember I wont be home until after Jan 10th, 04 and won't be able to answer you until then.

My best wishes and Merry Xmas to you.
 
Thanks for the responce Larry. I'm still curious though about some of the people you beat on your way to a World Championship. Could you list them?

Please dont be insulted, it's just that i cant find anything on the record about you and am curious now.

Brian
 
You're beating a dead horse with this question APA7. This is a tired old question for Larry, usually by someone intending to rile him up.

You can find all the answers you want by using the "search" feature up there on the top right. Or, are you just trying to stir up some do-do?

Regardless of any faults Larry may have, he does offer good information at times, even though the delivery might be suspect. If you have something positive to offer, do it. If not, get the F$%# outta here.

Jerry
 
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