GoldenFlash
Banned
Drawing diagrams on paper doesn't mean too much when you're stretched out for that long one and you're 'guessing' about is it too thin or too thick, do I need top, low, reverse, "I saw Strickland do such and such", "Billy Johnson scratched with this same shot", "Grady said"...etc. etc. etc. (with the mind so cluttered like that, it's a wonder the ball even comes close to going in the hole)A bit jealous? I've had the same f/t job since before I started playing about 9 1/2 years ago. No real lessons, beat up Valleys in a bar, none of the system stuff. I find it strange that people give so much credit to these things when they have nothing to back it up. I first made it to a 9 about 5 years into playing or so. All by learning on my own. I don't need a gimmick, nor do I need to BS people about how to play.
I'm not judging your self worth by playing pool, because that's just stupid. What I am doing is judging your way of holding aloft CTE as some sort of holy grail. I asked for the mathematical proof that CTE "ties into the geometry of the table" and all you could do was make excuses. Then I see you making these posts asking others for proof and taking the exact opposite stance, when you dodged the exact same question yourself. You're improving no faster than anybody else I've met that puts in any time. Actually, I'd think maybe spending so much time not actually focusing on your own game may even be slowing you down.
I could care less how much $$ somebody's got in their bank account, because it comes and goes. What stays, mostly, is their integrity.. or their lack thereof in this case.
That 'mathematical proof' you're looking for is the balls going into the pockets under some very trying conditions.....blockaded from pocket view by a curtain, those long ones when opponent has left you wedged in that pocket jammed tight against the rail for the money ball shot and they're all jeering at you and calling you a dog.
That's just two...and that's all I need to see.
So.....you end up dogging the shot anyway?
Well, too bad so sad.....at least you had a solid, provable, and REPEATABLE starting place.
As Hopkins used to say........"You dogged it for the gelt?....go get more money and try again"
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