Now I'm jealous! Jimmy was probably the standard bearer for great pattern play until Buddy came along and yes, watching Rempe was always a treat.
Rempe was always so clean. And elegant as a player.
One of the nicer compliments I ever got was, someone told me ( circa 79 or so ) I had a break like "Billy Johnson" ( yeah, pard... suuureeeee I do! ) I said thanks but told him it was Rempe that taught me how to break more than anyone else. I saw an article by him in one of the main pool rags from the 70s and 80s about the break somewhere @ 74 probably. And he said use the bridge arm like a piston, bend the elbow as you move forward, then back, then forward with all the energy. BOOM!. And then I watched him break live to perfect it but he didn't break exactly like the image in my mind I had of him from the article ( no images or vid before I saw him live which was years later ). So I just kept it the way I had worked it out for me. And it worked, pretty danged well I'll say. And Randy Brown was the one who drilled it into me to leave the CB within a circle the size of a basketball in the dead center between the two sides. Once I began coming close to perfecting that it was Katie bar the door. That's when I really started stringing racks.
But it was Rempe by and large...
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