Many of us only noticed Chris Melling in the past ten years. Here he is playing 9 ball in 2001. A 12-ounce cue?
Chris Melling in 2001
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None as far as playing. Maybe stamina but he doesn't play super long games. He's played great at every weight level. One of the best guys in pool.
i think it's discipline and ambition rather than the weight, but of course it doesn't help. you world think that with that stroke and shotmaking ability he would have won more. i heard he drives a delivery truck now for most of the time.
Truck driving probably pays more than pool, good choice. Melling was/is a hulluva player, consider me a fan. If life were fair, he'd be a millionaire getting laid thrice daily. But life ain't fair and pool remains an afterthought in the mind of an increasingly indifferent world. But F it, I love it dearly and will die trying to stroke the cue as straight as Melling did on his worst day
Great player with a great personality who is fun to be around. I'll never forget the speech he gave to introduce Darren Appleton at the BCA Hall of Fame dinner. He had us all in stitches.
He won the Derby City 9-ball at 3:35 AM once upon a time on a Saturday night, coming back from 8-3 against John Morra. He had to go to the airport just a few hours later.
Several years ago, I saw Chris on his way to the bank pool player's meeting at Derby City. I invited him to join me for lunch, but he declined. The reason he gave was that he needed to go to the bank pool players meeting because he didn't know the rules! If memory serves, he finished seventh. Another year, he ran over 200 in the Derby City 14.1 challenge.
Chris is a great natural talent who can figure out any game.
He won the Derby City 9-ball at 3:35 AM once upon a time on a Saturday night, coming back from 8-3 against John Morra. He had to go to the airport just a few hours later.
Several years ago, I saw Chris on his way to the bank pool player's meeting at Derby City. I invited him to join me for lunch, but he declined. The reason he gave was that he needed to go to the bank pool players meeting because he didn't know the rules! If memory serves, he finished seventh. Another year, he ran over 200 in the Derby City 14.1 challenge.
Chris is a great natural talent who can figure out any game.
Pink 4s have been around for some 30 years now. They're not exactly new anymore. Time flies, and all that.
12 ounce cue, perhaps more of a thing to battle, 7.5mm tip. That 7.5mm conical taper cue must hum like a tuning fork hitting the heavy balls, with a brass ferrule so no give there!
A twelve ounce stick makes it feel like you do all of the work. That has it's good points and bad. I won a string of small tournaments way back when using a twelve ounce cue and early milk dud. Was a bar table though and I wasn't moving the cue ball much anyway.
Only about halfway through the video but Chris doesn't seem to have any problems with moving the cue ball a lot and stopping where he had in mind. I remember Ronnie O trying a snooker cue in the IPT and swapping to a pool cue. I would have thought if anyone could ride a snooker cue to pool greatness it would have been Ronnie.
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i think steve davis made it to the semis in the world 9-ball with a snooker cue, and mark gray has won multiple eurotours and mosconi cups with one. there's perhaps a case to be made if you're playing both games to use the same cue for consistency. i did this for a while, but with an 11mm pool cue