CJ Wiley: flat earther
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That's the same with starting a fire
Technology is developing faster than ever.
Yeah...but I still can't program a VCR....
Seriously though it's the life support and only because humans is the resource.
i completely agree with you
and to the people who say pool used to be more entertaining to watch, and they prefer the old days over the current (you’ve heard the insults, ‘boring’ ‘robots’ ‘identical’) top pros-
those guys you mentioned often missed shots they shouldn’t miss BECAUSE they played it “entertainingly”
i’ve watched accustats videos of mike lebron and his ‘amazing’ break that hurt my whole body so bad that my stomach hurt
to each their own i am a student of the game and i learn alot more watching any of those guys with unpronounceable and unspellable names from poland because not even mccready can teach you how to mccready
That's simple -- learn to play for a hundred a game while you are still in middle school. Put the ball in the hole or starve. You will find a way.
Well he is half retarded and Max Eberle is the other half so....
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -Sir Isaac Newton, 1675
It is only because of the old legends that the bar was raised. They would also be great today, had they lived a few decades later and still taken up pool. They would benefit from those who came before, just like today's actual players do. It's the game that's improved. Imagine if Willies Hoppe and Mosconi had access to https://drdavepoolinfo.com/ early in their playing career. To keep up with the best in any activity typically requires one to utilize all of the training resources available. Today's players just have better learning and training resources than the old masters had.
That's awful!!
Well said Hu.
Super size it!!
Too many things get lost in generational turn over.
You can see neanderthal traits in those guys with the heavy brows, stocky build who eat anything and never have heart issues.
I have one of the knives to prove it!!! Dude's got mad skills!!!I have decent flintknapping skills so technically I control the rock
There I go. Spouting off B4 reading thru the damn column. I'll never learn. Must be the neanderthal in me.
Wife always said I was a cave man.
Is it true that more than 25% of the people on earth have Ghengis Khan's DNA??
That guy got around!!
I'm envious.
I'd be eating cold cuts for a long damn time.
Mike Sigel intentionally had the tables at the IPT 8ball tour in 2006 set up with nappy cloth and only medium-tight pockets. simulating the conditions of the 1970s and 1980s, the years of his own prime.
At the time, Mike predicted that the current crop of players would struggle with the equipment at the IPT and that the old-timers would thrive. He couldn't have been more wrong. The stars of 2006, who played well below the speed of the stars of today, made the transition to the old conditions seamlessly. Mike's prediction, for me, stands among the worst in the history of our sport, a rare miscalculation by a guy who, for me, is a top five pool player of all time.
I recall attending IPT Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel in 2006. As I have for over 50 years, I chatted with many of the pros. The younger players did not find the equipment at the IPT to be tough, and many found it to be too easy. Prize money was huge, but each BCA Hall of Famer was to be paid the higher of $30,000 or the prize money associated with their finish. Not even one of them earned more than the minimum guaranteed.
Still, you are right to a point. More than a few players said they would welcome the reintroduction of slower cloth into the pro game. They liked the fact that a bigger stroke was needed a little more often on the nappy cloth than on Simonis cloth, also liking the fact that power stun shots really had to be hit with authority when the angle wasn't very steep. A few liked the fact that it was a little harder to make a ball on the break with the slower conditions. So, just as you suggest, the conditions were tougher in these two respects.
An anecdote of relevance is that I had a chat with Mike Sigel a long time ago in which we talked about 1983, the year we both believed to have been the one in which fast cloth replaced the old nappy cloth in top pro competition. Speaking of how it changed the game, Mike, who, like Earl Strickland, had a super-powerful stroke, said "all of a sudden, a lot of guys played like me." Although he said this over 20 years ago, he and I still laugh at his comment. In short, he noted, and bemoaned the fact, that the advantage enjoyed by those having a very powerful stroke was reduced by the introduction of faster cloth. Hence, in this respect, he agrees that the conditions were tougher, while noting that pocketng balls was much easier.
I'm of the opinion that, on the whole, the old conditions were much easier, but quickly concede that, in some ways, they were tougher.