Clean Balls Make A Better Player

Johnnyt

Johnnyt

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My friend called me this morning and to ask me to come over and look at his used Valley he just bought. He said he thought it needed new cloth as he was missing a lot of balls. Now this guy is no SVB but he can run out on a standard Valley now and then.

I get over there and start hitting balls on it and about every 3rd shot would go where it wanted into the rail. The balls were a little dirty, but not that bad...I didn't think. On closer look and feel they had like a hardened film on them. I jumped into my Mustang and headed home and brought back one of my extra sets of good balls. Like magic we both started making balls like we should have. His old balls were throwing and skidding all over the place but into the pockets. Johnnyt
 
If you can feel the film/dirt build-up on the pool balls with your fingers, the pool balls will throw great but play poorly.
Clean pool balls will roll much better but will not throw as well as dirty pool balls up until the balls lose any high gloss sheen after being cleaned & polished.
 
I washed mine and it made all the difference in the world in my game, no more distracting itching
 
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And some people think the Indian or the arrow makes no difference or the opposite.


Clean balls, good equipment, and straight arrows make a much better Indian.:wave2:
 
That's one of my biggest problems trying to play out at bars or even some pool halls. My equipment plays great, and then I look like a schmuck banging filthy balls into dead rails on dirty cloth installed on an uneven table.
 
DallasHopps said:
That's one of my biggest problems trying to play out at bars or even some pool halls. My equipment plays great, and then I look like a schmuck banging filthy balls into dead rails on dirty cloth installed on an uneven table.
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And I thought I was the only one;)
 
Yeah, sure! LOL Imagine how much better those Filapino players would be if they didn't grow up using dirty balls, crappy cloth, crummy cushions, and NO air conditioning...not to mention the cheap ass pool cues. LMAO Perfect conditions are nice, but come on...a real player can run out on any equipment. I thought you grew up playing in the 50's. They certainly didn't have any of those 'primo' conditions back then...yet the real professional players ran out from everywhere, on 10' tables no less!

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Johnnyt said:
My friend called me this morning and to ask me to come over and look at his used Valley he just bought. He said he thought it needed new cloth as he was missing a lot of balls. Now this guy is no SVB but he can run out on a standard Valley now and then.

I get over there and start hitting balls on it and about every 3rd shot would go where it wanted into the rail. The balls were a little dirty, but not that bad...I didn't think. On closer look and feel they had like a hardened film on them. I jumped into my Mustang and headed home and brought back one of my extra sets of good balls. Like magic we both started making balls like we should have. His old balls were throwing and skidding all over the place but into the pockets. Johnnyt
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The QB at one of the bars we have to play against is so bad you would think they were using to shoot pool on the sidewalk. The blue wont clean off because it is packed in all the chip marks and scratches.That along with the extremely slow shag carpeting like felt they have makes it all but impossible to shoot a stop shot from more than 24" much less trying to draw the QB a little. What really makes playing there difficult is my other league is played on all Diamonds with nice equipment and my home table has relatively new Simonis, cushions, and 2 new sets of balls. Talk about extremes. I find it irritating that a bar that will have a couple of teams cant take the time to make sure their equipment is not in at least playable condition. At minimum the lights over the table should work and there should be a $5.00 table brush somewhere at the facility to clean the table off.
 
Clean balls do make a big difference

Clean balls make me play better. There's just something about clean balls that make you feel better when it's your turn at the table. It's a comfort zone that you just don't have when the balls are dirty and need to be cleaned.
 
I clean them once a week in my home table along with the table, cues and the rest of the equipment. It all takes about couple of hours.

I wish I had a ball cleaner though, It would make things much easier. :embarrassed2:
 
Straightpool_99 said:
To be a better player always remember: "If the balls are dirty the ladies don't want to play!"
"My favourite playing conditions are recently cleaned cloth (including the pockets) and washed balls without any polish, and absolutely no (deleted) Kamui chalk or talcum powder. There are some people at the poolhall where I play that use tons of talcum powder and the bxxxxxy Kamui chalk and the table looks like a warzone when they are through playing there."




I cant understand whats wrong with people like this, you can use powder without making it look like 3" of snow fell on the table, apparently they just don't know this. The thing that really takes the cake is when the moron that uses so much powder there's a hand mark everywhere he touches the table has powder all over his face too!! :rotflmao1:
Then as if the powder all over the felt isn't bad enough they tap the chalk upside down on the rail, WTF????
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