Confessions

David in FL said:
The old adage…

You don’t hide speed by missing shots. You hide speed by missing shape.

You‘re right. It’s the perfect game for that…
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Yeah, I was only busted where the other person was absolutely sure twice in eight or ten years. Tom Ferry and Danny Medina. Can't run with or beat top road players and have much left hidden! In all fairness I think they already had prior info. My favorite was a guy that played me for months then quit cold. "I am a better player than you, I just can't outrun your luck!"

I was able to miss shape a half inch or less sometimes before the days of jump cues. Playing to miss shape would be a lot harder for somebody that jumped well. The jump cue hadn't even been invented in my gambling heyday. There were a few jump rods around. A half inch diameter steel rod sixteen or eighteen inches long with a tip glued on the end. Those things would jump! Outlawing them was the reason for minimum lengths for jump cues, or so I think. I would like to make one just to see how it compared to a jump cue, if I had a jump cue.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Yeah, I was only busted where the other person was absolutely sure twice in eight or ten years. Tom Ferry and Danny Medina. Can't run with or beat top road players and have much left hidden! In all fairness I think they already had prior info. My favorite was a guy that played me for months then quit cold. "I am a better player than you, I just can't outrun your luck!"

I was able to miss shape a half inch or less sometimes before the days of jump cues. Playing to miss shape would be a lot harder for somebody that jumped well. The jump cue hadn't even been invented in my gambling heyday. There were a few jump rods around. A half inch diameter steel rod sixteen or eighteen inches long with a tip glued on the end. Those things would jump! Outlawing them was the reason for minimum lengths for jump cues, or so I think. I would like to make one just to see how it compared to a jump cue, if I had a jump cue.

Hu
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The length was set when players were using their shafts only to jump. Have not heard anything about some custom rod for jumping that caused the cue length.

I wish they would also set a max length and also a weight limit. Say 24 oz on the high end and 15 oz on the low end. That is more than enough to make any half-way normal size cue and weight preference still OK to use but get rid of the wackiness that out there now. Yes players should have their own equipment preference, but the sport overall needs to set hard upper and lower limits like every other spot that wants to be recognized as a professional sport. You don't just bring any golf club or golf ball you want to a PGA event; it has to be in spec. Race cars, all based on a limited template. Baseball, basketball, soccer, table tennis, all has rules for equipment governing use in official events. I mean MLB baseballs all come out of one factory, never mind just being the same construction. Bats have weight, size and material limitations. Not sure why pro pool/billiards can't do the same thing to make skill go over equipment. We are not farmers or loggers where people rely on equipment to do the work, we should do the work in the game using our human skills and not rely on the hardware to help execute the shot for us.
 
hang-the-9 said:
A league owner I know used to play Sinatra when he got sick of all the yelling metal and rap, like an hour's worth hehe.
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A heavy dose of Sinatra is worse than being locked in a phone booth with an insurance salesman.
Anyway... Sept of My Years and Cycles... Favorite Sinatra albums.
 
lfigueroa said:
It doesn't matter what your shaft is made of -- you're just wasting money, unless you're a pro player being sponsored to use a particular shaft -- the difference is minuscule.

Lou Figueroa
there
I said it
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Think Lou spoke truth, hopefully people will learn from his wisdom.
 
MajorMiscue said:
Any expenditure beyond a functional cue could be argued is a "waste of money". It's my money and I'll waste it as I see fit and I don't need someone lecturing me on the "wisdom" of others.
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If you have money to blow, or burn color yourself lucky.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Well I do not get Pickleball, but I do not have too. Truth is the game is growing, and I do not see the fascination with it. But it is in growth mode.
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It's tennis for unathletic people. Or ping pong for people without room for a table so they have to play outside. It's actually fun because you can hit the ball back and forth and it's not hard to control and you don't run yourself ragged.
 
tomatoshooter said:
It's tennis for unathletic people. Or ping pong for people without room for a table so they have to play outside. It's actually fun because you can hit the ball back and forth and it's not hard to control and you don't run yourself ragged.
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Well you might have made great observation about Pickleball.
 
People who predominantly drive their stroke with their biceps are low cue power numpties.

there. i said it. ur most likely a never-get-good numpty.

Now we're back on track....things you might get booed at for saying.
 
Could you imagine a pool player playing cornhole

"It's humid"

"The hole is too big - anyone can score on these buckets"

"This corn is too high deflection"

"Alternating who tosses first ruins the game"

"I hustled cornhole to pay my way through college - give me a few months and you watch"
 
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