Do you agree with this statement?
- Thread starter alstl
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One word - YES!
What they both said.
I disagree. Here is my reasoning...
Most 9 footers I play on, or choose to play on, are pretty decent tables with minimal roll and good balls and cloth. Most barboxes (ok all) in this city are garbage with terrible everything. You have to start hitting hard punch strokes and forget about using the rails. Attempting to rack is a lesson in futility and only results in a crap break as a result of a sore back.
I do agree that with regards to stroke it can be much harder to adapt up to a 9 footer over a 7 foot...however I do feel that moving to better quality equipment helps ease that pain.
Just my 2 cents....Canadian...so .5 American.
Most 9 footers I play on, or choose to play on, are pretty decent tables with minimal roll and good balls and cloth. Most barboxes (ok all) in this city are garbage with terrible everything. You have to start hitting hard punch strokes and forget about using the rails. Attempting to rack is a lesson in futility and only results in a crap break as a result of a sore back.
I do agree that with regards to stroke it can be much harder to adapt up to a 9 footer over a 7 foot...however I do feel that moving to better quality equipment helps ease that pain.
Just my 2 cents....Canadian...so .5 American.
Yes! You should try 12' to a 7'... Long pot, where?
Two different worlds.
No
on a 3.5-7 your balls are much closer you have less room to work then on a 9 footer..But your eye should be some what better on your longer shots from a 9ft. to a 7.5ft.But then at my age after playing on a bar box and going to a 9ft. it somtimes looks like a football feild..
on a 3.5-7 your balls are much closer you have less room to work then on a 9 footer..But your eye should be some what better on your longer shots from a 9ft. to a 7.5ft.But then at my age after playing on a bar box and going to a 9ft. it somtimes looks like a football feild..
Lol aint that the truth!
I once potted a red on a snooker table in Singapore diagonally the length of a twelve foot table. Of course I acted like i did it all the time but I sure knew how lucky I was!
In 50 years of playing on 9 foot tables i may have played 10 times on a bar box. A couple of months ago i joined a bar league.We play on very good Valley tables with slow cloth but oh my are the pockets big. I rarely miss a ball but my position is a little off because if i don't think about it i use the fast cloth stroke and i come up a little short now and then. But with the big pockets and the shorter shots missing position by a couple of inches doesn't make the shots harder just the angles are off and i sometimes have to change the pattern.