Finally my own pooltable!!!
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Forgot camera... will take a pic or two tomorrow. But the table looks just like the picture above, but with blue cloth 
Banged balls around for 1 hour to get the feel of the table, then decided to try my luck against Ralf Souquet (The Ghost).
I played with the rules Roberto Gomez learnt me. Always ball in hand after the break. If you make a ball on a legal break, you get 3 points. Then you get 9 points if you win the rack, so maximum 12 points each rack if you win and make a ball.
If you only make 5 balls before you miss, then you get 5 points + 3 points if you pocketed a ball on the break.
Play 10 racks. Maximum score = 120 points. (30 on the break + 90 for making all balls).
I won 8 - 2 against Ralf Souquet, and missed my first shot on 6 - 0. It was an easy shot, but I was actually nervous because I played so good and I started to think that I would hand Ralf a donut...
I scored 107 points, which is the highest I have scored in this test.
FYI, when I did this test with Roberto Gomez and the Bugsy guys in February 2007, I made 93 (won 7-3) and thought I played good. On the tables next to me Jharome Pena, Jeffrey De Luna, Carlo Biado, Roberto Gomez and the rest of the Bugsy guys made scores of 115 +, and I remember that Gabica made a perfect score of 120... All of them either won 9-1 or 10-0, but sometimes they failed to make a ball on the break and couldn't achieve maximum score...
Still some work to do...
Banged balls around for 1 hour to get the feel of the table, then decided to try my luck against Ralf Souquet (The Ghost).
I played with the rules Roberto Gomez learnt me. Always ball in hand after the break. If you make a ball on a legal break, you get 3 points. Then you get 9 points if you win the rack, so maximum 12 points each rack if you win and make a ball.
If you only make 5 balls before you miss, then you get 5 points + 3 points if you pocketed a ball on the break.
Play 10 racks. Maximum score = 120 points. (30 on the break + 90 for making all balls).
I won 8 - 2 against Ralf Souquet, and missed my first shot on 6 - 0. It was an easy shot, but I was actually nervous because I played so good and I started to think that I would hand Ralf a donut...
I scored 107 points, which is the highest I have scored in this test.
FYI, when I did this test with Roberto Gomez and the Bugsy guys in February 2007, I made 93 (won 7-3) and thought I played good. On the tables next to me Jharome Pena, Jeffrey De Luna, Carlo Biado, Roberto Gomez and the rest of the Bugsy guys made scores of 115 +, and I remember that Gabica made a perfect score of 120... All of them either won 9-1 or 10-0, but sometimes they failed to make a ball on the break and couldn't achieve maximum score...
Still some work to do...
Roy Steffensen said:Forgot camera... will take a pic or two tomorrow. But the table looks just like the picture above, but with blue cloth
Banged balls around for 1 hour to get the feel of the table, then decided to try my luck against Ralf Souquet (The Ghost).
I played with the rules Roberto Gomez learnt me. Always ball in hand after the break. If you make a ball on a legal break, you get 3 points. Then you get 9 points if you win the rack, so maximum 12 points each rack if you win and make a ball.
If you only make 5 balls before you miss, then you get 5 points + 3 points if you pocketed a ball on the break.
Play 10 racks. Maximum score = 120 points. (30 on the break + 90 for making all balls).
I won 8 - 2 against Ralf Souquet, and missed my first shot on 6 - 0. It was an easy shot, but I was actually nervous because I played so good and I started to think that I would hand Ralf a donut...
I scored 107 points, which is the highest I have scored in this test.
FYI, when I did this test with Roberto Gomez and the Bugsy guys in February 2007, I made 93 (won 7-3) and thought I played good. On the tables next to me Jharome Pena, Jeffrey De Luna, Carlo Biado, Roberto Gomez and the rest of the Bugsy guys made scores of 115 +, and I remember that Gabica made a perfect score of 120... All of them either won 9-1 or 10-0, but sometimes they failed to make a ball on the break and couldn't achieve maximum score...
Still some work to do...
One day, I would like to "hear" your story about how you got hooked into playing pool. No pool table at home. No pool hall close by. Have to take a ferry to get to the land where the pool hall is located. Travel to other countries just to play better players...Sheesh. You got it baddddddddddddd.
JoeyA
JoeyA said:
lol...
When I moved to Stavanger to go to high school in 1996 (age 16), I found an apartment near the school. One day I walked around in the neighborhood, and just 5 minutes from me there was a poolhall with 12 Gold Crown tables and 3 snookertables.
For some reason I walked in, and inside just a few guys were there. None of them seemed to notice me, but I asked them just a few questions about the poolhall, prices etc. After a few minutes one of the guys said I should join a beginners class that weekend, and I decided to jump into it.
After a few weeks I had a job there, and I played every day for one year. Then the poolhall had to close because the owners of the building had sold it and it was now gonna be a hotel. I quit playing, but then, 5-6 years later without playing pool I moved to Oslo and started in a new job there.
Only 5 minutes of walking from my work there was a poolhall, and after a month walking by I decided to check it out. The first guy I met in there was the same guy that welcomed me in Stavanger. He was now working at the poolhall in Oslo.
I ended up playing again, and after 2,5 years I was totally addicted to pool.. He and I opened ElbowRoom, Norway's biggest poolhall, and after only few weeks, October 2006, we hosted an Eurotour for women.
At that tournament I met Niels Feijen, who was there to cheer on his girlfriend Kat. After that meeting I got interested in the pro tournaments, and just a few months later I organized qualifiers for IPT, big open tournaments with players as Mika Immonen, Feijen, Souquet, Gomez, Ortmann, Ouschan etc
Then I went on holiday to Philippines, and Gomez was my guide there showing me One Side, Side Pocket, Efren Reyes.
And now, here I am, totally addicted...
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Roy Steffensen said:
Roy-Boy,
A good friend of mine witnessed George Breedlove and Efren Reyes each play 100 games against the 9-ball ghost using your rules (but just keeping track of won-loss record, not using your point system).
Efren won 82 games out of 100 (I think I recall GB credited with 81 out of 100).
If you can beat the thirteen-ball ghost in a 5-ahead set they both think you have done something.
P.S. - Congratulations on the table; enjoy it; and we all look forward to your next appearance on the Mosconi Cup team......errrr....well.....if Norway is part of the deal.
Roy Steffensen said:I live on a small island, Kvitsoy, outside Stavanger, Norway in Northern Europe, and if I want to practise pool I will have to travel with ferry for 30 minutes, then by car for 30 minutes. Add waiting time for the ferry, and total time travelling is almost 2,5 hours every day.
Finally I have got a pooltable, but unfortunately I didn't have enough space to have it in my house. Luckily a company here wanted to help me, and they have given me access to their exercise-room, and said I can put up the table in there and use the room as much as I want. They had a pingpong-table there, but none of the staff uses neither the table or the room, so I have moved the pingpong-table away
Not only do I get a pooltable 3,5 kilometers from my home, I will also get full access to a room filled with exercise-equipment like weights, bike, wallbars, wardrobe, shower, lockers etc., so now I can improve my body and health aswell as my gameIt's actually perfect, since I have started to run that distance twice a week. Now I can run there twice a week, lift some weights, then shower, practise some pool and walk back home again.
Almost done with the table. Have levelled it, and need to put on the cloth now, will do that tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I will practise a lot this weekend
The table is a danish model, Soren Sogaard. It is pretty old, but I got it cheap. I will tighten the pockets, put on new rails, use tournament cloth and voila, it's just like any other pooltable
Just excited, wanted to share it with you
Congrats, Roy, I am happy for you! But you don't need any exercise equipment. You will get enought exercise RUNNING the table!
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Roy Steffensen said:I live on a small island, Kvitsoy, outside Stavanger, Norway in Northern Europe, and if I want to practise pool I will have to travel with ferry for 30 minutes, then by car for 30 minutes. Add waiting time for the ferry, and total time travelling is almost 2,5 hours every day.
Finally I have got a pooltable, but unfortunately I didn't have enough space to have it in my house. Luckily a company here wanted to help me, and they have given me access to their exercise-room, and said I can put up the table in there and use the room as much as I want. They had a pingpong-table there, but none of the staff uses neither the table or the room, so I have moved the pingpong-table away
Not only do I get a pooltable 3,5 kilometers from my home, I will also get full access to a room filled with exercise-equipment like weights, bike, wallbars, wardrobe, shower, lockers etc., so now I can improve my body and health aswell as my game
Almost done with the table. Have levelled it, and need to put on the cloth now, will do that tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I will practise a lot this weekend
The table is a danish model, Soren Sogaard. It is pretty old, but I got it cheap. I will tighten the pockets, put on new rails, use tournament cloth and voila, it's just like any other pooltable
Just excited, wanted to share it with you
that kewl, post some pics when you get a chance..
Roy,Roy Steffensen said:Hopefully I will practise a lot this weekend
The table is a danish model, Soren Sogaard. It is pretty old, but I got it cheap. I will tighten the pockets, put on new rails, use tournament cloth and voila, it's just like any other pooltable
Just excited, wanted to share it with you
The Filipinos have been informed and have doubled their training regimins. :thumbup:
One serious note though, gym before play is not such a good idea if it includes arm weights. Messes with your speed play heaps. If you're gonna do arm weights, better to do it after your pool session.
Good luck and enjoy your improvements!
Colin
JoeyA said:
It's funny, although I've never met Roy in person, both he and I happen to come from the very same rustic island community far out in a fjord-arm of Norway's west coast -- in fact, I thought I came from the coolest place on earth until I discovered that the island where Roy's from is even smaller and less populated than mine. I've only been to his island once as a kid when I stole my grandfather's fish-boat, (don't ask): http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3693834-lg.jpg
And here's where I'm from, just a few miles from Roy's: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~peer/norwayLanda.html
Now, when he got his own table, there's yet another enticement for me to visit home -- need to play Roy the boy.
-- peer
Peer said:
It looks like a place that belongs in a storybook, not in real life. The area looks very rural and fishing is practically the only thing I know about Norway. (The very small sardines in the can soaked in olive oil with a picture of the guy in the big yellow raincoat on the front of the can; that they no longer make.) (dumb American)
Roy belongs in the Manila, Florida, New York or maybe California.
However, I guess that's one of the things that I like about pool. You can play it anywhere, anytime, with or without company. You are your own competiton and you can set the limits of your ability by the amount of quality time you wish to invest.
JoeyA
JimS said:
It is a very beautiful area, and the lifestyle is mostly wonderful. Quiet, relaxed, no traffic etc. Only 550 people living here, so everybody knows eachother. At the supermarket you talk with all the customers
These days, from October 1st to November 30th it is allowed to fish lobster, so after work dad and I use a couple of hours on the sea fishing lobsters. So far we have got 20 lobsters, so it will be some delicious dinners during the next weeks
Here's a picture of Kvitsoy, taken from a plane.
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Williebetmore said:
And I won 8 out of 10, so guess I am just as good as Efren then?
I can only dream about beating the 13-ball ghost...
Mosconi Cup: We can have a Mini-Mosconi, Norway - USA, match when I will visit Betmore's Basement
http://home.no.net/arildst5/pan aug.htm
A link to a picture of the East side of Kvitsoy, taken from the top of the lighthouse.
JoeyA: I do feel like I belong both here and in Manila, London, Amsterdam etc... I want the best of two worlds.. Guess that is impossible, so I will just have to keep on travelling
In mid of November I will spend 1 week in the "new" Mecca of pool, London. Hopefully I will get a chance to play some of the best in Britian then.
A link to a picture of the East side of Kvitsoy, taken from the top of the lighthouse.
JoeyA: I do feel like I belong both here and in Manila, London, Amsterdam etc... I want the best of two worlds.. Guess that is impossible, so I will just have to keep on travelling
In mid of November I will spend 1 week in the "new" Mecca of pool, London. Hopefully I will get a chance to play some of the best in Britian then.
Colin Colenso said:
Lol, I don't think the Filipinos need to be afraid
Thanks for the advice about the gym, you are probably right about that!
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Roy Steffensen said:And I won 8 out of 10, so guess I am just as good as Efren then?
I can only dream about beating the 13-ball ghost...
Mosconi Cup: We can have a Mini-Mosconi, Norway - USA, match when I will visit Betmore's Basement
RS,
Yes, Efren can only dream of matching your abilities.
The "Mini-Mosconi Cup" idea is excellent. I will take care of providing the rowdy fans who drink and chant while we try to play (elvicash and steev and AndyB and eales could all be recruited for duty).
Roy,
The pictures of your island and home area bring back to me how far ranging the AZ members are, and how far away many of us live. Your story of your island and the pool table is actually both heartwarming and inspiring to many.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck with the table and the ghost.
Will prout
The pictures of your island and home area bring back to me how far ranging the AZ members are, and how far away many of us live. Your story of your island and the pool table is actually both heartwarming and inspiring to many.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck with the table and the ghost.
Will prout
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I brought my videocamera today, and was supposed to do some drills, then shoot some 14-1 and try to tape a high run.
After the drills I did 5 tries of 14-1, but it was terrible. I made a 25-run, but after the 5 tries I had only 28 balls total
I decided to just bang some balls in 9-ball instead, just try to get in stroke. Didn't focus too much on either shotroutine or position, just shooting a bit faster than normal while enjoying to finally be able to play again. After I missed on an easy 7-ball, shooting to fast, I realised I had wasted a chance to get 4 consecutive break & runs on tape...
Anyway, I got 3 consecutive break & runs on tape. You can check it out by following the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12tpmRHmZs
As you can see I haven't got the "buckets" for the sidepockets yet, so I have boxes under the sidepockets (I received 6 corner-buckets, instead of 4 + 2). I still haven't changed the rails, so haven't tightened up the table yet... 
I brought my videocamera today, and was supposed to do some drills, then shoot some 14-1 and try to tape a high run.
After the drills I did 5 tries of 14-1, but it was terrible. I made a 25-run, but after the 5 tries I had only 28 balls total
I decided to just bang some balls in 9-ball instead, just try to get in stroke. Didn't focus too much on either shotroutine or position, just shooting a bit faster than normal while enjoying to finally be able to play again. After I missed on an easy 7-ball, shooting to fast, I realised I had wasted a chance to get 4 consecutive break & runs on tape...
Anyway, I got 3 consecutive break & runs on tape. You can check it out by following the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12tpmRHmZs
As you can see I haven't got the "buckets" for the sidepockets yet, so I have boxes under the sidepockets
(I received 6 corner-buckets, instead of 4 + 2). I still haven't changed the rails, so haven't tightened up the table yet...
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