Have to ask this question.

[SmoothStroke]

Michael...I'm ready for the first installment, but you'll have to start at the beginning. No big words and some pictures for me, is all I ask. After all, you're dealing with a pool player or two. :thumbup:

Best,
Mike

I try to stay away from the big words and keep it simple. You went and used derision, I think you meant Venison. I would have just called it deer meat; we can have a discussion over a bowl of deer meat.

I have thought about the big word thingy and simple explanations when I searched titles.. There are books titled Pool and Billiards for Dummies and Billiards 101.

I am thinking we call it Deer Strokes, Shoot before you get shot, or Balabushka Bambi Strokes again.

It will include a pull out that you put on the floor for different foot positions and finding visual center.
It will include sexy photos for men and women to find their core and also to look at things from all angles.
You place a photo 9 ft away and step into one of the foot positions and zero in, like TV commercials work your brain.
I am big on visual instruction and photos, monkey see monkey do if I can do it so can you.
Any feedback is welcome

SS

 

[SmoothStroke]

Harry was a strong advocate of an upstroke. He "wished he learned it much earlier" in his playing career. Harry learned it from Allen Gilbert and would comment on Sang Lee's extensive use of it. Many many shots he would recommend its use.

Great thread and no flame throwing.

3kushn nice of you to chime in, we are safe in numbers, haha.
Good to see a billiard player chiming in. The stroke does not discriminate against games or players,as you know.

I come from the Northeast where straight pool and 3 cushion are normal. Masters Billiards and Carom Café is where I went to learn and get my butt handed to me for 3 cushion. Although I have had it handed to me in many places.

I think Sang Lee won 10 or 12 consecutive USBA National Titles, not bad for a guy who used the upstroke technique.
From Mosconi to Efren, Ko Pin Yi, Earl, Mika, Thorsten, Sang Lee, Blomdahl, Caudron and many other champions in all disciplines, they all have this technique in their tool box and use it quite often.

Add to upstroking, pinning, dust stroke, smothering, hammering, clearing and more, I wonder if any of them ever make it in writing or the hall of fame like the players who use them and mastered them.

SS

 

[3kushn]

In 2 weeks from today the Sang Lee Memorial now called the Verhoeven Open will begin. I will be there on the back end to watch and conduct some Official Duties. Hopefully more watching and learning than business. Have never witnessed the big boys in person. YouTube is nearly worthless for learning strokes.

Wish I knew what, pinning, dusting, smothering, hammering, clearing is all about. Pinning has been discussed at length and should go back through it. Me think me didn't get it the first time and gave up. Maybe getting too old to learn anymore.

I just like to learn. I purchased the latest 1P book, fully aware that if I play one more game before I meet up with Harry Sims again it'll be a miracle. It'll look good in the library although. Literary hustle.

 

[SmoothStroke]

In 2 weeks from today the Sang Lee Memorial now called the Verhoeven Open will begin. I will be there on the back end to watch and conduct some Official Duties. Hopefully more watching and learning than business. Have never witnessed the big boys in person. YouTube is nearly worthless for learning strokes.

Wish I knew what, pinning, dusting, smothering, hammering, clearing is all about. Pinning has been discussed at length and should go back through it. Me think me didn't get it the first time and gave up. Maybe getting too old to learn anymore.

I just like to learn. I purchased the latest 1P book, fully aware that if I play one more game before I meet up with Harry Sims again it'll be a miracle. It'll look good in the library although. Literary hustle.

I will be away for a fishing tourney. If anything happens and I can get to Carom you can bet I will be there. It's going to be a fantastic event.
If I can I will send you a message and we can have coffee, or a Martini and shoot the bull, the thai food in the area is great.

SS