Humidity, to the extreme...

[renard]

Last night I entered a tournament at a local pool hall. We played on 5, 9 foot Olhausens. About the time we were allowed to warm up the air conditioner in the place went belly up. Soon it felt like you were wearing a fur coat as every inch of my body was in a slow steady sweat.

Condensation soon was forming on everything. (and I mean everything!) My pool cue felt like pancake syrup had been on it and wiped off with a dry paper towel. Everything was sticky. Putting english on shots became a guessing game as many struggled with simple shots for position.

Now I have played in humid conditions before. And I felt that I adjusted to them quite well. But all those past times were not even half of what I experienced last night.

I don't think I ever truely conpensated to the conditions to become consistant. I didn't hang around to find out if I actually could. Has anyone here come across similair conditions and felt with a degree of certainty they overcame those conditions?

Last night for me was IMO the worst humid conditions that you could play in...

 

[Flex]

I don't think I ever truely conpensated to the conditions to become consistant. I didn't hang around to find out if I actually could. Has anyone here come across similair conditions and felt with a degree of certainty they overcame those conditions?

Just one time, I think I managed to compensate correctly in similar conditions. Managed to beat one of the top sticks at a game of 8 ball on 9 footers. Heard him whisper behind me that the way I was shooting the 8 ball wouldn't pot it. When it went down you shoulda seen the look on his face

Flex

 

[renard]

Just one time, I think I managed to compensate correctly in similar conditions. Managed to beat one of the top sticks at a game of 8 ball on 9 footers. Heard him whisper behind me that the way I was shooting the 8 ball wouldn't pot it. When it went down you shoulda seen the look on his face

Flex

So lets say for example, cutting a ball to the right with left english for position off the rail how did you compensate? By hitting the ball a hair fuller or thinner?

Good story by the way. I would have liked to see the look on your face after that! Satisfaction

 

[Chilifide]

Try living in Florida. One of the tricks they use at a local spot is to open up the doors when there is a money match going on. Imagine what it's like going from an air conditioned room to the Florida heat in just a few minutes.

--Chili

 

[bells]

Humidity will make everything come up short........................

 

[ShootingArts]

fairly routine when I was younger

Fairly routine conditions in much of south Louisiana when I first started playing and still not that uncommon. The cloth slows and the table banks shorter. Alcohol wipes on the stick and the bridge hand help control the stickiness somewhat. It actually seems like a bit rougher shaft doesn't grab as much as the really smooth shafts too. The balls themselves become much grabbier, especially if dirty, and throw more and acquire more english from the cue ball either from the angle hit or the english transferred from the cue ball.

I doubt that the table and balls ever stopped changing in the time you played and you never caught up with conditions from what I gather from your post.

Hu

Last night I entered a tournament at a local pool hall. We played on 5, 9 foot Olhausens. About the time we were allowed to warm up the air conditioner in the place went belly up. Soon it felt like you were wearing a fur coat as every inch of my body was in a slow steady sweat.

Condensation soon was forming on everything. (and I mean everything!) My pool cue felt like pancake syrup had been on it and wiped off with a dry paper towel. Everything was sticky. Putting english on shots became a guessing game as many struggled with simple shots for position.

Now I have played in humid conditions before. And I felt that I adjusted to them quite well. But all those past times were not even half of what I experienced last night.

I don't think I ever truely conpensated to the conditions to become consistant. I didn't hang around to find out if I actually could. Has anyone here come across similair conditions and felt with a degree of certainty they overcame those conditions?

Last night for me was IMO the worst humid conditions that you could play in...

 

[mnorwood]

The only thing that will help with the shaft is wearing a glove. I don't mind humidity but I hate to play in heat. I would have put my cue in my porper and hit the road.

 

[renard]

Fairly routine conditions in much of south Louisiana when I first started playing and still not that uncommon. The cloth slows and the table banks shorter. Alcohol wipes on the stick and the bridge hand help control the stickiness somewhat. It actually seems like a bit rougher shaft doesn't grab as much as the really smooth shafts too. The balls themselves become much grabbier, especially if dirty, and throw more and acquire more english from the cue ball either from the angle hit or the english transferred from the cue ball.

I doubt that the table and balls ever stopped changing in the time you played and you never caught up with conditions from what I gather from your post.

Hu

Your right. I never did catch up to the change. Nor did my opponents. I figured that the first to adapt would have an advantage. I won the tournament probably because no one else adapted to the conditions either.

 

[renard]

The only thing that will help with the shaft is wearing a glove. I don't mind humidity but I hate to play in heat. I would have put my cue in my porper and hit the road.

I have never worn a glove or owned one. But last night if they sold them there I would have bought one. A step up from baby powder.

By the way I didn't see any baby powder there. I found out after it was over that there was some there and just didnt ask the right person...

 

[bells]

I have never worn a glove or owned one. But last night if they sold them there I would have bought one. A step up from baby powder.

By the way I didn't see any baby powder there. I found out after it was over that there was some there and just didnt ask the right person...

A glove is a goofy damn thing ...............however you are able to make the tightest bridge imaginable with a glove

 

[ShootingArts]

I found a monster the other day

The heat was so bad that the central air in the hall was running nonstop and unable to keep up so the hall was about eighty degrees or so. A guy playing on a table near me a few days before that had mentioned that the heat was pretty bearable where he was playing because a major vent blew across this one table.

Finding the table open the next trip I scored it in a hurry. Was I glad I was just practicing! Cold air hitting half of a long rail and somewhat on the other half while not touching the other long rail. That one cushion was very cool, the one near it cool, and the rest of the table plain hot. One side banked very short, one side banked long, ball speed was crazy due to the spot of cool on the cloth; I couldn't decide if I was playing pool or miniature golf.

One thing for sure, I made a note about the table if I needed to cool off a hot player in the future. The only partial solution to it was to focus on the short game.

Hu

Your right. I never did catch up to the change. Nor did my opponents. I figured that the first to adapt would have an advantage. I won the tournament probably because no one else adapted to the conditions either.

 

[Scott Lee]

A glove is a goofy damn thing ...............however you are able to make the tightest bridge imaginable with a glove

There is absolutely nothing wrong (or gay) about wearing a pool glove! Many of today's top pros shoot with a glove all the time. My hands don't sweat, but I keep a glove in my case, for doing exhibitions when it is very humid. The cue slides very easily.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

 

[renard]

There is absolutely nothing wrong (or gay) about wearing a pool glove! Many of today's top pros shoot with a glove all the time. My hands don't sweat, but I keep a glove in my case, for doing exhibitions when it is very humid. The cue slides very easily.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

I don't see anything wrong with wearing a glove. Heck after that last experience I might just keep one in my case as well. I've learned my lesson.

I would have to get used to the feel...but do you think others will think I'm gay if I pick out a purple glove?



Just playing with you Scott, you are always professional in your opinions.

 

[renard]

The heat was so bad that the central air in the hall was running nonstop and unable to keep up so the hall was about eighty degrees or so. A guy playing on a table near me a few days before that had mentioned that the heat was pretty bearable where he was playing because a major vent blew across this one table.

Finding the table open the next trip I scored it in a hurry. Was I glad I was just practicing! Cold air hitting half of a long rail and somewhat on the other half while not touching the other long rail. That one cushion was very cool, the one near it cool, and the rest of the table plain hot. One side banked very short, one side banked long, ball speed was crazy due to the spot of cool on the cloth; I couldn't decide if I was playing pool or miniature golf.

One thing for sure, I made a note about the table if I needed to cool off a hot player in the future. The only partial solution to it was to focus on the short game.

Hu

That would be down right cruel!!! The only thing that could top it would be to add thin plywood floors. So that you walked by the endrail the table sinks slightly!!!

 

[ShootingArts]

I don't know if any of these places are left

I don't know if any of the old country places are left anymore with the plank floors that I used to play on. The cracks in the floor were so big that they never had to pick up dirt when they swept, it just dropped straight through. There was always a soft board or two under the table feet and I figured that there must be a regulation somewhere requiring that cardboard beer coasters be the shim used under the legs. When you saw an inch or more of beer coasters under one leg you knew the table had been there awhile.

As you mentioned with the thin plywood, walking on these floors when someone else was shooting was plain mean.

Hu

That would be down right cruel!!! The only thing that could top it would be to add thin plywood floors. So that you walked by the endrail the table sinks slightly!!!

 

[Flex]

So lets say for example, cutting a ball to the right with left english for position off the rail how did you compensate? By hitting the ball a hair fuller or thinner?

Good story by the way. I would have liked to see the look on your face after that! Satisfaction

Well, the one thing I did was avoid all shots with english. A pro trick shot artist once told me that when conditions get like those you describe that he foregoes many cut and throw shots in his exhibition because they become unreliable. With that information in mind, I followed his advice and basically played a center ball game. Paid off.

Was I happy?? You betcha. That fellow remembered that game a couple of months later and still was unhappy. I wonder why?? LOL

Flex

 

[TheConArtist]

Try living in Florida

How about living in the Phillipines LOL,

Your right. I never did catch up to the change. Nor did my opponents. I figured that the first to adapt would have an advantage. I won the tournament probably because no one else adapted to the conditions either

This is what makes a dangerous player, someone who is able to adjust and adapt to the tables fast, i have to switch from different size tables each time i play outside my home, from to eight, seven and nine footers. Its hard and the eight footers i am more able to adjust quickly as i have the same size table.

Heck after that last experience I might just keep one in my case as well. I've learned my lesson.

I rarely play with my glove but i keep one in my case just incase, i like it though as someone mention'd you can make the tightest bridge with one LOL.

 

[TheConArtist]

Well, the one thing I did was avoid all shots with english. A pro trick shot artist once told me that when conditions get like those you describe that he foregoes many cut and throw shots in his exhibition because they become unreliable. With that information in mind, I followed his advice and basically played a center ball game. Paid off.

Was I happy?? You betcha. That fellow remembered that game a couple of months later and still was unhappy. I wonder why?? LOL

Flex

Great Advice, just like when the commentator on a match said Buddy Hall once told him why play position for a shot when you have position.