I finally did it!

[hang-the-9]

Not that I was trying this as an accompishment, but I ran a full rack of 8 ball one handed last night playing with a friend of my son's (that was my handicap, I had to shoot one handed). Before this I don't think I have ever made more than a couple of balls.

Those mid table shots are tough to shoot one handed!

So far in the last few months I broke my high run in straight pool and now this. Maybe I'm seeing some small imporvements in my old age after all.

 

[JAM]

Congratulations!

It's all about that muscle memory. If you were to keep practicing one-handed, it will come more easily.

Cecil Tugwell used to be a right-handed player, but he got in a little trouble. Rumor is that some thugs broke his hands. Thereafter, he became a left-handed player. It's all a matter of practice, practice, practice. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

[CreeDo]

Nice ^ ...you may have to go eyes closed next to make it a fair game!

 

[TheMadScientist]

Try jacked up.

 

[Mr. Wiggles]

One handed.

Not that I was trying this as an accompishment, but I ran a full rack of 8 ball one handed last night playing with a friend of my son's (that was my handicap, I had to shoot one handed). Before this I don't think I have ever made more than a couple of balls.

Those mid table shots are tough to shoot one handed!

So far in the last few months I broke my high run in straight pool and now this. Maybe I'm seeing some small imporvements in my old age after all.

Cool! One handed is good practice now and then. Makes you concentrate. You are now ready for CHAIR POOL!! Sit in a regular chair, not a bar stool. Sit normal, not just your butt on the edge. Much like a guy in a wheel chair. More fun with more beer of course. Years ago in OKC we had a league player who played with a broom! Special tip, handmade. Tough getting beat by a guy with broom. I asked one time what happened to that guy with the broom? The smartass broom guy went to a mop!! Seriously!

 

[44Runner]

A guy on my old APA team only had one arm. He was a pretty good 6...

He used a small metal thing for a bridge. I was glad he was on my team so I didn't have the embarrassment of losing to the one armed guy in pool.

 

[Banks]

A guy on my old APA team only had one arm. He was a pretty good 6...

He used a small metal thing for a bridge. I was glad he was on my team so I didn't have the embarrassment of losing to the one armed guy in pool.

Yeah, somebody around here uses something like that.

I've got a friend that spent a while playing one-handed. A lot of people get a bit pissed when he does that, as did I.. until I realized he concentrated more when playing that way, so switching sometimes worked when he appeared to not be doing so well otherwise.

I haven't tryied shooting one-handed in a while. I can bnr a rack opposite-handed, but don't try whole racks very often any more so don't know just how long that could go.