"It's the Indian, not the arrow" the most nonsense I've ever heard.....

JPB2 said:
I will say this at the risk of sounding like I’m arguing with myself. You can’t be so fastidious about equipment that you collapse mentally if conditions aren’t right. I had that come up in a 3C tournament where my opponent, through his own fault, had to borrow a cue for our match. I won’t go into all the details, but he did not handle the situation well at all. I liked my chances against him at that point. Ironically I used a cue I bought from him to win.😁. Some players get so worked up about balls, cloth etc… they hurt their chances when competing.

I bet that if you took Hu’s perfect 1911 away and sent him to the OK Corral with an off the shelf pistol he’d focus more on the gunfight than the fact the ergonomics or sights etc… were different. That doesn’t mean ignoring equipment, it means that competitors pay attention to their equipment AND compete with what they have that moment.
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Well said.
 
pt109 said:
You are talking to a decent road player in his prime….I’ve busted action rooms playing out of the rack…but. …If there was a player that had a
chance of busting me, I went to my car and got a playing cue. Some of those house cues had me going all out to scrape out a win…..all the better when the action heated up….I probably won’t post this way again….I don’t come here to beat my chest.
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I always tried to avoid the crowds and showing anything to the locals. That stuff embarrassed me. That and why bare your ass in front of everyone?? Not taking anything away from those who enjoy putting on a show, you can't make a living from it by showing what you got.
 
ShootingArts said:
Well, to be truthful, I would rather be the one with the 1911! I had just bought some chinese food and returned to my Suburban in an almost empty parking lot. A guy was walking towards me from some apartments across the street. As he passed under a light I saw he had a 1911 in his right hand but with his hand holding it by the muzzle and dust cover. He was trying to conceal the pistol behind his hand and arm. Crapola! I can't leave before arranging the chinese food or I am going to have a hell of a mess. I have my 357 snubby with me but I'll be the first to admit I wasn't thrilled to be sitting the the SUV with a snubby revolver to go against a 1911. I had to shoot across my body and be careful not to get hot gases and bullet fragments in my eyes. Gonna be noisy as hell too, I would be stone deaf after shooting, been there before and I didn't hear for three days.

I rolled my window down to have a little more room to maneuver and shoot. At the time I was a master class shooter and in competition at least a half dozen times a month. I was alert and ready, snubby in hand although out of sight. I had been watching his right arm for awhile. If his hand started up things were going to hell in a hurry because I was emptying the snubby. He got about thirty feet away and didn't like the window down with it pretty cold and my general alert attitude watching him. He veered away and the incident was over. Later I realized that I should have tore out of there and had the car detailed the next day but I was concerned that he might start shooting and my position was better with him approaching me at mostly a side angle instead of shooting from the back.

As for pool cues, my MO was to shoot off the wall. I might have welcomed a hinged cue shooting against strong opposition shooting a custom but mine was back home. I left it in the car if I carried it and I wasn't willing to risk heat or theft.

Hu
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Once I had one stolen I never took my main player w me. Hard lesson learned.😭
 
billiards_watch said:
Showmanship.

I play on the table closest to the bar at every pool hall. It's a habit of being close to the bar and getting drinks. So whenever I'm practicing alone I will get people watching me pocket balls. I know they are watching out of amazement, or at least I want to think that, but I also have to be the showman and have something nice. I have also pondered getting an American flag cue. LOL

Like I said I can play with anything. We all like nice things.
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At a bar anyone decent can play, well... decent and run over the locals, lol.

Lou Figueroa
 
TheGrandWazoo said:
I am sure Hu can confirm a story like this.

I too, have been a Master class shooter in my chosen discipline and have trained, formally and informally, many many people in the use of firearms. Inevitability a student/friend/etc will shoot at a target, miss and blame the gun. I then ask to see their firearm and proceed hit, over and over, the same target they have been missing. Proving again it’s the carpenter not the hammer…
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Get a bigger hammer??🤣🤣
 
philly said:
He'd still beat everyone in the room with a stick off the wall, which is my point.
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He’d beat everyone except for other professional players. I think what’s missed in all of this is that if someone were to play themselves in some Mirror Mirror Star Trek Universe, I would bet on the guy who had his own custom cue over the guy who picked up something random of the bar wall (and I get to pick the bar).
 
TheGrandWazoo said:
I am sure Hu can confirm a story like this.

I too, have been a Master class shooter in my chosen discipline and have trained, formally and informally, many many people in the use of firearms. Inevitability a student/friend/etc will shoot at a target, miss and blame the gun. I then ask to see their firearm and proceed hit, over and over, the same target they have been missing. Proving again it’s the carpenter not the hammer…
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But how would you respond to someone, who overheard you talking about a new gun or purchasing a new gun and said ,
"you shouldn't buy that gun. It's the indian not the arrow."
 
billiards_watch said:
You should see me at people's houses.

I was invited to a house warming party and the owner proceeded to give us a tour of his house. He then tells me he has a game room. He opens the door to his game room and there was a pool table. 8' footer that you normally see in Costco catalogs with the slow red felt. I just acknowledge how nice the room is then one of the girls said I played pool and threw some balls on the table. So I grabbed a sticked and ran out the balls.

The look on everyone's faces. They thought I was some magician. LOL

I made sure to incorporate a stun shot, a draw shot, a bank shot and one behind my back because its my favorite. I made sure to lift one leg and pose a bit too.
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Give it a rest -- anyone who can play has done this. It does not prove your point, lol.

Knew I was going over to a neighbors house with a home style table, practiced the setup of a few trick shots, went over and had everyone thinking I was Minnesota Fats.

Lou Figueroa
 
Cue Alchemist said:
That cue was brought from a sports shop, where he saw it in the window, because it been sitting there for sometime, the butt was warped. He just learnt to use it like that.being age 12 or 13 i doubt he really cared.he just really liked his new cue. It was maple one piece. he certainly mastered it. 7 worlds says it all.
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did you read his story about when alex higgins saw the cue?
 
pt109 said:
You are talking to a decent road player in his prime….I’ve busted action rooms playing out of the rack…but. …If there was a player that had a
chance of busting me, I went to my car and got a playing cue. Some of those house cues had me going all out to scrape out a win…..all the better when the action heated up….I probably won’t post this way again….I don’t come here to beat my chest.
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Whether you don’t post like this again, you’re still correct.
 
billiards_watch said:
I already said I can play with anything and can play well with something off the wall.

I choose a cue built by an expert. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It's nonsense to think the cue made by the expert will make me a better player. I'm choosing to play with one.
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Most professional players at any sport will disagreee.

That's why, while they may be sponsored by manufacturers that mass produce cues, pros get their cues tweaked to their personal specs.

Lou Figueroa
 
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