Just A Few Tips To Continue That Run

[Johnnyt]

There are a few things you can do to bring your average ball run count up a bit w/o having your game get better. When we see the pros play they are almost always playing on close to perfect tables with the best balls and equipment. Dirty balls, marks and chalk on balls, and dirty cloth cause a tremendous amount of missed and/or CB that misses the position you need to continue.

Keeping your shaft clean and slick (esp. using a closed bridge) and keeping your tip maintained and well chalked can eliminate that miss-cue that stops your run or getting out in rotation games.

If you are a fast player try to slow down and take in the whole table before each shot. I was a very fast player for years. As I got older I slowed down and probably gained a ball to my game. When I had to quit playing after 60 years I was very close to playing at my top speed 25 years ago. Till the day I had to quit I could still beat the 9-ball ghost w/bih most days and had many over 70 ball runs. This was on a BB with 4” pockets, fast Diamond like rails, and both designed by the Cobra. Hope this helps some on here. Johnnyt

 

[SCCues]

There are a few things you can do to bring your average ball run count up a bit w/o having your game get better. When we see the pros play they are almost always playing on close to perfect tables with the best balls and equipment. Dirty balls, marks and chalk on balls, and dirty cloth cause a tremendous amount of missed and/or CB that misses the position you need to continue.

Johnnyt

This is so important and a lot of people don't think about the table, balls, CB etc. I play in a weekly local 9 ball league and the place we used to play our matches at had the worst tables to try and play position on you will find. The LO had the bar install simonis cloth on his bar tables and that turned out to be a disaster because the rails were all different (some fast and some dead) and we were using a heavy bar table cue ball plus the tables were not level! Now picture shooting a cut shot in the corner and coming out two rails to the center of the table trying to predict how hard to hit the ball wondering if the rails were fast on that end or dead! It was a nightmare unless you babied the ball using a soft hit on the cue ball which I don't do because I like to strike the cue ball with a firm stroke.

It has to be heaven to a pool player to play on perfect predictable equipment like the pros normally do in big tournaments.

James

 

[ENGLISH!]

There are a few things you can do to bring your average ball run count up a bit w/o having your game get better. When we see the pros play they are almost always playing on close to perfect tables with the best balls and equipment. Dirty balls, marks and chalk on balls, and dirty cloth cause a tremendous amount of missed and/or CB that misses the position you need to continue.

Keeping your shaft clean and slick (esp. using a closed bridge) and keeping your tip maintained and well chalked can eliminate that miss-cue that stops your run or getting out in rotation games.

If you are a fast player try to slow down and take in the whole table before each shot. I was a very fast player for years. As I got older I slowed down and probably gained a ball to my game. When I had to quit playing after 60 years I was very close to playing at my top speed 25 years ago. Till the day I had to quit I could still beat the 9-ball ghost w/bih most days and had many over 70 ball runs. This was on a BB with 4” pockets, fast Diamond like rails, and both designed by the Cobra. Hope this helps some on here. Johnnyt

Good Post. I agree with everything, especially taking in the whole table each time. Some young guns don't like that I play somewhat slow, but they rack way more often than I ever do.