In this YouTube video Kim Davenport makes a great comeback against Johnny Archer. I remember him making a similar comeback once against JR Calvert on a tour stop in San Diego, CA around 1995. A good lesson for all........never give up!
In the filming of the match they had a cameraman with a shoulder mounted camera. He was able to get a couple good straight-on views of few shots by Kim. On these shots there's a noticeable slight crookedness to his stroke . On the chopped segments below are two examples of this:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978158
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978186
Kim was a great champion and his accomplishments in the game speak for themselves. But perhaps this is why he played just a hair under the very best at the time.........Earl, Sigel, Buddy, etc. A slight stroke flaw like this will undoubtedly cause a miss here and there, especially pressure shots with distance.
In this YouTube video Kim Davenport makes a great comeback against Johnny Archer. I remember him making a similar comeback once against JR Calvert on a tour stop in San Diego, CA around 1995. A good lesson for all........never give up!
In the filming of the match they had a cameraman with a shoulder mounted camera. He was able to get a couple good straight-on views of few shots by Kim. On these shots there's a noticeable slight crookedness to his stroke . On the chopped segments below are two examples of this:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978158
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978186
Kim was a great champion and his accomplishments in the game speak for themselves. But perhaps this is why he played just a hair under the very best at the time.........Earl, Sigel, Buddy, etc. A slight stroke flaw like this will undoubtedly cause a miss here and there, especially pressure shots with distance.
perhaps this is why he played just a hair under the very best at the time..
Too bad you were not around to coach Kim in those days. Perhaps he could have been Player of the Year more than just once.
You're proof that one can be both sarcastic and right at the same time.
I saw him play when he played on the road. I don't know what his real ambitions were in the game but he had it to be as good as anyone whoever played the game. Some players in all sports, just don't take their game as far as it could have been for what ever reasons. In pool for most, it is usually the game is just not worth the effort.In this YouTube video Kim Davenport makes a great comeback against Johnny Archer. I remember him making a similar comeback once against JR Calvert on a tour stop in San Diego, CA around 1995. A good lesson for all........never give up!
In the filming of the match they had a cameraman with a shoulder mounted camera. He was able to get a couple good straight-on views of few shots by Kim. On these shots there's a noticeable slight crookedness to his stroke . On the chopped segments below are two examples of this:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978158
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978186
Kim was a great champion and his accomplishments in the game speak for themselves. But perhaps this is why he played just a hair under the very best at the time.........Earl, Sigel, Buddy, etc. A slight stroke flaw like this will undoubtedly cause a miss here and there, especially pressure shots with distance.
That's interesting - thanks for posting it.In this YouTube video Kim Davenport makes a great comeback against Johnny Archer. I remember him making a similar comeback once against JR Calvert on a tour stop in San Diego, CA around 1995. A good lesson for all........never give up!
In the filming of the match they had a cameraman with a shoulder mounted camera. He was able to get a couple good straight-on views of few shots by Kim. On these shots there's a noticeable slight crookedness to his stroke . On the chopped segments below are two examples of this:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978158
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5978186
Kim was a great champion and his accomplishments in the game speak for themselves. But perhaps this is why he played just a hair under the very best at the time.........Earl, Sigel, Buddy, etc. A slight stroke flaw like this will undoubtedly cause a miss here and there, especially pressure shots with distance.
What kind of accident? Did he get hit with a ball?I disagree with those who said Kim was a shade less than the top pros of his time; I believe he was right up there with them..........
It was tragic and a damn shame that golf range accident happened to him.
I hope he sued the place for messing up his pool career.
What kind of accident? Did he get hit with a ball?
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Not true at all. Kim and Nick Varner (as well as other pros) availed themselves of a nationally-recognized longtime coach: Hal Mix (one of the best-of-the best players' coaches). I had a lunch with Hal at the 1992 L.A. 9-ball championship (he was then about in his seventies) and it was a pleasure to realize what observational skills he had with regard to noticing and tweaking errors that had crept into the games of the pros who paid for his corrective services.Yeah, too bad that NOBODY was around back then coaching/instructing the pros.......they were essentially on their own.
Funny you mention him. I just came across a floppy disk I have marked Hal Mix. I am curious what is on it, I don't remember. I did talk to him a few times.Not true at all. Kim and Nick Varner (as well as other pros) availed themselves of a nationally-recognized longtime coach: Hal Mix (one of the best-of-the best players' coaches). I had a lunch with Hal at the 1992 L.A. 9-ball championship (he was then about in his seventies) and it was a pleasure to realize what observational skills he had with regard to noticing and tweaking errors that had crept into the games of the pros who paid for his corrective services.
Kim came by and sat with us and the subject came up of hitches in the strokes of even the best of past and then-current top-level players. Hal stated flatly that in all his years around top players he had only seen 3 players with absolutely straight, and hitch-free strokes, and Mizerak's was by far the straightest and purest of them all.
He was quick to add however, that regardless of hitches that he had often observed (and correctively-minimized) including with Kim one of the present pros he was then assisting, it was plainly obvious to him that virtually every pro manages to deliver the meaningful final few inches of the forward stroke in a very straight manner or they wouldn't be where they are.
Look up Hal Mix's bio and story. He did try to put some of his principles into booklet form but articulating them writing was less of gift for him than his one-on-one interactions with the pros and top non-pros who sought him out for private, hands-on coaching sessions in person.
Arnaldo