Masters, triangle chalk becoming outdated

philly said:
I remember a guy who told me he lost his match because he scratched too many times in his match. He was serious too, as if scratching wasn't his fault. I didn't want to tell him that his scratches were on him.
What do you think?
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Have to agree.
I've deliberately avoided blaming equipment or luck for failures throughout my pool playing. I do blame luck for a lot of my wins though. ;)
 
philly said:
Masters at the pool room, on the rail.
Taom at home. It's clean.
I chalk after almost every shot as it's part of my PSR without really noticing it so it doesn't matterwhat chalk I use.
As far as miscues and my own personal opinions, people miscue because they come out of the shot.
Just a slight head lift will do it.

I love it when someone who miscues looks at their tip as if it's the tips fault and then furiously uses their tip tapper on their tip.
It's your fault.
Not the tips fault or the chalk.
Everything that happens at the table is your own fault.
You can blame yourself when you lose and you can blame yourself when you win.
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Tweeten is not going away….pool halls are going to keep buying it….same as a driving range is not going to supply Titleists.
We got some serious players at our room, but only about 10% use Pagulayan chalk.
However, if you miscue with Silver Cup, you CAN blame it on the chalk.
 
pt109 said:
Tweeten is not going away….pool halls are going to keep buying it….same as a driving range is not going to supply Titleists.
We got some serious players at our room, but only about 10% use Pagulayan chalk.
However, if you miscue with Silver Cup, you CAN blame it on the chalk.
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I ended up with three or four brands of high dollar chalk in my case to try out that people had given me. Couldn't figure out any reason to try twenty dollar chalk when twenty cent chalk works so well. Too, if I used some kind of magic chalk that would take away one excuse for missing anyway. Now I can blame the chalk although miscues are still rarer than hen's teeth. My protocol has long been Masters before a rotation game or eightball, and chalking before I really juice the cue ball. One pocket, before I really juice a ball. I can use more chalk playing a game of one pocket than I use in a whole session of the more common games.

Since I have gotten good at ignoring it, I will admit it used to annoy me when people used chalking in their preshot routine. Get down on a shot, don't like it, stand up and and start over including more chalk. Lather, rinse, repeat, and repeat, and repeat! Their tip is starting to look like Tammy Faye's face! Which gives me a great marketing idea. Why not a chalk fixative to hold it in place after applying? Put a new label on hairspray, have people spraying it everywhere to make up for the reduction in powdered chalk, tar, and nicotine everywhere. I smell a new product in the air!

Thinking about Tammy's face gave me another great idea! Most people chalk entire cue tips after hitting one little spot. How about a tiny trowel to respread the chalk on a tip after each hit rather than applying more chalk that isn't needed on ninety percent of the tip? I think I could have one out by gift giving season.

Hu
 
after his third chalk up i would make a noise every time he grabbed it. screw him. ruining the match with that crap.
 
Sheldon said:
Have to agree.
I've deliberately avoided blaming equipment or luck for failures throughout my pool playing. I do blame luck for a lot of my wins though. ;)
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One of the funnier things from many years ago: I had been gently milking a guy for months, no big scores. One night he quit playing me. The funny part was why. He told me very sincerely, "I am a better player than you are but I can't outrun your luck!" He meant it too. We ran the same places for several years afterwards but he never played me again!

Luck is a wonderful and terrible thing!

Hu

markjames said:
this is a superb idea!
bravo!
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:D
 
ShootingArts said:
Even without the editing
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There was no editing! I captured that from a live stream and clipped that part out myself!

ShootingArts said:
One of the funnier things from many years ago: I had been gently milking a guy for months, no big scores. One night he quit playing me. The funny part was why. He told me very sincerely, "I am a better player than you are but I can't outrun your luck!" He meant it too. We ran the same places for several years afterwards but he never played me again!
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People will believe things that someone without bias would never entertain. Seems like it's getting worse, too.
 
Sheldon said:
There was no editing! I captured that from a live stream and clipped that part out myself!


People will believe things that someone without bias would never entertain. Seems like it's getting worse, too.
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Definitely grounds for slow strangulation then! I suspect he has severe obsessive compulsive disease at the least.

My dad was a heavy smoker. I noticed he couldn't get out of a chair without reaching for a cigarette to smoke while he walked even if he was just stepping across the room. A habit of decades!

Hu
 
The more I think about the chalk thing the more I laugh. I’m back to using kamui Roku. I like it better than Taom. Do I think it’s better than masters.. yes. Do I think it’s going to help me win a game .. no lol but I have money and $25 for something that I like and will last me a year and a half is nothing. I’m 53.. I buy what I like at this point in my life with no care what anyone else thinks lol trust me I’ve wasted my money on far worse things then chalk 😂
 
ShootingArts said:
I ended up with three or four brands of high dollar chalk in my case to try out that people had given me. Couldn't figure out any reason to try twenty dollar chalk when twenty cent chalk works so well. Too, if I used some kind of magic chalk that would take away one excuse for missing anyway. Now I can blame the chalk although miscues are still rarer than hen's teeth. My protocol has long been Masters before a rotation game or eightball, and chalking before I really juice the cue ball. One pocket, before I really juice a ball. I can use more chalk playing a game of one pocket than I use in a whole session of the more common games.

Since I have gotten good at ignoring it, I will admit it used to annoy me when people used chalking in their preshot routine. Get down on a shot, don't like it, stand up and and start over including more chalk. Lather, rinse, repeat, and repeat, and repeat! Their tip is starting to look like Tammy Faye's face! Which gives me a great marketing idea. Why not a chalk fixative to hold it in place after applying? Put a new label on hairspray, have people spraying it everywhere to make up for the reduction in powdered chalk, tar, and nicotine everywhere. I smell a new product in the air!

Thinking about Tammy's face gave me another great idea! Most people chalk entire cue tips after hitting one little spot. How about a tiny trowel to respread the chalk on a tip after each hit rather than applying more chalk that isn't needed on ninety percent of the tip? I think I could have one out by gift giving season.

Hu
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We could just buy all that blue eye shadow chicks used to wear in the 70s and 80s. Use it instead of masters. Gotta be the blue stuff tho.
 
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