Absolutely the greatest positional shot I've seen in a long time.
That was so sick!!
Absolutely the greatest positional shot I've seen in a long time.
The definition of the most "PERFECT" stroke which in turn gives the most action is, "THE LEAST AMOUNT OF EFFORT WITH THE MAXIMUM EFFECT ON THE CUE BALL". This is what a TRUE PURE stroke is!
There are many players who hit the cue ball extremely hard to create action on the cue ball, but VERY few of US who do it with a PURE PERFECT STROKE, players that come to mind are Roberto Rojas, from Mexico, Adrian Viguara, Chicago, and I have to say, myself, Bill Smith.
About 25 years ago a former Chicago Policeman John Holic, and pool fan opened a billiard room on the Northwest side of Chicago, not too far from Chris's. For the Grand Opening he invited Mike Massey to do an exhibition on the pool tables and myself to do a demonstration of Artistic Billiards on the billiard table. Naturaly Mike's show was GREAT, everyone loved the show. When it came time for me to do my thing on the billiard table alot of the spectators didn't seem to impresssed, except for the billiard players. At one point in my show Mike came forward and said, " I want everyone here to know how difficult these shots are and what ease this man executes these shots, I've never seen anyone strike the cue ball so easily and produce so much action on the cue ball, its amazing".
I never forgot those words. When Larry Nevel hung around Chris's Billiards years ago, he used to watch me practice Artistic billiards and remark in the same way Mike did. I've become quite a bit older now and my stroke isn't quite as pure, but I can still dab it a little! And I'm not really trying to blow my own horn here, its just a fact.
You can goto VEOH.com and type in Bill Smith, and you can see some videos from some exhibitions I've performed back in the day.
I will have to agree with one of the poster's in this thread that IMHO that a 3 Cushion player generally has a better stroke for EXTREME cue ball action than most pool players. "Not trying to offend the pool community", it's just that billiard players due these types of strokes on a regular basis.
Bill Smith "Mr3Cushion"
Earl has a super stroke, the forgotten pool player.
Absolutely the greatest positional shot I've seen in a long time.
Chris,
When I read your post, I went back into mine and corrected the "too" and made it a "took".
Grady knows his way around a rack. He's talked often about is it legal to "adjust" the rack a little if your oppanant is making balls on the break every time. :grin:
He's not known as "The Professor" for nuclear physics, but he does know his way around a pool room.
Hope you're well Chris!
I talked to Jon for a pretty good while earlier this year. He told me he lost a lot of time due to allowing things into his life that should not have been there. He is very aware of the issues he has dealt with and seemed to genuinely be making the effort to stay on the right path, I wish him luck.
Miz, Massey, Searcy, Busta, Wade Crane....