new adjustments...help! long winded sorry!

smokeandapancak

smokeandapancak

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I just got back form my first trip to the States in a long time (5yrs or so). Since I have been over hereI have turned up the pool playing so I was looking forward to coming home and showing some "new" skill off to the old gang... Well...didnt work out so well ... every table and almost every place we went was a bar box...everywhere.... I havent seen one of those in,well in 5 years everything over here is 9ft...needless to say I had a tough time adjusting..I thought it would be easier...but not the case I got hung up more than a few times..plus I have a habit of stroking harder than I have to ..even on 9fts...I sent a few balls off the table:) ...
Plus, to complicate things even further I was wearing glasses for the first time in about 7 years...totally jacked everything up.. my sight isnt that bad..but I cant read numbers on a ball and the other end of a 9ft table... too many variables were thrown in... so I guess this is a two part question..
how did/do you adjust from a regulation table to a box an dhow did/do you adjust to glasses and shooting.... BTW contacts are a no go...freaks me out to think about shoving plastic into my eye:eek:

sorry for the book... i am bored so what else am I gonna do ?
 
eyes are a tough call

For me, much more finesse shooting on a bar table and more safeties. With so little playing surface the relative size of the balls is huge. Lots to duck behind.

On the glasses subject, I am in the same boat. I can't see without them, I can't see with them. I tried shooting with some very weak lenses on a couple of times but I really don't know if I could ever adjust to shooting with them. This was on a nine footer, the weak glasses might work on a bar box. The ears have been gone for years, the teeth are falling almost as fast as the hair but damn I miss my eyes!

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smokeandapancak said:
I just got back form my first trip to the States in a long time (5yrs or so). Since I have been over hereI have turned up the pool playing so I was looking forward to coming home and showing some "new" skill off to the old gang... Well...didnt work out so well ... every table and almost every place we went was a bar box...everywhere.... I havent seen one of those in,well in 5 years everything over here is 9ft...needless to say I had a tough time adjusting..I thought it would be easier...but not the case I got hung up more than a few times..plus I have a habit of stroking harder than I have to ..even on 9fts...I sent a few balls off the table:) ...
Plus, to complicate things even further I was wearing glasses for the first time in about 7 years...totally jacked everything up.. my sight isnt that bad..but I cant read numbers on a ball and the other end of a 9ft table... too many variables were thrown in... so I guess this is a two part question..
how did/do you adjust from a regulation table to a box an dhow did/do you adjust to glasses and shooting.... BTW contacts are a no go...freaks me out to think about shoving plastic into my eye:eek:

sorry for the book... i am bored so what else am I gonna do ?
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