One Foot On The Floor

BamaFan said:
I just saw the strangest thing that I have ever seen in a pro match. Fedor Gorst vs Alex Pagulayan in a One Pocket match. Gorst gets on the table to make a shot with both of his knees on the table and his feet hanging off the table three feet off the floor. No one said a word to him, not even Alex. Does the one foot on the floor rule not apply in one pocket?
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Thats the way things were done all the time in a pool hall in the 70's
 
TheBasics said:
Howdy All;

I have a brother that lost his foot due to medical reasons. He could,
""technically" remove it and leave it on the floor while he crawled around on the table.
chucklin'

hank
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I had forgotten, I played with a guy missing a foot too. He joked or threatened to take the foot off but I don't think he ever did.

There was a severely vertically challenged guy we played with too. While we didn't allow him to crawl or walk around on the table, we didn't enforce two feet on the floor either. He was around four feet even best I recall. I did relax the rules a bit for a lady I played with a lot too. She would try to claim a little taller but a tape measure showed her at four feet eleven. Another person most of us didn't enforce the two feet on the floor rule when playing.

Hu
 
Anyone remember this one…….I located the original photographer for this poster, Lou Cippolini.
He couldn’t find any more posters but he searched and found his original ten (10) artists proofs.

I inquired about buying one. Lou kept posters #1 & 2 for himself and I got #3 signed and dated
with a certicate of authenticity. Not sure where the other 7 went but these posters sold out fast.

Over the past six decades of visiting countless pool halls around the nation and playing on so many
home tables setups, I’ve viewed lots of various decors & photos but this poster remains my favorite.

So I invested a lot more having it framed and matted than the actual poster cost but I think it expresses
class and satirical wit equally well. One thing largely unnoticed is the assembly of cues in the background.
 

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Bavafongoul said:
Anyone remember this one…….I located the original photographer for this poster, Lou Cippolini.
He couldn’t find any more posters but he searched and found his original ten (10) artists proofs.

I inquired about buying one. Lou kept posters #1 & 2 for himself and I got #3 signed and dated
with a certicate of authenticity. Not sure where the other 7 went but these posters sold out fast.

Over the past six decades of visiting countless pool halls around the nation and playing on so many
home tables setups, I’ve viewed lots of various decors & photos but this poster remains my favorite.

So I invested a lot more having it framed and matted than the actual poster cost but I think it expresses
class and satirical wit equally well. One thing largely unnoticed is the assembly of cues in the background.
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My childhood pool room was call Cue Corner and owned by a Veteran named Pete. He had one leg and as far as I can tell that is him in the picture. That was in Downingtown PA. Room long gone now...
 
3kushn said:
Thats the way things were done all the time in a pool hall in the 70's
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Not all of them. When I started playing pool in Durham, NC in the mid-60's, getting on the table was routine, though I swear that when "Fat Harold" (think Spanky McFarland's face grafted onto Donald Trump's body) got up there, the balls all started rolling towards where his fat ass was lying!

But when I got back home to DC I was shocked to discover the one foot on the floor rule, at least in the inner city. Can't remember the rule at Weenie Beanie's, but if it was one foot on the floor it must not have applied to women, because when the 17 year old Robin Bell came through town with Richie Florence, the sight of her then-voluptuous figure sprawled across the table was truly a sight for the ages.
 
As a rule, midgets don’t play basketball, and there are no obese jockeys. Some ‘hundred ball runners’ are restricted to their wheelchairs though. Changing the traditional regulations to suit the handicapped is (IMHO) insulting to those who have overcome the challenge.
 
Cornerman said:
The sturdiest tables going!
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Buffalo's gets a lot of flak for overlooking the foot on the floor rule, but here is the current world snooker champion in a big pro event (Tour Championship), shooting a hard-to-reach shot. Amazing. Notice how he carefully keeps his shoes off the table. As for sturdiest table, notice that 12' monster has eight legs.

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I have and still occasionally do put one leg up laying flat on the long rail or one knee up on the playing surface to reach certain shots, but always have the one (the other leg's) foot on the floor.
 
sbrownn said:
I have and still occasionally do put one leg up laying flat on the long rail or one knee up on the playing surface to reach certain shots, but always have the one (the other leg's) foot on the floor.
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I lay the leg out sometimes too. However when you lay the leg out as you bend over it is a surefire tell that you have played pool before!

Hu
 
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Playing in Mt Vernon IL years ago, one pocket on a 4x8 Schmidt, every time my opponent got on the table, I had to relearn the rolls.
…..my second month playing one hole….broke even after ten hours…shot circles around the guy who weighed ‘bout 280.
 
the pool room makes the rules. as it should be.

when i play i make my rules. and many players make theirs or reinforce certain ones.
 
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