Actually, I was complaining about him "targeting" me. You think he was being likeable in his comment to me?
You seem pretty eager to complain too...
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You seem pretty eager to complain too...
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I mean petty sniping based on personal animosity rather than what's on the screen.
Having forum "enemies".
It's dumb, childish and disruptive.
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And I still don't know the difference between ability and skill.
That's my immediate thought too, and the game I like for honing OB and CB speed skills - you have to control both on most shots, to close tolerances. For instance, it isn't uncommon to want the OB to stop just short of the pocket rather than go in.
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Ron Swanson
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In the spirit of having enemies, and being dumb, childish and disruptive, you never will.
One is innate and one is learned. Through books and that. :wink:
Ron Swanson
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God, this is worse than i thought.
And therin lies the problem - you don't know what the definition of the term 'pocket speed' is.
What you describe might be called perfect-position-playing-speed or sumpin',
but it ain't Pocket Speed.
Dale
If you have to choose between optimal pocketing speed and optimal position speed (OB vs. CB control), which way do you lean?
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You mean about telling you that you were wrong? That's targeting to you?
Your ego is beyond measure, Johnson.
Ron Swanson
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I ain't precious. Definitionise me.
Ron Swanson
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For highly geeky reasons, unknowable to most normal people, you've set up a false opposition.
Your choices aren't distinct.
For me, I guess that would depend on how critical pocket speed would be, like on a lower percentage bank where I could also hide the CB, I'd choose pocket speed. Running balls, CB speed. Rotation games it'd almost always have to be CB speed (I seem to recall).
On further reflection, I'd have to say there there is also pocketing speed. On many tables pocketing speed is different from pocket speed, or maybe just a different type of pocket speed because on rail shots you have to figure on hitting the OB hard enough to hit the far facing then the opposite facing before it will drop.
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Thank God for Google
Dale
Ron Swanson
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That's certainly true. Thank god the other monster ego has stayed away, so far.
I already did.
Obviously you have too much language skill to post about pool.
Just make up your own definitions for common terms.
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Ron Swanson
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Great, then you (and google) can educate patrick and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
I agree 100% on forum enemies. I agree with you on many of the technical aspects of pool too, how can I not, much of it is common knowledge through the work of Dr. Dave, Jack Koehler and Robert Byrne.
As a non native speaker of English I can also empathize with your views on "ability" vs. skill. I thought that when one talked about ability as referring to a persons talent or genetic potential, one would usually use the term "talent" or in some cases (but not all) "innate ability". Yours is a tricky language...
Maybe I should let things go more...Certain things do tend to stick in my craw. I'll try to work on that.
It doesn't come up that often for me, but I tend to favor positional speed - I suppose because CB control is the part of pool I like best. Pocketing is more the means to that end for me.
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