Playing vs One Handed Players

Slide Rule said:
Learning to play one handed both on the rail and jacked up can indeed improve your stroke.
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I agree, especially when shooting a shot where your bridge hand would normally be on or near the rail. It requires a smooth stroke, with even acceleration, and forbids any jerkiness in the movement.

I wouldn't spend 4 hours a day playing this way, but I like to play one handed every now and then to help me smooth things out.
 
SloMoHolic said:
I agree, especially when shooting a shot where your bridge hand would normally be on or near the rail.
It requires a smooth stroke, with even acceleration, and forbids any jerkiness in the movement.

I wouldn't spend 4 hours a day playing this way, but I like to play one handed every now and then to help me smooth things out.
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When I started one handed it was because of a broken arm.
It is relatively easy yet looks insurmountable.

During the interval a hitch in my stroke was detected and
corrected.

For me a couple of hours a week is sufficient. But I am not
hustling nor hustling one handed.

The reason to learn and shoot occasionally is to help your own game.

 
asbani said:
Really? playing one handed improves your stroke? I so disagree with this statement, who taught you this?
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it helped me improve my stroke tremendously as a beginner. i will do the occasional one handed drills now, and can stroke with one hand across the table. people watching me are like :eek:
 
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This guy plays pretty good with one hand.
 
Here's a story I posted in 1999 about a game I watched in 1994 at JOB:

On Mon, 10 May 1999 01:37:29 -0800, "Yukon Ed" <ak9b...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I've seen numerous players play one-handed to handicap their game when
>"matching-up" with a weaker player. Does anyone have a story to relate or a
>player to nominate as the best "one-handed" player they've seen? My vote is
>for Efren.
>


I was in JOB Billiards at the Music City Open in '94. Two young guys
were matched up on a bar box playing 8-ball for $300 a rack. One of
them, the guy winning, was playing one-handed. Just to have the nuts
to play for $300 a rack was hot enough, but to play one-handed?
Thrilling. After an hour or so, some guy taps me on the shoulder and
asks "is that guy playing one-handed? I'll play him." I told him
that they were playing for 3 bills, to which he immediately backed
off. As he walked away, I couldn't help but notice that he only had
one hand!

Later on I saw the same one-handed guy playing. Every shot, he took
out this short weighted bridge head that he laid on the table. It had
a string run across the top so he could lift the bridge with his stick
after he shot, like some of the new bridge heads. He was an easy "A"
player.

Dave Matlock must have been catching the "one-handed fever", as he was
making propositions that he could execute a one-handed full-ball jump
shot! I didn't see anyone take up the bet, but I did see Dave make
the shot a couple of times.
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Back to today (15 April 2013), if anyone cares...

The guy playing one-handed... he was running around with Big Arm John. I don't know who he is, but I have a feeling that he's someone everyone knows and I just haven't pieced it together. He is (was??) left-handed. He is causasian. That's all I got.

The "kid" he was playing against? Well one thing about this young African American kid was that he was no professional but he had the cash in his pocket to play. He was mostly quiet throughout the whole set I watched. But... when he got things back to even and then some, he flashed the bills ... well he threw the bills on the table... and announced he'd playing anyone 9-ball with these crazy rules (a player gets the breaks and the rainbow world except for the one ball which the opponent gets.. or some such nutty thing)

He called the game Death Ball....

Freddie <~~~ and that's the rest of story
 
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Cornerman said:
Here's a story I posted in 1999 about a game I watched in 1994 at JOB:

On Mon, 10 May 1999 01:37:29 -0800, "Yukon Ed" <ak9b...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I've seen numerous players play one-handed to handicap their game when
>"matching-up" with a weaker player. Does anyone have a story to relate or a
>player to nominate as the best "one-handed" player they've seen? My vote is
>for Efren.
>


I was in JOB Billiards at the Music City Open in '94. Two young guys
were matched up on a bar box playing 8-ball for $300 a rack. One of
them, the guy winning, was playing one-handed. Just to have the nuts
to play for $300 a rack was hot enough, but to play one-handed?
Thrilling. After an hour or so, some guy taps me on the shoulder and
asks "is that guy playing one-handed? I'll play him." I told him
that they were playing for 3 bills, to which he immediately backed
off. As he walked away, I couldn't help but notice that he only had
one hand!

Later on I saw the same one-handed guy playing. Every shot, he took
out this short weighted bridge head that he laid on the table. It had
a string run across the top so he could lift the bridge with his stick
after he shot, like some of the new bridge heads. He was an easy "A"
player.

Dave Matlock must have been catching the "one-handed fever", as he was
making propositions that he could execute a one-handed full-ball jump
shot! I didn't see anyone take up the bet, but I did see Dave make
the shot a couple of times.
-------------------------------------------

Back to today (15 April 2013), if anyone cares...

The guy playing one-handed... he was running around with Big Arm John. I don't know who he is, but I have a feeling that he's someone everyone knows and I just haven't pieced it together. He is (was??) left-handed. He is causasian. That's all I got.

The "kid" he was playing against? Well one thing about this young African American kid was that he was no professional but he had the cash in his pocket to play. He was mostly quiet throughout the whole set I watched. But... when he got things back to even and then some, he flashed the bills ... well he threw the bills on the table... and announced he'd playing anyone 9-ball with these crazy rules (a player gets the breaks and the rainbow world except for the one ball which the opponent gets.. or some such nutty thing)

He called the game Death Ball....

Freddie <~~~ and that's the rest of story
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Probably not the same guy I knew. Back in the 70s, the pool room I started out in was owned by a one armed guy named Doyle. The room was called Funland in Memphis, Tn. He later owned River City Billiards also in Memphis.

Doyle had a custom made bridge "gizmo". It had a chrome circular base about 1 inch in diameter and maybe half inch thick. On top of that was what looked like a wire circle that had a cloth covering. On top of that was a "V" also covered in cloth. The circle had a diameter equal to the fat part of his shaft. It would slide about three quarters of the way down the shaft before it stopped. It was like an "8" with the top half of the upper circle of the "8" cut off. He could use the circle for his normal shots or on top for jacked up shots. It was pretty cool looking.

He was in action everyday. The old players told me not to feel sorrow for him using his gizmo because it was so stable and promoted the habit of stroking through every ball because it was easier to pick up if he did.
 
ChopStick said:
Probably not the same guy I knew. Back in the 70s, the pool room I started out in was owned by a one armed guy named Doyle. The room was called Funland in Memphis, Tn. He later owned River City Billiards also in Memphis.

Doyle had a custom made bridge "gizmo". It had a chrome circular base about 1 inch in diameter and maybe half inch thick. On top of that was what looked like a wire circle that had a cloth covering. On top of that was a "V" also covered in cloth. The circle had a diameter equal to the fat part of his shaft. It would slide about three quarters of the way down the shaft before it stopped. It was like an "8" with the top half of the upper circle of the "8" cut off. He could use the circle for his normal shots or on top for jacked up shots. It was pretty cool looking.

He was in action everyday. The old players told me not to feel sorrow for him using his gizmo because it was so stable and promoted the habit of stroking through every ball because it was easier to pick up if he did.
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Sounds like a superior design. Did it have a string attached or was the circle sufficient.

This looks somewhat similar to what you described but fabricated
differently.

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I know someone who uses a telescoping handle on a normal
bridge. He is unusually short. About eye level with a table.


Also there is a device that stays on the shaft. 6:19

 
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