Bye FELICIA!
Bye FELICIA!
Bye FELICIA!
I have a feeling some people can't play at a very good speed.
Table doesn't matter. If you can bank, you can bank on any table after a little adjustment.
If table banks long....adjust.
If table banks short....adjust.
I'm not seeing the big deal about either table.
I must be a better player than I thought cause it seems like some can't make a ball on equipment unless they been playing on it all their life.
I guess that's "one" reason road players and pros are elite......they can play on anything.
It's pool people.
Jeff
Yeah, I didn’t love the short Diamond rails...but I’ve played on shorter....
...Robertson and Kim Steel and British snooker tables, to name some
...so it was easier for me to adjust,
At least Diamond listens....hence the blue label....and Greg is always thinking.
...and Diamond thinks more about how a table should play...
...he doesn’t have designers that can’t hit the end rail...Brunswick designers gave us
name plates and score markers that make your knuckles bleed.....
...and do you think Diamond would do this to a corner pocket?...corner pocket ashtrays.
GC1V.....I know a mechanic who had to add some more support to brand new ones...
...and after a couple years, a great banker told me there were soft spots in the rails....
...glue giving up?
..and this is from a guy who competed and loved Brunswick most of his life.....
...but they’ve gone the way of the Big Three auto makers...at least until the Japanese
forced them to give us a better product.
pt...still a Mopar man, nevertheless..
Yup, compared to pros I suck. I play pool because it's fun. It's more fun when it's on tables I like, and when I can play shots I enjoy playing. Not only do I enjoy playing pool on GC's and other Brunswick classics, I enjoy watching pool being played on such tables too, especially with green cloth and Centennial balls. I like the tradition, to feel like you could have been in the 60's, 50's or even the 20's and 30's, you know. It's what pool is to me, a wonderful, simple pastime, free of all stress and any thought about everyday problems, a clean escape from computers and cellphones. I don't like it when it changes so much, that certain shots and strategies disappear. It's not about what I can and cannot adjust to. I could adjust to a mud table with marbles for balls and a broomstick for a cue, but why would I want to? It's not what I enjoy doing. I'm in a somewhat rare position on here I think, in that I play and compete in nearly every cue sport, so I doubt failure to adjust being the reason why I like my US pool table a certain way... Sometimes I feel like people on this forum only enjoy pool because they are good at it, not for any love of the game or its history.
Realistically, even if we applied ourselves fully, I doubt even .001% of this forums total membership could have any chance making even minimum wage as a pro. It's a hard, stressful life, full of uncertainty, lonelyness and heartbreak. You're not free to do and say what you please because of sponsorships etc...Anyway, what they do have little to do with me. I play in tournaments sometimes, because I like playing. I hope to be able to do that in the future as well. I'd hate to "have to play" because I depend on the income, or as a boring chore that I happen to be good at. I remember hearing in the commentary how many of the pros of yesteryear actually didn't like the game anymore and were dying to get the tournament over and done with so they could go fishing or doing other things they actually liked. How sad is that?
Your post reminds me when I was a kid in Tulsa...a road player who’d made a big win
bought his pool hall cash....he explained to me why we weren’t going to play 9-ball.
His best game was banks...so on his main action GCI, he loosened the the rail bolts
a quarter turn...said a kid my age came in and after three banks, played the table better
than he could....dropped him like a hot potato...
I still felt like I took a win to the joint, though...he kept me entertained all day with stories.
So, your pool table at home still has a napped cloth on it right? in order to keep your game playing like they tables played up until the mid 80's, before Simonis started being the replacement cloth, with their 760 fast worsted woolen cloth.....right?
Why is everyone so angry?
Christ relax
Yup, compared to pros I suck. I play pool because it's fun. It's more fun when it's on tables I like, and when I can play shots I enjoy playing. Not only do I enjoy playing pool on GC's and other Brunswick classics, I enjoy watching pool being played on such tables too, especially with green cloth and Centennial balls. I like the tradition, to feel like you could have been in the 60's, 50's or even the 20's and 30's, you know. It's what pool is to me, a wonderful, simple pastime, free of all stress and any thought about everyday problems, a clean escape from computers and cellphones. I don't like it when it changes so much, that certain shots and strategies disappear. It's not about what I can and cannot adjust to. I could adjust to a mud table with marbles for balls and a broomstick for a cue, but why would I want to? It's not what I enjoy doing. I'm in a somewhat rare position on here I think, in that I play and compete in nearly every cue sport, so I doubt failure to adjust being the reason why I like my US pool table a certain way... Sometimes I feel like people on this forum only enjoy pool because they are good at it, not for any love of the game or its history.
Realistically, even if we applied ourselves fully, I doubt even .001% of this forums total membership could have any chance making even minimum wage as a pro. It's a hard, stressful life, full of uncertainty, lonelyness and heartbreak. You're not free to do and say what you please because of sponsorships etc...Anyway, what they do have little to do with me. I play in tournaments sometimes, because I like playing. I hope to be able to do that in the future as well. I'd hate to "have to play" because I depend on the income, or as a boring chore that I happen to be good at. I remember hearing in the commentary how many of the pros of yesteryear actually didn't like the game anymore and were dying to get the tournament over and done with so they could go fishing or doing other things they actually liked. How sad is that?
Nothing helps relaxation like a little
one pocket on an nice old brunswick.
The players are just o.k.
https://youtu.be/LrIxePj2lZA
Oh look, a GC3 banking shorthttps://youtu.be/4niYd9ccsQw?t=123
Banking on GC 3 as taught by a world champion coach.
You're welcome.
Oh look, a GC3 banking short��������
GC3, no Simonis cloth.
Err, no.
He's banking it hard.
This table must be banking short too then.
https://youtu.be/zP9onmjoAIs?t=72
Yes!!!!! Finally something worth reading
I swear to god some people just don't get it. Cloth being used today has changed everything about how a pool table plays. And all the players before the mid 80's know the difference between then and now. But these players today than never played on a woven wool cloth, do nothing but blame the pool tables for their inability to adjust.
I swear to god some people just don't get it. Cloth being used today has changed everything about how a pool table plays. And all the players before the mid 80's know the difference between then and now. But these players today than never played on a woven wool cloth, do nothing but blame the pool tables for their inability to adjust.