I think many would consider Szamboti the Strad of pool.
The rest of your "argument, " meh. You're fiddling in the dark and you can't even do that, lol.
Lou Figueroa
small tight pockets in one pocket good or bad?
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I think many would consider Szamboti the Strad of pool.
The rest of your "argument, " meh. You're fiddling in the dark and you can't even do that, lol.
Lou Figueroa
@fastone371,Anything you can hit down the rail without cinching. Pockets with no jaws can go down to 3.25 maybe; just an aperture.
The rest of pool, speed, position - can be mastered. You don't need the hole to give you an angle. Sure there will be trade offs - no more lame safeties for instance...
I post this stuff all the time - nobody buys it out loud. Developing to that degree though, is for the having.
Yeah it is sad. As it is, people just go with the flow; no deep commitments, no evolution...
Don't need any consensus about this, it's what's at work...
What are you on about? Is this even pool related?? Sounds like a therapy session or something.
Just the cauterizing effect of consensus. Loose pockets in this case; more playable pool without more ability, learning, smarts etc...
Impossible pockets beget retarded defense. Super tight all angle pockets don't.
The recreational player of today plays on seven foot tables. Somebody was putting in a few pool halls in the area before covid. Their pattern was a dozen seven footers and one nine footer. They got the recreational crowds. Exceptions to everything but if I go to play with somebody under forty and automatically jump on a nine footer they seem lost.
As several have already mentioned, more to pockets than just width. If I wanted to make a living off of a pool room I would put in mostly sevens and put in tight, four to four and a quarter inch pockets. Then I would set up cushion angles and a slate bevel very gently angled but reaching out a half inch past the cushion corners. Every banger would think they played like gods!
I don't care what causes a table to play loose or tight, just how it plays. My favorite table was a viciously tight snooker table when I was playing nightly and young with razor sharp eyes.
Everybody has an opinion, here is mine. If you stack four balls halfway up the rail from the corner pocket and can't hit the back ball at medium firm speed or a little faster and pocket the front ball you aren't playing pool. Whatever the game is, it ain't pool!
Old players die or go away. There is a constant loss of older players. We either find a way to keep younger players coming into the game or pool dies. Young players feel like morons when they can't pocket balls. They find other things to do.
Hu
As several have already mentioned, more to pockets than just width. If I wanted to make a living off of a pool room I would put in mostly sevens and put in tight, four to four and a quarter inch pockets. Then I would set up cushion angles and a slate bevel very gently angled but reaching out a half inch past the cushion corners. Every banger would think they played like gods!
I don't care what causes a table to play loose or tight, just how it plays. My favorite table was a viciously tight snooker table when I was playing nightly and young with razor sharp eyes.
Everybody has an opinion, here is mine. If you stack four balls halfway up the rail from the corner pocket and can't hit the back ball at medium firm speed or a little faster and pocket the front ball you aren't playing pool. Whatever the game is, it ain't pool!
Old players die or go away. There is a constant loss of older players. We either find a way to keep younger players coming into the game or pool dies. Young players feel like morons when they can't pocket balls. They find other things to do.
Hu