I was in a pool hall recently and saw the tape "Finer Points of Pool." Keep in mind down here in Warm San Diego Pool isn't nearly as huge as it is back east etc.. (primarily becuase of the climate I think) So that tape could've been sitting there for a week, or 10 years for all I know.
I'm not big on instructional tapes, (like to read the books though on occasion) becuase usually there so boring you have to snore your way through them. This particular one I thought was exactly the opposite, there was sections of the video that literally went so fast I had to rewind the tape two or three times to kinda see what happened.. LOL
My criticism of the tape is as follows. The Camera man should be shot. There was atleast 4 times where you couldn't see where you were pointing on the table etc.. The editing could've used alot of work as well. Actually this is one of the things that REALLY IMPRESSED ME about your game. Being that a large part of that tape is shot in continous (no switching camera angles etc..) You can see that there wasn't 8 takes to make the shot in question. Set it up, and fired em in. I liked that for the simple reason that you claimed some of them were high percentage, and being that you did it in one take (in my mind) it kind of proves it.
You made a reference to how Billiard players use some sort of aiming system by referencing rail #'s (or diamond #'s I wasn't sure by watching the tape?) but didn't explain how the system works. I'm a simple guy just shoots, so I had to go digging all over the place and came up with 500 different diamond systems at the end of the day and I'm still not sure which one you were talking about?
Ultimately though, I took a couple things away from the tape (especially the jump carom shot, and over ball position play) those two things alone were definately worth the price of the tape (25 bucks around here.) I also enjoyed your closing comments on the tape quite a bit.
I'd buy it again if I had it to do over again, becuase anything you can take something away from is worth it. Any plans to make anymore? Or is this an old one and perhaps there's a prequel? Sequel?
DJ
I'm not big on instructional tapes, (like to read the books though on occasion) becuase usually there so boring you have to snore your way through them. This particular one I thought was exactly the opposite, there was sections of the video that literally went so fast I had to rewind the tape two or three times to kinda see what happened.. LOL
My criticism of the tape is as follows. The Camera man should be shot. There was atleast 4 times where you couldn't see where you were pointing on the table etc.. The editing could've used alot of work as well. Actually this is one of the things that REALLY IMPRESSED ME about your game. Being that a large part of that tape is shot in continous (no switching camera angles etc..) You can see that there wasn't 8 takes to make the shot in question. Set it up, and fired em in. I liked that for the simple reason that you claimed some of them were high percentage, and being that you did it in one take (in my mind) it kind of proves it.
You made a reference to how Billiard players use some sort of aiming system by referencing rail #'s (or diamond #'s I wasn't sure by watching the tape?) but didn't explain how the system works. I'm a simple guy just shoots, so I had to go digging all over the place and came up with 500 different diamond systems at the end of the day and I'm still not sure which one you were talking about?
Ultimately though, I took a couple things away from the tape (especially the jump carom shot, and over ball position play) those two things alone were definately worth the price of the tape (25 bucks around here.) I also enjoyed your closing comments on the tape quite a bit.
I'd buy it again if I had it to do over again, becuase anything you can take something away from is worth it. Any plans to make anymore? Or is this an old one and perhaps there's a prequel? Sequel?
DJ
