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I have recently made the acquaintance of a couple of young guys that have cerebral palsy. They are in their early 20's, they can walk around OK and each has the full use of one arm. They are very interested in, and I would like to teach them how to shoot pool one handed. Is their a way to expedite the method? Is Little Miami still around in Detroit? If I could get these guys just making a few shots here and there it would be a super duper confidence builder. Any advice would be gre3atly appreciated.
 
We have a girl who plays leagues here who is missing part of her left arm. What she does is use a bridge with every shot. Basically she uses her one good arm to set the bridge down in place, then tucks it under the armpit of her bad arm to keep it in place, then places her cue on the bridge with her good arm. Not sure if that would be an option for these guys, but worth giving it a shot.

Brian
 
crater59 said:
I have recently made the acquaintance of a couple of young guys that have cerebral palsy. They are in their early 20's, they can walk around OK and each has the full use of one arm. They are very interested in, and I would like to teach them how to shoot pool one handed. Is their a way to expedite the method? Is Little Miami still around in Detroit? If I could get these guys just making a few shots here and there it would be a super duper confidence builder. Any advice would be gre3atly appreciated.
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I would message blackjack. He's a member here and has the best one handed game I've ever seen. Here is his youtube link you can see him in one handed action.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackjackDSapolis
 
the guy who owned the poolhall where I used to play only had use of one hand and he played quite a decent game...
what he had done was to take two of the bridges (just the cross shaped metal-part), put a tube between them (about 15cm or 6" and 1cm or 1/4" diameter) and filled that with some metal (so it was rather heavy)....and used that for all the shots he could not play off the rail. The only issue was really when the cueball ended up having an obstruction right behind it...where we would normally just elevat the cue over....or naturally jumpshots...

cheers,
Kimmo
 
crater59 said:
I have recently made the acquaintance of a couple of young guys that have cerebral palsy. They are in their early 20's, they can walk around OK and each has the full use of one arm. They are very interested in, and I would like to teach them how to shoot pool one handed. Is their a way to expedite the method? Is Little Miami still around in Detroit? If I could get these guys just making a few shots here and there it would be a super duper confidence builder. Any advice would be gre3atly appreciated.
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Miami retired to Puerto Rico I believe, but there are still plenty of very good one-handed shooters out there. They used to have some one-handed mini tournaments at DCC, which were great to watch and learn!!
 
1 handed bridge

A guy I know named Leon invented a nice pool tool for 1 handed shooting.It is a single groove block with a strap on the top. The strap makes it easy to move the bridge around with your cue stick.

Leon moved to Montana and I lost touch with him.Last I seen of him he was using his invention well and planned on marketing it.
 
crater59 said:
I have recently made the acquaintance of a couple of young guys that have cerebral palsy. They are in their early 20's, they can walk around OK and each has the full use of one arm. They are very interested in, and I would like to teach them how to shoot pool one handed. Is their a way to expedite the method? Is Little Miami still around in Detroit? If I could get these guys just making a few shots here and there it would be a super duper confidence builder. Any advice would be gre3atly appreciated.
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Go to www.bertkinister.com send him an email it may take a week if he's out of the Country but he is one of the best instructors and has a one handed method...:)
 
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