Gene is friend of mine, and he wrote this book quite a few years ago. Recently I helped him get a new edition out, which can be found on lulu.com or on Amazon.
To be honest, I always told Gene that no one would be willing to put in the amount of work his book requires. I mean, it's called "The 10 Basic Shots of Pool" but each shot has dozens of variations. If a player practices each shot at least 20 or 30 times, they will shoot over 800,000 shots!
But I actually learned some things while helping Gene get the book republished and back on the market for the first time in nearly 20 years. He shares quite a bit of his pool knowledge in the book, definitely some gems to be found, some great advice.
Basically, it's a practice book, but it's the ultimate practice book. Everyone always says you have to hit a million balls to get good, but this is the only book that shows you how to do it. I told him he should subtitle it, "The HAMB Method". But I think his subtitle works well enough... "The Pool World's Practice Bible".
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To be honest, I always told Gene that no one would be willing to put in the amount of work his book requires. I mean, it's called "The 10 Basic Shots of Pool" but each shot has dozens of variations. If a player practices each shot at least 20 or 30 times, they will shoot over 800,000 shots!
But I actually learned some things while helping Gene get the book republished and back on the market for the first time in nearly 20 years. He shares quite a bit of his pool knowledge in the book, definitely some gems to be found, some great advice.
Basically, it's a practice book, but it's the ultimate practice book. Everyone always says you have to hit a million balls to get good, but this is the only book that shows you how to do it. I told him he should subtitle it, "The HAMB Method". But I think his subtitle works well enough... "The Pool World's Practice Bible".
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