Stan Shuffet' has seen me play, as well as Allen Hopkins and John Schmidt, in fact I've played John 14.1 even for $100 a game....but, who cares anymore, I retired from playing Jan 1990.....but I do still have some game in me if the reasons are right to play again
Wow, thats pretty impressive Glen.. I must admit I had you under-rated as a player!...Would an old has been, (long retired himself) who is willing to play some one pocket for some serious $$$, be enough reason to bring you out of retirement? :thumbup:
PS..Don't wait too long to decide!....Cuz the grouchy old fart, has one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel!
The problem with keeping pool a sport not a game is the cloth. And rules made to invite a quicker finish.
As good as you play king you have to admit the skill set today is more precise but less pure talent. Less power. Just less. Improvements?
The old cloth is only shit if you can't develop the power to play on it.
The half ball game has morphed into the slow roll?
And following that thought why if you need to jump a ball should you be allowed to change Cues?
Jump it with what you got or kick.
Like the cloth more skill needed.
Do what you can to make hooks useless?
Screw jump sticks.
I am no dolt with the things.
I just almost never need one.
Taking Stimie away. Faster cloth.
No wonder everyone is so good?
Woman tours are on TV not mens. Think is it because they do not split?
The men players would do good following that same practice but, never happen.
Also there are more shots that you have to shoot on slow cloth because you just can not follow everything. Doing them and executing them are two different horses.
All the powerful shots are riskier on slow cloth and the follow everywhere is out. As is the slow roll with spin for the most part.
So you can't follow or slow roll angles have to happen. They can't be a man I can follow three rails on this full hit and out the door.
Secret? No. Why give up that.
Nick
Is just that.
Handicapped.
Handicap the world?
Why have pockets?
Hit the rail and shoot again!
There is a reason for everything.
Slow cloth would have to be played roll out.
Really,
The best male players can not show their dominance as easily. They give up too much. It is possible to play at a very high level and display little power. Try that slow roll and spin on slow cloth. Try that two rail reverse follow. 12 foot draw.
You can try. On slow cloth you do or you loose. Because the shot selection of today is useless on the classic equipment.
Diamod tables would be unplayable unless reworked. The pockets you see and the rails are all wrong for the pool everyone played for well ever.
Yes the game is handicapped by the cloth.
No let me rephrase that.
The sport is now less of a sport and more of a game.
Nick
Especially that coupled with even straighter shooting. Because power comes into play even straighter and tighter aiming and clean contact is needed.
Adjustments can blow a clean strike on the rock way more when the cloth grabs as soon as you hit it.
With speed comes more control? No.
Lack of speed makes no sense unless you are on fast cloth.
Slow roll on slow cloth is a no go.
Slow roll on fast cloth is the game.
Take that away. It was never part of the game as a way to play. As a fact it broke more strokes that anything else because when you had to hit a ball you got wrist lock and missed.
This fast cloth. Bump bump bump.
This fast cloth gives up too much to a less powerful player.
I do not like that at all.
Nick