Yeah, you better pay attention to that guy. You dont want him to come in you next time he gets tha lovin feelin.
What products is pool missing?
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Yeah, you better pay attention to that guy. You dont want him to come in you next time he gets tha lovin feelin.
Pool needs another big movie like Color of Money 2 staring Mel Gibson and Tatum Channing. That would do more for pool than any new product on the market.
Why does Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" keep playing over and over in my head???
Maniac
I think everyone needs a walkup song. As you approach the table to break the first rack or take your first shot what song would be playing?
I have yet to find a bacon wrap.
A electric(or battery powered) tip tool to do layered tips or any other tip that is compact and easy to use and it can be done either as a add-on to a dremel tool or it's own tool. Pool halls would love such a tool. Lathes are a bit of a overkill just to do a tip. 
A electric(or battery powered) tip tool to do layered tips or any other tip that is compact and easy to use and it can be done either as a add-on to a dremel tool or it's own tool. Pool halls would love such a tool. Lathes are a bit of a overkill just to do a tip.
You'd be amazed at what you can build with these simple and easy-to-get items: An electric drill w/case, a rubber crutch tip, a stove-bolt w/washer and nut, and some spare lumber.
I used these exact items and built me a very nice tool (I stop short of calling it a lathe) that works excellent for doing tip work/shaft cleaning and conditioning. There used to be a couple of pictures of it in the picture gallery. Maybe you can find it somewhere.
Maniac
Mel Gibson as a front man for pool? Wouldn't be my first choice, that's for sure.
Mel Gibson as a front man for pool? Wouldn't be my first choice, that's for sure.
OK.....How about Tom Cruise playing Paul Newmans roll as the old experienced guy and Tatum Channing.
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I would love to see pool make a come back but I think its dead. All the players and Governing scum bags have ruined it. They are all in it for self glory and a quick buck. Thats the truth! It will never change. 
. Lets all move on and pick a new topic. Maybe something that we can change and profit from.
. Lets all move on and pick a new topic. Maybe something that we can change and profit from.Call me Captain Obvious but what the game needs is players. You gotta get kids interested in playing. Also, the game needs to quit running from the so called stigma of gambling and instead embrace it. Jay H.'s idea of high-stakes pool matches is pure genius. You watch poker and they have stacks of cash layin' around. Pool needs the same thing. Gambling is human nature, why run from it?
I could think of others besides Channing Tatum but the big problem would be casting the other part. I doubt Tom Cruise would be quite willing to accept the role as the elder has-been player yet, especially coming off Jack Reacher. He's 50 and thinks he will be young forever whereas Mr. Newman embraced his age and was 61 when COM came out.
I agree about Tatum. Any of the big young stars could play that role.
Alright one more try for the elder player. How about Harrison Ford? Everybody likes him don't they?
Remember this thing?
I always liked the idea. Anything to help newer players feel like they have a chance to make balls. The learning curve can be a little steep at first. I also liked the idea of a cue that sits in a groove and goes straight where you aim, with no chance to deviate. I know it's been done somehow before. I think Vernon Elliot had some weird thing with a laser sight to help with his impossible banks also. Basically, let someone experience what it feels like to actually have a straight stroke and send the ball where you're aiming. After practicing with the 'training wheels' for a while, working to develop that stroke... they try a regular cue and see if they can start making shots unaided.
2andout's idea is also outstanding, or maybe the variation with infrared lights. You could compile a lot of neat statistics. Imagine a table that recorded the starting point and cut angle of every missed shot, so players can see what distances and angles are the worst... maybe unexpected patterns emerge. Maybe cutting a ball an inch off the rail makes a big difference vs. one that's almost frozen, stuff like that. You can also track who masses the most (and with the highest success rate), who is the best jumper, who never misses with the cue ball frozen to the rail, and so on.
I always liked the idea. Anything to help newer players feel like they have a chance to make balls. The learning curve can be a little steep at first. I also liked the idea of a cue that sits in a groove and goes straight where you aim, with no chance to deviate. I know it's been done somehow before. I think Vernon Elliot had some weird thing with a laser sight to help with his impossible banks also. Basically, let someone experience what it feels like to actually have a straight stroke and send the ball where you're aiming. After practicing with the 'training wheels' for a while, working to develop that stroke... they try a regular cue and see if they can start making shots unaided.
2andout's idea is also outstanding, or maybe the variation with infrared lights. You could compile a lot of neat statistics. Imagine a table that recorded the starting point and cut angle of every missed shot, so players can see what distances and angles are the worst... maybe unexpected patterns emerge. Maybe cutting a ball an inch off the rail makes a big difference vs. one that's almost frozen, stuff like that. You can also track who masses the most (and with the highest success rate), who is the best jumper, who never misses with the cue ball frozen to the rail, and so on.
Hydrophobic coatings and sealers for tables and cues.
http://www.wimp.com/superhydrophobiccoating/
Tips with gradient hardness (Spiderman over on BD makes these. They play great.). Nanofiber tips that do not deform, lose shape or need chalk. Synthetic shafts with variable stiffness and flex points. High quality one piece cues and cases. I guess that is enough for now.
http://www.wimp.com/superhydrophobiccoating/
Tips with gradient hardness (Spiderman over on BD makes these. They play great.). Nanofiber tips that do not deform, lose shape or need chalk. Synthetic shafts with variable stiffness and flex points. High quality one piece cues and cases. I guess that is enough for now.
I've been in the musical instrument business for almost 40 years now, mostly the violin family. Fine violins reached the peak of their evolution with Antonio Stradivarius and haven't changed much at all in the three centuries since his death in 1737. Still made of maple and spruce. Cut, planed, scraped to their final shape entirely by hand, glued together with the same hot animal glue used for over 300 years, varnished by hand using seedlac, alcohol and common resins. Strings have changed, but many of the finest players still use traditional catgut strings.
There was a big move during the 19th and early 20th century to improve the instrument, with lots of wacky ideas emerging, but all that has fallen to the wayside. When I was in college my physics professor insisted that one day scientists would unlock the tonal secrets of the old Italian violins and would be able use computers to dial in any specific tone that a player would want, and then fabricate an instrument from exotic and high-tech materials that matched the computer model.
I laughed out loud right to his face. He was a really smart dude for sure, but he was totally out to lunch regarding the subject of fine fiddles. I told him that nothing would ever replace the one special ingredient that every ancient maker used to build his violins.
"Yeah", he asked, "what was that?"
"FM", I replied.
"And what, praytell, is 'FM'?"
"Fuc*ing magic."
Another thought. SELF leveling pool tables. something built into the legs like autogyroscope or some component that automatically senses and readjusts the table to be dead level.
I wish our pool hall had those. Bigdogs in des moines. Some of the most unlevel tables I've ever played on.
I wish our pool hall had those. Bigdogs in des moines. Some of the most unlevel tables I've ever played on.
If you could make it so that my tip would hit on the absolute very edge and not miss cue... I would appreciate it....
Thanks for asking.
This might be crazy to say, it is only IMO.. Pool table manufactures should join forces to set up free "work shops" around the US in major cities and every state 100% free to the public over 18 or 21, say one month each work shop, two or three good tables, let people take turn and play pool, have instructors on hand, encourage pool as clean sport, enforce the idea that pool can be learned and anyone can be a pro, and for the general public to erase the negative thoughts about pool, and could be good selling point for them!
Maybe pay local pool halls their table rent for a month! and put good marketing campaign
One might say we have community centers, sure, with tables if you just put CB on one end, CB roles by itself to the other end, that if it has cloth with no holes in it!!
Why not tennis, basketball, football, and other sport have free courts..
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