If you had the chance to ask a great player 1 question about the game of pocket billiards what would it be ?.
What would you ask ?
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If I had one question to ask, I'd ask him to play me some. I would probably learn more in those few hours than if I was granted 10 questions.
If that's not the answer you were looking for I would probably ask him the same thing you are asking: If you could only give me one piece of wisdom for playing great pool what would it be?
If that's not the answer you were looking for I would probably ask him the same thing you are asking: If you could only give me one piece of wisdom for playing great pool what would it be?
What's the secret to getting comfortable sleeping in your car.
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I asked Johnny Ervolino, former world one pocket champ, and he said if you could only practice one thing it would be just setting up a shot, especially long shots, and keep shooting it over and over using different kinds of english. Then and ONLY when you have it mastered set up a different kind of shot and do the same thing. He felt this should be regular practice even for top players. He used to shoot long shots on a tight table for an hour or so every day even in his late 60's.
p.s. I forgot to add, when he set them up he just threw it out to the approximate spot where it was before not precisely, he felt you needed be able to get a feel for the shot but if you kept marking the same exact spot and set up just that spot you would be lost if the shot came up in a game and it was a few inches off from where you were practicing it.
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I would ask Mosconi if he missed or just quit after 526.
Or put a little differently for me.....
Knowing what you have had to sacrifice, the work it took, and the journey... would you choose a different career path for your own child?
I KNOW that you can't choose for them... but you can enlighten and pave many other paths and/or open doors to enable other choices to be made.
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Is this in question? I thought I read around here in another thread that it was pretty well attested to by those there at the time that he quit. Don't know for sure myself though.
Note: No hijack intended.
He missed a break shot. :frown:
He states in his autobiography that he missed a difficult cut shot. There's no way he'd write that he missed if he hadn't actually missed.
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pretty good question!
Thanks, Bobby. Now I will have to find that old thread to check my memory. I'm getting old and hate when that happens. :angry:
OK, at least I'm not fighting dementia, yet anyways. Scott Lee posted this in another thread (post # 11):
Here's the thread: http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=134726&highlight=Mosconi
I would agree though that if Mosconi himself said he missed to end the run, I'd have to go with that.
Here's the thread: http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=134726&highlight=Mosconi
I would agree though that if Mosconi himself said he missed to end the run, I'd have to go with that.
What seems to have happened is that Mosconi missed on ball number 527, he said it happened that way. Then as the years went on when asked about it he started saying that he simply quit (more mystique that way) and as one poster on another thread said he started to believe that he never missed. I've heard that Charlie Ursetti witnessed Mosconi run 589 or thereabouts in practice and he says Mosconi just quit to end the run. maybe Mosconi just incorporated that into his 526 run, mixing the stories up. Who knows? But I have to believe he missed a shot to end the 526, I just can't imagine anyone writing in a book that they missed if it wasn't true.