who are the shortest pros?

ddadams

ddadams

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I like watching the pros on YouTube every now and then but seeing some shots SVB and the other 6'+ guys take I know that some of them are just unlikely for me and my vertically challenged limits.


Who are the shorter pros? I know Alex is shorter than I am.

How tall is Dennis Orcollo? Who else?
 
ddadams said:
I like watching the pros on YouTube every now and then but seeing some shots SVB and the other 6'+ guys take I know that some of them are just unlikely for me and my vertically challenged limits.


Who are the shorter pros? I know Alex is shorter than I am.

How tall is Dennis Orcollo? Who else?
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I was told i would be 6 ft 2
So I fig I should weigh 205
My height has not got there yet
 
Nick Varner
Jose Parica
Alex Pagulayan
Boston Shorty
Willie Mosconi
Chris Bartrum
Dennis Orcollo
Several female pro players

There is hope, even if you're not a six-footer.......I would take this group against all comers.....!
 
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ibuycues said:
Nick Varner
Jose Parica
Alex Pagulayan
Boston Shorty
Willie Mosconi
Chris Bartrum
Dennis Orcollo
Several female pro players

There is hope, even if you're not a six-footer.......I would take this group against all comers.....!
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For sure I just like watching people my height as it shows me how they handle certain shots and how they move around.

I end up using the bridge more than I think I should. I've gotten pretty good with it by now..


Rhea said:
I am 5'7".
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I am not going to knock your playing, I've never seen you play though..


Links?

real bartram said:
I was told i would be 6 ft 2
So I fig I should weigh 205
My height has not got there yet
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How tall are you?

During my lessons with Lee Brett he told me my playing reminded him of you, so maybe I should watch the videos of you that I can find.


I'm 5'7 on a good day, 5'8 when I'm playing really well :grin:
 
I'd say Santos Sampajon is among the "vertically challenged" Pro's, but it
doesn't seem to hinder him in any way. Small Man with a "Big Stick".
 
Alex P, Orcullo and Parica, are actually tall 'dwarf's' !..Puckett, Fats and Mike Massey are/were also very short !..The first 3, would have to stand on tip-toes to see over them ! (when they were lying down) :p
 
SJDinPHX said:
Alex P, Orcullo and Parica, are actually tall 'dwarf's' !..Puckett, Fats and Mike Massey are/were also very short !..The first 3, would have to stand on tip-toes to see over them ! (when they were lying down) :p
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brother you aint a kiddin!
im 5'7", when i gave mike massey a masse cue,
someone took some pics of us side by side

when were done,
mike said " now let's get a few pictures with brent standing up" :D
he is a mountain of a man
 
BHQ said:
brother you aint a kiddin!
im 5'7", when i gave mike massey a masse cue,
someone took some pics of us side by side

when were done,
mike said " now let's get a few pictures with brent standing up" :D
he is a mountain of a man
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Least your taller than the Cincinnati Kid Giamatti!:rotflmao1::rotflmao::rotflmao1:
 
Rhea said:
I am 5'7".
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Heck, your a tall player.
There are more short pros than tall . I went to Vegas during the US10 ball and 90 % are short. At 5"7 your right in there.... Along with me
Judging by Bartrams head and game he should be 6"2
Mika is also short. It's easier to name off the tall ones. They are very few
 
SJDinPHX said:
Alex P, Orcullo and Parica, are actually tall 'dwarf's' !..Puckett, Fats and Mike Massey are/were also very short !..The first 3, would have to stand on tip-toes to see over them ! (when they were lying down) :p
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After seeing Fats on TV many times, when I met him in person I was surprised that I was taller than him and I'm in there at that 5'7" mark or so. Although I believe I've shrunk some as I've aged, so maybe I was 5'8" then :eek:

I don't think Appleton is very tall either.
 
Phil Burford, Chris Melling, Imran Majid, Ralf Souquet, there's a fair few of them over here in Europe.

Edit : also Daz and Nikos, got a photo of me and Nikos at the Mosconi Cup last year and he's TINY!!!
 
It's just an impression but Wang Can seemed fairly short in the matches I've watched him play.

It's amazing to watch AlexP play on a 10-foot table. He has to get up on his tippy-toes just to rack the balls....and then he runs out!
 
I've always thought that being tall was a disadvantage in pool--PROVIDED that you could shoot with both hands.

Eddy Kelley, one of the old-time pro's, was quite short.

The old-time pro's, such as Mosconi and Carras, both men of modest physical stature, did something quite frequently that you almost never see a pro do now. They would go to the spot that they expected to leave the cueball and test whether they could reach their intended next shot from there and how they would be standing. I imagine the skill of foreseeing this is essential on a five by ten.

There is, somewhere, a wonderful video of an interview with the snooker star Ronnie O'Sullivan when he is about ten years old. He plays extremely well, and then the commentator asks him some questions. Ronnie is just a little kid. The interview ends with the commentator asking little Ronnie, "How big to you hope to be?" He means, of course, "Do you have aspirations for being a top-ranked pro?" Ronnie answers, "Five ten."
 
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