Who's the most fundamentally sound?

Who's the most fundamentally sound?

  • Nick Varner

    Votes: 8 8.4%

  • Ralph Souguet

    Votes: 37 38.9%

  • Buddy Hall

    Votes: 29 30.5%

  • Max Eberle

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • Thorsten Hohmann

    Votes: 19 20.0%
  • Total voters
    95
atthecat

atthecat

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Who of these players is the most fundamentally sound? I'm going with
1. Nick Varner
2. Buddy Hall
3. Max Eberle
 
Budy Hall far sure;Ralph Souguet also but has to be the slowest player I have ever seen..It drives me crazy..But then that is why he is that slow to drive his opp. crazy:
 
My guess is any player from Taiwan or any snooker player or 3c player. Of course, that doesn't address your poll, but just sayin'.
 
I went with Hohmann over Souquet by a narrow margin - they're both ROCK solid.
 
Buddy does everything "right"! Stroke, mechanics, cueball control, and especially position play. I don't think Buddy has ever been on the "wrong side" of a ball in his life.....
 
Fundamentals

1.Nick Varner(World titles in multiple games)
2.Buddy Hall (legend enough said)
3.Ralf Souquet
4.Thorsten Hohmann
 
Ralph

I've never seen better mechanics.

You have to watch him in events with a shot-clock though. :)
 
LAlouie said:
Souquet may have gotten lessons from Rempe but he wasn't TRAINED IN FUNDAMENTALS by Rempe, was he.
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Some of them he works on fundys before anything else from what I was told by players who have gone to him. And it was years ago that he went to jims for lessons.
 
I'm going to give the nod, just barely, to Buddy Hall over Ralf Souquet, but it's almost too close to call.
 
Glad toasti was included, his fundamentals are sick. One of the things that especially impresses me is his jump fundamentals. Love it or hate it, when a guy can jump in balls that a lot of us miss shooting normally... there's some seriously rock solid fundamentals behind that. I think if any player could run out a few times in a row with his eyes closed, it's him.

It's a pretty tough though to say whose are absolutely the best. Between the top 5 or 10, any flaws in the stroke are so small it's hard to say who should be ranked on top. I'm not even sure we all agree on what perfect fundamentals are. One guy might say elbow drop is a sign of bad fundamentals and another might say it's totally normal.

Toasti, ralf, buddy are probably top 3.

Honorable mention: niels feijen has a very mechanical, precise stroke with a distinct pause at the backswing. It doesn't look as smooth as some but I think it is the most 'textbook'. Trained by BK, but don't hold it against him lol :P
 
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