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FranCrimi said:
You should have never let them get away with it. Call them out on the carpet when they do that. ( Including me)
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I intentionally didn't name any names, but I have to acknowledge that you were the one who at least tangentially addressed the question. The other answers were a stock description of a basic stance (not the question, although the word stance did appear) and a referral to where I could pay something like $50 a month to get an answer from some videos. I'm sure they are great videos and well worth the money, but that isn't what I had asked.

Maybe I'll try again.

I appreciate what you say about not letting them get away with it, but I find it had to hold anyone's feet to the fire when I am asking them for free advice
 
KissedOut said:
I intentionally didn't name any names, but I have to acknowledge that you were the one who at least tangentially addressed the question. The other answers were a stock description of a basic stance (not the question, although the word stance did appear) and a referral to where I could pay something like $50 a month to get an answer from some videos. I'm sure they are great videos and well worth the money, but that isn't what I had asked.

Maybe I'll try again.

I appreciate what you say about not letting them get away with it, but I find it had to hold anyone's feet to the fire when I am asking them for free advice
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I'd like to take another look at your question and the thread. Which one was it? If you don't feel comfortable posting it, send me a PM. I really want to take another look.
 
FranCrimi said:
I'd like to take another look at your question and the thread. Which one was it? If you don't feel comfortable posting it, send me a PM. I really want to take another look.
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I just responded to the question, so it ought to be at the top of the "recent" list.
 
Bob Jewett said:
I just responded to the question, so it ought to be at the top of the "recent" list.
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Well Bob, discretion is often the better part of valor, but since you've taken it upon yourself to expose the thread, I do remember it now.

For KissedOut:

In reviewing the thread and my post, I think you really should spend a little time with some 3-C players or even a 3-C instructor exploring the stance issue. Here in NYC there are some pretty great ones. I really didn't and still don't want to make assumptions about a stance when playing 3-C. I've seen plenty of matches here in NY and they do stand differently that we do in pool. Bob Jewett plays 3-C, so he's a good bet when it comes to stance advice.
 
FranCrimi said:
Well Bob, discretion is often the better part of valor, but since you've taken it upon yourself to expose the thread, I do remember it now.

For KissedOut:

In reviewing the thread and my post, I think you really should spend a little time with some 3-C players or even a 3-C instructor exploring the stance issue. Here in NYC there are some pretty great ones. I really didn't and still don't want to make assumptions about a stance when playing 3-C. I've seen plenty of matches here in NY and they do stand differently that we do in pool. Bob Jewett plays 3-C, so he's a good bet when it comes to stance advice.
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Thanks for your response

I am not asking about the basic stance, I am asking about which if the many parts of our body and the relationship among them are most important to key on when you CAN'T get into a normal stance. I'm not sure to what extent that would be different in 3C than in pool, but I can see that it might make a pool instructor reluctant to give advice on that. Just for my own edification, can you (or anyone, really) point me to anything that addressed stretch and jacked up stance adjustments for pool?

For example one of the the keys in my basic stance (i.e., my stance when not hindered by having to stretch our over the table or shoot over jacked up balls) is the connection I try to feel between the toe-line of my right foot and my aim line. I can't preserve that relationship if I am stretched out, though. So I am trying to get a sense of how to stretch out in a way that least compromises the solidity of my stance and its role in aiming. I realize that specifics will depend on specific situations. What I am looking for then, is more how to think about taking a stretched stance so as to minimize the compromise to the solidity and aim of the basic stance in that situation.

I do have a bucket list item to take a billiard road trip to visit a 3C instructor for a several day "personal clinic" - maybe next year. I am also planning to go the the world championships in Bordeax this year and maybe get a chance to get a lesson from a european 3c instructor.

In the mean time I have had a lesson from a local guy, Dave Gross, our own 12-squared, who is not an instructor per se but is an excellent 3C player and who has given lessons in the past. That is where I got my basic stance from. I'm just trying to build on that.

It is tough when you are 60 years old and learning to play properly after years of cue malpractice.
 
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