Your first advanced shot learned

I learned masse' from watching Allen Hopkins do full length center spot endrail to endrail masse' pocketing object ball in the corner for the cash back in in the 70's. Learning it and mastering it are two different things.

I can't believe I was in my 40s before someone showed me a throw shot. Now, I get exicted when I am faced with a couple object balls or the cue ball and object ball locked together. Adds a whole new dimension to the game.
 
tjlmbklr said:
When I first learned to use side spin to manipulate the OB rebound on bank shots. I still feel good about these shots on making a seeming impossible bank shot. usually only experienced player appreciate this shot.

TJ

PS there are many more that followed.
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Mine was the same. Discovered how sidespin affects the OB from an old library book by Willie Hoppe; never used it yet, just learned it. Well, during a little 8 ball tournament, I was faced w/ an eightball that wouldn't bank straight in. My opponent and his coach had no doubts about the impossibility of the shot. Making that shot was a great feeling of triumph! Many firsts feel great.
 
My dad bought a 8' Sears table and the little instruction book showed that, for a ball on the rail, if you hit the ball and cushion at the same time*, it goes in.

When I tried it, it did! THAT shot hooked me to pool forever.

Jeff Livingston

* I know this advice is not exactly right, but it was good enough at the time. Learning never ends in pool which is what keeps me in the game.
 
Actually I can't remember.....but it was included with 98 other shots in the book I was reading.

"99 Criticle Shots in Pool"
 
Reverse english speed control for me.

I learned that when using running english to go around the rails makes the ball carry further, but if it gets to a rail where the running english is now reverse, it pretty much dies then and there. I realized I had a huge margin of error in speed control if I could exploit this. Shockwave's not working for me right now, or else I'd post a cuetable example of the usefulness.

-Andrew
 
I used to love blasting in stop shots at warp speed. Screw draw...I wanted to fire it 100 miles an hour and just have the cue ball stop dead in its tracks.

It is amazing what we think is so cool when we first start playing. Of course, I was around 10 years old.
 
Matt_24 said:
I used to love blasting in stop shots at warp speed. Screw draw...I wanted to fire it 100 miles an hour and just have the cue ball stop dead in its tracks.

It is amazing what we think is so cool when we first start playing. Of course, I was around 10 years old.
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There is nothing better than pool at 10 years old. No videogame compares.
 
you youngster :)

Jude Rosenstock said:
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There is nothing better than pool at 10 years old. No videogame compares.
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Video games? When I was 10, the other choices were "Chutes and Ladders", "Checkers", "Trouble", etc..

Electronic games? OK, maybe Aurora/Tyco slot tracks, or model trains, or "Operation". :)
 
whitey2 said:
Video games? When I was 10, the other choices were "Chutes and Ladders", "Checkers", "Trouble", etc..

Electronic games? OK, maybe Aurora/Tyco slot tracks, or model trains, or "Operation". :)
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Yeah, nothing's changed. I think you can play all of those on Nintendo Wii now.
 
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