10-24-2021, 11:27 AM
(10-24-2021, 10:03 AM)spazz70 Wrote: Your posts are so random and fun. I just want to hang out and do shots with you sometime.
Thank You. At my age, the only shots I could do are pool shots. Good game. I can make some pool shots. You practice bank shots. Some are afraid of long shots saying too much green. Not the Semi Truck Drivers that I shot against. They stand straight up and just go Pop, Pop, Pop and knock those long shots in. So I learned to do that. I taught myself how to shoot left handed as well as right handed, and that comes in handy on hard to reach shots. Always chalk up before each shot, a good habit to get in. Then there are the Hustlers. The Bar Tables get moved so much and are in such bad shape and people even sit and dance on them. Every bar has a guy that knows every dead rail and every tight pocket and how the table slants uphill and downhill so this Hustler has great Home Court Advantage. I could be here all day talking all the types of Hustles. That's why I leaned not to shoot for money. Too many good Hustlers.......I'll tell you a good practice game by yourself. Go for the 1 ball, then the 2, until you get to 15, but try to leave the 8 ball for last and that you have to bank in. Call your pockets, no slop. It's hard practice, but a good practice to get in all 15 in order and bank the 8. You will think it is no fun, but practice isn't suppose to be fun, but you will be surprised the good shots you pull off. ......Again, bend over like Willie on most shots, but on those long straight shots stand up straight like Minnesota and the Truck Drivers. It is a change in vision on the different shots, and it does help. Oh yes, the idea is not how Hard you can hit the ball. The ones hitting every ball hard are playing slop and not calling the pockets. Like chess, you are thinking 3 moves ahead, and now you get into defense. A great game.
1968 Bengal Fan
