Dr No
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Wow, you really have . . .
. . . gotten around! Playing with champs and winning - that's gotta be the icing on the cake.
Played a game of 8-ball with Mike Massey once, but he sized me up as no competition and took mercy, giving a few chances to make a shot before slamming the door shut. Managed to make one shot, but he wasn't nervous.
🙄
The other notable player I played (with and) against was Jack Hines.
Met him four years ago at a neighborhood HB pool game; he picked me to be his partner in a doubles match. Took four lessons from him over the course of a few months. During the last session, after I'd made a series of bank shots in a competitive game, he said, looking at the table where I'd just made a bank shot in the side, "You're the best high banker I've ever seen." Had to ask another experienced player what 'high banker' meant, which apparently refers to 'high-probability'.
That was the highest compliment I've ever been paid.
Cue Curious
After some odd 15 years, I finally had the privilege of seeing Art again last night. Unsurprisingly, the rendezvous was all about pool, and he sure showed me not only what it means to be 'in shape', but equally crucially, which tools (cues) to best achiev...
Heyyy, I want pool lessons too!
Although I’m not sure I’m teachable in such a sport at this point.😔
I remember a similar meeting (in pre-gout) days when Ale was as important as the cameras and the table
Tim, Art, Andrew Tim, Art (a bunch of random revelers running up and down the beach) All Mine Cazalea ...
Did you guys rent the watertower for the evening?
That would be fun HERE if it wasn't more than $2000 a night!!! Originally built in 1892 to provide water to power the Pacific Railway steam engines, this famous structure was converted in the mid-1980s from a Water Tower into a Water Tower House! Featurin...
I remember when there was an actual water tower . . .
. . . there. And protests to prevent it from being torn down.
Looks like a great time
I've always wondered what the water tower looks like. Now if that had a pool table inside it, that would be heaven! Art certainly has a huge collection of exotic woods in his pool cue collection! I don't think anyone I know has ever created so many differ...
Filip did ok for a guy who hasn't picked up a cue . . .
. . . in twenty or so years. Some guys are naturals, I guess. 🎱
😃 the single greatest pool compliment I have ever received!
Chuffed to bits dear Art, cannot wait to order a custom cue from Bob, and play much more frequently than I have allowed myself in preceding decades.... 🙏🙂↕️
What kind of custom Bob are you getting?
I imagine Art overloaded your brain with too many cues to choose from, but did get an idea of what you like?
I brought three players for Filip to try out: low-deflection maple, . . .
. . . purpleheart, and ebony. Guess which cue he flipped over? 😉
Has to be Ebony 😊
It depends on his style. Assuming exactly the same tapper and diameter, a runner will go for maple. Much better control. A power breaker will go for purple heart. It just slams the ball. A person that just shoots long shots all day long...ebony. There is ...
You must have a good aim
So when is your cue getting ordered? 😉 My mind would go crazy with so many options available from Bob Flynn
I'd fancy thinking so....
Art spends a Sunday every few weeks going for a visit, so I plan on tagging along when a given Sunday permits schedule-wise.... Being in a 24/7 line of work, scheduling is always in a flux to some extent, but this past month I happened to working every si...
Spot on. The hit of ebony has to be experienced . . .
. . . to appreciate. The most underrated shaft wood might be oak. Most of my 3+ rail kicks are made with a red oak shaft fitted with an Elkmaster tip. It seems to have the most efficient transfer of energy of all. Art
No hard tips my friend?
I know it's always a matter of personal preferences. Super soft tips to me is like boxing gloves on a ninja assasin.
In my experience very soft tips enhance the effect . . .
. . . of cue-ball spin. Try making this shot . . . . . . without follow and right English. Yes, it can be done, and I realize that's how the best play, but spinning the cue ball makes many types of shots more efficiently than perfect aim. My hunch is that...
I have to admit, I am new to bar pool
Last year was my first time playing on bar tables regularly. I used to play only on 9 foot tables until I got married 15 years ago, then had to quit. I still find bar table rules a bit different from BCA rules that I am more used to. Now as far as "hide a...
Wow, you really have . . .
. . . gotten around! Playing with champs and winning - that's gotta be the icing on the cake. Played a game of 8-ball with Mike Massey once, but he sized me up as no competition and took mercy, giving a few chances to make a shot before slamming the door ...
My cue at the time was this model. In 1983-1984 it was retailing at $700. I had a green
one with a custom laser art done on the steel joint collar. It was a special order with Zeus as a cloud blowing wind that goes around the back to form into Zeus. That cue was the reason I nearly got kicked out of college ...
Had a pool table at home until going away to college . . .
. . . in my early twenties. That's when I stopped playing until retiring in my mid-fifties. Since then pool has been the other touchstone of my life, after Stones tours. Funny how we can be so obsessed with a game. And the equipment entailed. 🎱