Aiming/Sighting Consistency

[j6uk]

I'm no coach -as you know- but I'd put it down to a distinct lack of wrist cock

i think your on to something, im sure she'd get the hang of it after an hour one on one with a master cocker

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

As i understand it from others, you shoot aimlessly with little attention to direction.

I trust their judgement.

I may not be good in snooker but ill definitely give you a run for your money in pool

My point was not related to your cue sport abilities...

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

I must say in your last few posts you have killed this nonsense stone dead for me Terry, good posts.

They are dreadful posts. He doesn't get it at all.

Terry is nothing but a straw man. If he needs help putting me on ignore I'll provide detailed instructions. Straw manning is a common tactic on here i have noticed. If people could stick to things i HAVE said, rather than inserting their own hackneyed nonsense, spin and manipulation, that would be nice.

Now, who is going to answer the central condundrum? Why, when pool is so easy, aren't the top 50 ranked players all failed snooker pros?

Pool is easy, innit?

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

OmaMiesta..i admire you for your forthright and honesty in giving your thoughts about both games and the courage and perserverance to switch over and learn it. Hope you do well unlike people who are so stubborn and unreasonable. So adamant about their thoughts even when others admit both games have their own strengths. So clear that snooker is harder to master but have to argue till the cows come home for nothing.

Lol. A quite extraordinary contribution. Good work!



But seriously, it's myopic, hypocritical, snivelling drivel of the highest order. You're another lacking the reasoning skills to understand this one.

[Terry Davidson]

They are dreadful posts. He doesn't get it at all.

Terry is nothing but a straw man. If he needs help putting me on ignore I'll provide detailed instructions. Straw manning is a common tactic on here i have noticed. If people could stick to things i HAVE said, rather than inserting their own hackneyed nonsense, spin and manipulation, that would be nice.

Now, who is going to answer the central condundrum? Why, when pool is so easy, aren't the top 50 ranked players all failed snooker pros?

Pool is easy, innit?

I assume The Lion is in the 50 top ranked pool players, so at least there's one but of course Alex was never a snooker pro. It would be interesting to see just how many of the top 50 pool players started with snooker. I assume most of the British pool pros anyway.

But I agree with you, 'pool is easy, innit?' but without the rolleyes

Terry

[j6uk]

look how uniform all the responses are with doubling up of the quotes, big pocket is a pro-troll give up

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

Big Shot is on his own with this argument and that speaks volumes.

Myself, I think english billiards is the harder game as you have to control three balls instead of two on a 12 X 6 foot table. The masters at this game make it look really easy but sure as hell it isn't. I won my local leagues billiards competition once, beat an old bloke in the final by simply potting what I could, making the obvious cannons, potting his cue ball and double baulking him. The following year I made the final again, against a bloke from exeter who was new to our league, and a pure billiards player, and I didn't get a look in.

It was a joy to watch him control those three balls whereas I could only control two; he made fifty plus breaks everytime he went to the table and I was beaten inside an hour, first to 500 and I only scored about thirty.

I hope I haven't started another argument of snooker verses billiards, but the likes of Joe and Fred Davis and Rex Williams were pretty damn good at both games, both John Spencer and Alex Higgins played billiards when younger but concentrated on snooker alone as pros. I think Steve Davis dabbled with billiards as well when he was younger.

If you want to learn good safety play for your snooker then the odd game of billiards will help enormously.

How about three cushion billiards...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOJE_odeNRk

How about russian pyramid? Now THERE'S a game! As many make pocket size the be all and end all of pocket billiards, snooker players are pure gash compared to russian pyramid players, surely? Proper big balls. Proper small pockets.

That's the reasoning here, isn't it? Or have i misunderstood? It's almost as if people are blindly defending the game THEY play, without any consideration for the skill set required for other cue sports. Surely not?!

[Terry Davidson]

look how uniform all the responses are with doubling up of the quotes, big pocket is a pro-troll give up

Yeah, I agree, but I just can't hold myself back when I see comments from him which are obviously meant to get our goat. This is probably the largest membership site in cue sports (although don't know membership figures for AZ Billiards) so here he can maximize his trollness (is that a word?, it fits anyway)

Terry

[rimmer10]

i think your on to something, im sure she'd get the hang of it after an hour one on one with a master cocker

That's me out, a whole hour just aint gonna happen

[j6uk]

That's me out, a whole hour just aint gonna happen

ten min and a bowl of cereal

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

Big Shot is on his own with this argument and that speaks volumes.

Myself, I think english billiards is the harder game as you have to control three balls instead of two on a 12 X 6 foot table. The masters at this game make it look really easy but sure as hell it isn't. I won my local leagues billiards competition once, beat an old bloke in the final by simply potting what I could, making the obvious cannons, potting his cue ball and double baulking him. The following year I made the final again, against a bloke from exeter who was new to our league, and a pure billiards player, and I didn't get a look in.

It was a joy to watch him control those three balls whereas I could only control two; he made fifty plus breaks everytime he went to the table and I was beaten inside an hour, first to 500 and I only scored about thirty.

I hope I haven't started another argument of snooker verses billiards, but the likes of Joe and Fred Davis and Rex Williams were pretty damn good at both games, both John Spencer and Alex Higgins played billiards when younger but concentrated on snooker alone as pros. I think Steve Davis dabbled with billiards as well when he was younger.

If you want to learn good safety play for your snooker then the odd game of billiards will help enormously.

I'm not so alone as you think. Sounds like you yourself are finally seeing the light. There is hope for you yet, lad.

If this was thebilliardsforum circa 1936, there would be hundreds of people piling in on someone daring to suggest snooker is as difficult as billiards, and would be sneering triumphantly at the very suggestion a mere snooker player could ever be a better cueist than Walter lindrum. Show them ronnie o'sullivan in full flight and they would dismiss his game as a mere parlour trick. They KNEW. They couldn't be told.

They would see the issue solely through the prism of their own experience, and be completely ignorant of and indifferent to the viewpoint of others, even when their experience of other games was limited.

What it boils down to is pride and stupidity. People think they suck at snooker because the game is the hardest. They are wrong. They suck at snooker because they suck, period. Whether the game is snooker, billiards, russian pyramid, pool or whatever, is irrelevant. They are all equally difficult.

[rimmer10]

I'm not so alone as you think. Sounds like you yourself are finally seeing the light. There is hope for you yet, lad.

If this was thebilliardsforum circa 1936, there would be hundreds of people piling in on someone daring to suggest snooker is as difficult as billiards, and would be sneering triumphantly at the very suggestion a mere snooker player could ever be a better cueist than Walter lindrum. Show them ronnie o'sullivan in full flight and they would dismiss his game as a mere parlour trick. They KNEW. They couldn't be told.

They would see the issue solely through the prism of their own experience, and be completely ignorant of and indifferent to the viewpoint of others, even when their experience of other games was limited.

What it boils down to is pride and stupidity. People think they suck at snooker because the game is the hardest. They are wrong. They suck at snooker because they suck, period. Whether the game is snooker, billiards, russian pyramid, pool or whatever, is irrelevant. They are all equally difficult.

Why don't you put up a video of yourself doing 15 reds or long blues? Let's see if you can practice what you preach.

[rimmer10]

Why don't you put up a video of yourself doing 15 reds or long blues? Let's see if you can practice what you preach.

No response just as I thought. Mr Big Sh.t exit stage left. Thank you and good night.

[aucott80]

Aiming/Sighting Consistency

Is this debate still going on? Big **** just moving topics to hold onto a thread of hope he's right about something, anything. Move to an American pool forum if you want to talk pool.

[Ramon]

I'm not so alone as you think. Sounds like you yourself are finally seeing the light. There is hope for you yet, lad.

If this was thebilliardsforum circa 1936, there would be hundreds of people piling in on someone daring to suggest snooker is as difficult as billiards, and would be sneering triumphantly at the very suggestion a mere snooker player could ever be a better cueist than Walter lindrum. Show them ronnie o'sullivan in full flight and they would dismiss his game as a mere parlour trick. They KNEW. They couldn't be told.

They would see the issue solely through the prism of their own experience, and be completely ignorant of and indifferent to the viewpoint of others, even when their experience of other games was limited.

What it boils down to is pride and stupidity. People think they suck at snooker because the game is the hardest. They are wrong. They suck at snooker because they suck, period. Whether the game is snooker, billiards, russian pyramid, pool or whatever, is irrelevant. They are all equally difficult.

hahahaha,,, ah, man, this guy ( big shot ),, is very strange guy !!
Vmax you've seen the light bud !! let me know how re the conditions in other side !! I might be joining you !!