[FASTLARRY]

SHOES FOR POOL

SHOES FOR POOL

8-22-06, CR, Fast Larry Guninger, all rights reserved. Published in numerous pool internet sites. 2 pages.



This is a very important subject because keeping your feet healthy is vital to your performance. I keep my toe nails cut short and round the edges so they can’t push into the cuticles. I put hand lotion cream on my toes and on the bottoms of my feet at night.

Do not buy cheap shoes; they will kill your feet. The worst shoes you can play pool in are dress shoes with leather soles. They are slick and that is bad. When I used to be a suit and I would buy a pair, I would go out side into the parking lot and drag them up and down the street to rough up the leather. These kinds of shoes are never comfortable. I have to wear them now and then when I am forced to wear a tuxedo. I hate them.

Minnesota Fats said putting a pool player in a Tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog, ah yes. I prefer to tour in a Hawaiian shirt now with nice dress black slacks and black leather tennis shoes. I am comfortable cool and loose. Nothing is dumber than putting a rope around your neck, i.e. a tie, or wearing a vest to play in which binds you up where you can’t move well. Other sports dropped this ridiculous attire in the 20’s and 30’s when you saw golfers and tennis players dressed this way. I wonder when pool will finally catch up.

I buy really nice black leather tennis type shoes and if you shop around you can find pairs that look like dress shoes and if you keep them highly polished you can get by with wearing them like I do on both the world UPA 9 ball and Artistic tour which requires formal attire. Nobody really even knows you are wearing tennis shoes. If I am challenged on this then I can change to a pair of formal business suit shoes which I found which had rubber soles on them. Yes, I bought 3 pair of them and since I wear them so little, they will last me the rest of my life.

You need a rubber sole so when you climb up on the rail for a stretch shot they grip and you will not slip or foul. So when I find a nice pair of black tennis shoes with rubber soles they look great, feel great and give me the performance I require.

The problem is most tennis shoes are white and nice black one that work is very hard to find. I don’t want some hiking shoe that is too heavy; most tennis shoes made for that game are light. I don’t want a show that comes up high around my ankles, they are hard to put on and take off. Again most tennis shoes are low cut.
Any shoe you can play Tennis in all day long, you can play pool in. Just watch a game of Tennis and watch what their foot work has to do. They walk, they run, they jump so this is the shoe for you.

I buy models that look great and then after a week they may rub a part of my foot and just not feel right. I keep experimenting until I find a model that works and when I do find it, I go back and buy 3 more pairs. If you don’t when you come back 6 months later the model is gone. They change models constantly and they come and they go like street cars.

I shop for the shoes with the socks I intend to wear in them. I always put on a thick crew white sock and then put a thin very nice black dress sock over it. The white sock absorbs moisture and gives me nice padding. You would look like a Gomer playing in white socks so you cover it with the black dress sock. When I played Tennis, I wore two pair, one over the other one. I put in an inner sole also for comfort. The Doctor Shoals pads are very good for padding and absorbing moisture and I use them in hot weather. The gel pads are nice too. So when shopping I put my inner sole in the shoe and try it on with my two pair of socks to insure a proper fit. Be sure somebody helps you with the fit so the shoe is not too loose or to snug around the toes. That means forget Wal-Mart and go to a real sports shoe store that has people there who know their business.

One final tip, never buy a cheap shoe, you get what you pay for. Always go for quality and a brand name you can trust. If you did not pay over fifty bucks you probably made a big mistake.

In my trunk I always care an extra pair of shoes and socks. If I break a shoe string or its hot and my shoes and socks get wet, during a break I go out and change them and let the first pair stay in the trunk to dry out.

Never wear the same pair of shoes every day. When I buy them in 3’s I rotate which allows the one I just wore to dry out and recover for 2 days which will extend the life of the shoe.

You can walk 2 or 3 miles during your play so having proper footwear is just as important as having the right cue.


FAST LARRY POOL. SHOW, CLINCS, WORLD WIDE TOUR PRO PLAYER.


www.fastlarrypool.com best prices in the billiard store, 200 free articles on how to play in the encyclopedia. www dot fast larry pool dot com. Enough teachings to fill up 3 full books and it’s all for free. Just log in and enjoy. 2006.

www.poolchat.net Pools best and most polite chat site for upscale people. No flames, no wars, no bar, no bowling alley, no pin ball, just pool mister, this is poolchat. www dot pool chat dot net. You can ask FL questions on how to play or do the same on the main forum where many top players will share their knowledge and experience with you. Larry is back writing and putting up new articles and giving away free pool cues and other equipment in his daily quizzes. Don’t miss the action.

www.fastlarrypool.com is Larry’s web site where you can book lessons or a trick shot show. Check out the new billiards store which has the lowest prices on cues and tables. Open the Encyclopedia to gain access to over 200 instruction articles for free. POOL LESSONS FROM A GRAND MASTER LEVEL INSTRUCTOR, BILLIARDS EXPERT, CURRENT TOUR PLAYER AND FORMER ARTISTIC WORLD CHAMPION. 770-381-6609.
Well over 3,000 successful private lessons have been taught since 1993. Over 10,000 students taught in clinics all over the world in over 70 countries. Guaranteed satisfaction. You get what you come for or the lesson is free. Larry says you have to shoot a good stick to teach an advanced lesson or to tear down a pros game and put it back in shape. He is known as a high end finisher but he also takes on total beginners.

Larry plays on six pro pool tours. His tour 9 ball cards are: the UPA, the men’s main 9 ball tour where he ranks 35th in the world in mid 2006. He also plays on the Viking Pro 9 ball tour, Florida 9 ball tour, SE pro 9 ball tour, the Senior Tour and the APTSA (Artistic Pool and Trick Shot Association world tour. Larry is also listed on the tour stats as having one of the highest straight pool runs in history of 274 balls which is directly behind Ralph Greenleaf’s record. He holds the world record for the high run in rotation, 5 racks, 75 balls. His high run of 9 racks in 9 ball was only done twice on the pro PBT tour.
His high run in 8 ball is 8 racks. He is regarded as the greatest shot maker of all time by many hall of famers and world champions. Einstein said there are 6 million possible shots and Larry has made all 6 million of them. He has made and duplicated every shot ever made on a table during the last two centuries. He holds 20 world records in the sport.
Fax 770-381-1916. POOL QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND FREE INSTRUCTION IS ON www.poolchat.net In the ask the pros forum.
“Fast Larry” Guninger and Wonder Dog, perform trick shot shows and entertainment world wide.
Email fastlarry@bellsouth.net fast Larry at bell south dot net.
DVD’s.http://www.fastlarrypool.com/dvdseries_trickshots1_trailer.htm
May God bless and peace be with you. May there now be peace between us. If you are a real pool player, then fast truly loves you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall.
VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. “Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Yes I really did do it all and you can believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " Shoot straight, innovate, never give up, just run out on the other guy then there is no way for you to lose. believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " "Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen."Winners NEVER QUIT, QUITTERS NEVER WIN.
They say FL can not play. Then explain why he is on the Upa web site ranked 35th in the world in mid 2006. All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788
www.fastlarrypool.com best prices in the billiard store, 200 free articles on how to play.
Lead me, follow me or get the hell out of my way. Do one of the three please? Come celebrate the wonder of this beautiful game with me and become a student of it.
Be my friend, walk my way, flow with what I teach you and you will soar like the Eagle into levels of excellence you never dreamed possible. Play by feel, not by systems; do not make a simple game complicated. Go with what you know, go with what is natural.
"Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen." In the words of Vince Lombardi, "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." Vince said you’ve got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. Vince Lombardi once said, “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of profession or endeavor. Fast Eddy said about the same thing in the color of money.
Winning is everything. Winning is the only thing. If you can dream it, see it, believe it, you can do it and you can be it. You can perform totally out of the box deep into the Zone, one with the shot, freewheeling fast and loose with no fear. Then you are a person with no limits who can achieve anything he can imagine that a human body is capable of producing. “FL”
Show me a guy who does not mind losing and I will show you a sausage. Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. “FL” “Nice guys finish last” quote from Lou Durocher
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." – Yoda

It is all about visualization, focus, concentration and playing in the zone. You just see it, feel it, do it: It does not get any deeper than this? Play pool with an empty mind. “FL”

“Flow with what ever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting what ever you are doing and what ever comes your way.”
Chuang-Tzu.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.

For a man thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13

In order to master pool you must first learn how to master yourself and your emotions. “For to conquer in battle a thousand men a thousand times, means you have now conquered yourself and you are now the greatest of warriors” Dharmapada.

This is a feel game and a mind game. When the mind is pure, pure perfect pool will follow. Perfect pool comes from being taught how to practice perfect. Being in dead punch is the ultimate trip and reward from that. “FL”


Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Rack em sausage, Go play fast and loose. Ride em hard, put em up wet, leave the ladies smiling. Live free, die well owing no man anything. May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead? In time, it’s all dust in the wind anyway. Don’t take your self, or anything too serious, just be happy and healthy. Laughter good whiskey and song is the best medicine. If you have a library, a garden, a good woman and a barrel of Scotch, you have all you need.
Rudolph Wanderone Sr, Minnesota Fats father, told fatty at age 5, a lucky man lives the sporting life. Never do anything that makes you unhappy. An unhappy man will not live long. If you are happy, you are a rich man. If a man has his health, a roof over his head, good food and friends what else does he need? He is wealthy beyond compare.
Every thing on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. You now must learn what you mission is and fulfill your destiny. Pay your Karma off and be clean for the next go around.
Be sure to take the time, to smell the flowers along the way. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. Wander in wonder of life and follow La Vie Dansante. As my grand master said and I quote as a loyal parrot head, why don’t we get drunk and screw? It took me years to learn how to beat and avoid hangovers, just stay drunk and don’t sober up. Never act your age, stay young forever. FL is 29; he plans to stay 29 forever. His kids are now older than he is and do not understand him at all. In 7 more years his grand children will be older than him. Fl says, when you begin to act your age, it’s all over for you. The number one cause of death in old people is retirement and boredom. You must always have a hobby or a job, a project or a hottie your old lady does not know about on the side to keep you alive and on earth with a purpose.
I want to die being totally alive with my boots on. I don’t want to die being brain dead for a decade with my boots off and rotting in a bed on a pan. I want to die on top of a 19 year old hottie yelling who’s your daddy, Bonsai just as I catch the big one. Use your imagination on that one. If you gotta go dudes, go out with a bang hangin 10. Or when I die, I want to die like my father-- who died peacefully in his sleep with his boots on and not screaming like all the passengers riding in his Lincoln Town car who were going downhill on the interstate at 85mph at the time coming down out of the mountains. Die happy and you lived a good life. Live you life daily with honor and pride in your actions and you will sleep like a baby.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. “Quote Indian Chief Aupumut.”
FL say’s only the good die young, God allows all pool hustlers to live till they are 85 so they can suffer. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I had a damn good run and more time here than I expected or planned for so if it all ends tomorrow, no tears, I lived 3 life times in the same span a normal man lives one. When I die I want to be cremated and my ashes sprinkled inside a Super Wal-Mart, then I’ll know my kids will finally come to see me twice a week.
Remember the words of the great Emiliano Zapata . . .
it is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. . .
I am just a simple teacher. All that I now know is that I now know nothing. I am nothing but a good ball banger who teaches a good lesson and puts on a good trick shot show that is the only two things I do well in life. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking
Aristotle said “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Fast Larry Guninger, real man, real pool player, real American, real Christian.” God bless the land of the free and of the brave. Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin, Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas síoraí dó. Politically he is John fookin Wayne and just a little to the right of Attila the Hun. He say, I ain’t runnin for gov-nor so you all can take all that politically correct bull she-yit and stuff it where da sun don’t shine. I tell it like it is. Some of you, can’t deal with the real truth.

Minnesota Fats: Larry’s teacher said? "When I played pool I was like a psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions." "You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it." Learn to be a lock smith. If you should be giving the 7 and the snap, don’t play for money unless you sell the pigeon he should give you the 7 and the snap. Then you never lose. Never put heat on your self, pressure is self induced; only you can put it on, only you can take it off. The toughest player mentally wins when skills are equal. "Golf is 90% mental and 10% physical." -- Ben Hogan said "I am the toughest golfer mentally." -- Tiger Woods agrees as do all the top pool players.
Paul Newman, in The Color of Money: "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." FL says always have something riding on every match, it steels the nerves.
W. C. Fields: "Trust everyone-and always cut the cards." You can’t con an honest man. Never wise up a sucker or Give a sausage an even break. Never loan a pool player a penny, but show him where the bank is and send him there.
Quotes from FL. Exercise is not cracked up to be what it really is. If God intended for me to be able to touch my toes he would have put my toes where my knees are now. To prevent sagging when you get old just eat more and it fills out the wrinkles. The trouble with jogging is the ice falls out of my scotch glass. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I am not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I would rather be in Philadelphia.

I drink because it makes people more interesting and my wife better looking. It aint easy being me. I really didn’t say everything I said. I take the 5th on all of it. That’s my story and I’m stickin to it. Don’t even think of suing me. My mouthpiece Louie Da Lip will plead insanity, dementia, Senility, Mental Illness, emotional disability, cognitive dysfunction, psychological disorders, brain damage as a child, Alien abduction and RSB long term abuse plus Alzheimer’s disease. I got a bad bottle of Blue Agave and have not been right since. I will walk in rolling around two steel balls in my hand like Humphrey Bogart in the Cain Mutiny and No jury will convict me. I have been every where, done everything and now can’t remember any of it so why did I do it all in the first place? My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. When you get old they say you lose two things, (1) your memory, (2)…. Senior moment, let me get back to you with that one. I gave up looking for my lost shaker of salt years ago, now I would love just to find my car keys.
I get no respect; tug on tie, that’s the entire problem, no respect.
May peace be with you and me, and all of Gods blessings descend upon you.
God Bless you and God bless America.
Come chat with Larry live at www.poolchat.net. Do not miss the Encyclopedia of pool, over 200 instruction articles now up on www.poolchat.net and it’s all free. Come to Atlanta and be video taped in a 7 million dollar state of the art facility in a private room with 4 gold crowns with Larry one on one. A full day is only $350 which is only $43 an hr, every one else is charging double or triple this. It is rated as the top teaching facility in the world. 770-381-6609 puts you on the schedule, or wait for FL to show up as he is a pro UPA touring player and appears coast to coast and catch him when he comes in town.
About FL’s 20 world records, some try and dispute them, FL’s answer is you have two choice’s here, you can believe it, or you can believe it not, FL does not really give a damn which one you get on because he knows he did them all and is done fighting any one about them. He proved every one of them by the Guinness world book of records standards back in the mid 90’s. On each record, a full press release, with the video tape and signed affidavits of the witnesses were sent out to over 175 interested parties in the industry. 18 of his 20 records were set not in a pool hall, but at Georgia Tech University and filmed by an independent studio, TTN. Nobody had ever proved any thing as complete and perfect as Larry did.
To him it’s now a mute point dude. He goes out to his glory knowing what he did. He offered to bet any one 10K to 300K he could pass a lie detector test he did all that he said he did and from 1993 when this offer hit the streets till today, over a decade and a half and not one scum bum took the bet. FL put his fortune, where his mouth was and defending what he did with his life savings. If he was a fraud, somebody would have called his bluff and became rich. Those who falsely accused him were backed down by him and exposed as the real frauds and liars. They were all just jealous punks who were all exposed as nobodies who only wanted to trash those who were what they could never be, real pro’s who could really play.
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788
A prophet is never recognized or understood in his home land. Jesus Christ, 30 AD.

The Hustler movie, 1961:
At Finley’s mansion SARAH says: Don't wear a mask, Eddie. You don't have to.(points to Bert) That's Turk, Eddie, the man who broke your
thumbs. Only he's not going to break your thumbs. He'll break your heart, your guts. And for the same reason -- 'cause he hates you,
'cause of what you are. 'Cause of what you have and he hasn't.
This explains the jealous actions of many people on the pool chat boards. They can’t play, they hate those who can. Later back at the hotel: In the bathroom mirror we see Bert asleep on his bed. The sheets are rumpled and tossed about. Then we see Sarah, in her slip, enter the
bathroom and shut the door. She takes out her lipstick and scrawls
across the image of herself in the glass
"Perverted, twisted,crippled." She underlines the word "crippled."
Those 3 words, describes the pool world Fast Larry came up in and it’s his goal in life to help change that image and see a new generation of pro pool players get respect and finally play for and earn serious money which they deserve. He want’s to see pool become the great sport it was when he first picked up a cue in the 1940’s. When the top Billiard player had the same respect and the same fame as all the top athletes in the USA then. Add up the incomes of the world champion boxer, Dempsey, Tennis star Tilden, Golfer Bobby Jones, football player Jim Thorpe and baseball legend Babe Ruth and a billiard player made more than all of them combined, His name was Willie Hoppe. He was making a million a year in l908 and no pool player since then has.

[FASTLARRY]

' date='Aug 22 2006, 01:03 PM said:

SHOES FOR POOL

SHOES FOR POOL

8-22-06, CR, Fast Larry Guninger, all rights reserved. Published in numerous pool internet sites. 2 pages.



This is a very important subject because keeping your feet healthy is vital to your performance. I keep my toe nails cut short and round the edges so they can’t push into the cuticles. I put hand lotion cream on my toes and on the bottoms of my feet at night.

Do not buy cheap shoes; they will kill your feet. The worst shoes you can play pool in are dress shoes with leather soles. They are slick and that is bad. When I used to be a suit and I would buy a pair, I would go out side into the parking lot and drag them up and down the street to rough up the leather. These kinds of shoes are never comfortable. I have to wear them now and then when I am forced to wear a tuxedo. I hate them.

Minnesota Fats said putting a pool player in a Tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog, ah yes. I prefer to tour in a Hawaiian shirt now with nice dress black slacks and black leather tennis shoes. I am comfortable cool and loose. Nothing is dumber than putting a rope around your neck, i.e. a tie, or wearing a vest to play in which binds you up where you can’t move well. Other sports dropped this ridiculous attire in the 20’s and 30’s when you saw golfers and tennis players dressed this way. I wonder when pool will finally catch up.

I buy really nice black leather tennis type shoes and if you shop around you can find pairs that look like dress shoes and if you keep them highly polished you can get by with wearing them like I do on both the world UPA 9 ball and Artistic tour which requires formal attire. Nobody really even knows you are wearing tennis shoes. If I am challenged on this then I can change to a pair of formal business suit shoes which I found which had rubber soles on them. Yes, I bought 3 pair of them and since I wear them so little, they will last me the rest of my life.

You need a rubber sole so when you climb up on the rail for a stretch shot they grip and you will not slip or foul. So when I find a nice pair of black tennis shoes with rubber soles they look great, feel great and give me the performance I require.

The problem is most tennis shoes are white and nice black one that work is very hard to find. I don’t want some hiking shoe that is too heavy; most tennis shoes made for that game are light. I don’t want a show that comes up high around my ankles, they are hard to put on and take off. Again most tennis shoes are low cut.
Any shoe you can play Tennis in all day long, you can play pool in. Just watch a game of Tennis and watch what their foot work has to do. They walk, they run, they jump so this is the shoe for you.

I buy models that look great and then after a week they may rub a part of my foot and just not feel right. I keep experimenting until I find a model that works and when I do find it, I go back and buy 3 more pairs. If you don’t when you come back 6 months later the model is gone. They change models constantly and they come and they go like street cars.

I shop for the shoes with the socks I intend to wear in them. I always put on a thick crew white sock and then put a thin very nice black dress sock over it. The white sock absorbs moisture and gives me nice padding. You would look like a Gomer playing in white socks so you cover it with the black dress sock. When I played Tennis, I wore two pair, one over the other one. I put in an inner sole also for comfort. The Doctor Shoals pads are very good for padding and absorbing moisture and I use them in hot weather. The gel pads are nice too. So when shopping I put my inner sole in the shoe and try it on with my two pair of socks to insure a proper fit. Be sure somebody helps you with the fit so the shoe is not too loose or to snug around the toes. That means forget Wal-Mart and go to a real sports shoe store that has people there who know their business.

One final tip, never buy a cheap shoe, you get what you pay for. Always go for quality and a brand name you can trust. If you did not pay over fifty bucks you probably made a big mistake.

In my trunk I always care an extra pair of shoes and socks. If I break a shoe string or its hot and my shoes and socks get wet, during a break I go out and change them and let the first pair stay in the trunk to dry out.

Never wear the same pair of shoes every day. When I buy them in 3’s I rotate which allows the one I just wore to dry out and recover for 2 days which will extend the life of the shoe.

You can walk 2 or 3 miles during your play so having proper footwear is just as important as having the right cue.


FAST LARRY POOL. SHOW, CLINCS, WORLD WIDE TOUR PRO PLAYER.


www.fastlarrypool.com best prices in the billiard store, 200 free articles on how to play in the encyclopedia. www dot fast larry pool dot com. Enough teachings to fill up 3 full books and it’s all for free. Just log in and enjoy. 2006.

www.poolchat.net Pools best and most polite chat site for upscale people. No flames, no wars, no bar, no bowling alley, no pin ball, just pool mister, this is poolchat. www dot pool chat dot net. You can ask FL questions on how to play or do the same on the main forum where many top players will share their knowledge and experience with you. Larry is back writing and putting up new articles and giving away free pool cues and other equipment in his daily quizzes. Don’t miss the action.

www.fastlarrypool.com is Larry’s web site where you can book lessons or a trick shot show. Check out the new billiards store which has the lowest prices on cues and tables. Open the Encyclopedia to gain access to over 200 instruction articles for free. POOL LESSONS FROM A GRAND MASTER LEVEL INSTRUCTOR, BILLIARDS EXPERT, CURRENT TOUR PLAYER AND FORMER ARTISTIC WORLD CHAMPION. 770-381-6609.
Well over 3,000 successful private lessons have been taught since 1993. Over 10,000 students taught in clinics all over the world in over 70 countries. Guaranteed satisfaction. You get what you come for or the lesson is free. Larry says you have to shoot a good stick to teach an advanced lesson or to tear down a pros game and put it back in shape. He is known as a high end finisher but he also takes on total beginners.

Larry plays on six pro pool tours. His tour 9 ball cards are: the UPA, the men’s main 9 ball tour where he ranks 35th in the world in mid 2006. He also plays on the Viking Pro 9 ball tour, Florida 9 ball tour, SE pro 9 ball tour, the Senior Tour and the APTSA (Artistic Pool and Trick Shot Association world tour. Larry is also listed on the tour stats as having one of the highest straight pool runs in history of 274 balls which is directly behind Ralph Greenleaf’s record. He holds the world record for the high run in rotation, 5 racks, 75 balls. His high run of 9 racks in 9 ball was only done twice on the pro PBT tour.
His high run in 8 ball is 8 racks. He is regarded as the greatest shot maker of all time by many hall of famers and world champions. Einstein said there are 6 million possible shots and Larry has made all 6 million of them. He has made and duplicated every shot ever made on a table during the last two centuries. He holds 20 world records in the sport.
Fax 770-381-1916. POOL QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND FREE INSTRUCTION IS ON www.poolchat.net In the ask the pros forum.
“Fast Larry” Guninger and Wonder Dog, perform trick shot shows and entertainment world wide.
Email fastlarry@bellsouth.net fast Larry at bell south dot net.
DVD’s.http://www.fastlarrypool.com/dvdseries_trickshots1_trailer.htm
May God bless and peace be with you. May there now be peace between us. If you are a real pool player, then fast truly loves you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall.
VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. “Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Yes I really did do it all and you can believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " Shoot straight, innovate, never give up, just run out on the other guy then there is no way for you to lose. believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " "Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen."Winners NEVER QUIT, QUITTERS NEVER WIN.
They say FL can not play. Then explain why he is on the Upa web site ranked 35th in the world in mid 2006. All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788
www.fastlarrypool.com best prices in the billiard store, 200 free articles on how to play.
Lead me, follow me or get the hell out of my way. Do one of the three please? Come celebrate the wonder of this beautiful game with me and become a student of it.
Be my friend, walk my way, flow with what I teach you and you will soar like the Eagle into levels of excellence you never dreamed possible. Play by feel, not by systems; do not make a simple game complicated. Go with what you know, go with what is natural.
"Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen." In the words of Vince Lombardi, "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." Vince said you’ve got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. Vince Lombardi once said, “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of profession or endeavor. Fast Eddy said about the same thing in the color of money.
Winning is everything. Winning is the only thing. If you can dream it, see it, believe it, you can do it and you can be it. You can perform totally out of the box deep into the Zone, one with the shot, freewheeling fast and loose with no fear. Then you are a person with no limits who can achieve anything he can imagine that a human body is capable of producing. “FL”
Show me a guy who does not mind losing and I will show you a sausage. Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. “FL” “Nice guys finish last” quote from Lou Durocher
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." – Yoda

It is all about visualization, focus, concentration and playing in the zone. You just see it, feel it, do it: It does not get any deeper than this? Play pool with an empty mind. “FL”

“Flow with what ever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting what ever you are doing and what ever comes your way.”
Chuang-Tzu.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.

For a man thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13

In order to master pool you must first learn how to master yourself and your emotions. “For to conquer in battle a thousand men a thousand times, means you have now conquered yourself and you are now the greatest of warriors” Dharmapada.

This is a feel game and a mind game. When the mind is pure, pure perfect pool will follow. Perfect pool comes from being taught how to practice perfect. Being in dead punch is the ultimate trip and reward from that. “FL”


Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Rack em sausage, Go play fast and loose. Ride em hard, put em up wet, leave the ladies smiling. Live free, die well owing no man anything. May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead? In time, it’s all dust in the wind anyway. Don’t take your self, or anything too serious, just be happy and healthy. Laughter good whiskey and song is the best medicine. If you have a library, a garden, a good woman and a barrel of Scotch, you have all you need.
Rudolph Wanderone Sr, Minnesota Fats father, told fatty at age 5, a lucky man lives the sporting life. Never do anything that makes you unhappy. An unhappy man will not live long. If you are happy, you are a rich man. If a man has his health, a roof over his head, good food and friends what else does he need? He is wealthy beyond compare.
Every thing on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. You now must learn what you mission is and fulfill your destiny. Pay your Karma off and be clean for the next go around.
Be sure to take the time, to smell the flowers along the way. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. Wander in wonder of life and follow La Vie Dansante. As my grand master said and I quote as a loyal parrot head, why don’t we get drunk and screw? It took me years to learn how to beat and avoid hangovers, just stay drunk and don’t sober up. Never act your age, stay young forever. FL is 29; he plans to stay 29 forever. His kids are now older than he is and do not understand him at all. In 7 more years his grand children will be older than him. Fl says, when you begin to act your age, it’s all over for you. The number one cause of death in old people is retirement and boredom. You must always have a hobby or a job, a project or a hottie your old lady does not know about on the side to keep you alive and on earth with a purpose.
I want to die being totally alive with my boots on. I don’t want to die being brain dead for a decade with my boots off and rotting in a bed on a pan. I want to die on top of a 19 year old hottie yelling who’s your daddy, Bonsai just as I catch the big one. Use your imagination on that one. If you gotta go dudes, go out with a bang hangin 10. Or when I die, I want to die like my father-- who died peacefully in his sleep with his boots on and not screaming like all the passengers riding in his Lincoln Town car who were going downhill on the interstate at 85mph at the time coming down out of the mountains. Die happy and you lived a good life. Live you life daily with honor and pride in your actions and you will sleep like a baby.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. “Quote Indian Chief Aupumut.”
FL say’s only the good die young, God allows all pool hustlers to live till they are 85 so they can suffer. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I had a damn good run and more time here than I expected or planned for so if it all ends tomorrow, no tears, I lived 3 life times in the same span a normal man lives one. When I die I want to be cremated and my ashes sprinkled inside a Super Wal-Mart, then I’ll know my kids will finally come to see me twice a week.
Remember the words of the great Emiliano Zapata . . .
it is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. . .
I am just a simple teacher. All that I now know is that I now know nothing. I am nothing but a good ball banger who teaches a good lesson and puts on a good trick shot show that is the only two things I do well in life. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking
Aristotle said “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Fast Larry Guninger, real man, real pool player, real American, real Christian.” God bless the land of the free and of the brave. Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin, Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas síoraí dó. Politically he is John fookin Wayne and just a little to the right of Attila the Hun. He say, I ain’t runnin for gov-nor so you all can take all that politically correct bull she-yit and stuff it where da sun don’t shine. I tell it like it is. Some of you, can’t deal with the real truth.

Minnesota Fats: Larry’s teacher said? "When I played pool I was like a psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions." "You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it." Learn to be a lock smith. If you should be giving the 7 and the snap, don’t play for money unless you sell the pigeon he should give you the 7 and the snap. Then you never lose. Never put heat on your self, pressure is self induced; only you can put it on, only you can take it off. The toughest player mentally wins when skills are equal. "Golf is 90% mental and 10% physical." -- Ben Hogan said "I am the toughest golfer mentally." -- Tiger Woods agrees as do all the top pool players.
Paul Newman, in The Color of Money: "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." FL says always have something riding on every match, it steels the nerves.
W. C. Fields: "Trust everyone-and always cut the cards." You can’t con an honest man. Never wise up a sucker or Give a sausage an even break. Never loan a pool player a penny, but show him where the bank is and send him there.
Quotes from FL. Exercise is not cracked up to be what it really is. If God intended for me to be able to touch my toes he would have put my toes where my knees are now. To prevent sagging when you get old just eat more and it fills out the wrinkles. The trouble with jogging is the ice falls out of my scotch glass. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I am not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I would rather be in Philadelphia.

I drink because it makes people more interesting and my wife better looking. It aint easy being me. I really didn’t say everything I said. I take the 5th on all of it. That’s my story and I’m stickin to it. Don’t even think of suing me. My mouthpiece Louie Da Lip will plead insanity, dementia, Senility, Mental Illness, emotional disability, cognitive dysfunction, psychological disorders, brain damage as a child, Alien abduction and RSB long term abuse plus Alzheimer’s disease. I got a bad bottle of Blue Agave and have not been right since. I will walk in rolling around two steel balls in my hand like Humphrey Bogart in the Cain Mutiny and No jury will convict me. I have been every where, done everything and now can’t remember any of it so why did I do it all in the first place? My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. When you get old they say you lose two things, (1) your memory, (2)…. Senior moment, let me get back to you with that one. I gave up looking for my lost shaker of salt years ago, now I would love just to find my car keys.
I get no respect; tug on tie, that’s the entire problem, no respect.
May peace be with you and me, and all of Gods blessings descend upon you.
God Bless you and God bless America.
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About FL’s 20 world records, some try and dispute them, FL’s answer is you have two choice’s here, you can believe it, or you can believe it not, FL does not really give a damn which one you get on because he knows he did them all and is done fighting any one about them. He proved every one of them by the Guinness world book of records standards back in the mid 90’s. On each record, a full press release, with the video tape and signed affidavits of the witnesses were sent out to over 175 interested parties in the industry. 18 of his 20 records were set not in a pool hall, but at Georgia Tech University and filmed by an independent studio, TTN. Nobody had ever proved any thing as complete and perfect as Larry did.
To him it’s now a mute point dude. He goes out to his glory knowing what he did. He offered to bet any one 10K to 300K he could pass a lie detector test he did all that he said he did and from 1993 when this offer hit the streets till today, over a decade and a half and not one scum bum took the bet. FL put his fortune, where his mouth was and defending what he did with his life savings. If he was a fraud, somebody would have called his bluff and became rich. Those who falsely accused him were backed down by him and exposed as the real frauds and liars. They were all just jealous punks who were all exposed as nobodies who only wanted to trash those who were what they could never be, real pro’s who could really play.
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788
A prophet is never recognized or understood in his home land. Jesus Christ, 30 AD.

The Hustler movie, 1961:
At Finley’s mansion SARAH says: Don't wear a mask, Eddie. You don't have to.(points to Bert) That's Turk, Eddie, the man who broke your
thumbs. Only he's not going to break your thumbs. He'll break your heart, your guts. And for the same reason -- 'cause he hates you,
'cause of what you are. 'Cause of what you have and he hasn't.
This explains the jealous actions of many people on the pool chat boards. They can’t play, they hate those who can. Later back at the hotel: In the bathroom mirror we see Bert asleep on his bed. The sheets are rumpled and tossed about. Then we see Sarah, in her slip, enter the
bathroom and shut the door. She takes out her lipstick and scrawls
across the image of herself in the glass
"Perverted, twisted,crippled." She underlines the word "crippled."
Those 3 words, describes the pool world Fast Larry came up in and it’s his goal in life to help change that image and see a new generation of pro pool players get respect and finally play for and earn serious money which they deserve. He want’s to see pool become the great sport it was when he first picked up a cue in the 1940’s. When the top Billiard player had the same respect and the same fame as all the top athletes in the USA then. Add up the incomes of the world champion boxer, Dempsey, Tennis star Tilden, Golfer Bobby Jones, football player Jim Thorpe and baseball legend Babe Ruth and a billiard player made more than all of them combined, His name was Willie Hoppe. He was making a million a year in l908 and no pool player since then has.

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