[FASTLARRY]

Ask Fast Larry any question
On anything, you ask, he answers. Who let that damn beagle get on my cpu? Wonder
Dog, stop answering my fans. :-D



[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2004/10/23 14:14 ]

[FASTLARRY]

Your cat sits????

You got to give me some help here. You are supposed to ask me a question, instead you made a statement. My crystal ball is in the shop being worked on, so I wonder, is it good or bad your cat sits on your monitor. If it's bad, take the cat out to I-95 and toss it out of the car window, just kidding. Get a spray bottle, fill full of water, when cat gets up on monitor, squirt in face, cat will soon learn not to do that. Cats hate water.

I like cats, I think having a cat up on the monitor watching me would be cool. They do things like that because they love you and want to be near you. When I work on my cpu, the 4 wonder dogs have a race to see who can get under my desk and lay on my feet while I work, sometimes there is a major rumble over this spot. When I work too long and ignore Jake the giant beagle, he comes up to me and takes his nose and flips my forearm up in the air and off of the mouse. He keeps doing it, stopping me from working, until I attend to him, normally he wants something, fill up my food dish or play with me I am bored.

If I hog the pool table, play for hours and wont let him get up on it and run some racks, he will grab my pants leg and hang on, or play bite my ankle. As soon as he gets to play, he then takes off and leaves me alone.

I pay very close attention to my dogs when they communicate with me, they do it with expressions and body language mostly, plus some barks and grunts, growls. If you become one with the dog, be a dog, think and act like a dog, you get in tune with them and in touch with their wants and needs. Most people just ignore their animals and do not have a clue what they want or are trying to tell them.

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bluewolf wrote:
My cat sits on our computer monitor

Laura

:-D

[FASTLARRY]

FL ANSWERS

For the same reason you do, he has nothing better to do and is bored. On the internet, you never know if you are talking to a dog or not, do you. Wonder Dog picks up the phone receiver and talks, opens the fridge door, there is not much he cannot do. They do not call Jake the Wonder Dog that for nothing. :-o :-o :-o

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bluewolf wrote:
OK. How about this. Why does your beagle get on your cpu? :-o :-o

[FASTLARRY]

Forest

Are we both walking in the same forest together, does the pope wear a funny hat? Does a bear dodo in the woods. Of course we are in the same woods, what do you think, we span off on two deminisions, that one is too weird to go near. This is the Fast Larry show, not the twil lightzone show.

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"When you walk through the forest with your dog,
he is walking in a different forest
bluewolf wrote:
:-o :-o

:-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o

[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2003/10/29 13:44 ]

[Carlton31698]

Lary what did you think of the ring game at southern billiards this past weekend www.southernbilliards .com :-?

[FASTLARRY]

Draw to a spot

You follow the ball better because you are looking down the line, seeing a spot where you want to put the cue ball. When you are drawing the ball, you are not looking at where the ball is going, therefore the problem.
Play 12 hours a day for a decade and eventually you get good at this like most top players do. If you are a casual player, you will never acquire this skill. You donot have that skill now becuase you are doing nothing now to acquire it.

May I suggest a drill that will give it to you. If you want it, you must go out and work to acquire it. You need to spend long hours on this drill. Place an object ball in the corner pocket. Place the cue ball two diamonds up from it on a line coming from the corner to the middle of the table. Place a dime 6 " to the right of the line, then shoot the OB in and draw back until you stop your cue ball very close to that dime. Begin placing the dime one diamond up, then 2, 3, 4, 5 if you can pull back that far.

What you are trying to train your self to do is see a spot, then tell your mind cpu to draw the ball back to that spot. You visualize that shot happening, then you try to feel it, then do it. If you do not learn to pick an exact sport you want the cue ball to go, you never acquire this skill. Right now, you are not giving your cpu any command to hit anything specific, which is why you have no control over your cue ball.

This will give you the feel of what it is like to draw back one diamond, then two, three or four to the side pockets. Once you get some skill at that, begin to put the dime in different locations and draw to it. Have fun, very soon, your problem is solved and you are playing the cue ball on the draw like you have it on a string. I will be coming out with a 2 hr DVD on the subject of the draw, everything you ever wanted to know, plus a number of cool drills that will make you a draw monster. :-)

[madmax]

Tell me why, one day my draw works, one day it does not. I shoot the draw in a game and it comes back, the next shot it just sits there and does not move back. This is driving me nuts.

[FASTLARRY]

Ring Game

Sorry Carlton, I've been laid up for the last couple of weeks, but I am back on my feet now and heading back out. Had a few medical problems that are now resolved. Wish I could have been there and seen it.
I think any promotion of pool, that brings people in a door is a good thing. The players want action, they want events.
We have to find ways where the players all make money and so do the promoters. Maybe the answer is the fans need to take on some of the bite, look what it costs today to go to a football or baseball game.

A ring game, a trick shot show, a teaching clinic, a 9 ball tourney, all of these are winners. We need more of them.

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Carlton31698 wrote:
Lary what did you think of the ring game at southern billiards this past weekend www.southernbilliards .com :-?

:-D

[FASTLARRY]

Max there are millions of players with that very problem my friend so do not despair. My new DVD will go into this and solve these problems. The problem is this, not trying to cop out on you, I am convinced it is virtually impossible to teach the draw from a book or over the internet.

Teaching the draw is what I do best, so if you want a killer draw, come see me. Go into my website at www.fastlarrypoolcom, my lesson info is on that site.

There are many causes for this problem and I use different techniques to solve it. What works for one, does not with another. Let's examine just one of the methods here. Most failure on the draw comes from gripping the cue too tight. You begin to try to draw, try too hard to draw, then you tighten up your grip, then you are toast.

Hold the cue with the Willie Hoppe grip, with just the index finger and the thumb, the other 3 fingers fly out in a tea cup hold. Now hit some draws, there is no way to lock down with this hold. Once you get the feel of this, go back to your normal hold on the cue which will have 3 or 4 of the fingers on it, now just see how lighty you can hold it and flick your wrist into the shot.

If that is not working, on impact, grab or squeeze the cue.

You can be level with the bed of the table, but also try this, go up one full tip higher than you normally use. Jack up and add just a little down angle, not much. Hit the draw with a violent stab, like a Krate chop and see and feel a follow through of exactly 3" past the outside back edge of the cue ball.

Your tip should dip down into the cue ball and end up touching the cloth. It is a sharp stab into the cue ball, then a quick pull back, like stabbing a knife into a person, stab, pull out fast. If you do it correctly, you must pull out or the cue ball will climb up your bridge hand, it will come racing back on you. Good luck.
I give a money back guarantee on my draw lessons, you leave with a killer draw or you pay nothing. Have never had a refund yet. :-D

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madmax wrote:
Tell me why, one day my draw works, one day it does not. I shoot the draw in a game and it comes back, the next shot it just sits there and does not move back. This is driving me nuts.

[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2003/10/30 13:03 ]

[FASTLARRY]

Dog in forest
Thank God you did not give this one to Wonder Dog to answer, he would have wrote a book and I would never get back on my cpu. I did not get it, now I get it, a beautiful post, yes I agree with every word of it. Sometimes I can be a little dense.

Me and the dog are in the same woods, he justs sees more things than I do, he sees them first, but soon I see everything he sees. I smell the same thing, he just smells it further away. I had 20 trophy animal heads on my wall, mulies,white tails, elks, you name it, I shot it. I crept into their woods, in their world, got past all of their advanced skills and hung them on my wall. I once crawled into the middle of a herd of antelop in Wyoming and stood up and began taking pictures of them 20' away, they went ape. I did the same thing to a flock of 60 wild turkeys in Valantine, Nebraska, walked right up into them.

I grew up on a farm in Osawatomie, Kansas,
for my 2nd birthday I was given a .22 rifle and I hunted all of my life. I spent an enormous time in the woods and I could become one with the animal, I could think like him, anticipate him. I even deveoped a 6th sense, where I could sense his pressence. Humans have a lot of skills like animals, they just never develop them. I had a religious conversion, stopped hunting and gave away the 20 dead deer heads on my wall. I now will not kill an insect. I respect all life forms.

[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2003/10/31 16:47 ]

[FASTLARRY]

I have four wonder dogs, they all can run the pool tricks. Jake is a giant 70lb beagle, Max is a 135 German Shepherd, Abbey is a 50lb East Tenn Mtn Cur, bubba is a 17lb half poodle Sheetzu. I do a real cool wolf howl.

I taught it to the pack, throw back your chin and let er rip, boy does that feel good. I get all 4 in the pack to do a joint howl a couple of times a day. Abbey and bubba sleep in my bed, my wife Sarah wakes early and when she leaves the bed Jake and max moves in and Max lays on my legs. When they think it's time for me to wake up, and it's amazing how accurate they are about this, all four go into the wolf howl, it could wake up the dead, who needs an alarm clock around my joint.

[madmax]

Time and space do exist. If there is no time, then why does the sun come up every morning at exactly the same time it is supposed to?
Space exists, with out it, nothing could exist, everything begins from the very smallest thing connected with strings, up to the largest, it is all connected.
Everthing in finite, even the Universe, when it reaches the end of it's expansion, the finite, it will contract back into where it began, some big ball, just to explode and begin again. We are now just in a phase of that, 15 billion years of that phase.
There are laws of physics, and space and time are those laws, they both exist. I probably do not understand you, I am sure, you do not understand me.