http://www.billiards-pool.net/ Interactive web site containing forums for the sport pocket billiards, christian players meet and di http://www.billiards-pool.net/images/button.gif http://www.billiards-pool.net/ Welcome to Billiards-Pool 88 31 http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=32 This is a trick shot that anybody can do! This is a simple draw shot. Stroke the cue ball as indicated. When the cue ball contacts the one ball, the 8 ball and the 4 ball will be sent to the corner pockets. The cue ball will draw back and pocket the 3 ball and the 9 ball. Five balls in one simp... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=31 Coming Down The StretchCopyright 2002 Blackjack David Sapolis... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=30 Note: This text was written in 1991, yet recently(2005) "Kid Delicious" Danny Basavich was faced with a similar shot while facing Corey Deuel in the finals of a UPA Tournament. Kid Delicious was not sccessful in pocketing a shot that was very similar to this one, and it cost him the game at hill-hil... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=29 The Rail Shot DrillThe main objective of any drill is to take an identified weakness and turn it into a strength. In this drill, we are concentrating on two rail follow position. This might seem easy to do on paper, but many player make mistakes with these types of shots. This drill requires that... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=28 StrokeCopyright 1991, 2004 Blackjack Billiards Inc.I base everything I teach in pool around the stroke. The stroke is the most important thing that will enable you to get the balls into the pockets while controlling the cue ball. If your stroke has no control, neither will anything you try to do wit... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=27 The following is an excerpt from my book "The Growling Point". Copyright 1995 David A. Sapolis, Mesilla Valley Publishing ... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=26 The following is an excerpt from Lessons In 9 Ball. A shortened version of this section appears on many websites, but this is the actual book version, minus the picture...if you want the picture, I'll send it to you...anyway...its a lot of reading, (EXTREMELY LONG)but good stuff.... hope you put it ... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=25 Unlocking The SafeCopyright 2003 Blackjack David Sapolis All Rights ReservedThe safety is one of the most complex subjects in 9 ball. If you lack the ability to properly execute safeties, your game will surely suffer. Many beginners fail to recognize the safety option, and tend to go for the shot at... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=24 Reading RacksCopyright 2003 Blackjack David Sapolis All Rights ReservedIt is Also important to evaluate the pocket availability options for each ball on the table. This is extremely important because we are all human, and we all make position errors. By identifying the pocket availability options fo... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=23 Mastering The BreakCopyright 2003 Blackjack David Sapolis All Rights ReservedWhen we look at the game of 9 ball, and how we are to improve, the first place we should look is the break shot. The break is the most important shot of the game. If you can break, make a ball, and have the balls spread dec... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=22 Copyright 2003 Blackjack David Sapolis all rights reservedConsidering all of the questions I have been asked pertaining to the break in 9 ball, I will freely pass along to you what has worked for me in the past. Hopefully, if you try the method I am about to explain, you can also benefit from the su... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=21 Drill: the followDRILL: FOLLOW 4 pages 10-25-04 CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.Set the cue ball in the kitchen on diamond one by the long rail.Set the Object ball, one ball one diamond in front of the cue ball in the kitchen on the break line on diamond two. The c... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=20 Drills on the railsDRILLS ON THE RAILS, 6-10-15 ball drills. 4 pages 10-25-04 CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved. Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.Learning how to shoot rail shots is key to ever having a run out game. Rail balls are always problem balls and they are hard to make and get good shape on ... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=19 DRILL:CUTS-HOW TOFive pages 10-10-04 CR Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved. Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.The biggest problem newbies have with the pool game is cuts. They just can’t see the cut angle. They ask how long before I get good at them.Answer they won’t appear simple until you have potted a mi... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=18 Drill of DoomDRILL: THE DRILL OF DOOM, POOLS ULTIMATE DRILL. Four pages 10-22-04 CR Fast Larry Gunigner all rights reserved bpn, czm, upp, rsb.This is it, the big one, the ultimate pro inside secret. This is the drill to end all drills. This is the mother of all pool knowledge. This is the met... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=17 AdrenalinAdrenalin 1-7-04 CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved. 3 pages. Czm, upm, bpn, rsb.The noun "adrenalin" has 1 sense in WordNet.1. epinephrine, epinephrin, adrenaline, Adrenalin -- (a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimu... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=16 Draw distance and precision.DRILL: Draw, distance & precision 4 pages 10-24-04 CR Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved bpn, upp, czm, rsb.Most of the better players have a draw. They confess two things to me. (1) The draw comes and goes, one day its working and another it’s not. Solution, take... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=15 Stop shot drill Four pages 10-25-04 CR Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.The stop shot is vital and must be perfected early on. It is an easy shot. You must learn two things, where the exact center of the cue ball is and where to hit the cue ball to stop it dead in its track... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=11 Can I run 3 balls?Can I really run 3 balls ?Published by: Pool-Billiards , On: Sep-03-2003 [ Edit | Add Article! ] Every one laughs at this and says of course I can. Well, don’t be too sure about this. As crazy as these sounds, the majority of the club players in the pool halls cannot do this. Don’t... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=9 [lib align=right]limbsaver.jpg[/lib] This product is made by Sims Vibration Laboratories. They have successfully released some similar in archery, baseball, firearms, music, and golf. The name of this product is the limbsaver. The X-1 limbsaver is made specifically for pool cues and is suppose... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=7 PracticeBy Leslie RogersIf you want to improve your game, you need to practice. How you practice is every bit as important as what you practice. This is an area that’s rarely touched on by instructional books and videos. Generally they tell you to practice certain shots, stroke techniques, etc. with... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=6 In my show I bank a 9 ball 5 rails around the table, once the ball is away and in motion I run around the table and get back to where I originally shot the 9 from and as it arrives at the 6th cushion and corner pocket I shoot the ball in as a wing shot. It’s an old Jimmy Caras show shot and I do th... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=5 Carlton asks: How did you get the nickname Fast? 11-16-03 1 of 7 pagesHi Carlton, how did the ring game go, who won, when is the next one? I got the name Fast simply because I played Fast. Since 1960 I have been called Fast Larry. That was what people always called me in pool halls I hung... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=4 George Middleditch should have become a major big time star and if there had been a world trick shot championship every year George would have won a stack of them. George put on his promo bio he was a trick shot champion and the GC’s lawyer would send him a letter telling him to cease and desist if ... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3 My records are now explainedYou wanted to know, its 14 pages. If you don't want to read a book, then just scroll down past this post and go on the next one. If you really want to know, here it all is. It is a full history of my last 10 years in the game and a history of trick shots and how the world... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=2 Every one laughs at this and says of course I can. Well, don’t be too sure about this. As crazy as these sounds, the majority of the club players in the pool halls cannot do this. Don’t just slough this off like you are the big stick, go out and run the test and find out. A lot of players find o... http://www.billiards-pool.net/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1 Mike Shamos the leading expert in America wrote an article in Billiards Digest a few years ago proclaiming Rotation to be a dead game saying he did not know anyone left still playing it. I wrote him back and said it’s not dead, at least one person is still left playing it, and it is me, Fast Larry....