Enjoy the Silence Ask Allison By Allison Fisher Hi everyone, and thank you for reading my column. I hope it has been helping you improve and understand your game. When you play your big matches you have total silence, which must help with concentration. When I play in tournaments it is noisy,...
Quality, Not Quantity Ask Allison By Allison Fisher Hi everyone, and thank you for reading my column. I hope it has been helping you improve and understand your game. If you have any questions that you would like to have answered, please go to my website www.allisonfisher.com. I know that some tables play differently...
How can you learn to see the angle at pool? I have a few ways that I teach this. a) Use the ghost ball method. You imagine a ball behind the object ball in line with the intended pocket and aim your cue ball at the contact point. b) Imagine a line going from the cue...
A Tale of the Tip A good quality tip will hold its shape for many weeks. You don’t need to reshape it very often, but when it needs shaping, you need to know how to do it properly. The first thing you need to know is that the tip will take a shape...
A Change of Perspective by Tom Simpson It’s gonna sound corny, but too bad. It’s a serious suggestion. You’ve heard it from everyone from coaches and sports psychologists to Chevy Chase in “Caddyshack.” “Be the ball.” There. I said it. Be the ball. When you stop snickering, read on. The suggestion here is to...
Team USA Wins Mosconi Cup 11-6Shawn Putnam 4-5 Mika Immonen Finland
Team USA on the Hill at Mosconi CupU.S. skipper Johnny Archer, partnered by Jeremy Jones, took Team USA to the brink of Mosconi Cup glory as they scored a victory over Thorsten Hohmann and Raj Hundal of Europe to move to the hill in the race-to-11 competition. Things started brightly for the Europeans as...
Team USA Leads 6-4 After Day 2 of Mosconi CupIt
Team USA Leads Mosconi Cup 3-2Team USA completed a terrific comeback on Day 1 of the 2005 Mosconi Cup as they came from 2-0 down to win three games in a row to carry a 3-2 lead into the second day of competition. With the scores poised at 2 apiece the final doubles match...
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