{"id":3342,"date":"2011-01-18T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:47:19","slug":"18-take-care-of-the-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2011\/01\/18\/18-take-care-of-the-equipment","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-One Tips: 18. Take Care of the Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Give a hoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Someday, I’ll publish an article on the ultimate table and ball cleaning and care guide. Until then, do your best to help keep things clean.<\/p>\n

Put your chalk blue side up, only strike the cue ball with your tip, and use common sense to preserve good playing conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s true that pros can adjust to all kinds of table conditions, but they prefer tight but fair equipment.\u00c2\u00a0 Our future pool players(beginners) can get easily discouraged and put off of the game because they cannot adjust to tricky conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 Help grow the sport by keeping things clean so the next beginner on the table gets a taste of success.<\/p>\n

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Please help keep our tables clean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Equipment matters<\/strong>– Cues, tips, chalk, balls, cloth, tables, pockets.\u00c2\u00a0 The game is difficult enough under perfect conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need double tough conditions making the game seem impossible to new players.\u00c2\u00a0 These days, pool rooms are helping kill the game by letting their equipment go bad, and buying used equipment from auctions of out of business pool rooms, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 or even not air conditioning properly in the Summer to save money on electricity.\u00c2\u00a0 These tough playing conditions do incredible damage discouraging players from sticking to the game.\u00c2\u00a0 One tough session where they never run 2 balls in a row sends possible players running for the hills or bowling alleys.\u00c2\u00a0 I do a lot of work with Peters Billiards<\/a>, a leading billiard retailer in Minneapolis.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to think that it was crazy that they were selling tables with 5 1\/2 inch pockets to rec room home players and their families.\u00c2\u00a0 Eight foot tables are the de rigueur. Now I realize this easy playing equipment is the best choice for most beginners and their guests. At least they can pocket balls and develop skills that may lead to some family member coming into the pool room looking for a worthy opponent or perhaps to enter a tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more info on Equipment Matters, see a future article I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing.\u00c2\u00a0 The information will detail how worn and dirty cloth make the game so much harder.\u00c2\u00a0 Chalk stuck in the cloth will soil freshly cleaned and polished balls more quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 Dirty balls throw and skid more. They also wear more quickly, becoming grittier and smaller.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this friction makes playing the game of pool much more difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 Pockets play tighter and the physics of the game become harder to predict.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad equipment can make a table play much less forgiving for slight miss-hits and unintentional spin put on the cue ball.<\/strong> All of these things make it tough for capable players, just think how high of a hurdle this puts on the rank beginner!\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned for more on this topic.\u00c2\u00a0 Link will go here when it is written.<\/p>\n

Bar boxes can have even more unpredictable challenges for players.\u00c2\u00a0 Lousy cue balls and mismatched rails. See “Big Table to Bar Box”<\/a> for more on that mystery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above excerpt is from a huge article I wrote last year.\u00c2\u00a0 More thoughts on the sad state of pool can be read here: “How to Fix Pool.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday, I’ll publish an article on the ultimate table and ball cleaning and care guide. Until then, do your best to help keep things clean. Put your chalk blue side up, only strike the cue ball with your tip, and use common sense to preserve good playing conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s true that pros can adjust to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68,69],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-ethics-and-morals","category-save-billiards","tag-31-tips-in-31-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}