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Bruce Nardoci wrote:

We also had some other games like “aerial assault” (nothing but air-ball shots allowed, from any bar), and “meatball” (which later came to be known as “oneball” on Tornado tables).

Thor Hoberg-Petersen wrote:

It seems that of the players I know, (some pros, no pro-masters except Evan Stachelek is starting to be seen more often) the more experience they have, their five bar series becomes increasingly elaborate.My question to the group is, is it possible to get really good results using only 2 passes 90% ...

Here are some other questions though:

1) Do you press downwards on the rod, the way most rollover shooters do, when preparing to shoot? It seems if I don’t do this, the rod has a tendency to rattle around in the bearing which I suspect decreases accuracy. By this I mean pressing downwards on the rod ...

I initially learned the more natural pull side. Could hit it very quickly and long, fairly consistent, but had not options. Learned a straight (not flipover, still with backswing). Then after a long time, learned the motion for push side and practiced almost exclusively that to really get it down. N...