"Mike Engelhardt has parted ways with Analog Devices"

whit3rd wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I have a practice regimen where I come to the table, spot my shot and cue ball roll outcome and take the shot in five seconds or less with no practice strokes. I stomp round the table, never "eyeing up a shot" and finish entire racks in less than 2 minutes, banking several balls in the process.

Just like the Harlem Globe Trotters can toss a shot into the hoop with great ease. I feel that practicing in this way increases shot confidence, improves on the ganut of shots I opt to take, and learning cool new stuff when something less than fully expected happens.

I call it "The Harlem Globe Trotter Effect". There is no way that we should be able to hit a spot on a ball with another ball to within 2 degrees of the proper spot for the shot so consistently with the target

So, experience rules, because that is how a person like me can shoot bank shots like candy and drop jaws around the room. I have done it for so long that I simply KNOW how to shoot most shots. That and super wide pocket openings means that I also KNOW what my odds are for playing loosely with a shot. I think I am pretty good.

But when one watches a video of a master like O'Sullivan shoot off on a 12 foot snooker table and run the rack with 2" balls, one knows that one is not so good. That guy is GOOD at it. So is Efren Reyes.