ASTONISHING....how the Brunswick Gold crown is SOOOO old school easy for a polished player that Dechaine is. His appeal is enormous to the pool community. Banging the crap out of his cue is incredible. I hope he comes back to play and show everyone how to win. It takes a shitload of focus to compete. I recall being the sole spectator at an event where he and Mika played. It was a privilege to watch them both compete. Miss ya fella...hope you come back soon. And of course HAPPY BDAY
Pool is a fun activity for everyone. We don't play much APA around here any more. We have transitioned to call pocket formats, and FargoRate based handicaps, in the USAPL and BCAPL.
Awesome I'm around manchester nh area I'd love to see what I could do against him I've never seen a pro in person but they say he used to shoot at the legion where I play now and again epping NH
Hi Travis - Mike does play in tournaments in New England. He played in one in Rhode Island this weekend. We are also teaching a weekend class in Mass. in Sept. I recently had Bustamante at my training Center in Ma and we have had other pros as well. Stay in touch.
@@trudaroof I think Mike has been top tier Elite, with incredible natural talent. He is in his mid 30's now and has come along way from his younger brash ways. He has never left pool, he has just shifted focus a bit. He still plays often and is taking more time to teach and study the game. We have a weekend class coming up next month that will be a blast.
I wouldn't say its monster power. It's closer to monster control. A lot of control from the back of the stick itself, going through the bullseye....but in 3 dimensions. Notice the most important thing on that shot....the CB stayed on the table more so than most could execute it and that ensures more accuracy. ....as a side note to the uploader, ask Mike when he returns about that.... I'm positive he will agree or of course I imagine, "understand" that point. I call it the "vertical aspect" that is hard to see from the shooter perspective rather than the tip or front end of the stick, deviating left or right. There is a big difference between a delivery where the tip is descending or rising rather than on "plane" as close to level as possible or at least "maintained" through the CB rather than diving down or swiping up which involves too much unreliable timing and unpredictable results because it's not reasonable to assume a accurate repeatable timing in those cases. NOT ....that it cannot be implemented and manipulated when need be....Nick Varner as far as I can know is the best at that from what I have observed....Nick no doubt, was 3 dimensionally very sophisticated and with monstrous control of those higher level nuances....in other words...he had a deep arsenal capability, more than most pros for sure. Nick on TV is not Nick in a pool room back when he was #1 two years in a row 1989-90 etc etc.....in a pool room with no camera pressure with the world watching etc, it doesn't take long to understand why for instance in the Philippines, many of those good money players say they always recognize EFREN, but their real hero is, NICK VARNER. I remember in 1990 when he would come to our pool room twice a year for a week or more....on shimmed triple face Brunswick pockets GG2....the man literally hung a 2 or 3 rail bank in the jaws once or twice a day if you know what I mean. ...and that wasn't even mentioning the nuclear paranormal abilities he had, BUT EVERY TIME. ....kick into a side rail as hard as I BREAK but with draw and razor thin carom off the 1ball into a off angle combination on the 9 and ...center pocket. ....and I can go on. Mike D has a extreme distinction of delivery a lot of the stick not just straight down the line....but from the back of the stick straight into the target and therefore the front of the stick going through the cb target is more often a foregone conclusion and that's where he gets a lot of power no different than driving a hammer into a nail rather than a swinging "arch" that needs timing and rarely drives the nail home and oftentimes too much....bends the nail over and has to be pulled out etc... He is able to utilize and yield a larger portion of the mass × V² effect that says you can only double your amount of gain at the absolute most, or in other words to simplify what it means in pool, a 10 mph stroke speed resulting in 20 mph cb travel at launch point. I doubt anyone has ever or could ever achieve 200% gain because of friction etc....im just pointing out the maximum effect possible by math physics as a way to explain why guys like mike generate such uncanny accurate power....its not a muscle power generation emphasis anywhere near a technique effect. In other words, think slowwww developing acceleration rather than GRUNT FORCE off the starting line etc.... Notice also, Mike doesn't have a long back stroke....6-8" at the very most and with correct technique, is all the runway a person needs to generate a ton of power.....its just hard for the natural logical mind to fathom or accept that. Im sure Mike can touch on all that if you ask him.... unless he is just so god given talented out of the box, that he doesn't necessarily know it or god help him....if he says all that is too complicated etc etc... I can agree only if he has a universal way to tell you what to do with stance and so on to duplicate what he does, how he does it and why.... It's no accident the results he produces....his delivery talent makes it very hard to miss in all reality from a basic standpoint of consistency. I bet he can threaten 20 spot shots in a row to the back of the pocket..... better than most pros. Ask him to do 10 in a row, no need to bore the guy but I bet for the cash, he'll nail 20 in a row with 3 attempts EASILY....i bet it would be like PRINTING MONEY. ....10 in a row on the first attempt and warmed up as well....no problem...bet on Mike. He can do 10 in a row for fun....Earl Strickland is the only guy I would bet on 10 in a row first attempt as well because he is such a freak of having a answer physically to do it....but Mike as far as TRUE straight is concerned, Earl is not Mike...not like Mike, not even close really. Mike if not a world title holder, I haven't looked it up, I don't care....the guy is a world beater platform, a top tier player without having to actually prove it because if somebody paid him $200,000 a year to play pool....it would be a done deal....and the right way too, NOT WALKING OVER to look at every next shot angle for position like these boring Euro Fedor template drones.... I'm positive Mike publicly or off record would agree with that 110% as well. Mike is a PLAYER....not a robot hypno drone....chasing after nickels on mass like Shavari on youtoobs....with that droning auditory of his as well. Tell Mike, im positive he will laugh is ass off... Thanks
That was the invention of Roger Boucher - the ref. He was very old school and wanted to save money on cloth replacement for the table. The balls were placed in the rack on the cloth. As the rack was slid forward towards the head spot they rolled off the rack cloth.
Chirco is a 650 level shooter. However, I agree that it did not show in this video. I think that he was a nervous wreck. All of his friends came out to watch and he knew it was being taped.
ASTONISHING....how the Brunswick Gold crown is SOOOO old school easy for a polished player that Dechaine is. His appeal is enormous to the pool community. Banging the crap out of his cue is incredible. I hope he comes back to play and show everyone how to win. It takes a shitload of focus to compete. I recall being the sole spectator at an event where he and Mika played. It was a privilege to watch them both compete. Miss ya fella...hope you come back soon. And of course HAPPY BDAY
Mike just announced that he is making a comeback.
The Ultimate Pool League is paying some nice money. Mike would be very competitive there.
APA 7 at 8-ball is a huge range. APA should make 8 and 9 based on a 9 scale and raise the team match skill total to 25.
@@davidnorman5488 We stopped playing APA around here years ago. Fargo is a much better system.
Great to see Mike in action! What a treat. Happy birthday too!
Yes it was!
Holy crap, what a pro can do when messing around is just ridiculous!
LOL. You are right !!
Been part of APA for a couple of years. Lots of fun. Great people.
Pool is a fun activity for everyone. We don't play much APA around here any more. We have transitioned to call pocket formats, and FargoRate based handicaps, in the USAPL and BCAPL.
Happy birthday Mike. Always pulling for you. Unless we play lol.
Awesome I'm around manchester nh area I'd love to see what I could do against him I've never seen a pro in person but they say he used to shoot at the legion where I play now and again epping NH
Hi Travis - Mike does play in tournaments in New England. He played in one in Rhode Island this weekend. We are also teaching a weekend class in Mass. in Sept. I recently had Bustamante at my training Center in Ma and we have had other pros as well. Stay in touch.
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Mike is a great player. Unfortunately, pool doesn’t pay enough money for him to do it full time.
We certainly need to do something in our sport about the incentives for pros.
09:53 ! WHAT!
36:40. that is monster power.
Yes, Mike has one of the smoothest and strongest strokes in the pool world. It is amazing to watch!
@@allthingspool It's a shame he didn't have the mental package to go with it, he could've been top tier elite.
@@trudaroof I think Mike has been top tier Elite, with incredible natural talent. He is in his mid 30's now and has come along way from his younger brash ways. He has never left pool, he has just shifted focus a bit. He still plays often and is taking more time to teach and study the game. We have a weekend class coming up next month that will be a blast.
I wouldn't say its monster power. It's closer to monster control.
A lot of control from the back of the stick itself, going through the bullseye....but in 3 dimensions.
Notice the most important thing on that shot....the CB stayed on the table more so than most could execute it and that ensures more accuracy.
....as a side note to the uploader, ask Mike when he returns about that.... I'm positive he will agree or of course I imagine, "understand" that point.
I call it the "vertical aspect" that is hard to see from the shooter perspective rather than the tip or front end of the stick, deviating left or right.
There is a big difference between a delivery where the tip is descending or rising rather than on "plane" as close to level as possible or at least "maintained" through the CB rather than diving down or swiping up which involves too much unreliable timing and unpredictable results because it's not reasonable to assume a accurate repeatable timing in those cases.
NOT ....that it cannot be implemented and manipulated when need be....Nick Varner as far as I can know is the best at that from what I have observed....Nick no doubt, was 3 dimensionally very sophisticated and with monstrous control of those higher level nuances....in other words...he had a deep arsenal capability, more than most pros for sure.
Nick on TV is not Nick in a pool room back when he was #1 two years in a row 1989-90 etc etc.....in a pool room with no camera pressure with the world watching etc, it doesn't take long to understand why for instance in the Philippines, many of those good money players say they always recognize EFREN,
but their real hero is,
NICK VARNER.
I remember in 1990 when he would come to our pool room twice a year for a week or more....on shimmed triple face Brunswick pockets GG2....the man literally hung a 2 or 3 rail bank in the jaws once or twice a day if you know what I mean. ...and that wasn't even mentioning the nuclear paranormal abilities he had, BUT EVERY TIME.
....kick into a side rail as hard as I BREAK but with draw and razor thin carom off the 1ball into a off angle combination on the 9 and ...center pocket.
....and I can go on.
Mike D has a extreme distinction of delivery a lot of the stick not just straight down the line....but from the back of the stick straight into the target and therefore the front of the stick going through the cb target is more often a foregone conclusion and that's where he gets a lot of power no different than driving a hammer into a nail rather than a swinging "arch" that needs timing and rarely drives the nail home and oftentimes too much....bends the nail over and has to be pulled out etc...
He is able to utilize and yield a larger portion of the mass × V² effect that says you can only double your amount of gain at the absolute most, or in other words to simplify what it means in pool, a 10 mph stroke speed resulting in 20 mph cb travel at launch point.
I doubt anyone has ever or could ever achieve 200% gain because of friction etc....im just pointing out the maximum effect possible by math physics as a way to explain why guys like mike generate such uncanny accurate power....its not a muscle power generation emphasis anywhere near a technique effect.
In other words, think slowwww developing acceleration rather than GRUNT FORCE off the starting line etc....
Notice also, Mike doesn't have a long back stroke....6-8" at the very most and with correct technique, is all the runway a person needs to generate a ton of power.....its just hard for the natural logical mind to fathom or accept that.
Im sure Mike can touch on all that if you ask him.... unless he is just so god given talented out of the box, that he doesn't necessarily know it or god help him....if he says all that is too complicated etc etc...
I can agree only if he has a universal way to tell you what to do with stance and so on to duplicate what he does, how he does it and why....
It's no accident the results he produces....his delivery talent makes it very hard to miss in all reality from a basic standpoint of consistency.
I bet he can threaten 20 spot shots in a row to the back of the pocket..... better than most pros.
Ask him to do 10 in a row, no need to bore the guy but I bet for the cash, he'll nail 20 in a row with 3 attempts EASILY....i bet it would be like PRINTING MONEY.
....10 in a row on the first attempt and warmed up as well....no problem...bet on Mike. He can do 10 in a row for fun....Earl Strickland is the only guy I would bet on 10 in a row first attempt as well because he is such a freak of having a answer physically to do it....but Mike as far as TRUE straight is concerned, Earl is not Mike...not like Mike, not even close really.
Mike if not a world title holder, I haven't looked it up, I don't care....the guy is a world beater platform, a top tier player without having to actually prove it because if somebody paid him $200,000 a year to play pool....it would be a done deal....and the right way too, NOT WALKING OVER to look at every next shot angle for position like these boring Euro Fedor template drones.... I'm positive Mike publicly or off record would agree with that 110% as well.
Mike is a PLAYER....not a robot hypno drone....chasing after nickels on mass like Shavari on youtoobs....with that droning auditory of his as well.
Tell Mike, im positive he will laugh is ass off...
Thanks
What's the deal with the cloth attached to the rack?
That was the invention of Roger Boucher - the ref. He was very old school and wanted to save money on cloth replacement for the table. The balls were placed in the rack on the cloth. As the rack was slid forward towards the head spot they rolled off the rack cloth.
@allthingspool so not to wear out the foot spot?
@@hectorotani27 Not so much the foot spot but the cloth area around the foot spot, where wear patterns tend to appear from racking.
Mike is a great player. But this other player is n9 where near a 650 fargo player. More like 550 fargo. But good shooting mike
Lmao def not a 550
@therackrunner9112 well guess it depends on what state you are in. Because in the midwest he plays like a 550. Just saying
Chirco is a 650 level shooter. However, I agree that it did not show in this video. I think that he was a nervous wreck. All of his friends came out to watch and he knew it was being taped.
Put Jose P with him on 9 or Yansel on 8
LOL.🤣
Bad hit at 10:30.