WELCOME TO THE CAVE
Rules of the Cave.
1. Never question your journey. You know where you are going.
2. Declare you will become a 1000 ball runner.
3. Your official run does not count until you past 30 balls.
4. You can carry over a hundred ball run from the previous training session. The second one
hundred does not become official until you past thirty balls again.
5. The first shot in any rack is free. In other words, your run in the next rack does not begin until
you make the first ball.
6. Scratches do not count. If you scratch you may take ball in hand and continue your bun.
7. You need to report each one hundred ball run attempt to the Cave Dwellers club.
8. Just throw the balls on the table and run them in any order you decide.
9. You can run 100 any way you want. You can run 100 stop shots or 19 sets of six in order or do a
series of exercises. As long as you make 100 balls without a miss you are in the blue.

Names in Blue are members of the 100 ball run club                                     High Run
1. Travis Kennedy,            AZ                              tkkenn@cox.net                                        177
2. Tim Miller.                       FL                             monkbilliardacademy@yahoo.com          336
3. David Rowel                   AL                             drowell60@yahoo.com,                             232
4. Todd Reeves                 WI                              ta_reeves@hotmail.com,                          361
5. Mike Regan                    IL                               mfregan@comcast.net,                             136
6. Gary Peterson               WI                              petersoncues@tds.net,                             300
7. Leon Walters                 NM                             leoncwalt@aol.com,                                   39
8. Mike Hewett                  MI                              mhewitt@kcconline.org                             146    
9. Dominic Colonero         IL                               domevan9@comcast.net                           195
10 Jeremy Clum                OH                              clum@rocketmail.com,                              55
11 Kurt Manley                  CA                              kurtismanley@yahoo.com                         39
12 Scott Bourassa             NY                              scottny12068@yahoo.com,                      143
13 Mike Houppert             NY                              houppertbuildersinc@hotmail.com,       100
14. Jacques Dupont         CANADA                     dupontjayjay@yahoo.ca                            100
15. Dennis Perry                                                   Dennisperry@charter.net                        100
16. Gene Dean                  AL                               geno368@gmail.com                                 49
17. Jeffery Thomas           WI                               Jeffrey.Thoms@wfhc.org                          35
18. Jerry Markey                                                   jerrymarkey@gmail.com
10. Steve Brownstone     MD                              mrstevenbrown@hotmail.com                 138
20. Scott Szydel                WI                                saszydel@ra.rockwell.com
21  Ross Noggle               CO                               poolteacher4u@yahoo.com                      53
22.  J. Been                       CO                               bmx4life_14692004@yahoo.com              100
23. Michael Karder           OH                               mkarder@aol.com,
24. Chuck Tate                  OR                               ctate55@q.com                                           88
25. Brian Thomas              WI                                bthomas1@wi.rr.com                                 100*
26. DANNY                         FL                                bizzyd@bellsouth.net
27. Cesar Sosa                Portugal                       pooleventoslisboa@gmail.com                 73
28. Eric Roberts               FL                                apadad66@gmail.com                                  20
DO YOU SEE WHERE MY NAME IS UNDERLINED. THAT MEANS IT IS A LINK. YOU CAN CLICK ON MY NAME
AND SEE MY PURPOSE STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING YOU WILL NEVER
GET ANYWHERE.
There is a lot of information I share with Cave Dwellers and Masters only. I am not going to give away my 25 years of research and experience to pool players who
can't comprehend what I am  talking about. For the rest of my career I am going to work with my students only.

I have something here I want to share with you. When you get ready for a shot, there are certain keys that come up in our efforts. For instance, if you line up and you
are not in proper position a signal will be sent to your brain. Some of us ignore that signal and miss the shot exactly the way we think we will. So you can understand
how powerful these signals can be. If we learn to use positive signals we will be better served and increase our skill level performance by a large margin.

Take the keys to success
                                                                      THE KEYS TO SUCCESS!!
TAKE A MOMENT TO CHECK OUT BRIAN THOMAS'S NUMBERS IN THE MASTERS PROGRAM. CLICK HERE
i posted a very important article on this page
Level Eight

Session Nine

USTE - 0ne Miss

40 Stop Shots (40)

Lessons 39 (3) 40 (3) 42 (2) 46 (2) 48 (3)

3 Racks Pile Rocks plus five balls (50) Had to start over once

3 Lessons 45 (9)

Special Assignment (42) 14.1 total (15)

Mid Term 8-ball (9)

Tournament Report:

Scotch Doubles DE 3/3 Won second place $100.00



Session Ten

USTE – No misses

40 Stop Shots (39)

Lessons 39 (3) 40 (2) 42 (1) 46 (3) 48 (3)

3 Racks Pile Rocks plus five balls (50)

3 Lessons 45 (9)

Special Assignment (42) 14.1 total (12)

Mid Term 8-ball (14)

Tournament Report:

Won first place $84.00 12 people 8 ball SE race to 2
We now have twelve members of the 100 club. This is really good news. Come on guys, talk to me.
You are expected to share your purpose with
others. The names that are underlined have
done that.
Take a few moments to look at Brian Thomas report on his numbers
from The Masters of Art in Pocket Billiards. He is in the 100 ball run
club. I consider him a top master. Brian is an inspiration to all of us
on the art of hard work.
I discovered a new exercise today. Put the eight ball on the spot and every shot
you shoot, play position for that eight ball. It is a great exercise and very helpful
as you build cue ball speed.

I am looking for you to discover new exercises and share them with your fellow
cave dwellers.


The state of affairs in this game has gone through a series of economical setbacks and many are wondering if pocket billiards can pull through. The game
has changed from the time honored games of time gone by and now the personalities overshadow the true art of pocket billiards. As in all personality
cases, it has a shelf life. In other words, personalities get boring after a while.  Poker, darts and kick boxing, to name a few have pulled many customers
from our rooms and now they are closing their doors at an alarming rate. Even Boston Billiards had to close. Good Time Billiards which had over a
hundred tables placed a “CLOSED” sign on their door.

The Women’s pro tour is now down to just two stops and that is not a signed deal. The Men’s pro tour exists on a worldwide level with many of the players
competing in the amateur events such as the Jose Tour, or Viking Tour just to get by.

What has happened to our once thriving game?

The bottom line is we have failed. We rode the backs of “Color of Money” and did not take the time to teach our players to enjoy learning and developing
new skills. It is the discovery of new abilities that keeps one interested in the game.  Instead we set up leagues that rewarded mediocre play and punished
those who worked hard on their game. Now, we end up with a fraction of what we had.

“Houston we have a problem”.

It is not the economy that has caused our problems. It is the interest in the game of pocket billiards. What we sell no one wants. It is time for a change,
time to do something new. “Houston we have a problem”. We can’t use today’s line of thinking to solve our future problems as it is this line of thinking
that got us into this mess in the first place.

The industry leaders deny that the problem exists, yet it is all around us. The numbers don’t lie. The numbers tell us that interest in pocket billiards is
dwindling. I am going to rephrase that line and make it real. “Interest in personalities has just about died.” Spectators are sick of the ego’s that run this
game. They want the game back. And this brand of players and industry leaders are never going to give it to them.

We need a new group of world class players who understand that the game is more important than the player. An audience does not come to see the
dancer. They come to see the dance. It is time we danced for our fans and the art of pocket billiards is the dance they want to see. If our spectators were
interested in the dancer than the women’s pro tour would not be down to two stops.

The spectators are what drive this game today. Without the fan we really have no sport. More people come out to watch a skateboarding contest then to
see world class players compete in pocket billiards. There are far more people at a volley ball game then in the pool hall watching championship matches
and lately I have noticed more fans in the stands at a softball game then at the professional arena of pocket billiards. It is time to take a look at ourselves
and produce the game people want. Less than three hundred spectators showed up for the US Open Pool Tournament. It is time for reflection.

I feel like I have figured out how to bring this game back on a grand scale. I have worked out all the details. You can have a copy of my proposal by
sending an email requesting it. I ask for confidentiality. You will receive this “plan” because I trust you, your response is  important to me.
Meet our newest Cave Dweller
Eric Roberts. He will begin his
membership with a ten ball run.
Not bad for a kid who is only
seven. Eric is a hard worker who
does all his assignments. He has
a real grateful attitude which is
important to any player who is
growing in this sport. He acts like
a Monk Billiard Academy
graduate and always thanks the
tournament director after he
competes in a tournament. Eric
did earn his Masters degree
when he completed all the
assignments at the Main Event.  
Flash allert. Eric ran 20 balls tonight!!!
Send Eric an email and give him some cave dweller encouragement.
apadad66@gmail.com  
I also found out that Eric made the honor role in school. Let's get behind each
other and champion our cause. Send him an email and let him know he is part of
the family of Cave Dwellers and we will be ther when he wins the US Open.
Click on this picture and treat yourself to a theme song as
Rita Coolidge sings Walela music. This is some rare music
from the native Americans and I think you will agree it is
really fine artistic expression. Check out the next picture
and discover this incredible music.
I discovered this music while I was
hitch hiking from Minneapolis to
Escanaba Michigan during a winter
blizzard. An old Indian man picked
me up in his pickup. He was playing
his native American music and I got
swept away by the beauty of it. No
wonder, they live a life of loving God
and nature so it's no surprise they
would create pleasant melodies that
sooth the soul.

Check out "Morning Song" and while
you listen to this music surf around
to hear the other music.
Look who joins the 100 club? Mike
Regan has been working very hard
on his game and now is playing at a
high level.