{"id":7455,"date":"2014-05-25T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/25\/i-may-be-onto-something\/"},"modified":"2014-05-25T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:11:57","slug":"i-may-be-onto-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/25\/i-may-be-onto-something\/","title":{"rendered":"I may be onto something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nHey all you dice pros,<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI need some input please.  First is this &#8216;normal&quot; ?? and second should<br \/>\n\tI consider this any more than coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>\tI would appreciate any and all advice.<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#8217;ve had several good rolls from SL2\/SL3.  I Think I&#8217;ve found my spot.<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#8217;ve been keeping a journal of my throwing.  This is what has happened so far:<\/p>\n<p>\tWed. -Lake Charles&#8211; 5\/12\/2014&#8212;35 roll session&#8211;good amt. of hard 6&amp;8s<\/p>\n<p>\tFri.  Baton Rouge&#8211;5\/16&#8212;33 roll session<\/p>\n<p>\tSun.New Orleans&#8211;5\/18 -no luck at all&#8211;Table too tall for me<\/p>\n<p>\tMon.Baton Rouge  &#8212; 5\/19&#8212;3 OK rolls of 19,16, and 12<\/p>\n<p>\tSat. Baton Rouge-5\/24 &#8211;37 count roll&#8211;good amt. of hard 6&amp;8s and a few hard 4&amp;10s<br \/>\n\tThe pit boss came over and was watching for ~20 min. Gulp!!<\/p>\n<p>\tSun. Baton Rouge&#8211;5\/25&#8211; 28 and 16 count rolls and a couple of 8 or 9 count rolls.<br \/>\n\tThis was from SL1.<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#8217;ve been practicing ~ 30 min. a day but most are NOT that good at home.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;m concentrating on grip and form&#8211;not so much on the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI seem to be more comfortable at a real table and with a $3.00 table<br \/>\n\tI can afford to &#8216;practice&#8217;  there a couple of times a week.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhat do you think?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThanks for your help and I hope to see y&#8217;all in Vegas in October.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJan<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> The Griz on May 26, 2014, 9:26 pm<\/p>\n<div>You may just be!<br \/>\n\tI find SL1 1\/2 to be my sweet spot! But have done just fine at SL2 <br \/>\n\tAll on 12ft tables mind you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> sevenout on May 27, 2014, 5:35 am<\/p>\n<div>I find I shoot best from SL2 in a 12 footer since most of the tables I play on are 14 feet. SL1 looks so much closer to the back wall, but my muscle memory kicks in and I&#8217;m usually landing too close to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\tSL3 sounds a bit too far to throw from to me.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all you dice pros, I need some input please. First is this &#8216;normal&quot; ?? and second should I consider this any more than coincidence? I would appreciate any and all advice. I&#8217;ve had several good rolls from SL2\/SL3. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}