He walked up to our table, he stuck out his hand, shook mine and said, "How are you doing? I am Mike Massey." You could have heard a pin drop inside my head, my only response was,"I know exactly who you are" and then introduced myself to him. He brought in his cues, balls and some cue balls. He laid out the 1-15 balls on the table, put the cue ball in the center and dropped all of them without missing a shot. He looked at me and asked me if I wanted to play a warm up game with him. Shocked, I said, "Absolutely!"
He just told me to go ahead and rack them and asked if I wanted to break. My response was, "If it is the only shot I am going to get, then yea, I want to break." Which got a round of laughter from everyone there. I brought out my Hydrogel, broke the rack and didn't drop a ball. My game was over he left me with my hands in my pockets and seven balls on the table.
He then started his show, he showed us some set up shots, I have his book World of Trick Shots and I recognized most of them. He then did what he does best jump shots, masses and finger shots. That was pretty amazing and now I want to do them. Then he did his famous boot shot, which he says is his favorite and he used it in Trick Shot Magic one year. He also said that he would guarantee that he could make the shot in less than 100 tries. He made it in one.
Mike Massey is quite possibly one of the nicest people I have met on this planet and he had stories to tell about every situation. He included the kids in his show as well and showed them how to make shots and set up a trick or two. Heck, he even included me, this has definitely started out to be the best October every, and there is still 26 days to go.
