somewhat on topic, i am curious about good and great players handwriting
is it more precise and legible than the average person’s handwriting
or more messy and illegible
or maybe there is no noticeable difference between a normal handwriting and one made by someone with such good hand eye coordination that they can put a cue ball anywhere they want
It would be a good question but a much better one sixty or seventy years ago when we spent a lot of time in class learning script and had to write a lot in script. Now there is probably a strong imbalance if someone likes to play pool, script seems almost dead.
My handwriting has always been lousy, no incentive to make it better, or little incentive. I think I was a C student in all the penmanship grades. For awhile I would have rated myself a master of cue ball control not suffering from false modesty. Most of my cue ball placement came with a curse while shaking my cue stick. Three things sell a lie a lot better than one thing.
My old sometimes road partner used to holler when he shot, "Come, bruise, blister, or bleed, I ain't gonna spit no more!!" I don't know quite what that had to do with shooting pool but it would draw attention his way. He seemed like he was drunk, crazy, or both and drew action far better than my chum hanging out of my shirt pocket!
Hu
