Do you follow the Herd?
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I guess somebody has to point it out
I guess somebody has to point it out. It isn't bad being part of the herd, . . .
when you are the bull!
Hu
I guess somebody has to point it out. It isn't bad being part of the herd, . . .
when you are the bull!
Hu
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You want to blaze some trails play some 9 ball on a 3-cushion table. Now that's what I'm talking about.
Oh no, you aren't getting me on that one.
Already tried 1-pocket that way....game never ended and we went broke
on table time.
..what I may try to do next spring is plant some old pool cues.....
...I figure I should get a bumper crop.....
I fail to see how opening a different door is a big deal. If you opened the door and your boyfriend was on the other side and you gave him a big smooch in front of your girlfriend, then I'd say you might be on to something, in that case you actually might be different.:grin:
We are raised to be followers all our lives, to take peoples word for just about everything, to do as we're told... It starts the moment you try to eat a cat turd out of the sandbox as a child, continues all through from preschool to college, and keeps on going through marriage and morgages and doesn't end until either death or alzheimers kicks in and you're back to trying to eat cat turds out of the sandbox.
We are raised to be followers all our lives, to take peoples word for just about everything, to do as we're told... It starts the moment you try to eat a cat turd out of the sandbox as a child, continues all through from preschool to college, and keeps on going through marriage and morgages and doesn't end until either death or alzheimers kicks in and you're back to trying to eat cat turds out of the sandbox.
Some folks say life is all perspective and reality is what we make of it. If that's true (and I'm not saying it is or isn't), I'm glad to not go through life with your head.
TheThaiger
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Like I said, perspective.
I have a "different" sense of humor... But there's a little truth in there too.
I don't think so. Your posts over these past few years don't show that. Maybe you think so. Maybe you have a different idea of what a follower is than I do.
But you are also making a divide where there shouldn't be one. You spent so much time pushing Babe Cranfield's Arrow Ghost Ball Training device for what purpose? You followed what Cranfield told you to do and you pushed it on others expecting them to do the same.
Why? Because it worked for you. You found success by taking something that someone else made and using it to develop your skill. And yet you spend a lot of time, like starting this thread, putting others down for doing the same thing. All just because you don't HAPPEN to agree to with whatever method those people want to try. In other worlds THEY don't want to FOLLOW YOU. So they must be sheep while you are the wolf?
You want a maverick in pool? Corey Duell is a maverick. Who else has the gonads to break soft in professional nine ball events when the rest of the world is convinced that the hard breakers rule the world?
You want a maverick? Edwin Reyes was a maverick. He was murdered standing up to the powers-that-be and fighting for a better professional climate for the players.
You think you are a maverick because you advocate using a device to train shots? No, you are a part of the herd just like all the millions who have done the same thing using a variety of similar devices over the years.
Hal Houle is a maverick because he developed many new ways to look at the shot and has taken an immense amount of criticism for sticking to his guns over them.
So show some respect if you truly believe what you say.
Following the HEARD SUCKS, you breath dust all day.
This isn't really a reasonable question to ask. Most forum members I believe are around B players and below (from various polls over the years) and there are very few pros/pro level players here. This means most of the people here are probably trying to work on and improve their game.
So if you have a C player for example who is still missing easy balls, and many people are finding success with a new/old/standard technique, of course they're gonna give it a try. Why wouldn't they?
So if you have a C player for example who is still missing easy balls, and many people are finding success with a new/old/standard technique, of course they're gonna give it a try. Why wouldn't they?
Just remember that things turn out the best for those that make the best of the way things turn out.........
When I was younger and into mathematics, I tried to join a third order non-abelian group (or ring) but instead joined a Quaternian group..... and felt pretty good about myself....until I finally realized it didn`t matter, and took the xxxxxxxx way forward...
Ah, yes, Frost, the path less traveled.............
Sorry, but just felt like adding something meaningful to the discussion.
Will Prout
When I was younger and into mathematics, I tried to join a third order non-abelian group (or ring) but instead joined a Quaternian group..... and felt pretty good about myself....until I finally realized it didn`t matter, and took the xxxxxxxx way forward...
Ah, yes, Frost, the path less traveled.............
Sorry, but just felt like adding something meaningful to the discussion.
Will Prout
However, to add something kinda nice, never to forget............from Mr. Robert Frost.....
..................ON AIM...................
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both,
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black,
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I watched Frost at Kennedy`s Inauguration, re-read this poem,
And, in fact, it guided my aim pretty well over time,
At least, according to me.......
Will Prout
..................ON AIM...................
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both,
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black,
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I watched Frost at Kennedy`s Inauguration, re-read this poem,
And, in fact, it guided my aim pretty well over time,
At least, according to me.......
Will Prout
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If you are playing a better player and they say "Let me show you an easier way to get shape on this shot.", are you going to ignore that or are you going to be one of the herd?
Trying something new doesn't make you one of the herd. It may, however show you an easier way to go about learning the game. If you refuse being shown an easier way to learn the game you are destined to a very long time of mediocrity learning it yourself.
Another example is LD shafts. No amount of reviews could convince me that I like a LD shaft if I didn't and it happens to be that I love the hit and taper of my 314-2.
I take this as you have never read a book on billiards, watched an instructional video or studied professional play. These are things the herd followers do to learn the game more than anything.
You will never find a champion of anything that has become a champion by going it alone.
FWIW I have more respect for students of the game than mavericks.
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Luckily we never had cats. Mine started the moment I stuck a pair of scissors into an electrical outlet.
Eat cat turds = Herd follower.
Play with electricity = MAVERICK.
What if you're the first kid to eat a cat turd? Maverick?
This is all nonsense anyway. It's truly tripe to try to define yourself as a maverick if you are on message boards trying to get people to follow you.
Mavericks don't care if you follow them or not. They do their own thing and let you do yours.