This is why I cant take you seriously. This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever read. Do you really think that writing a bunch of posts make you a pro level player?
Making $$$$ off pool secrets/knowledge
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This is why I cant take you seriously. This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever read. Do you really think that writing a bunch of posts make you a pro level player?
You shut yo'mouf! How could you do that to me and my new signature line?
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NAji isn't a whole lot different than any of us, really.
I been knowing him since I was just a little champions.
This is funny to me. I agree with you 100%.
When I first took to the road, nobody was more eager than I to learn and to get it right. I honestly think I learned more from others mistakes than anything else.
When i took my first trip, a very close friend warned, just watch! You will see players who could be so much better, but they go to the same place eiach day and play the same game, the same players, for the same amounts, and usually about the same results, year after year.
Some change some things and make a bit of a jump but mostly what I was told is so true.
A poster here who I have known for many years and respect told me about his grip change. he went into a good deal of detail and I listened. I tried it for a little, but as in most things and even though well warned, didn't get that instant gratification and went back to what has never worked the way I wished. It did though help me with a problem I had developed with my wrist.
My point is that there isn't much instant gratification in pool. It comes from repetition and heard work. i feel the trouble most have is that when they feel they have it, they are actually just beginning to grasp it and stop perfecting it. To know it is one thing, but to feel it is totally different. I am not so sure anyone ca teach us to feel anything, but that comes from the hours and hours of tireless practice. Some simply grasp it more quickly than others do.
At 60 though, i finally do not believe the best is ahead of me. LOL I can live with that, the question is, how much longer?
Hell, now you tell us ole wise one. i think I kept the reciept and the good thing i at Wal Mart, you can return anything!!
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Wow! you got the picture to prove it, good man, i wish i know who you are. No wonder you have not been nice to me all along!!! so i took your request for training with some assumptions.
Since you know me, i will tell you a little story, i went to that event with pool knowledge to see how i stand. Truthfully, i was upset with the way i played, went back home, and practice those shots i missed, i put at least 40 hours that week, and the magic secret was revealed by accident, since then i have been able to make every possible shot.
Later lovely.
Hay bud, 14,803 posts since 2004, who in the hell will write that much unless, #1 a pool player love the game, possibly A or who knows a pro! assumption valid. He knew me too, i have to know who he is!!
Ironman, as long as you can see, once you get that little secret, you will not stop shooting balls, it is so much fun to shoot when you know it all. People talk about feel, like play be feeling, it is not music instrument we are dealing with, what a none sense that is. If you know what to do, you will always shoot good solidly with all science and physics behind it.
Oh i am not India Botha either like Joe is suggesting.
There once was a man who held a very, rare secret, close to his heart. In private, he would open the secret and revel in its magical presence. This went on for many months, happy in his newfound secrecy until one day he just up and died.
There's a moral to that story, I'm sure of it.................
I know the secret and I am gonna say it here/ now.
You played on new Diamonds and got a shock. :slap:
After that, you played on Gold Crown, and if not, then you got acclimated to the Diamond.
There is truth to that, i would not deny it, but it is not it. Mr. W, i apologize for asking you to take a lesson, i need a lesson from you my man. By the way it was nice seeing you at the tourney.
Do you have an article somewhere going into more detail?
On the topic of making $$$ off of selling access to pool secrets I'd like to paraphrase Buddy Hall, 'well when all your action dries up what are you supposed to do with them?'
This is a take on Buddy's line about quitting winner, again I paraphrase, 'I never understood people's problem with quitting winner, when are you supposed to quit?'
This is a take on Buddy's line about quitting winner, again I paraphrase, 'I never understood people's problem with quitting winner, when are you supposed to quit?'
do you want to see me at the dcc and i will bet you as much money you can muster about feel and touch and show you, and explain. After i take your money you might retract that statement, sorry but that's the biggest load of nonsense i ever heard.
My statement is based on 37 years of wrong doing pool, mainly for statements like these (play by feeling) that put me off and made me quit learning saying to myself i will never have the feel, or stroke or mental strength, or focus. Until i proved myself wrong last few months or so, and find that there is tremendous amount of since and physics behind every shot, and thank GOD i find it.
I trust you are really great player and instructor, and i am fan of Darren Appleton, i know feel plays part of it in very very advance stage or after practicing for so many hours, but please don't scare new comers, and show them the right road with real measurable way and let them find that feel and define it, not like my miserable experience, truthfully i am upset for wasting those 37 years not learning the right way as i know now or all along thinking it is a feel game and did not look somewhere else for advise.
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outside & inside the box
i explain to everyone I teach, I want you to think outside of the box and play inside of the box. I will now explain this in more detail?
pre shot routine
1 - sighting/aiming - outside the box
2 - stance/alignment - inside the box
3 - bridge arm/hand - inside the box
4 - backstroke/pause - inside the box
5 - follow-through/finish - inside the box
must be done in order, you must sight and align properly first #1 - touch and feel then makes the difference between a good player and a great player
TheThaiger
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The secret is, we all have to figure it out for ourselves. Talent, it's all about talent. Basement Dweller is bang on with his 99% of players never improve line.
Still, great thread. Baffling, but great!
Still, great thread. Baffling, but great!
I just found this thread. The OP provides an interesting, and sad perspective. What the OP seems to lack is what is known as heart. You see, if you've got any of it, you would want to foster an environment in which information freely travels amongst participants. When this occurs, in our case our lovely game of pool, the players get better as a group on average and you can then test your skills against competitors who can challenge you and cause you to get better. Plus, it's more fun this way.
Or, you could just be a troll on an island of solitude. Your choice...
Or, you could just be a troll on an island of solitude. Your choice...
Thanks Lee, i have no rights to dispute what you are saying or teaching, without reading and applying it. I will diffidently buy the book, every little thing help, i wish a DVD version will follow. Again thanks for your time and effort for sharing your experience and knowledge with others, and deserve to get paid for it.
Next complain will be about DOCTORS who sell their knowledge of how to treat your illness, and cause you to return to them for prescription drug renewals.