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Myrtle_04

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I posted a thread on here wanting perspective about what pool instructors attempt to accomplish when teaching students and also ideas of what students expect from their pool instructors. Instead, I get a bunch of guys arguing about whether or not people should seek out a pool instructor.

I mean seriously, how does a thread go from "how can I become a better instructor" to "you don't need an instructor. all you need is 1000 hours of table time a year"

I understand trying to make a point, but why don't people read all the comments before making their own post. If you don't you make an idiot out of yourself by either repeating something already said or saying something that is completely off topic and has no bearing on what the OP started the thread for in the first place.

Obviously my wording of "What is the Purpose of having a Pool Instructor" should really be "What is the purpose of a pool instructor".

I'm SO sorry
 
Your initial post was ambiguous, at best.

Your follow-up post is insulting.

You're not helping yourself.

-- Just some unsolicited advice.
 
You might still have a problem

It might be just me, but I think you'd get just about the same responses with either title, you presented.
 
So true. The title was ambiguous but the post at the beginning of the thread was not. Should I not be insulted when people don't read the first post of a thread and simply argue about a topic that isn't even being questioned in the first place?
 
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Myrtle_04 said:
I posted a thread on here wanting perspective about what pool instructors attempt to accomplish when teaching students and also ideas of what students expect from their pool instructors. Instead, I get a bunch of guys arguing about whether or not people should seek out a pool instructor.

I mean seriously, how does a thread go from "how can I become a better instructor" to "you don't need an instructor. all you need is 1000 hours of table time a year"

I understand trying to make a point, but why don't people read all the comments before making their own post. If you don't you make an idiot out of yourself by either repeating something already said or saying something that is completely off topic and has no bearing on what the OP started the thread for in the first place.

Obviously my wording of "What is the Purpose of having a Pool Instructor" should really be "What is the purpose of a pool instructor".

I'm SO sorry
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Welcome to AZ-Land. Threads and the topics they bring up *never* remain constrained to what the OP intended. Like a good conversation at a good party they take on a life of their own and people talk about what they really want to talk about. Get over it.

Lou Figueroa
 
Uhh......welcome to the world.....

It's not just the internet, it's everywhere....you ask a buddy about the best replacement brake pads, he'll tell you that you bought the wrong car.......ask a woman her favorite color, somehow you end up getting the lowdown on her last failed relationship.....and these are in person, not on the net.....

Just curious.....from which planet did you just move????

Also, Van Hagar, not Van Roth....I'm super serial....
 
Big Perm said:
Uhh......welcome to the world.....

It's not just the internet, it's everywhere....you ask a buddy about the best replacement brake pads, he'll tell you that you bought the wrong car.......ask a woman her favorite color, somehow you end up getting the lowdown on her last failed relationship.....and these are in person, not on the net.....

Just curious.....from which planet did you just move????

Also, Van Hagar, not Van Roth....I'm super serial....
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Are you nuts ?kl.dvnzdlinrveahd,kxn,

VH ONE is the all time best party album.The 3rd album is pretty good too(women and children)

Idiots like you should be banned from this foum :angry::angry::angry:
 
smoooothstroke said:
Are you nuts ?kl.dvnzdlinrveahd,kxn,

VH ONE is the all time best party album.The 3rd album is pretty good too(women and children)

Idiots like you should be banned from this foum :angry::angry::angry:
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Never been banned, but I think I have been warned....

5150 is the best album evar....

Boxers, not briefs

You always need more cowbell

And blondes might be more fun, but brunettes give you more options....and redheads are just fing crazy....
 
Big Perm said:
Never been banned, but I think I have been warned....

5150 is the best album evar....

Boxers, not briefs

You always need more cowbell

And blondes might be more fun, but brunettes give you more options....and redheads are just fing crazy....
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AHA! Iknow yer type.You are obviously a liar and a coward!I refuse to discuss pool and billiards further with someone of your ilk.
 
Myrtle_04 said:
I posted a thread on here wanting perspective about what pool instructors attempt to accomplish when teaching students and also ideas of what students expect from their pool instructors. Instead, I get a bunch of guys arguing about whether or not people should seek out a pool instructor.

I mean seriously, how does a thread go from "how can I become a better instructor" to "you don't need an instructor. all you need is 1000 hours of table time a year"

I understand trying to make a point, but why don't people read all the comments before making their own post. If you don't you make an idiot out of yourself by either repeating something already said or saying something that is completely off topic and has no bearing on what the OP started the thread for in the first place.

Obviously my wording of "What is the Purpose of having a Pool Instructor" should really be "What is the purpose of a pool instructor".

I'm SO sorry
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Don't be sorry. Distracted readers on board.
 
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I think this can all be explained by examining the hypothesis of "String Theory".
At the sub-atomic level anything can happen at any given moment in time, much like the actions, and reactions, of the many posts that rush in and out of here on a daily basis.
Perhaps that's why they're called threads. Get it? String theory...threads?
Sometimes, however, someone will ask the wrong question and everything goes straight to hell in a hand basket. :smile:
 
If the powers that be decide to invoke the new "Hijack Clause" there's a lot of dead meat here :-o

Lou Figueroa
 
Myrtle_04 said:
So true. The title was ambiguous but the post at the beginning of the thread was not.
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This is a valuable lesson to learn people “skim” posts; only about ½ the people that read your post probably got to the bottom. I think you may have the same problem I had when I was young; I am a detail oriented person, the reality is that ½ - most people are not. How many people read:

1. The table of contents
2. The instruction/owners manual
3. The welcome page

How many? If you guessed 50% you’re dreaming; this is how people take in and process information; most people think they “are too smart to bother with all that” and most of those people are really on the lower end of the intelligence scale, but they think they are on the high end.

So when you posted “what is the purpose of having a pool instructor?” There were plenty of people that posted an answer to that. This will frustrate some people (it used to almost take me to the brink of madness because I read everything before doing anything). But this is not what people do; people want to “get to it”.

Myrtle_04 said:
Should I not be insulted when people don't read the first post of a thread and simply argue about a topic that isn't even being questioned in the first place?
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You should not be; you should learn from it, it has nothing to do with “YOU” per say it has to do with how people gather & process information; if you want to become an effective teacher you will have some “growing up to do” in this respect believe me I sure did when I started out.

Myrtle_04 said:
I understand trying to make a point, but why don't people read all the comments before making their own post.
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You may not care to hear this but here is some real life advice <lower your expectations of people> Expect that people are:

1. Not going to read (at least not everything).
2. Not going to listen.
3. Not going to pat attention.

This will not only save you time but aggravation as well; I think others tried to say the same thing to you but just not in a nice way those are the people that don’t read, don’t listen, don’t pay attention and are confused as to why you would expect them to. They actually think like this “ME! Why would you expect ME to give YOU MY undivided attention???? Also most of these people think that 99.99% of THE WORLD thinks this way. These people are not stupid they are not a$$____s they represent about ½ the people on the planet. (depending on where you go; in some cultures these people are actually the minority.)

The good news is that those that want to take lessons are generally the other 50%, but every once in awhile you will run into one of these as your student; remember paid or not you took on that responsibility, and it is still your responsibility to teach them as long as they are paying you or the table time or you tell them flat out that you can’t.
 
Toughen up, Sally.

Myrtle_04 said:
I posted a thread on here wanting perspective about what pool instructors attempt to accomplish when teaching students and also ideas of what students expect from their pool instructors. Instead, I get a bunch of guys arguing about whether or not people should seek out a pool instructor.

I mean seriously, how does a thread go from "how can I become a better instructor" to "you don't need an instructor. all you need is 1000 hours of table time a year"

I understand trying to make a point, but why don't people read all the comments before making their own post. If you don't you make an idiot out of yourself by either repeating something already said or saying something that is completely off topic and has no bearing on what the OP started the thread for in the first place.

Obviously my wording of "What is the Purpose of having a Pool Instructor" should really be "What is the purpose of a pool instructor".

I'm SO sorry
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