If you only knew......
Pete and Nob...Thanks for the kind words! You know, I hear this a LOT ("How good does that guy play?" "I don't know...we never played any!"), mainly due to the fact that my job as an instructor is not to show my student how well I can play...but much more about how good they CAN play (by implementing the lesson information). This is the same advice I gave to John Schmidt when I helped him figure out what to teach in the bflad clinics he did with Earl a few years ago...and it worked well for him.
I teach full time, and when I am doing lessons I try to get right to the point of why I'm there. I could care less about trying to "prove that I can play". People who know me pretty well, or have spent considerable time learning from me, have seen me play. I like my game. Do I play as good as Gene? Nope, and don't claim to. Gene is a great player, and helps many people to improve their games. My initial comment to Gene was to try to hold back a little on the "messiah complex". Many of us here are very competent teachers, but you don't see us puffing our chests out with sometimes overdramatic and continual bravado. Keep up the good work Gene. Sorry, I can't match you up with Kinister...but you're right there where he lives and plays.
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
Hi there Mr Scott. I've never met you and hope I will some day. I know you do alot of good for pool with your lessons and I applaud you for that.
I have something really special and great for pool to share with everyone. It is the most amazing aiming breakthrough for pool ever. Every player on the planet needs to know what I teach. Those that don't really understand exactly what Perfect Aim is might think other teachers teach this but they don't.
Even Dr Daves descrption of Perfect Aim on his site is so far out of wack that it is rediculous. I've told him so but he just leaves the misinformation there. I don't know why. I guess he just wants to have something there even if it's wrong. Players won't know the difference.
Why would you want wrong info on a site where you want facts that are true?
I know you don't know Perfect Aim but probably think you do. If you knew exactly how it works you would know why I puff my chest. It's not so much puff my chest but trying to help players by letting them know they need to know this.
I think the reason cheesehead got on you a little there is because it appears sometimes that you are dogging me. I don't quite understand why but it seems that way sometimes.
We all help players and are proud of what we do. In fact in your statement above you even puff your chest a little :
This is the same advice I gave to John Schmidt when I helped him figure out what to teach in the bflad clinics he did with Earl a few years ago...and it worked well for him.
That's OK. I'm not the judge and jury over what is to puffy or not.
I did not invent anything but just really figured out how the eyes naturally work. From doing this constantly for 3 or 4 years now I have become an expert in this field. I'm not puffing my chest but just stating a fact. I have even found a Doctor that showed me why Perfect Aim actually works. Doc hutch from New Orleans. The explaination will be in the new Perfect Aim video. Then everyone will know why and how for sure.
After my lesson today at Hawleys in Dallas with Larry from AZ I worked with a young man that has tried off and on to play pool but could never even get started. I wish I could have video taped it and put it on here.
This guy could hardly even hit the object ball with the cue ball about 4 feet away . I worked with him for 15 minutes showing him the dominant eye and how to correctly envision the shot. He was soon making this ball from 7 feet away right in the pocket.
His great big smile is all I got paid but that was all I was looking for. With just what I showed him he is on his way to being able to play pool. He can actually see what he is doing.
His case was extreme but all players have the same problem. If I have 100 players in the poolhall and line them up every single one would be saying WOW after learning Perfect Aim. And they would all agree that they had never seen this anywhere before. Even you Scott......
This is not puffing but just stating a fact.
I believe in this so much that I've stayed on the road now for about 5 or 6 months teaching this to everyone that I can with every lesson a home run.
If some of the players get on you for being critical of myself it's because they probably know Perfect Aim, how well it works and how much I enjoy sharing this with everyone. Can't blame them for trying to defend me.
Anyway, this thread was started to share my experiences that I face on the road teaching and playing in tournaments. Not arguing or trying to defend myself.
Someday, everyone will be teaching Perfect Aim. It's just the way it is.
It's like someone finally figured out how to show everyone how to shoot the gun.
If someone wants to learn it's there. If not they can still try to invent the wheel.
But that's why we teach. because it is so much easier to just learn something that has already been figured out .
I do get one very common complaint though. When I get done teaching someone in their 50, 60, 70's.
Where were you 30 years ago.........
One man a van and the road.
