Since there was a turn in the focus on my thread, I decided to respond to your inquiry/concern here. I would like to tell a story about my personal situation and you can make your own inferences.
I was approached by a very new player in December 2011. He asked me, "Hey, do you have any pointers for me." I looked at his stance and made some suggestions. He was pretty surprised at my response, because most people were trying to get him to learn situation (use this English for this shot, etc).
A few months later, I saw this player and there was signed of progress. He came up to me and said hey, I went from a SL3 to a SL4. (APA is the only league in the area, and probably the best way to communicate handicaps in the D/C level). I told him good job, and keep practicing.
A few months later he became a SL5. There was an upcoming scotch doubles tournament and he asked if I would be his partner. I thought, ok it will be fun. I didn't expect to do well in all honesty because I hadn't been competitive myself - having just bought a home and getting engaged in the last 2 years. But I did say to him, I will only be your partner if you are willing to work. 3 days a week for 3 weeks we practice and I got him to start understanding the game. We ended up getting 2nd place in a 31 team doubles tournament.
We continue to work some, but I am letting him get the experience I feel he needs to go along with the knowledge. I customized his practice but it did not follow a process. I didn't give it much thought until I had a close friend ask me to teach his son and he would pay for the time.
So I thought, how can I teach someone if I hadn't been taught how to teach? I could teach what I have learned and how to mimic my own game - but what if I have my own issues that I do not know. That is why I asked for feedback in another thread.
Concurrently I begin researching billiard instruction and I run into the PBIA website, now I didn't know what that meant but I did READ to learn their process. They do have a process, and they have a tiered program so you know about how long someone has been affiliated based on their reading. To facilitate I have the link here
http://playbetterbilliards.com/pbia-pool-schools/
After some webpage reading, I didn't find any other affiliation who wants to train players to become instructors. I want to emphasize I did not charge the player who went from SL3 to SL5. My motivation to become a teacher is to promote the game, not make money. I make money at work, and I do not want pool to ever feel like work.
OK, that is my perspective that I feel needed to be shared. Some things you asked about in your last post, can be answered with some navigation on the link I provided. You can search for instructors, all the master instructors have their bio, and just a lot of information. I would suspect the reason you didn't get response from your request, is the information is already easily accessible with a little effort.
If not being an instructor bothers you, become one! Otherwise, lets let these threads maintain a beneficial point of view instead of a basis for initializing unnecessary drama, THAT belongs in the main forum!
