I thought I was good until.......

As C.J. says..."The game is the teacher". I'd think that if you asked the top players, even they would tell you they have a way to go.

That's the fun part for me...always striving to get better.
 
I thought I could be as good as anyone until I saw Johnny Archer play in person for the first time. Then I thought, "I'll never be as good as this guy."
 
Nice thoughts Cdryden! I'm about to turn 60 and have realized for some time now that I will never "get there". It's okay, I'm happy with the trek I've taken through my pool experiences. I don't have to be the best at something to enjoy it, not even that good at it really. I've had a great time playing pool, and I'm still the best player in my household ;)!!!

Maniac (would've posted sooner but Dunnn51's avatar held me up)
 
BasementDweller said:
I'm right there with you. It's funny we are close in age and it seems like we have had similar experiences with this game.

Here was my take on it:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=3957060&postcount=1

Sorry for the shameless plug of my own post, but I couldn't help but notice the similarities.

Good thread.
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I just got around to seeing this BasementDweller, I don't know how I missed your post before but I really liked it. It does seem like we have taken the same view of our experiences of the game. I hope you keep climbing the mountain!
 
Cdryden said:
I just got around to seeing this BasementDweller, I don't know how I missed your post before but I really liked it. It does seem like we have taken the same view of our experiences of the game. I hope you keep climbing the mountain!
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Too late to turn around now.

Maybe I'll meet you up there somewhere. Maybe not all the way at the top, but maybe at one of the checkpoints.
 
Mike Haggerty

Cdryden said:
So when I was a kid I had a table at home. I played every day and soon thought I was the master of the game and I decided to go to the new community center and show them how it was done. Then I realized I had a long ways to go.

Then in my teens after I had honed my skills beating the other kids in town (and after watching the Color Of Money at the theater!) I decided I would go to the pool hall and make some easy money. Again I realized I had a long way to go.....and now I needed more money.

Next came my early twenties, marriage, kids, divorce, mrs. right, another marriage and more kids and I decided to start playing the tournament circuts in my area. And of course I realized I still had a long way to go.

Then my thirties came and with it a new home and finally my own pool table. After some instructional videos, dabbling in trick shots, pool lesons, serious practice, pool leagues and finally bigger tournaments guess what? I still have a long ways to go!

Now that I am 40 years old I looked back on the last 3 decades of my pool life and I realized something, I've came a long ways.:smile:
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Back around 1962 (at age 21), I thought I could play 9-ball until I ran into a 16-year-old Mike Haggerty who proceeded to take my entire paycheck.

A decade or so later, I thought I could play 8-ball till I went to Milwaukee and played guys like Willie Munson.

Now, forty years later, I'm still learnin'.
 
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