Those would be the former kids who were NOT allowed to use their Dads' pool tables.
How can a child ever learn if given no chance to learn? He'll grow up an idiot who uses good cues as dart lines.
Jeff Livingston
Letting kids play on my table
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Those would be the former kids who were NOT allowed to use their Dads' pool tables.
How can a child ever learn if given no chance to learn? He'll grow up an idiot who uses good cues as dart lines.
Jeff Livingston
If you just don't want the kids/adults on your table period my solution is this: Cover the top of the table in plastic sheeting so it hangs down over the rail sides. Put plywood over it and then some nice table cloths. Then you use it as a buffet/serving table. The pool table will be protected, you will have a great serving table for a group and no one will even consider or want to try to play on your nice table. I recently hosted a big group of kinds and it is amazing how fast they can find their way around a house and mess with things EVERYWHERE in a place and it is impossible to be everywhere and oversee everything in a place without being a kill joy.
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I'm glad you're in a position where $500-$600 ain't expensive for you. It is for me.
My thoughts too.
I have some pretty nice cues, and I let about anyone hit some with them if they ask.
Its just a stupid piece of wood.....(a cuemaker told me that)
Ken
My kids each started playing as soon as they could reach the table. When their friends are over (and we know all of their families), they're permitted to play as well. There are simply certain cues that are off limits, and I check out how they play before I leave.
I've done worse on my table (and recently, to my cue) than those kids have.
I've done worse on my table (and recently, to my cue) than those kids have.
then "their" parents should buy "their" kids a pool table. I'm not interested in kids under the age of 12 playing on my table... My son was allowed to but he was taught the right way... so no worries there... I'm not teaching a bunch of 8 year olds to shoot, nor want to have to baby sit them so they don't do something stupid like put a pop bottle on the rails
I use to send them outside to play wiffle ball.... those prodigy's sign $300M contracts one day
One or two kids under total supervision.Other than that-ahhhhh no....................Parents suck now.Ever come down stairs to a table with kids standing on it bowling balls into corners?I have.Parents thought it was "No big deal.It's a strong table and they are little.They won't hurt anything" Dumbasses.
My Diamond is a tank. 4 kids aged 5-8 years old play on it for a while maybe half a dozen times a month. They mostly push the balls around and make up silly games. I just don't see how that can damage the cloth. My six year old pushes the balls in using a short stick with a moose head bridge on it. That makes me a little nervous, but it has never done anything to the cloth at all. I should get one of those bridge-on-wheels devices.
As for damage to the balls, come on. A kid that age can't come anywhere near creating the impact of even a power draw shot, much less a break shot. If you don't have concrete or similar flooring then I can see a concern about dropped balls, but otherwise no big deal.
In any case, count me in the "let them play" category.
Now, if you want to talk about damage to cloth, ask me about my wife's cats. They are still alive and in our house, but only barely so. Lesson learned about leaving the pool room door open.
As for damage to the balls, come on. A kid that age can't come anywhere near creating the impact of even a power draw shot, much less a break shot. If you don't have concrete or similar flooring then I can see a concern about dropped balls, but otherwise no big deal.
In any case, count me in the "let them play" category.
Now, if you want to talk about damage to cloth, ask me about my wife's cats. They are still alive and in our house, but only barely so. Lesson learned about leaving the pool room door open.
It's your table and your concerns are legitimate. It's a risk that you're not willing to take.
As other pointed out, kids will be kids. Does the cloth have any drink stains. At the pool hall, it's always the non-pool player who leaves a glass of wine on the rail which eventually gets knocked and stains the cloth. If you care about stains, then I worry more about that than cloth ripping.
As other pointed out, kids will be kids. Does the cloth have any drink stains. At the pool hall, it's always the non-pool player who leaves a glass of wine on the rail which eventually gets knocked and stains the cloth. If you care about stains, then I worry more about that than cloth ripping.
Seems like the right approach. I bought a Brunswick GC V and had small kids. I barely let them even look at the table and put the fear of God in them if they ever even thought of having their friends play. I'm afraid all that accomplished was turning them off of the game perhaps for ever. I would gladly trade a few scratches on my still mint table for a son or daughter who shared my passion for the game.
Let them play, encourage them to play, but take the time to watch them play. Not only supervise the equipment, but help them play better and appreciate the game. When they play better, they have more fun. And I bet you will enjoy that, too.
Regards
It sure gave this kid a head start...
Willie Hoppe started when he was 5...he was a gift to the billiard world.
I let my kid play on my table once hoping he would become the next Efren. He was about 2 or 3, damn boy put about 7 or 8 tears in my simonis. Haha. Now 15 years later with a GC 3 with simonis, he has zero interest in pool. Maybe because because I put him time out for 6 hours that day???
He was using a shaft and banging the joint against the table (standing on the table).
Love your passion PT, but I'm not letting 8 year olds on my table, nor am I letting neighbor kids play baseball in my yard with a hardball even if one of them may become the next hank Aaron