The instructors forums is dead because there is an uncomfortable air about the posting over here. I’ve had/read great advice by instructors and non-instructors in my time here on AZ billiards....and vice versa.
However I feel on the main forum everyone gets a chance to contribute to an answer without the pretense that they must be an instructor to answer. That is why it is so dead over here.
After a while, we know who the instructors are but I welcome even novice players tossing in their two cents (even if wrong or misguided, it will be corrected in the thread and the learning continues).
But when there is an uncomfortable air in a forum that only a qualified instructor can respond, then we are limiting the dialogue and thus limiting the learning.
In my field of high voltage power lines, when coming up through the ranks, a wise old lineman told me to watch everyone up in the air no matter what their experience, because you can learn just as much by watching someone do something the wrong way as you can by watching it done the right way.
That’s some good universal advice.
If the instructor forum was more open to non-instructor participation than it would be a better information trading post...which is what the main forum has become and why all the action is over there.
A post for the sake of posting at least has a chance of enticing beneficial information for someone, whereas bad information helps no one.
