Curious question
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Then you learned a lesson, there are those that can teach or be taught, and those who cannot. However, you must be teachable to some extent as you know English, so maybe it's about who is teaching you and what you like. In billiards I think everything you'll ever need to know to get started, teachable information at least, can probably be taught in a day (it's an extremely self-explanatory game).
Ultimately though I'd argue that billiards, darts, bowling, etc. are such solitary games, everyone learns their own way off of the sticky notes of others.
I'm not a really good player. But if knew back when l first started playing, that I'd be hooked on billiards I would have hired an qualified instructor.
With all the money wasted paying for table time, ultimately developing bad habits, I could have paid a qualified instructor, avoided the bad habits and the frustration that goes with them.
Looking back, its the first thing I would have done differently. The only other thing is, l would have bought a pool table right away.
Times have changed for sure but back when i started('78-ish) nobody took formal lessons. You just picked stuff up from better players and by playing people better than you. Kind of a "sink or swim" deal. I've talked to a lot of really good players(some world champions) who all told me the same thing. They got some pointers early on and then just played a ton of pool.
Players are the worst when it comes to following explicit directions implicitly. The better the worse. The desired respondents; the best, won't bother at all.
I agree, you beat me to it, same answer I would have given.