Try learning ONE POCKET! It will either make you break your cue and quit or it will make you wanna play more!!! Be sure to find some good players willing to put up with you being "new" to the game.
I have never wanted to break a cue before, until I started playing one pocket. So, I took a couple weeks off from it and that helped tremendously.
It is such a challenging game, but, once you start to figure it out a little, it may make you a one pocket junkie!
You mentioned getting lessons from Scott Lee, pursue that, he is one of the best. Having good fundamentals will no doubt gain you some confidence and most likely send you in a good direction.
Good luck to you!
Trent from Toledo:thumbup:
Don't really agree with this post. Someone bored with pool is not going to rediscover it from one pocket. It might be a good game (especially as a strategic game) but really it only appeals to the most hardcore of pool players. I am pretty into pool but trying to focus on one pocket would just make me quit pool forever. I find it tedious.
I would also not recommend Scott Lee for lessons, his approach is really very proscriptive and again for the really hard core pool player.
I have experienced and am experiencing the same ambivalence as the original poster, and to be honest it is in my opinion a function of league play. First of all, league becomes like a job where you "have" to play pool. Second, it gets really really old spending hours a week watching really bad players. I actually enjoyed that element of APA in the beginning, because a lot of the lower level playes just LOVE pool which is awesome, but over time it has just become tedious and boring to watch, especially since on my teams I have to watch really close and take/give time outs.
I have also become really bored playing lower level players to the point that I tend to not even try and lose a lot, I find it difficult to just get the killer instinct and level of concentration needed to play at my highest level.
But if I choose to play, or go practice, or play in a tournament I have a lot of fun. For me it is the league thing that is sapping the fun out of pool for me.