I had double jeopardy travel league last night. It was my first time at a new teams venue.
I walked in and saw every pool players worst nightmare. I saw a couple of unkempt valleys with balls that were chipped and looked like they had never been cleaned since the day they were made. Upon lagging my though that the rails were dead as heck were confirmed. What really got to me on top of terrible equipment was when i found out it was a dollar a game. I thought ....not only am.i playing on the worse equipment I have encountered in my 6 years of playing apa. They are also the highest priced tables.
Most of my apa teams play at pool halls ....either well kept valleys or diamonds and the all are 75 cents.
Needless to say....i was not very enthused about playing on these tables and consequently my level of play suffered. I missed easy shots.....rattled pockets and played terrible cue ball control and was not very focused at all I was quickly down 3-0 in a 5-3 race with me going to 3.
While racking the 4 th rack my thought process was.....i have 2 choices to make
1. Keep griping and muttering to myself about the crappy conditions whereas I will probably keep playing bad and get shutout
2. Try to stay focused and play my best.
Now comes the unorthodox part... I grabbed my breaking cue to play with.
Logic tells you that it's a lot harder to shoot with a plastic tip than a leather tip and ita a whole lot easier to miscue with.
Knowing the above forced me to focus and concentrate on exactly where I was aiming and where I was hitting the cue ball.
As a result I won the next 3 racks in a row to win the match. The look on the s/l 7's face I was playing was priceless when he saw what I started playing with and heard the pinging sound every time I shot lol. His mouth stayed open for quite a while after I won the match lol.
Highly unorthodox but it worked .
I walked in and saw every pool players worst nightmare. I saw a couple of unkempt valleys with balls that were chipped and looked like they had never been cleaned since the day they were made. Upon lagging my though that the rails were dead as heck were confirmed. What really got to me on top of terrible equipment was when i found out it was a dollar a game. I thought ....not only am.i playing on the worse equipment I have encountered in my 6 years of playing apa. They are also the highest priced tables.
Most of my apa teams play at pool halls ....either well kept valleys or diamonds and the all are 75 cents.
Needless to say....i was not very enthused about playing on these tables and consequently my level of play suffered. I missed easy shots.....rattled pockets and played terrible cue ball control and was not very focused at all I was quickly down 3-0 in a 5-3 race with me going to 3.
While racking the 4 th rack my thought process was.....i have 2 choices to make
1. Keep griping and muttering to myself about the crappy conditions whereas I will probably keep playing bad and get shutout
2. Try to stay focused and play my best.
Now comes the unorthodox part... I grabbed my breaking cue to play with.
Logic tells you that it's a lot harder to shoot with a plastic tip than a leather tip and ita a whole lot easier to miscue with.
Knowing the above forced me to focus and concentrate on exactly where I was aiming and where I was hitting the cue ball.
As a result I won the next 3 racks in a row to win the match. The look on the s/l 7's face I was playing was priceless when he saw what I started playing with and heard the pinging sound every time I shot lol. His mouth stayed open for quite a while after I won the match lol.
Highly unorthodox but it worked .