It is a Small World After all.
I have been playing pool since I was seven, shining shoes in bars, I'm 63.
I have been playing pool lately with a older gentlemen, who has owned numerous pool rooms over the years in the San Jose area.
I like playing with him because he is a serious player and doesn't talk much. We are each trying hard to beat each other's heart out.
We play Mondays and Tuesdays from 6:30 till closing, usually around 1:00 am.
Last night we took a break and he said, Barney, I want to show you a system that a old friend of mine and I developed many years ago in my pool room.
He said Center to Edge is what he and Hal Houle called it.
I was stunned because of all the AZ Billiards issues on Aiming and Systems today.
I have been struggling with my aim and now suffer from Paralysis by Analysis.
Trying to find the secrets of aiming to bring my game back to the way it used to be.
In 1970 I was at San Jose State and took a class being held by Hal Mix.
Hal and I became good friends and he began teaching me One Pocket.
I was playing at California Billiards one day and Hal Houle comes up to me and say's Barney you are a great One Pocket player.
I want to teach you my system of aiming.
I said thanks Hal but Hal Mix is working with me now and I need to have just one teacher.
Hal Houle and I became good friends and I would always take care of him whenever I saw him.
I loved listening to his stories, but I regret that I never had him teach me his systems.
So last night, I was taught CTE, not by Hal but his partner who developed CTE.
First my title is Staff Senior Systems Engineer.
I am my worst Nightmare, it is so hard for me to learn.
Because I want to mathematically learn how the system works, so I can understand it, ughhhhhhhhh!
My friend said don't make it complicated, just do it.
I finally got it, but let me say, I could have never got there without him.
I thanked him for explaining the system to me answering my questions over and over again, till I got it.
I hate that it takes me so hard to learn things on my own.
I will be working on CTE with my friend.
My friend said that there is one thing that he and Hal came up with, hymmmmm????
I suspect that it might be in Stan's Pro One DVD and I will buy it next.
That's my story and I am sticking with it, Barney
It is a small world after all.
I have been playing pool since I was seven, shining shoes in bars, I'm 63.
I have been playing pool lately with a older gentlemen, who has owned numerous pool rooms over the years in the San Jose area.
I like playing with him because he is a serious player and doesn't talk much. We are each trying hard to beat each other's heart out.
We play Mondays and Tuesdays from 6:30 till closing, usually around 1:00 am.
Last night we took a break and he said, Barney, I want to show you a system that a old friend of mine and I developed many years ago in my pool room.
He said Center to Edge is what he and Hal Houle called it.
I was stunned because of all the AZ Billiards issues on Aiming and Systems today.
I have been struggling with my aim and now suffer from Paralysis by Analysis.
Trying to find the secrets of aiming to bring my game back to the way it used to be.
In 1970 I was at San Jose State and took a class being held by Hal Mix.
Hal and I became good friends and he began teaching me One Pocket.
I was playing at California Billiards one day and Hal Houle comes up to me and say's Barney you are a great One Pocket player.
I want to teach you my system of aiming.
I said thanks Hal but Hal Mix is working with me now and I need to have just one teacher.
Hal Houle and I became good friends and I would always take care of him whenever I saw him.
I loved listening to his stories, but I regret that I never had him teach me his systems.
So last night, I was taught CTE, not by Hal but his partner who developed CTE.
First my title is Staff Senior Systems Engineer.
I am my worst Nightmare, it is so hard for me to learn.
Because I want to mathematically learn how the system works, so I can understand it, ughhhhhhhhh!
My friend said don't make it complicated, just do it.
I finally got it, but let me say, I could have never got there without him.
I thanked him for explaining the system to me answering my questions over and over again, till I got it.
I hate that it takes me so hard to learn things on my own.
I will be working on CTE with my friend.
My friend said that there is one thing that he and Hal came up with, hymmmmm????
I suspect that it might be in Stan's Pro One DVD and I will buy it next.
That's my story and I am sticking with it, Barney
It is a small world after all.
