Our pool room is located just outside a college town In which a number of students have started a pool club the past 3-4 years. Although there is a small pool room on campus In which they get free play (included in their tuition), they often prefer playing in our room, even though we’re located 8 miles from campus. We give all pool club members 50% off on their hourly rates, to give the more serious players added incentive to come here more often than the one night a week 10-15 of them meet here to play.
I would generally describe it as a club that for the majority of their members places emphasis on the social / fun aspect of playing as opposed to having any real desire to put in the work to improve their games, with the exception of a few of the male players who have become hooked on the game and would at least appear to me that they’d really like to improve, but don’t really know how.
As a 63 year old owner / proprietor of the room, I try to make the effort to play with the more serious ones whenever I can. I play them as tough as if I was playing a tournament match, in hopes of teaching them the right way to play the game. My question is, particularly in regards to the ones that clearly have the most interest and the most future potential to become good players - when I see blatant faulty fundamentals / technique that they desperately need to change to give them the best chance to improve, I really want to tell them, but should I?
Ideally I’d hope they’d ask me for help / suggestions, but I’m just torn between whether I should wait for that to happen, or if it doesn’t, offer it anyway?
I would generally describe it as a club that for the majority of their members places emphasis on the social / fun aspect of playing as opposed to having any real desire to put in the work to improve their games, with the exception of a few of the male players who have become hooked on the game and would at least appear to me that they’d really like to improve, but don’t really know how.
As a 63 year old owner / proprietor of the room, I try to make the effort to play with the more serious ones whenever I can. I play them as tough as if I was playing a tournament match, in hopes of teaching them the right way to play the game. My question is, particularly in regards to the ones that clearly have the most interest and the most future potential to become good players - when I see blatant faulty fundamentals / technique that they desperately need to change to give them the best chance to improve, I really want to tell them, but should I?
Ideally I’d hope they’d ask me for help / suggestions, but I’m just torn between whether I should wait for that to happen, or if it doesn’t, offer it anyway?
