$100 lesson from Bert Kinister

Pete

Pete

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Has anyone else seen this (I know others have)?

Was watching it last night and my wife popped in when Bert went into his rant about a top pro (using his name), and then afterwards said he was sorry for what he just had said. My wife asked why didn't he just edit it out and i had no reply to that...

Pete
 
Lol. Yeah, I saw that a few months ago. I don't think he was editing at the time, or very very little. Just letting the camera run for an hour each lesson.
 
Bert?

Is Bert still around? I have read a few comments about his video's over the past few weeks, is he still teaching and if so where?
 
Some of bert's early videos are really comical, there was definitely no computer involved, editing was apparently out of the question. He used to print the title on a sheet of wrinkled paper and hold it up to the camera to open the video.

The actual drills and info in these is pretty good. Sometimes. I dunno if I could take a lesson from the guy without going nuts though.
 
This the same guy that would film himself shooting the same shot over and over and over? Then say something like, "thats how you shoot that ball!"
 
I took lessons from Bert way back when I was coming up. They could be a bit maddening at times but noone can argue with the results. When I met Niels Feijen, Bert's top student, the first thing he told me was, "Do the drills!".
You don't really learn for the entire hour as much as you do different drills and shots over and over while being critiqued. He brought my game up from the bottom guy on the ladder at our local hall into the mix at the top in only six months.
I booked my first lesson because I needed help with my 9 ball break. He threw some balls on the table and told me to run them out. I made a couple and missed. "Start over with ball in hand." Again I got out of shape after the 2nd or 3rd ball. I started over. Make a couple balls, have to bank the next ball... Bert stopped me and said he's not gonna help me improve my break. "You can't run out. If I help you break the balls better I'm only making it easier for your opponent to run out on you."
A few months later we were working on my break.
Thank you Bert.
 
Bert and I used to play one hole,he showed me some really good stuff
I never took lessons from anyone,but I wish that I had,and if I had it would have been bert

He made it simple and the ideas worked right away

I am by no means knowledgeable on instructors but Bert helped me

and i like him
 
I too have his subscription. The production value of his tapes suck, but if you actually do the drills, they are good. I'm working through his pattern drills right now.

One of his tapes he starts off with a rant about bootleggers, in the VHS days. Its hilarious, he says something like if he catches the guy, he is going to beat him into the ground till he can't move an inch. I was cracking up cause he was dead serious.
 
iusedtoberich said:
One of his tapes he starts off with a rant about bootleggers, in the VHS days. Its hilarious, he says something like if he catches the guy, he is going to beat him into the ground till he can't move an inch. I was cracking up cause he was dead serious.
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Didn't Bert's old videos have a bull sh*t statement at the beginning that said the VCR tape was encrypted with a special code that would damage your VCR head if you tried to make a copy? Good stuff!!! I bet some people actually believed it.
 
I think i ordered some VHS tapes of the Classic Billiards series from him about 10 years or so ago, maybe longer. Was he out of Chicago ?
 
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Toncam said:
I think i ordered some VHS tapes of the Classic Billiards series from him about 10 years or so ago, maybe longer. Was he out of Chicago ?
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I think somewhere in Illinois, my friend went to him for lessons on two occasions the 2nd time I think was in PA.I know my friends game elevated several notches after lessons with Bert.Bert also leveled his stroke out , he was like a different player much improved.
 
In watching his streaming videos, he had I think 3 different locations he'd stay for months at a time each year. To film and give in person lessons. I "think" they were Pittsburg, Texas, and Chicago.
 
Charlie Hustle said:
This the same guy that would film himself shooting the same shot over and over and over? Then say something like, "thats how you shoot that ball!"
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That line is actually in the Buddy Hall on 9 Ball video, he's show you the shot and say "And that is how we execute that shot". The video clips from that video were also used as breaks between the action in some of the BClub matches on YouTube.

Bert may have said the same thing in his videos, but I don't remember that line.
 
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