I had asked Jam how old a player was on another thread,She has said 44 and I thought wow how are these people saying so old.Thats not old .Look at the history some players top out the older they get.I have researched this alot.I inquired 2 years ago before I started my heavy training.It is about time for me to shoot but that will be another story.
I think Balsis-lassiter-Crane-and a long list more played a bit better in their later years.I wish some of the top players would not quit and start cue businsses etc.I think some want to go out on top but I have seen alot of older players hit a slump then charge right back up and be even better.
I think 65 to 70 is when your danger point stops drawing away as a player due to age and the restrictions of age (health).Also the confines of life slow it a bit.I remember Mike (Cpt Hook) was going to put his cue down or loose his wife.That night a birdie talked to me about it.There was just no money.He won that 100k that night and his life changed and so did she a bit.Then she was behind him and he got 10x better with the change of restrictions
So I think obsticles play a bit more in an older persons life that restrict them from the graces a younger athelete gets in pool.We are all not so lucky to have a Wife or Husband who will stick 100% behind us up and down when we are living pool.Yes living pool.
Some of us do just live pool.I mean here we are on a site of nothing but pool.I just layed down my cue at around 6 am after 6 hours training and what did I do to rest-Jump on a pool site and drink from my cue ball mug.Alot of us are like this.
I know a player with a broken back that medicates the heck out of himself to just get up to the table and play pool.He over takes his pills and sits.Then after a while removes his back braces and leg braces and hobbles around the table.Shoots a storm up and I would not play without the 56789 free.Nobody would.After he broke his back and healed for 4 years for training he played Wilky to start to walk again with a cue.Thats before the shirt was the shirt.
Then he is in for sugury again for his kidnys or liver he messed up or they need to get his disks back in order again as his spine is all goofed.He was one of the best.All he says is when he dies and falls laying on a pool table make sure they bury him with his cue.If he did not have this restricton at late 30s or 40 something I think he would be the best in the world.After he healed Wilkys own grandfather asked him to take Wilky on the road and teach him.I heard it myself.The guy could not he is stuck with restictions of a broken back.But I know he throws Shawn a few bones to help him along without the kid aware of it.But that guy would be unbeatable.Plays better than me with a broken back and bad legs.That is a shame and another story and the idiots who nick named him braces should be shot.
Now when you take the age of a person they get experience over the years.I know pool suppliments many of SS checks being way too small.Think those old fellas are just sittin there for nothin.Think again.1 pockets a good game for a very experienced player.
I have researched this a bit and I know youth is great and endurance is a solid issue but I withdraw my belief that age is a major factor in pool other than the restictions you have placed on you when you get older.The responsibilities and health issues etc.
I think if a 45 or 50 year old player restarts training who has no other focus than pool and has or had the touch at one time in their life to be labeled when they were younger as a top shooter.They can be the best again very easy if they train.I just think everything must be lined up.I also do feel an older player who was a top end player has an advantige of knowledge of pool.That is a huge advantige.I am sorry but I will use Keith as example.Keith has won alot of games from knowledge over shooting.Experience wins with Keith alot and that is earned over time.
Just a remark was made of bustamontes age and he was getting old.I know for fact the older pro players years ago were running 150 and 200 balls without missing on a 9ft table and they had 1/2 the gear we have.A nail and a piece of leather on a cue in some cases.Now I love to see a kid thats a firecracker like say Wilky(good kid) out of the box but no way he and his youth will ever hit that mark.Maybe when he gets a bit older but no way now.Alot of the tough kids have problems sometimes with just 9 yes look at it only 9 balls.Now if 50 and 100 years ago most older pro men ran 150 to 200 balls 9 balls would be nothing to them on a tiny table with huge pokets.They would laugh at us.
So my conclusion on age is that requirements of life changed the age bracket for top players and also the quality of play.I think a person like Keith has a 100% chance to reset the values or lets say marks of the game if he choses to do so.Mike could have.I mean why not.Why can't a Woman ?They stay healthyer and live longer and are alot better with money for retirement.
Take into account most the old master players were broke when they died and were carried or bummed their way through their lives.They did not worry about that Lexis or how nice the house was.What material objects? None they lived by the day with out a worry in the world.Just a clean set of clothes.They stayed focused on 1 thing pool.Now the younger crowd still has baggadge just not as much and alot less care than the older crowd.
I do love to see the younger players play the wrong shots and pull a masse off a rail out of their hat for a runout.I love it and miss when I was there.I just think an older playing generation is on its way back and the youths best watch out.The low is gone now there is the pieces (players)in place to raise the bar of age.Do not tell Efrin he is not a kid.The world is so messed up us old folk are not starting to care again.
cmon guys those statements I see here and there about a 40 or 50 year olds as too old and raitings should be lowered is opposing to me.At 44 I think jam said was Bustamontes age.Within 5 years he could become the best that ever played and just be impossable to beat.You never know.I think the life change of the world, changed the ages of the players and also their attachments they must worry or carry.Nope I think guys like Keith will change the standards very soon and people should not look at the middle aged players as weak as they are running strong from what I see happening.
Yes it is great to be young and a tough shot but I think it is time to reavaluate the age and sex of the players before commenting on them.I would bet the bar will change soon.
That is my book.We all have one
I think Balsis-lassiter-Crane-and a long list more played a bit better in their later years.I wish some of the top players would not quit and start cue businsses etc.I think some want to go out on top but I have seen alot of older players hit a slump then charge right back up and be even better.
I think 65 to 70 is when your danger point stops drawing away as a player due to age and the restrictions of age (health).Also the confines of life slow it a bit.I remember Mike (Cpt Hook) was going to put his cue down or loose his wife.That night a birdie talked to me about it.There was just no money.He won that 100k that night and his life changed and so did she a bit.Then she was behind him and he got 10x better with the change of restrictions
So I think obsticles play a bit more in an older persons life that restrict them from the graces a younger athelete gets in pool.We are all not so lucky to have a Wife or Husband who will stick 100% behind us up and down when we are living pool.Yes living pool.
Some of us do just live pool.I mean here we are on a site of nothing but pool.I just layed down my cue at around 6 am after 6 hours training and what did I do to rest-Jump on a pool site and drink from my cue ball mug.Alot of us are like this.
I know a player with a broken back that medicates the heck out of himself to just get up to the table and play pool.He over takes his pills and sits.Then after a while removes his back braces and leg braces and hobbles around the table.Shoots a storm up and I would not play without the 56789 free.Nobody would.After he broke his back and healed for 4 years for training he played Wilky to start to walk again with a cue.Thats before the shirt was the shirt.
Then he is in for sugury again for his kidnys or liver he messed up or they need to get his disks back in order again as his spine is all goofed.He was one of the best.All he says is when he dies and falls laying on a pool table make sure they bury him with his cue.If he did not have this restricton at late 30s or 40 something I think he would be the best in the world.After he healed Wilkys own grandfather asked him to take Wilky on the road and teach him.I heard it myself.The guy could not he is stuck with restictions of a broken back.But I know he throws Shawn a few bones to help him along without the kid aware of it.But that guy would be unbeatable.Plays better than me with a broken back and bad legs.That is a shame and another story and the idiots who nick named him braces should be shot.
Now when you take the age of a person they get experience over the years.I know pool suppliments many of SS checks being way too small.Think those old fellas are just sittin there for nothin.Think again.1 pockets a good game for a very experienced player.
I have researched this a bit and I know youth is great and endurance is a solid issue but I withdraw my belief that age is a major factor in pool other than the restictions you have placed on you when you get older.The responsibilities and health issues etc.
I think if a 45 or 50 year old player restarts training who has no other focus than pool and has or had the touch at one time in their life to be labeled when they were younger as a top shooter.They can be the best again very easy if they train.I just think everything must be lined up.I also do feel an older player who was a top end player has an advantige of knowledge of pool.That is a huge advantige.I am sorry but I will use Keith as example.Keith has won alot of games from knowledge over shooting.Experience wins with Keith alot and that is earned over time.
Just a remark was made of bustamontes age and he was getting old.I know for fact the older pro players years ago were running 150 and 200 balls without missing on a 9ft table and they had 1/2 the gear we have.A nail and a piece of leather on a cue in some cases.Now I love to see a kid thats a firecracker like say Wilky(good kid) out of the box but no way he and his youth will ever hit that mark.Maybe when he gets a bit older but no way now.Alot of the tough kids have problems sometimes with just 9 yes look at it only 9 balls.Now if 50 and 100 years ago most older pro men ran 150 to 200 balls 9 balls would be nothing to them on a tiny table with huge pokets.They would laugh at us.
So my conclusion on age is that requirements of life changed the age bracket for top players and also the quality of play.I think a person like Keith has a 100% chance to reset the values or lets say marks of the game if he choses to do so.Mike could have.I mean why not.Why can't a Woman ?They stay healthyer and live longer and are alot better with money for retirement.
Take into account most the old master players were broke when they died and were carried or bummed their way through their lives.They did not worry about that Lexis or how nice the house was.What material objects? None they lived by the day with out a worry in the world.Just a clean set of clothes.They stayed focused on 1 thing pool.Now the younger crowd still has baggadge just not as much and alot less care than the older crowd.
I do love to see the younger players play the wrong shots and pull a masse off a rail out of their hat for a runout.I love it and miss when I was there.I just think an older playing generation is on its way back and the youths best watch out.The low is gone now there is the pieces (players)in place to raise the bar of age.Do not tell Efrin he is not a kid.The world is so messed up us old folk are not starting to care again.
cmon guys those statements I see here and there about a 40 or 50 year olds as too old and raitings should be lowered is opposing to me.At 44 I think jam said was Bustamontes age.Within 5 years he could become the best that ever played and just be impossable to beat.You never know.I think the life change of the world, changed the ages of the players and also their attachments they must worry or carry.Nope I think guys like Keith will change the standards very soon and people should not look at the middle aged players as weak as they are running strong from what I see happening.
Yes it is great to be young and a tough shot but I think it is time to reavaluate the age and sex of the players before commenting on them.I would bet the bar will change soon.
That is my book.We all have one
