Aiming for pro within 5 years. Realistic?

Rhea said:
Why not? People didn't think I could either but I did.
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Did what? Get to "pro" level? If you got to WPBA pro level", I missed something.

#103 in U.S. women(who knows who came up with this ranking??) means you're not a favorite to win any WPBA regional/amateur stop. None of em, sorry to say.


Eric
 
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j_zippel said:
No offense but your not pro level Rhea. Pool is just a hobby for me and I'd play you $100 sets even any time.

I would never play any real pro for money, unless the spot was crazy
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I play much better now than I did when that data was collected in Feb 2014. Although at the time I won 4th place in the 9 ball U.S. Open Bar table championships, I am quite sure if repeated I would do better now. And as they collect more data on me they will find out I am closer to the top 67 than where I currently am and still improving weekly. For the record I have cashed in and taken as high as 3rd in a WPBA regional event in the past. But I feel that if I were to play in one now that I would take 1st or 2nd and even do well in RTC if invited.
 
Rhea said:
I play much better now than I did when that data was collected in Feb 2014. Although at the time I won 4th place in the 9 ball U.S. Open Bar table championships, I am quite sure if repeated I would do better now. And as they collect more data on me they will find out I am closer to the top 67 than where I currently am and still improving weekly. For the record I have cashed in and taken as high as 3rd in a WPBA regional event in the past. But I feel that if I were to play in one now that I would take 1st or 2nd and even do well in RTC if invited.
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I applaud your confidence, honestly I wish you the best. Hope you can prove everyone wrong..

Derby City isn't far away, would be a great opportunity to see where you stand.
 
real bartram said:
Sorry I don't know those guys .
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Lapointe is not on our radar. Grenier appears to play pro speed based on his 150 games or so. You can see he's in pretty good company amongst Canadian players
 

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What's that? The "Fargo" rating?

I will check this Fargo rating thing, interested in following these canadian :)

mikepage said:
Lapointe is not on our radar. Grenier appears to play pro speed based on his 150 games or so. You can see he's in pretty good company amongst Canadian players
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Wu Jia-qing started playing when he was 10 and was won the WPA world 9ball at age 16.

Anything is possible, but for every Wu I gotta imagine there are a a few football stadiums that could be filled with pool room bums that play above avg but are total degenerates in life.
 
Kid Dynomite said:
I must say that those two are not running to play Schmidt, Harriman, Appleton & Thorston for the cash in 14.1 and their backers are very silent about putting them in the box against those 4 I named and rightfully so!
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I doubt 14.1 has ever even crossed their backers minds.

If Schmidt or Harriman managed to get "their" backers to put a $50,000 race to 1000 point challenge match on a standard Diamond table offer together to present to SVB and his backer I would not be surprised to see it get accepted, with SVB then practicing 14.1 for a few weeks, and Schmidt or Harriman not liking it one bit come game time.

The reason this match will not go off is not because of SVB's backers, it is because there is no chance that the backers for the other guys are going to offer a match worth enough money to SVB and his backers to get him to bother with a game he rarely plays. They know if they do it will be a case of "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."
 
Celtic said:
I doubt 14.1 has ever even crossed their backers minds.

If Schmidt or Harriman managed to get "their" backers to put a $50,000 race to 1000 point challenge match on a standard Diamond table offer together to present to SVB and his backer I would not be surprised to see it get accepted, with SVB then practicing 14.1 for a few weeks, and Schmidt or Harriman not liking it one bit come game time.

The reason this match will not go off is not because of SVB's backers, it is because there is no chance that the backers for the other guys are going to offer a match worth enough money to SVB and his backers to get him to bother with a game he rarely plays. They know if they do it will be a case of "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."
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I know thorston does not gamble. But, the other 3 would jump in my opinion. Schmidt, Harriman & Appleton just may like their chances!!!

I hope something like this does happen. I would like to know if they are superior or not and if their backers would match them up in the game they are strongest at 14.1???

KD
 
I think this sport needs more people like you (OP)! I like the positive thinking and the effort to get better! I am far from pro, but love the game. I play about an hour before going to bed every night. Wish I had the time to play more, but my kids are very important to me. I wish you the best of luck. If you find yourself in Dickinson, North Dakota hit me up. I would love to hit a few around with you!
 
uwate said:
Wu Jia-qing started playing when he was 10 and was won the WPA world 9ball at age 16.

Anything is possible, but for every Wu I gotta imagine there are a a few football stadiums that could be filled with pool room bums that play above avg but are total degenerates in life.
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Learning at 10 and 23 are entirely two different things ,

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I'm pretty sure all has been covered and some of it even repeated. I am a bit surprised though that so many have rated your "determination and drive" with just your text and after knowing that you've only been playing for a few months.

I'll say that based off of the info you game in the first page sure you can reach a good speed in 5 years, Pro? maybe in iceland.
If you do not have the finances and time to practice for 40 hours a week "of actual sound practice, not the I watch video on youtube practice" and able to constantly be in some serious competition then my friend i'm sorry but I just don't see it.

The older players some on here even some HOFers will tell you that they for the most part did nothing else BUT play pool when they were younger and match up none stop, they learnt like spartans. These days notice who the upcoming monsters are and the kind of support that's behind them where they too can "just play pool". Ever seen those movies or videos with the little kids (monks) doing their martial arts all day like they were in their first 8 week of basic training before getting their MOS.

Many of us here have seen those people who came across pool and then wanted to be a hot shot, (heavy breathing) "what type of cue should I get? what books, what videos, can you show me what drills i should be doing, POOOOOOL um nom nom". 3 months later "if that" the excuses start coming in about why they don't practice anymore or haven't been around, they don't have money to gamble and still have not entered a tournament yet.
P1: So let's go to the Expo, it's $75 single elimination all kinds of action for you to get into if you want
P2: When is it? you going? sounds good let me see if I can get off of work
P1: Ok but sign up early (website) so you have a spot blah blah blah
P2: Yea i'll check it out
end result is they don't go cause all they have managed to learn is how to stop and how to draw a cue ball in the past few weeks/months and they don't have the guts to go up against anyone for a beating. Just seen it too many times.

Now your story may be written different but my friend this is pool and what it takes to become someone that others actually talk about requires list of this that usually end in the devil laughing holding a contract in his hand with your blood stained finger print in the "sign here" part.

I wish you all the best and becoming a solid ass player maybe even reaching open class, but what you are asking is "can i train for a year, so that i can finish first in Ranger school next year when I enlist?".

The only thing left to do my friend is to prove all the na sayer wrong. Come back here on January 1st with the link to a youtube video of you doing the line drill or something so we can see how you doing. If you don't we're gonna say that you quit and make all kinds of jokes and say really nasty things about you like that other guy who wanted to go from a C to like a B in a year or something like that.
 
7forlife said:
Many of us here have seen those people who came across pool and then wanted to be a hot shot, "what type of cue should I get? what books, what videos, can you show me what drills i should be doing, 3 months later the excuses start coming in about why they don't practice anymore
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^this. its fairly easy to stay committed to something for 5 weeks, 5 years is a whole different ball game. And its FUN in the first few months, where you see improvement almost every day!....how about in year 2 when you could go months without any noticeable improvement, yet you still have to do drills 5 hours a day !
Are we still having fun then?

Again, prove everyone wrong, if we were all robots we could all do it, but we are all human, and that's nothing to be embarrassed about :wink:
 
For what it's worth - before age 5 your mind is basically a blank canvas, and whatever you start adding to that canvas you keep and use most heavily. After age 5 your neural synapses start to die and whatever you haven't used or had exposure to you will lose.

Then, from age 5 to 12 (I think) your brain plasticity is at it's peak. Technically birth to age 12 but anyway, you will pick things up quickest if you start by age 12. After that, your brain plasticity remains pretty steady until you hit age 30 or so.

Basically, my point is that someone who starts at 16 vs. 23 has almost no biological or psychological advantage to learning this game. Other factors separate the two age groups obviously.

16 year olds usually have more time and energy to devote to a single thing unlike a 23 year old. Just saying ;)
 
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