I mentioned in prior post that my 19 year old son is finally playing pool finally. Oh, last year of HS he began to play more in the basement as his buddies seemed to want to play. It was a nice break from their video game marathons.
Many of his friends in college liked to shoot, just bangers, but they had fun. When he got home he wanted to play pool all summer. We played 3 or 4 nights a week. I gave him my OB sneaky pete to take back to school to shoot with. Now he needs a break cue. Driving down tomorrow to bring his bicycle and a break cue.
Well, he played in his first ever pool tournament today. The school had a $5 8ball tourney, race to 3. He went 2-2. Some of the kids on the billiard club team asked him to play on the team. He's thinking about it. He's still very low caliber but he can make some very good shots, but misses the easy ones. We all remember those days
And the team is now part of a newly formed college billiards league with several other universities. One of the teams in the new league is Lindenwood. Purdue is the other, and U of Illinois, where my son attends. I think there are a couple more schools, but can't remember them.
Just strange how things work out. He's not interested in pool as he played other sports all his life, now he's playing pool in college tourney's and may join the team. He already shoots on the Trap and Skeet team, and seems like these "shooters" like to shoot pool too ? Who knew ?
I caught my real estate agent playing 8ball on an APP on his phone. This guys does not even shoot pool, but he swears it's a blast, and he plays against folks around the world. Eventually, some of these folks will actually come to a pool hall. Maybe there is hope yet for this crazy game of ours.
Many of his friends in college liked to shoot, just bangers, but they had fun. When he got home he wanted to play pool all summer. We played 3 or 4 nights a week. I gave him my OB sneaky pete to take back to school to shoot with. Now he needs a break cue. Driving down tomorrow to bring his bicycle and a break cue.
Well, he played in his first ever pool tournament today. The school had a $5 8ball tourney, race to 3. He went 2-2. Some of the kids on the billiard club team asked him to play on the team. He's thinking about it. He's still very low caliber but he can make some very good shots, but misses the easy ones. We all remember those days
And the team is now part of a newly formed college billiards league with several other universities. One of the teams in the new league is Lindenwood. Purdue is the other, and U of Illinois, where my son attends. I think there are a couple more schools, but can't remember them.
Just strange how things work out. He's not interested in pool as he played other sports all his life, now he's playing pool in college tourney's and may join the team. He already shoots on the Trap and Skeet team, and seems like these "shooters" like to shoot pool too ? Who knew ?
I caught my real estate agent playing 8ball on an APP on his phone. This guys does not even shoot pool, but he swears it's a blast, and he plays against folks around the world. Eventually, some of these folks will actually come to a pool hall. Maybe there is hope yet for this crazy game of ours.
...Not only was he the founder of the Lindenwood University program,but Mark STILL runs the program...the only one of its kind in the USA, and probably the world. He is also instrumental in the development of this intercollegiate team program, to get it off the ground! :grin:
He's not using English yet. Just told him to stay center of the ball for now, get the right angles and learn how to use stop, draw and follow to get you where you need. I want to ensure his mechanics are tight before we start getting too advanced. It's coming along pretty good. 