Bilingual Pool Players Focus Better?

[lfigueroa]

Depends on if you are "truly" bilingual. Only "truly" bilingual people can think in both languages. Many that speak more than one language are not truly bilingual in this sense. I do think the truly bilingual have advantages in how they think and perhaps concentrate...but it isn't necessarily the edge one might hope as there are many factors involved. I would say it could perhaps help a pool player.

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Just curious: what is the basis for saying you have to be able to think in both languages to be truly bilingual? I'm pretty fluent in Spanish -- taught by my parents and having lived outside of Madrid for three years -- but I've never thought in Spanish. Still, I'd consider myself bilingual.

Lou Figueroa

 

[lfigueroa]

what about earl? he can barely even speak one language but he still shoots pretty good

lol.

Lou Figueroa

 

[West Point 1987]

I think it's more likely that good pool players have a concentration level and ability to use parts of their brains that lend themselves to becoming bilingual...in other words, being a good pool player equates to learning a second language more easily, not necessarily the other way around. Corelational, not Causal.

I'm bilingual (native English, fluent in Greek). I learned Greek in my 30s through an extensive two year emersion program in the Army...basically didn't speak English for over two years. I can read, write, speak and think it. I even dream in it, so yes, I'm bilingual. I'm a decent pool player, but I was probably an even better pool player before I learned Greek.

 

[whitewolf]

I'll be sure to give that all the consideration warranted by your obvious qualifications in this field of science.

pj
chgo

What? Did you get bored on aiming threads and need something even more stupid to think about?

 

[driz86]

No, that's hogwash. There are players in the U.S. who play pool well who can barely speak their own native language.

 

[JoeyA]

I think it's more likely that good pool players have a concentration level and ability to use parts of their brains that lend themselves to becoming bilingual...in other words, being a good pool player equates to learning a second language more easily, not necessarily the other way around. Corelational, not Causal.

I'm bilingual (native English, fluent in Greek). I learned Greek in my 30s through an extensive two year emersion program in the Army...basically didn't speak English for over two years. I can read, write, speak and think it. I even dream in it, so yes, I'm bilingual. I'm a decent pool player, but I was probably an even better pool player before I learned Greek.

 

[smoooothstroke]

Sounds feasible,all the Pino players I know speak 2 or 3 languages.