Coaching

[av84fun]

Absolutely, you are right... I work with an instructor who I call my coach and he is a retired pro. And I pay him $25 an hour, which is nothing. But that's really where I was coming from with my question. Would the pros in today's game (who some of them charge $75-$100 an hour to give lessons to others) actually pay someone else more to coach them? Makes me wonder how much Neils pays his coach... since, as we've discussed on here ad nauseum, pro pool players don't make much money. Seems like it would be hard to make this very reasonable suggestion a reality. (though you are right, it would be ideal) It all goes back to money, right?

Right you are!

 

[BRKNRUN]

TOTALLY correct. But this is not the Depression era when many of our heros came up in the game.

There are GREAT instructors who will spend an entire day...and then some...with students for $500 or so and there are few who can't save up that kind of money without terrible sacrifice.

THOUSANDS of them can afford to go to Vegas every year and I'll bet ya a dime that not 50% of them have EVERY had a lesson from a top instructor...in fact, 80% is probably a better guess.

Then, I'll bet ya a quarter that 9 of every 10 league players will improve AT LEAST one rank point due to taking top quality instruction and will do so in half the time it would take them to slug it out on their own.

But the issue is coaching, not instruction and the same dynamic prevails.

It would be an interesting experiment of some top instructor would take it on as a marketing project to work an hour or two a month with a league team comprised of 4-7 rankings...and see what the team does and how their rankings improve at the end of a season.

Regards,
Jim

From the years I have been there a large majority of the players that attend the BCA are there more for fun/vacation and not necessarily to win it all as a Pro player aspires to do. Some are there just for the action tables.

Interesting there were BCA instructors doing video tape analysis and lessons throughout the whole BCA tournament...I don't think they ever got a break from people wanting to get thier stroke analyzed.

I had to wait quite a while to get in in order to give Scott Lee an opportunity to get a good chuckle watching my stroke...

I can only imagine how busy they will be this year...