did i see that right?
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lmao~!...........was thinkin of that earlier as I read your other stuf..........seems people out there are willing to pay for lessons.........and you can charge more than 10 an hr......lol........good luck to youmark tadd said:get lessons from jenett lee for only $2950 for 3 days in vegas?
now thats how you make money in pool
wow i will take half that and will put you up for a week or more. the black tight pants sorry i cannot duplicatemark tadd said:get lessons from jenett lee for only $2950 for 3 days in vegas?
now thats how you make money in pool
better hurry its limited to the first 100
Sure will...open wide!Smorgass Bored said:
Well, if anyone has noticed, Jennette Lee has had a few of these 2995 specials listed at various places though out the country and from what I can tell, almost all of them have been cancelled or "rescheduled" according to posts on AZB. 3K for lessons from Jennette Lee? It is possible that in Vegas (and Vegas only) that someone foolish enough to waste that kind of bread on just 3 days of lessons.....
JustPlay said:
FYI, Jeanette's pool school in Vegas WAS NOT canceled due to insufficient interest in it. Unfortunately, Hurricane Andrew in Florida in September wiped out WPBA Florida and that tour event had to be rescheduled for December. Unluckily for Jeanette, the weekend selected was the same that Jeanette's pool school would have taken place, so she had to cancel her Vegas event.
We're pool nuts, and it looks like most of us (but not me) think $3k is too much money for pool lessons. Ask a golf nut if $3k is too much money for 3 days with a top golf pro, like Lefty or Vijay or Sorenstam. I'd be willing to be you'd get a different answer. Makes me wonder why that is....
-djb
-djb
DoomCue said:
Why indeed! I'd rather get lessons from the person that TAUGHT the likes of Lefty, Vigay, and Sorenstam. People keep assuming that just because your in the presents of a top flight pro your going to shoot just like them,WRONG. Doing and teaching are two different animals. Sure you'll learn something. But the Hallmark of a great teacher is thier ability to inspire in you the confidence, and provide the tools to get the most out of your individual potential. Not to be a clone of the "this is how i do it, so you do it too" stuff.
Teaching and playing are two very different occupations. With only a few exceptions, I'd be very carefull about taking lessons from a pro. If you want my honest oppinion. Save the 3 k and gamble with a pro. over time. Watch and learn. When you know "how" to watch, then you'll have learned far more in a practical sense. I just see red flags going up when i see this kind of activity like ramming 3 days of intense instruction into someone. How can you retain this? It all smacks of snake oil to me. St
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Ted Harris said:
I just pee-pee'd my pants....LMAO
Stretch said:
I agree that being a good player doesn't necessarily mean that the player will be able to teach. That's a great point, but I was trying to get people to think about the reason why golfers think it's cool to spend that amount of money on the game, but pool players wouldn't dream of doing that. Most beginning golfers will tell you they've either taken lessons or will take lessons to enhance their playing ability. Ask a beginning pool player about lessons, and the majority will tell you that lessons aren't necessary, or they're too expensive, or instructors are hard to find, or whatever excuse they can come up with. I just wonder why there's such a different mindset when it comes to pool.
Let's say that it's Mark Wilson instead of Jeanette Lee doing the pool lessons, and let's say that it's Butch Harmon instead of Lefty, Vijay, or Sorenstam. How many pool players would jump at the chance to spend $3k to learn from an acknowledged great teacher like Wilson? (Never mind that a great majority of players haven't heard of him.) Compare that to the number of golfers who would jump at the chance to spend $3k to learn from Butch Harmon. I'd bet that the number of golfers willing to spend that amount would beat the pool players by at least a factor of ten. I wonder why that is.
Pool is not an expensive game, not like golf is, yet when lessons are brought up, golfers are willing to pony up the bucks, while poolplayers would rather spend the money on the latest magic pill, like gloves, Predators, Spiders, polka-dot cue balls, etc. (Golfers do the same thing as far as looking for the magic pill, but they still do the lessons, too.) I wonder why that is.
-djb
DoomCue said:
Cause Pool players are cheap, undisciplined, and unorganized. It's the poor man's past time. Those of us here represent a very very small percentage of players that have actually made a long term commitment to improve. In Golf, we would be the majority. St
Stretch said:
Hah! You'll get no argument from me on that. How do we effect a change in the status quo? It has to start from the top and trickle down. It starts with a good organization to represent pool and pool players. We need legitimacy in the sport so that it's ok for kids to walk into a room and play. Kids play soccer, baseball, basketball, etc., and are encouraged to do so. Pool needs the same. I think there are some good starts out there, and I'm hoping that as time passes, certain dreams will come to fruition. I've seen enough in my time as a player, though, to start to doubt if pool will ever climb out of the filler spots on ESPN and become a legitimate sport in the US.
Somehow, pool has to overcome the image of a gambling, drinking, smoking, hustling lifestyle. The parallels that people have brought up in other threads comparing golf and pool don't usually mention that just as much of those things occur in the golf world as in the pool world, but somehow it's "gentlemanly" for golfers, detestable for pool players. There's definitely some truth in the stereotype, but it's by far not the norm. However, due to Hollywood's glorification of the hustle in pool and the heavily popularized image of hustlers in the eyes of John Q, that's what people believe is fact. I don't know how many times I've had people ask me if I'm a hustler when they find out I play A LOT of pool (I've never hustled in my life). Until that mindset changes, pool players will always be considered "cheap, undisciplined, and unorganized." I hope the mindset changes in my lifetime.
-djb
DoomCue said:
In fact, Mark Wilson is one of five instructors included in the Experience, along with Jerry Briesath, George Breedlove, Helena Thornfeldt and, of course, Jeanette. The price also includes private rooms at the Plaza Hotel, gift bags and meals (including cocktail reception, continental breakfasts, dinner on Saturday and brunch on Sunday), so actually it's not a bad deal at all!!! On top of that, Jeanette is one of the nicest and most professional of all the women pros, as well as one of the best.
Just wanted to make sure everyone understands what he/she is getting for the money!
$3000 is way too much money for 3 days and it is not a full day with you playing and learning one on one. The 3000 dollars is better off being spent on buying an actually table. For 3K I think I could get a world champion to spend a week with me. If Jeanette Lee charged $200 per day, she would have people showing up. Whoever puts the Idea in Lee's head that she is worth $1000 per day, should be fired. I really don't think anyone will pay that price.