Ever see any real players wear a glove?

Solartje said:
ps: i use gloves after i laughed for a long time, now i cant play without it. i have VERY VERY sweety hands. i play in a karaoke barr (only place available close) and imagine me playing there with my glove. well i do, without ANY problem. im male enough to wear one, i never had anyone laugh in front of me about it, some look strange in the beginning but like it has been posted before, some associate it with professionalisme. U surely atract ALOT of atention, but if u play in a place where ALL are ballbangers exept me, and they see u run 20-30-40 balls, u can be sure no one will laugh.
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I had a similar experience in a rather rough bar some time ago. Barbox, 8 ball doubles. Place was really humid. Probably 150 people in there late on a Friday night. I couldn't shoot without the glove, at least not well. So in our second game, I put on the glove, and some guys started making fun of it. Paid no attention to them. My teammate said we had to win after that. What happened? I made a few balls. And hooked myself. Then, without realizing it, I jumped that heavy mudball over a blocker ball, and made the shot, with a house cue no less. Some of those wisecrackers went silent. Ran out the rack. Then word comes the owner of the joint wanted to play some $200 a game 8 ball, just with me. In a strange bar? No way... Too dangerous.

By the way, those guys who were making fun just shut up. Didn't see 'em again. Guess they learned. Who knows.

Flex
 
sarcasm?...

mikepage said:
I got knocked out of a weekly tournament in the DC area a few weeks ago by some player wearing a glove. How pathetic is that?

His name was Mike Davis or something like that...

mike page
fargo
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i truly hope this was post was sarcastic... and i am alittle surprised that no one listed Davis as another player that wears a glove... i would say he is a "real good player".. and also wears a glove...

i even heard he was on the IPT!!! <--sarcasm ;) :eek:
 
PROG8R said:
What on earth does that do? Help your hands cut through the air so you can go faster?
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This being the baserunning glove...

Nope. You could sell millions if it did that. What it does is protect your hands when sliding (so they don't get scraped). IF you slide properly, you shouldn't need them as both hands are supposed to go up in the air. Lots of players don't. Also lots of players now use the head first slide, for which gloves are pretty mandatory. See the movie Major League & note Willie Mays Hays who nails a baserunning glove on the wall every time he steals a bag...
 
BRKNRUN said:
In the meantime...anyone come up with a good substance to apply to a leather grip to give it some tack...???????
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pine-tar - a little goes a long long way! Available at any sporting good store ;-)
 
Amen to that

JoeyA said:
John Schmidt wears one and I think he qualifies as a real player.
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Couldn't be more true, understatement of the year!.

John ran 400+ in straight then won the US Open, this qualifies him as a real poolplayer who wears a glove... (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I think we can officially retire the "gloves are for sissies" theory.:D
 
Flex said:
When I first took up pool, there was a homeless-looking guy at Chris's in Chicago who'd just picked up a decent McDermott at a flea market for forty bucks. He wore a really worn out cotton glove that probably saw service doing other things than shooting pool. Had the finger tips cut off... Hustler? Wouldn't play that guy...

Flex
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There's a banger in the bar I play at (is this the pot calling the kettle black???) who wears a cotton work glove with the fingers cut off half way back. He shoots a fibreglass cue and it just looks rediculous. I don't mind it when he wears it. It keeps the pool table from looking like it snowed talc all over it. Nothing worse than playing pool on a table with white hand prints all over the rails and felt.
Wear that glove with pride dude.....more power to you and cleaner equipment for me....

McCue Banger McCue
 
I always carry a glove in my case, down here in South Florida the humidy is brutal and sometimes the humidy is so great in some of the bars and pool rooms I will wear the glove, I believe you should adapt to the conditions and if that means wearing a glove so be it. I love to play and I play to win.
 
How in the heck did this thread get drug up again? I can't even remember when I posted it. LOL
I would most definitely agree that John is a pretty jam up player. I saw him play twice in person before on the Seminole Pro tour in FL.
 
Gloves and such ...

Yes, gloves usually draw a smile or two because of Michael Jackson I think... lol But, if a gloved player is a serious player, the smiles usually
disappear pretty quick. If the player is a banger, the other players just
think to themselves, 'No wonder' .... lol

I like the real thing myself, and I can not stand to wear a glove, watch, rings, or any jewelry while shooting, they are too distracting, especially during pressure situations. I don't wear jewelry anytime though, although I did some when I was younger.

Now, for more of a tacky feeling, there is a simple solution. Either get
a little jar of the stuff that bowlers use so their fingers won't slip out of their bowling balls, or a little jar of the stuff that catchers use to make their catcher's mitt sticky in the pocket of it. I was both when younger, and either will work just fine. Put just a little on fingers or hand where your grrip hand touches the cue when gripping. I would suggest having a Pool towel close by in case you use too much.

I hate to shake a player's hand before or after the match, and they have cold clammy hands .... Yeck!!! If you have this problem, have the decency to wipe your hands off first. Besides you never sure how they got that way to begin with. They could have stuck it in some dark sweaty place ...
 
Snapshot9 said:
I hate to shake a player's hand before or after the match, and they have cold clammy hands .... Yeck!!! If you have this problem, have the decency to wipe your hands off first. Besides you never sure how they got that way to begin with. They could have stuck it in some dark sweaty place ...
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How many guys do you see leaving the restrooms in poolhalls who don't bother to even rinse their hands?? Then those same guys are stuffing greasy burgers down their gullets; who knows where else those hands have been....:eek:
 
Are some of you still in grade school or something?

A glove is a peice of equipment that can be used in this sport. Playing conditions can make it such that a glove is necessary to make an good bridge when conditions are humid....many people use gloves in the summertime. Others use it year round because their hands perspire.
People who play artistic pool use gloves because of the type of strokes they must use. The glove ensures a good bridge.
I use a glove because I have arthritis in my fingers which sometimes makes it difficult to make a good bridge. The glove helps insure that the cue slips thru my fingers effortlessly when I use a closed bridge.
One either likes wearing a glove or not, and if you don't like wearing one don't.
To make fun of people who do is absolutely infantile.
ruk
 
ive gotten to where i play with a cue more than not.......i dont have time to clean and slick up my shafts everyday ( i play alot).....the glove makes it alot easier. Just coming back from the us open and i noticed quite a few "real" players who used them.......charlie bryant, mike davis, earl, etc
 
So true, so true.

In addition, if anyone watched a lot of the IPT stuff in Reno they were using gloves a lot.

And I just remembered that Rodney Morris uses a glove on occassion.



Klopek said:
Couldn't be more true, understatement of the year!.

John ran 400+ in straight then won the US Open, this qualifies him as a real poolplayer who wears a glove... (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I think we can officially retire the "gloves are for sissies" theory.:D
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catscradle said:
I'm not against gloves by any means, but I think the statement I bolded above is nonsenseProperly taking care of your equipment and keeping your hands clean you can acheive more smoothness than with a glove. . Some people seem to perspire more than me and for them I would think your statement would be true. If somebody has a non-wood shaft, like you, I can see why they'd have to have a glove too.
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I have worn a glove for years, and I think the statement I bolded above is nonsense. First of all, you are making the assumption that human skin is naturally more smooth, or has less natural friction than, nylon or silk. Really depends on the human, but I would venture to say in most cases you are wrong. Most people work for a living, and their hands will be less smooth than silk. This being said, the sentence above would be obviously false. Anything that has less natural friction than human skin will make for a smoother stroke, assuming you can adopt to the different feel.

I am talking simple physics here. You are talking bias, sir.

Russ
 
Guilty man confesses

PROG8R said:
How in the heck did this thread get drug up again? I can't even remember when I posted it. LOL
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That would be my fault, I did a forum search and among the 50,000 results was your thread. I read it and thought it was pretty over the top so I responded with my thoughts. Threads never die, they just nap for a while.:D
 
Russ Chewning said:
I have worn a glove for years, and I think the statement I bolded above is nonsense. First of all, you are making the assumption that human skin is naturally more smooth, or has less natural friction than, nylon or silk. Really depends on the human, but I would venture to say in most cases you are wrong. Most people work for a living, and their hands will be less smooth than silk. This being said, the sentence above would be obviously false. Anything that has less natural friction than human skin will make for a smoother stroke, assuming you can adopt to the different feel.

I am talking simple physics here. You are talking bias, sir.

Russ
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I have to agree with you my brethren soldier. I have been using a glove for about the last 5 years now, and every now and then I still get the comment on the glove looking silly. Well about 2 seasons ago in league I noticed all the young players talking about me wearing the glove and by the end of the season they were all asking me where to get them and they all started using them. I thought it was pretty funny.

It's funny that this thread got brought up this week though. Cause Wed. and Thurs. in both my leagues some comments were made about my glove.

Wed night I shoot in a bar league and when I pulled out the glove 3 of the 5 team members on the other team started chatting about it. I just shook my head and started pocketing balls that night. After we slaughtered them, they weren't talking about my glove anymore. LOL

Then Thursday night a new guy came into my BCA league and as I dumped the whole rack onto the table he was watching me get ready to warm up. He told a buddy of mine this, "look he wears a glove too, he must be a shark!" Of course it was said very sarcastically, but I didn't care. After I shot two whole racks in only missing one shot (I shouldn't have missed that shot either, dang my focus. LOL) He proceeded to tell my friend that he hoped they didn't have to play my team. LOL

I always love to play the people that under estimate you. If you want to under estimate me because of a glove then more power to you.

(Good points you made Russ!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
 
totally agree with was has been said.

my experiences are a bit different. i dont think ive ever heared or seen anyone talk or comment my glove.:o

the only persons talking about it, is when i was practising in a karaokebarr where the best player could only pot 3 balls in a row. but they where more talking like WOW he must be a pro as he uses gloves!.

i love my gloves, im lucky to not get any comments on them (maybe thats just because im in europe? and alot of europeans play with gloves compared to the us? no idea really, never been to the us), but even if they would comment, i would never take them off.

its part of my prematch routine. as long as the glove is on, im focused 200%, once the glove is off, i can watch sexy girls passing by or do whatever i want, but once the glove is on. there's only winning that is in my mind.
 
5ballcharlie said:
anyone see earl in this years open when he was playing souqet. The guy was wearing a shooting glove on his bridge hand and a Hockey glove on his grip hand.
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I've seen him, he's one of my favorite players, and it's hilarious. I think Mike sigel had a funny comment about it in the most recent televised IPT North American Open match. Hilarious man.
 
Flex said:
How many guys do you see leaving the restrooms in poolhalls who don't bother to even rinse their hands?? Then those same guys are stuffing greasy burgers down their gullets; who knows where else those hands have been....:eek:
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LOL!! This one poolroom owner just made fun of these two kids the other day for that. I'm talking about the greasy burger part.
 
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