Giveaway Signs of Beginner / Recreational Players

Bob Jewett said:
A local room has jointed cues for house cues. Not Schons, but they do have wraps.
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Most halls here have jointed, wrapless cues. I will look up the brand. It's quite a common sight.
Chinese-8 halls sometimes even have them named with their own brand. I used to play at a place called Jianying that had decent one piece Chinese-8 cues.
 
Two things drive me nuts. Worst of the two is players who are so into conversation they forget they are here to play pool. It's one thing to have to tell someone it's their shot, but another completely when they stop between shots to chat with someone. Grrrr! The second is when someone returns a cue or bridge to the wall and doesn't bother to line up the cue vertically with matching clips and butt holders, leaving a tilted mess the next person there has to fix.
 
Stickman9 said:
I had something similar happen to me. I had my break cue (a Huebler merry widow) and my playing cue (a Schon with a floating points and a linen wrap). The person was looking for a cue and grabbed my Huebler. When I told him it was my cue, he put it down and grabbed the Schon. He gave it back, but I still wonder how he could possibly think that the Schon was a house cue.
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Ye I had my cue taken despite it having a joint extension and extra tennis wraps for girth on the butt. Some ppl are just clueless. One time I came back to my table and both my cues were gone. When I told the group next to me they had my cues, one of the young women just laughed and said, "you bring your own? people do that?"
 
Hirsty said:
The exception that proves the rule.

I would be surprised if you would see him do this for a pressure shot.
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Busty was shooting behind his back from the time he was a skinny kid and has never stopped. He will shoot behind his back for very important shots as casually as some people swap hands in the same situations. I'm sure that Bustamonte has won big matches many times when there was a behind the back shot somewhere in his run.

Oddly enough, behind the back shots aren't that hard usually. The shots that can't be reached by other means are maybe quarter table shots shooting backhanded. People are very very rarely shooting long tough shots behind their back because there is no need to. Back when I shot them I rarely missed one. Not because I was good but because the shots were easy.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Busty was shooting behind his back from the time he was a skinny kid and has never stopped. He will shoot behind his back for very important shots as casually as some people swap hands in the same situations. I'm sure that Bustamonte has won big matches many times when there was a behind the back shot somewhere in his run.

Oddly enough, behind the back shots aren't that hard usually. The shots that can't be reached by other means are maybe quarter table shots shooting backhanded. People are very very rarely shooting long tough shots behind their back because there is no need to. Back when I shot them I rarely missed one. Not because I was good but because the shots were easy.

Hu
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I saw him drill a behind the back, almost length of the table cut in a YouTube video not too long ago. Wonder If I can dig it up.

I do always wonder why people don't just put a little time into playing both handed... surely they're not so cack-handed that playing behind the back is easier than literally playing with good form?
 
Flakeandrun said:
I saw him drill a behind the back, almost length of the table cut in a YouTube video not too long ago. Wonder If I can dig it up.

I do always wonder why people don't just put a little time into playing both handed... surely they're not so cack-handed that playing behind the back is easier than literally playing with good form?
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Sadly, that is the case with me. I find behind the back shots to be extraordinarily easy. They're always short. They put you in a position where it's impossible to line up incorrectly because you're looking down on top of the line. A bit of draw or stun is equally easy. For some reason follow will throw me off though. I've tried those same short shots left handed and its shockingly pathetic. Maybe 75% success rate v I literally do not miss behind the back. I'm not sure how many hours it'll take practicing weak handed to get proficient but it's a lot. Perhaps some day. Until then I'll listen to people laugh until I draw back half the table for shape on the 8
 
23DenaliBDE said:
Sadly, that is the case with me. I find behind the back shots to be extraordinarily easy. They're always short. They put you in a position where it's impossible to line up incorrectly because you're looking down on top of the line. A bit of draw or stun is equally easy. For some reason follow will throw me off though. I've tried those same short shots left handed and its shockingly pathetic. Maybe 75% success rate v I literally do not miss behind the back. I'm not sure how many hours it'll take practicing weak handed to get proficient but it's a lot. Perhaps some day. Until then I'll listen to people laugh until I draw back half the table for shape on the 8
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If it ain't broke don't fix it buddy! :) I am one of those people who can naturally do stuff with both hands. I commented at length in a thread before, as sometimes I am generally confused over which hand to make 'dominant'... (right being preferred, as like most people, it's drilled into you in a world where most people are right handed).

I play slightly right eye dominant, but playing with my left forces me to align the cue better under this eye in my experience. When you're having a bad day with one hand, actually playing with the other hand has brought me back to life. Also, I think this throws some issues into your opponents mind as well.

Only issue I have left-haded is jump shots, and that is more due to the muscle memory involved in jacking up the cue. I also thought breaking would be problematic, but with MR break format (from the box). I am not going flat out 'maximum power' and switch depending on what's working on the day. 8/10-ball I will forever be a right handed breaker, as I break head on.
 
Flakeandrun said:
If it ain't broke don't fix it buddy! :) I am one of those people who can naturally do stuff with both hands. I commented at length in a thread before, as sometimes I am generally confused over which hand to make 'dominant'... (right being preferred, as like most people, it's drilled into you in a world where most people are right handed).

I play slightly right eye dominant, but playing with my left forces me to align the cue better under this eye in my experience. When you're having a bad day with one hand, actually playing with the other hand has brought me back to life. Also, I think this throws some issues into your opponents mind as well.

Only issue I have left-haded is jump shots, and that is more due to the muscle memory involved in jacking up the cue. I also thought breaking would be problematic, but with MR break format (from the box). I am not going flat out 'maximum power' and switch depending on what's working on the day. 8/10-ball I will forever be a right handed breaker, as I break head on.
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That is a desirable talent. There are days I could amputate my left and it'd work better😆. Oddly enough I shoot pistols equally good with both and long guns I only shoot weak handed and I'd put money on me against most.
 
23DenaliBDE said:
That is a desirable talent. There are days I could amputate my left and it'd work better😆. Oddly enough I shoot pistols equally good with both and long guns I only shoot weak handed and I'd put money on me against most.
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Damn that's pretty cool! I imagine I'd catch some recoil to the face with either hand haha We don't have pistols where I am from. But with the shotgun or rifle, I'm using my right hand/shoulder. Would not feel comfortable at all to switch. I haven't shot a gun in 15 years though, don't really feel the inclination to either. Last time, I was a teenager doing summer work on my parents friends farm.
 
Flakeandrun said:
Damn that's pretty cool! I imagine I'd catch some recoil to the face with either hand haha We don't have pistols where I am from. But with the shotgun or rifle, I'm using my right hand/shoulder. Would not feel comfortable at all to switch. I haven't shot a gun in 15 years though, don't really feel the inclination to either. Last time, I was a teenager doing summer work on my parents friends farm.
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I've only ever had one that caused a problem. My grandpas .22 (the one he never,liked) will actually burn my face a little when it ejects across my face. I agree with my late grandpa, though, that everything about the gun is unpleasant so I don't shoot it. It stays in his gun cabinet that I also have.
 
Another dead giveaway of a beginner is when a player refers to a shot in which the cue ball is on the spot as a spot shot.
 
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