How many years of SERIOUS play have you had?

TheThaiger

TheThaiger

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I'm sure many of us have taken extended breaks from the game, or played very casually, so excluding those, how many years of serious play have you had. You can judge "serious" for yourselves.

Myself: I got a small snooker table for Xmas at 14/15. Played daily until 19, then went to college, worked etc and started up again when i was 35, and have played more and more seriously since.

So I'd say about 11 years in total.

How about you?
 
TheThaiger said:
I'm sure many of us have taken extended breaks from the game, or played very casually, so excluding those, how many years of serious play have you had. You can judge "serious" for yourselves.

Myself: I got a small snooker table for Xmas at 14/15. Played daily until 19, then went to college, worked etc and started up again when i was 35, and have played more and more seriously since.

So I'd say about 11 years in total.

How about you?
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I'd say about 11 years in total.

Same here...though it has taken almost 2 decades to total that.
 
None. I play 4-6 nights a week, but life with 3 little kids makes it so I have never been able to play seriously for an extended amount of time. I've taken periods where I skip sleep to practice seriously, and I definitely improve, but it catches up with me, so it can never last too long.
 
I asked a similar question a little bit ago.

You can find it here:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=260816

I was looking for how many hours people had actually logged. Just using the hours spent, I came up with about 4 to 5 years for me. There were some interesting posts in there.

For most of us, I think it's hard to just look at the years since we tend to get busy with life. There were a lot of years that I played very little, if at all. So I think I've only played seriously for all or parts of 5 or 6 years.
 
25 (and the number stopped climbing a couple years ago)

Freddie <~~~ can't count any higher anyways
 
I played 50+ hours a week for about a year back in the early seventies (unemployment:D)
Got so I was ok, never good, not enough good competition in a small town. Then life got in the way, just starting up again with my own table. Game was easier back when I could see:cool:
Probably two or three years total
 
Cornerman said:
Considering he titled in the exact same format you did, I'll hazard a guess that he had absolutely no idea that you asked a similar question.

Freddie <~~~ using my powers of observation for the good of mankind
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Cut him some slack - he may have been on a "little break" back then.
 
Six years that I really consider serious. That ended in 1991.

I would like to start again.


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Took a 14-year hiatus from all cue sports, from 1992 to 2006, to focus on the career. I think I may have pulled a house cue off the wall in a bar one or two times, for a couple "oh what the heck" social reminiscent games in the entire time during those 14 years.

Then, in early 2007 when things got stable in the career and personal fronts, I pulled my cues out of the back of the closet one day, dusted off the case (literally blew onto the case and a puff of dust came off of it), took out the cues, cleaned them up, and went out to the nearby poolhall. For no other reason than I was bored, and missed playing. I'd stuck with it ever since, and even became the League Coordinator and administrator over at the now-defunct Boston Billiards in Danbury, CT.

All told, including the time before the hiatus? I'd say 25 years.

-Sean
 
I tried working this out once by figuring 15 hrs a week for 20 years would be almost 16,000 hours. I could offset some of those years I played less by the fact that I've been playing longer than that.

How many games is that?

All that said, I'd say I've only really been playing seriously for about three years now. I've learned more in those three than the 20 before that. You can be a pretty good hack indefinitely. Getting actually good takes a little more concentration. To me, "seriously" means you are actively finding answers to problems with your game. I like to reflect occassionally and ask myself if I'm better than I was a month ago. Those are my definitions of "seriously".
 
According to some, all 7 years my game has been a joke. :thumbup:

Can 7 years of APA count as serious? :D

It was either pool or bowling, I just wanted something to do. Pool tables were closer.
 
BasementDweller said:
I asked a similar question a little bit ago.

You can find it here:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=260816

I was looking for how many hours people had actually logged. Just using the hours spent, I came up with about 4 to 5 years for me. There were some interesting posts in there.

For most of us, I think it's hard to just look at the years since we tend to get busy with life. There were a lot of years that I played very little, if at all. So I think I've only played seriously for all or parts of 5 or 6 years.
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Missed that one, sorry. I think hours is a better unit of measurement than years.
 
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