i need to apolagise... never to late to learn

Solartje

Solartje

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cant find the post anymore, but i have to apolagise for what i said about using gloves in pool. I didnt had a VERY bad opinion about it, just about how it looked.

Ive played with my new training partner today who always uses gloves. I said i never tried one, and she told me to put one on. I put it on, felt a bit weird at the start, but as soon as my shaft softly caresed the gloves i was SOLLED.

went straight to the barrtener, bought me a pair for 3,5$, played with it and my breaking has improved with 30% , my poting (mostly long distance) with 20% , my positional play with 50%!! (I was used to play with housecue's, and everyone knows how sticky those are, even if u try to clean them) but the glove was AMAZING. I dont care anymore i look silly. i prefere to win looking silly then to go under and look cool (can u be cool if u loose?).
There probably IS a mental factor that has to be taken into account, but i never have to correct my positional play anymore with the humidity of my hands. (even if its not enough, its enough to screw up my position ever 5 pots). now i know i dont need to take into account sweety hands anymore, and i can focus purely on the pot/position. I love it, BEST buy and glad someone gave me one to test or i would have never bought it...

so for those that i might have called something similar to "sissy look", sorry guys. im the big sissy for not using it.

;) ok there we go, now ive been a good boy, TELL SANTA TO GIVE ME MANY PRESENTS!!!
 
If it works for you, great :)

Surely, you do not believe that the glove increases those percentages like that. Do you?

It only solves one problem, sticky problems... It does not contribute to accuracy. if it does, you must have the stickiest hands imaginable. I care not how they got sticky ;)

Pool is played in your head. Slickness of hands is almost negligable. Alot of people report great success, in pool, when they try something new (even myself.) It is short lived, for most of us, and the real problems in our games surface in time.

BTW - Gloves do look silly and only league players who will do/try anything to get up to speed wear them :)
 
yeah might be more mental then real, if u see the %. But im playing housecue's like i said. and i could just feel little dirthballs on my fingers. I think it has just to do with that i get distracted if i feel the slightest bump in the shaft or this dirththings. But the positional plays really improved. Im not guessing anymore, im knowing where it will go.

maybe for new cue's and clean shafts it wont change that much, but for now its helping me GREATH with the housecue's, and i dont want to know either what they do with it :D

and yes, i got very sticky hands. On a new cue u might devide my % by 3. but havent tried a real cue + the gloves. Main part is, it gives me confidence, and thats enough to make the difference between winning and losing.
 
CaptiveBred said:
BTW - Gloves do look silly and only league players who will do/try anything to get up to speed wear them :)
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Why the hate? I wear a glove because it's one less thing for me to worry about so I can focus on what really matters. My hands sweat and a glove is a lot easier than constantly using a towel or worrying about talc. I just put on the glove and then I don't have to worry about it at all. How it looks is really irrelevant. "Silly" is a relative term anyway... I'm sure as more and more people wear them, nobody will even notice them anymore. I think it's the relative novelty that throws people off. *shrug*
 
Crispy Fish said:
Why the hate? I wear a glove because it's one less thing for me to worry about so I can focus on what really matters. My hands sweat and a glove is a lot easier than constantly using a towel or worrying about talc. I just put on the glove and then I don't have to worry about it at all. How it looks is really irrelevant. "Silly" is a relative term anyway... I'm sure as more and more people wear them, nobody will even notice them anymore. I think it's the relative novelty that throws people off. *shrug*
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thats why i think i needed to apolagise. I havent tried a new cue with the gloves, so maybe i wont use it later, but for now, its working greath. And i wont call it silly anymore , promised :p
 
CaptiveBred said:
Surely, you do not believe that the glove increases those percentages like that. Do you?

It only solves one problem, sticky problems... It does not contribute to accuracy. if it does, you must have the stickiest hands imaginable. I care not how they got sticky ;)
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I don't know if you've ever had a problem with the cue sticking to your bridge or not, but I used to have a cue with a fiberglass shaft that stuck to my hand a lot, and I think it affects accuracy greatly.

To have the cue stick to your skin as you try to stroke is for me about as big a distraction as being smacked in the back of the head while trying to stroke. It just makes it impossible for me to focus and let my muscles do what they do to make the cue ball go where I'm trying to send it. People talk all the time about how to figure out where to aim the cue-ball, but it's all for naught if you don't have a reliable subconscious muscle routine to actually send the cue-ball in that direction, and if there's feedback coming to your muscles that the cue is sticking in the middle of your stroke, that routine is totally disrupted, at least if you're me.

I solved the problem by getting a cue with a high-quality wood shaft, cleaning it from time to time, and being very careful about not letting anything come in contact with it that will make it sticky, because I also think pool gloves are funny-looking. But if he says the glove makes drastic improvements in his shot-making, I for one believe him.

-Andrew
 
:o it had to be drastic for me to use it :). And yes the skin sticking to the shaft made my bridgehand unstable. Its was like riding over a bumpy road. On hard pots it didnt mater so much, but in low pace pots, the slow stroke gives the sticky alot more of effect.

in fact to be very precise, the sticky shaft moves my skin forward and when the skin was fully streched u get a little bump wich is enough to miss a pot. sometimes the skin fired back after it was fully streched and made the shaft jump/move.

i was trailing 2-7 without the gloves (and i got 2frames just because she missed on the 8 or 9 ball) :o . i came back to win 14-13. enough prove for me. im not trying to confince anyone to buy it. it STILL looks different (no i wont say silly) but for housecue's its the only way to keep your smooth stroke.

thx for the nice reply's

ps im thinking im becoming a housecue expert :p
 
Crispy Fish said:
Why the hate? I wear a glove because it's one less thing for me to worry about so I can focus on what really matters. My hands sweat and a glove is a lot easier than constantly using a towel or worrying about talc. I just put on the glove and then I don't have to worry about it at all. How it looks is really irrelevant. "Silly" is a relative term anyway... I'm sure as more and more people wear them, nobody will even notice them anymore. I think it's the relative novelty that throws people off. *shrug*
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No hate intended. Hence the smiley ---> :)

I'm a sweater too :( You would bow down to my skin lubricating abilities. Really, you would lol

I have the same problems as you but learned to deal with it another way. I mostly use an open had bridge. You can catch me using closed hand quite a bit too. It all depends on my comfort. I usually start with closed and switch to open when I am down on the shot. Whatever makes me comfortable...

When using a closed bridge, I loosen my strangle hold on the shaft to allow smooth movement. I found I do not need a tight bridge to stroke a ball. Just a straight stroke. All I need is a simple resting place for the shaft. My other hand does the real work.

I never owned a glove (but used one once) but agree with the OP that if it gives you confidense, then use it. This is a mental game and there are no holds barred when gaining the mental advantage.

I will not use a glove for a reason other than the "sillyness factor"... I decided long ago to quite looking for quick fixes and changing my equiptment to play better. I came to this epiphany when I realized my core problems were in my head. My knowlegde of the game and its mechanics was the lacking pice to my game. Not the equiptment or environment variables.

So I decided to stick with what I had and learn to use it 100% before I changed anything. The last thing my game needed was to relearn something... I then decided I needed to focus on all the fundamentals to find out where my problems were. That, in itself, changed my game from "pretty good" to "runout every open table". All without a silly glove ;)
 
totally agree m8. and like i said, i might not use it later with a proper cue, no idea, never tried to the combo. (might keep it, just for habit, who knows... but ill surely use it in this weekends tournaments. That will be funny :p

solly with no poolgear at all, BUT with a poolglove :p
 
Solartje said:
totally agree m8. and like i said, i might not use it later with a proper cue, no idea, never tried to the combo. (might keep it, just for habit, who knows... but ill surely use it in this weekends tournaments. That will be funny :p

solly with no poolgear at all, BUT with a poolglove :p
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Didn't Earl set the new trend in pool attire during the US Open?
 
John Schmidt wears a glove. He is a pro that isn't doing too bad on the ring games I've been watching on Billiard Club TV. He's outlasted Johnny Archer and Rob Saez so far. I've never heard much about John but he is definitely a good pool player. Who cares if he wears a glove. I don't wear a glove but if somebody I play beats me with a glove I'm not going to feel stupid or anything. There is a guy on my league team (captain in fact) that plays with a glove. Everybody gives him a hard time but when he wins his games nobody says anything about it. Do whatever it takes to make you play better. You might change your mind after you get a nice cue but whatever you do, don't let looking "silly" decide whether or not you are going to wear the glove. That is a completely subjective thing anyways. Do whatever you are comfortable with. Good luck.
 
Hey, what's easier than sticking a $1 travel bottle of baby powder in your bag? Only downside is that after you shake some out on the table, you can't exactly stop your opponent from using it, losing a possible edge if he didn't come prepared.:(
 
Hey Solly,

Man if you wanna wear a glove go ahead! Lots of people do. I do..when I golf. I had a thought for you though, get a white glove....in olden days when a gentleman was insulted he would take a white glove and slap it across the face of the offender and challenge them to a duel! Any of those no account buttheads offend you again you'll be ready!:D ;)

Terry
 
mnShooter said:
Sounds like you don't have your own stick. You should get one. It will help your game quite a bit.
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He's got em flooding in next week. Read description at bottom of his post.
Five months...he broke into the top 32 in his countries last tournament but got laughed out because they didn't have a bar cue for him to borrow!

Terry
 
I've been using a glove for 15 years. I used to make my own cause I couldn't find a place to buy one.

I will sometimes play without a glove if the atmosphere is dry though.

I've seen a lot of converts over the years. Players who just got tired of battling sticky conditions, and the fear of looking stupid.

Funny thing is, in golf, I never liked wearing a glove....so it ain't a fetish :p
 
Tbeaux said:
Hey Solly,

Man if you wanna wear a glove go ahead! Lots of people do. I do..when I golf. I had a thought for you though, get a white glove....in olden days when a gentleman was insulted he would take a white glove and slap it across the face of the offender and challenge them to a duel! Any of those no account buttheads offend you again you'll be ready!:D ;)

Terry
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terry, i was the one laughing with others. :o i dont feel any disconfert playing with it at all. when im concentrated not many people will laugh so i can see it :) i can look pritty angry and im not the guy u'd want to laugh at. Im the karatekid !!! i know 10 ways to kill a man with a poolcue!! :D

ps i didnt finish #32, it was #33 :D be ready for my post this weekend. Qualified again for the 9ball last64 finals, and the players seems weak. (16 arent even top100..) With some luck in the draw, i might get a better result then #33 and slide in the top60 after 5 out of 10 rankings. but its not a goal, will only put presure on me. im just going for the experience. i hardly ever play 9ball, and i need ALOT of experience.
 
Solartje said:
terry, i was the one laughing with others. :o i dont feel any disconfert playing with it at all. when im concentrated not many people will laugh so i can see it :) i can look pritty angry and im not the guy u'd want to laugh at. Im the karatekid !!! i know 10 ways to kill a man with a poolcue!! :D

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I do not think there is a problem with gloves. Feeling confident about your game is by far more important. After all, why not give yourself the best chances. Personally, I find that I need have the highest level of sensitivity to feel when I play so a glove does not work for me.

I do know that many customers that use SS products do where gloves and state that it reduces the snags and twists in their glove as they play plus protects the shaft. Earl must use one because of the shaft he endorses. It is a good shaft, though does get tacky quite easily.
 
I've never been a big fan of gloves. I've tried them out and feel disconnected with the cue.(plus I don't care what anyone else thinks, they look silly)
I keep corn starch in my cue case for those occasions when my hands get sweaty. I keep my shaft clean, use cue silk on my shaft, I don't know how it compares to that slick shaft stuff, but it does the job for me.
 
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