If you show up with a glove...

[Johnnyt]

No Glove No... nevermind. Johnnyt

 

[Gregg]

This thread seems to be in part intended as a dig at me, but I don't mind.

I started playing with a glove in the early 90's and got stirred a lot. Since then, I lot of my former pool associates tried it out and became converts.

When you've played a lot tournies in humid un-airconditioned bars or other unsuitable venues, then a smooth sliding bridge is a clear advantage for anyone who has compared the two.

Anyway, a glove is hardly convenient, and not typically fashionable but it allows consistancy of feel for speed control, and if you're after consistancy in your game, it provides that advantage.

Whoa, This thread, nor this MB, is all about one single person.

I had no intention of singling out one person whom I have never met, and is sure to be a much finer shooter than myself, to mock or insult.

But if the glove fits...

 

[Colin Colenso]

Whoa, This thread, nor this MB, is all about one single person.

I had no intention of singling out one person whom I have never met, and is sure to be a much finer shooter than myself, to mock or insult.

But if the glove fits...

No problem,
just that I noticed you posted this thread after a reply to my post, which mentioned and showed me wearing a glove, in the slipstic thread.

But anyway, the topic is of general interest. May the glove wars / discussion continue without too many whoas, damns or inferences.

 

[Snorks]

I guess I just don't understand why everyone or almost everyone laughs or makes fun of people that wear a glove? Pick a city in North America and you seem to get the same reaction. weird. Maybe Michael Jackson did ruin the glove

 

[PlynSets]

Anybody think John Schmidt is weak for wearing a glove?

He never wore a glove when I played him?

He might have it on there in an attempt to get more action, as people are more likely to try and pick on the queer guy.. LOL

DJ

 

[MikeH]

Glove

I have to wear a glove when I shoot otherwise my Budweiser cue will leave splinters in my hand...

This problem will be a thing of the past when I finally get my new "Philippine Pool Cue billiards stick REAL SKIN of SNAKE"

-Mike

 

[sodapopd]

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[Scaramouche]

Would the poll results be different if it specified if the glove was black or white?

 

[Hal]

What if the guy puts on the glove and then pulls out:

A cue with the lava lamp liquid in the butt?

A Mottey?

 

[ARM9BALLER]

Rodney wears it because he broke his middle finger during a basketball game. **OUCH** He's got this lump now on the 2nd. knuckle where it broke and it hurts him to use a closed bridge. Anyways, since it has healed some he is like 50\50 about wearing one.

 

[TheBook]

Are you talking about the kind of glove in Fleetwood Mac's song that says he wants to put his hand in her glove?

 

[Gregg]

Would the poll results be different if it specified if the glove was black or white?

No, not really.

 

[Cardinal2B]

sense of direction?

If you show up with a glove, you should at least...

have gone to the ballpark.

 

[PoolSleuth]

I do not wear a Glove, and MOST OF THE BEST PLAYERS in the World play fine without a Glove.

 

[Cameron Smith]

I don't think it matters a whole lot. If you think it will help, then buy one. It can't look any goofier than someone playing pool while wearing their winter coat and hat.

Though I do agree that it does look kind of silly when someone who can't run two balls is wearing a glove, but doesn't have their own cue.

 

[cubswin]

who cares? I don't like them on me, think they look silly on others. But if it helps you play better than who cares. Pool players are so freakin vain most of the time. Most have the best looking biggest name cues, must have the fancy case for that cue, must not been seen driving up in my beat up car that is the only thing I can afford because of what I spent on the cue and case. Must woof at others about how good I am etc etc etc...

 

[Onemoreyouth]

i have sweaty hands... i wear a glove...

i appreciate your lack of humor in trying to give me hard time for what helps ME though.

my question is if your playing a guy with a glove does that mean YOU have to be able to do those things as well? because in that case most people on this forum couldnt touch me just because i bought a 10 dollar glove? in that case a 10 dollar glove is saving me a lot fo beatings on the table.

 

[Banks]

There's nothing wrong with wearing a glove, unless you don't like being made fun of. I tried a glove briefly mostly to see if it helped me with an opposite-handed closed bridge (it did a little, but not a lot), but I decided it wasn't worth bothering with.

In Colin's case, he seems like a good enough guy, but I'll still *pointlaugh* at him until I have to play him.

 

[Peer]

BillyKoda wrote:
> If you show up with a glove, you should at least be
> able to sing 3 Michael Jackson tunes!

For years this old gay-bashing Bush-supporter came to our local dive-bar, always playing with this stupid glove. So one night I told him "Hey Dennis, can't you just take off that gay thing, at least when you play me?!"
Needless to say, we never saw him again wearing that glove.

-- peer

 

[bsmutz]

I bought a glove to try out and think that you should make a personal choice of whether to use one or not based on what you think, not what others think. In my case, the glove started falling apart fairly quickly after I bought it and I didn't like the way the leather palm stuck to the cloth, making it harder to fine tune the placement of my bridge hand. I couldn't scoot it into place, I had to practically lift my whole hand and move it to the desired new location.