Lessons Learned from Instructors...
Over the fifty plus years, I have been playing this game, I have on multiple occassions taken lessons from Master BCA Instructors, PRO's and Hustlers. This is what I have learned from each.
BCA Instructors, including Jerry Brieseth who I spent a week with in dedicated one-on-one lessons: All about mechanics. My takeaway was reinforcement of what I already knew.
PRO's, including Mark Wilson, Jon Kuchero, Jack Madden, others: My takeaway was how to refine and master singular elements of the game, i.e., the break, position, strategy, geometry, systems, etc.
Hustlers, including Harry "Poochy" Sexton (deceased), "Cornbread Red" Burge (deceased), "Three Fingers" John (Deceased), Gary "Bushwhacker" Nolan, Bucky Bell, "Indian Joe" (deceased), "Northside Eddie Spaeth", just to name a few: My takeaway was learning many well kept secrets including: distributing the weight of the cue ball to control deflection, how to read extreme bank angles, how to make seemingly impossible cut shots, the geometry of the chalk cube and where to place it on the rail to read hidden ball shots, and many more techniques and shots that I paid dearly to learn.
There is no way, any player who like myself took their lumps and emptied their wallets in the process just to learn one nugget will publish such info on a public website. My advice is simple: If you desire to learn these things, find a hustler and get up a game. Ask beforehand, if during the course of the game, you see him do something, you would like to better understand, will he share it with you? I remember in the mid seventies when Harry Sexton played in Flint, Michigan and took on all players including pros, I would take a two hour lunch break and go to his pool hall. He would play me eight ball or nine ball for five dollars a game with the understanding that when he did something I wanted to better understand, he would show me how he did it. I have no idea how much I lost to Harry in the two years I lived and worked in Flint, Michigan but I can say for certain that what I learned in the process has paid off many times over since. Anyone who doubts me, may ask Gary
"Bushwhacker" Nolan, for he too learned a lot of his infamous skills from the late great Harry Sexton. I only wish back then I would have played Harry some bank pool. He once banked thirty five consecutive balls without a miss.
Just two balls shy of the late great Eddy "The Knoxville Bear" Taylor's bank record.
Cross-Side-Larry
"Learn from the best, and beat the rest"
PS: It is my understanding that Larry Nevel has made a similar offer as Harry Sexton did with me. FIve dollars a game and a show & tell along the way!
IMO, that is a deal!
That doesnt say anything good or bad about them, just means that havent decided to take the time to try to really learn how to teach.
