Ray Rodriguez, 9
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mxtlejRSzmo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mxtlejRSzmo
Just Shoot What The Coach Tells You
- Thread starter Scaramouche
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My parents clearly should have started me younger.Scaramouche said:
From time to time we have questions like, "I've been playing for three years and sometimes I can run out a rack. What would it take for me to be a champion?" We need to direct those people to this video.
Is there any world pool champion who wasn't a remarkable player by the time he/she was 16?
Eh, if I started at the same time he did and had the instruction/practice time he did I would have ran those out too.......in rotation 
Eric.
Eric.
The kid shoots good. He stopped by with his Dad last night, at Broadway Billiards. Has a lot of determination, even if he rushed to the arcade games once he was done practicing =)
At High Pockets 3 weeks ago I saw a man and his 4-6 year old son. He un-screwed his stick and gave his son the shaft to play with...
The kid was shooting on a table he could barely see over, and had to hold the cue over his head to even stroke a ball...
He made three balls in a row, and one was an on-the-rail cut shot.
At 22, I feel so behind the curve
The kid was shooting on a table he could barely see over, and had to hold the cue over his head to even stroke a ball...
He made three balls in a row, and one was an on-the-rail cut shot.
At 22, I feel so behind the curve
Ray RODRIGUEZ! Is this Flaco's son?
BTW, remember this kid's name!
BTW, remember this kid's name!
Scaramouche said:
He's even more polite and well-mannered than he is good at pool, if you can believe it. An all-around great kid with a tremendous amount of ability.
Scaramouche said:
Very good for a 9 year old. Notice he started with a wide open rack and no balls tied up. I've seen dozens of child prodigies. The question is will he stick with Pool and continue to improve. Where will Ray Rodriguez be at age 14, age 16, age 18 etc.?
Pool remains a beautiful game, an excellent discipline for a young person to try to master. It will be around long after we are all gone, video games or not. All the X Boxes, I Pods and Nintendos cannot replace the beauty of this game.
As Fats once said, "Pool is the greatest game man ever invented!"