Lessons vs Experience

[Mystick Cue Fan]

Just keep your heart kind Larry and don't listen to all those bashers arround here. You seem like a good guy, if I'm ever up there I'll be sure to jump on your offer. Thanks for posting buddy. It should be a privlige for all of us. But I guess a bad apple will spoil the bunch.

Tony

 

[chilli66]

I like Larry's idea a lot. Think of it like this, you pay $5 a game against a top pro player. It could seem like you're playing the ghost, but how often do you get to see what shots the ghost plays?

 

[Banks]

See you in May?

Heck, I've done the same to try to learn 1-pocket and get good game time against players that can beat me, I sure as hell wouldn't turn down this offer.

Besides, I'll also want to know how much more work I'll need to do next year to take him the year after!

I've got family in Janesville, so expect a call some time early summer/late spring!

On behalf of the little people, we salute you!

 

[DelaWho???]

I had the priviledge of seeing Larry on TV in a match against Gabe Owen? or maybe Shawn Putnam, not sure which, but it was a facinating match. It was the first time I ever saw someone 3 foul his oppenent.
Larry I have to say the play was phenominal. The soft touch it required to play those safeties was amazing. Then the rack crushing breaks....overall your opponent was outplayed and definitely out matched. Larry I'd be interested in hearing about that match, your thought process strategy, etc.

I'd love to take you up on your offer if I were up in WI. If you ever get down to philly or baltimore, drop me a line, and I'll be there.

Having taken a single lesson from Scott Lee, I have to say the difference in my game is significant. I am still working on the speed control drills, and I'm much more consistent with the improvements we made on my mechanics.....Thanks again Scott. See you next time you're out this way

McCue Banger McCue

 

[whitewolf]

People often wonder what is more valiuable....Getting experience by playing with better players or by someone telling you what you should do

Actually, there is a cheaper alternative.

When I first started playing pool I devoted my lunch hour to watching the best players play 9 ball.

I would try and guess what they would do next, including what shots and what English would be used.

Wasn't there a rack boy who racked for Willie Mosconi for 5 years before he even picked up a cue, and when he did he became a really good player really fast? Just from watching Mosconi day after day after day.

I have given this advice to many young players trying to learn the game, and absolutely NONE of them takes this advice. So maybe you have a point that if they paid $5 per game they would be forced to pay attention

 

[VIProfessor]

Any decent player who looks down on the offer of $5 a game from Larry Nevel has to be firmly relegated to the louse egg category (look up Webster's definition of "nit").

This is an absolutely tremendous offer! I wish, when I was coming up, that I had the opportunity to play cheap games against a top professional. Who knows what might have happened after that? If you are already a good player (say B or above), there is no substitute for the experience and knowledge you get from playing a top player. It's one thing to see great pool played, and it's another to have great pool played on you. When you FEEL what's being done to you, and when you experience the penalties that can be imposed for adequate instead of excellent play (like playing merely a good safety instead of a lock-up safety), a tremendous amount of learning and inspiration will the result. Just observing the focus, demeanor, and rhythm of a top player can help to bring about a quantum leap in your game.

Great offer, Larry! 'Nuff Respect!

 

[whitewolf]

If you are already a good player (say B or above), there is no substitute for the experience and knowledge you get from playing a top player. It's one thing to see great pool played, and it's another to have great pool played on you. When you FEEL what's being done to you, and when you experience the penalties that can be imposed for adequate instead of excellent play (like playing merely a good safety instead of a lock-up safety), a tremendous amount of learning and inspiration will the result. Just observing the focus, demeanor, and rhythm of a top player can help to bring about a quantum leap in your game.

Great offer, Larry! 'Nuff Respect!

True, but I think that getting your brains trampled is not good either. If you can well afford the $5 per game then you won't feel any pressure, will you? Like I have said, and I don't know why, a lot of pool players WILL NOT LEARN because they don't have the mentalily, or desire. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Another alternative, at least in the Wash-DC-Balt area, is to play on the Planet Pool Tour. For $65 or whatever, you get to play pros as well as other short-stops and even some weaker players your own speed if that is the case. The fact that you might win in these short races is somewhat comforting. This is a much better deal, IMHO.

 

[trueblu8]

Just keep your heart kind Larry and don't listen to all those bashers around here. You seem like a good guy, if I'm ever up there I'll be sure to jump on your offer. Thanks for posting buddy. It should be a privilege for all of us. But I guess a bad apple will spoil the bunch.

Tony

I agree.

Vince