Gatz said:
Yes well if you read my orignal post I stated that I didn't play perfect. Also in these sports you can still make mistakes and come out on top. I think you misunderstood what I ment.
thats why i said "
well like u said, u missed the ball so u didnt play perfect."
Gatz said:
In racing, racers make many mistakes in braking zones, hitting the apex correctly, miss shifts, change gears to early or to late, heel and toe incorrectly (if the type of racing requires it) etc...and still win. I dunno much about weight lifting but im sure there are suddle things that a weight lifter would know about that the normal person would not see as a mistake, such as incorrect form etc..
well obviously not every mistake results in injury or death. but you chose to talk about the pool in one extreme situation where u lost even tho u only made one mistake. in this ONE instance you missed the ball and lost. i'm sure there's been a lot more sets where you've missed one ball or made a few mistakes and still won. but you were talking in extremes, if u're going to say that playing perfect in this one instance still resulted in a loss well then that can apply to other sports as well. what i am saying is that even in the most extreme case, missing a ball in pool results in a loss. it might suck to lose but at the end of the day it's just a loss. in other sports u can get seriously injured or killed as a result of 1 mistake.
Gatz said:
Now if you take 2 world class pool players and you lose the lag you could do nothing wrong in the whole match and lose.
well the lag is part of the match, unless u flip a coin, the lag determines who breaks and is down to skill. being able to gauge the table's speed and the power u put into the shot to make it as close to the rail as possible. if the other guy did it better than you, then you are either outmatched or made a mistake. but in all professional sports, one mistake or miscalculation can easily result in a loss, so i dont see what's so different about pool. if u screw up once then there is a possibility of losing.
Gatz said:
PS. The 2005 Finals was littered with mistakes, not a very high class match if you ask me. Alex P vs Chang was a high quality class match. Chang missed 1 ball the whole match, and lost. Sometimes some players don't even get a chance to make a mistake lol.
and there it is, finals was full of mistakes from both sides yet wu still won. so it's not like making a mistake will always cost u the match. in the quote above, losing the lag/making a mistake could result in a loss but this example shows how its nowhere close to a guaranteed loss. so it's not like if u make a mistake in pool u lose, more like if u make the mistake at the wrong time u'll lose. kuo was on the hill but scratched on the 2 and wu ran that rack then 4 and out to win it all. pool is like all sports, u can make mistakes but if u make it at the wrong time u lose.
your statement that "I can't think of any other game in the world where you can play perfect, and still lose. You can make mistakes in many other games/sports, and still come out on top." is somewhat inaccurate because u generalized one experience to make it apply to the sport in general. almost as if u're saying that in pool if u make 1 mistake u lose. i'm not sure how good u are but i'd venture to say that u're not as good as either wu or kuo and yet in ur own statement, they made numerous mistakes and in the end wu still won. so like any other sport, one mistake in pool can cost u the match, but also like any other sport, u can make a ton of mistakes and still come out on top.
On the bright side, if you beat him 5-0, you may have lost a customer.
