Playing Pool after 50?

pwd72s

pwd72s

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Now, here's an Aussie Surfer talking about surfing after 50...but...well, I'm sure we can make comparisons. Thus the post. Feel free to comment.

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pwd72s said:
Now, here's an Aussie Surfer talking about surfing after 50...but...well, I'm sure we can make comparisons. Thus the post. Feel free to comment.

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Either way, you have to deal with sharks!
 
No, I can’t…..I cannot recall any pool player losing a limb nor eaten alive because he had a bad day playing pool.
If you want to say life doesn’t end because we get older, fine. But there’s no comparison of swimming with sharks
and playing pool for even high stakes gambling. Pool is pretty risk free and you can’t drown playing pool either.

Besides, you could still have the best day of your life surfing and wind up becoming a one armed pool player or one
legged. If you became one- legged after feeding a shark, you’ll be able to keep one foot on the floor playing pool.
 

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DrCue'sProtege said:
Jim Rempe said in an interview with Grady Mathews once that there is no reason why one can't play great pool in theirs 50s and 60s.

I hope he's right.

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The guy I play with turned 83 last Friday. There's an old timer that's 92 and drives still and drives an hour to get to the poolhall.
These old guys play pretty good still and nice to see them come out.
 
I play in a league Ontario Pool Players League there's 5 of us the youngest is 70 the oldest is 78, out of 12 teams were in first place and we hold our own and having fun that's what counts .
 
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George the Greek said:
The guy I play with turned 83 last Friday. There's an old timer that's 92 and drives still and drives an hour to get to the poolhall.
These old guys play pretty good still and nice to see them come out.
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My all time pool hero was Mickey McGuire, a local bookie who won our weekly 9 ball tournament on his 80th birthday, beating a top Washington area player (Freddy Boggs) in a hill-hill final. I was "only" 49 at the time, but from that point on, my ambition was to duplicate Mickey's feat, and on my 80th in 2024 I took my wife with me to the tournament to take pictures. She was there when I won it on my 51st birthday, and she's often my good luck charm.

Alas, I went 4 and out. But the next week I won it, and I've won it several times since then. The beauty of pool is that as long as you can see and maintain your basic hand-eye coordination, always concentrating on your stroke fundamentals, there's really no limit as to how long you can play. AFAIC it's all in your head.
 
pwd72s said:
Now, here's an Aussie Surfer talking about surfing after 50...but...well, I'm sure we can make comparisons. Thus the post. Feel free to comment.
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Good bit of negative reinforcement. After 50 make youtubes that encourage your competition to quit.

Cut to the chase. Pool has no such issues' not a whole lot anyway. I'm no roller but I would bet all the monsters in the age out phase have an equal amount of shit they never bothered developing in the first place. It's not MMA.
 
I’m a Yankee Doodle baby and turn 80 coinciding with the 250th celebration on July 4th.

I was playing pool at Ames with my step-dad a week after we saw The Hustler. Imagine, a
pool hall in Times Square where the New Year’s Ball drops. My mom worked a couple blocks
away at The New York Times. I joined the printers union thru my mom and worked there as
a typesetter and eventually a proof reader while I attended SJU. So Ames was on my stop
going home since newspaper galley work is in the late evenings and early mornings back then.
After work, if it wasn’t too late, I’d often walk over to Ames, play pool and catch the train home.
 
I'll turn 52 this month, and I'm getting back into the game after playing only sparsely the past decade or so. It's been a couple of months now but I'm already seeing some improvement, shaking the rust off. The biggest difference I see is that when I started as a teenage and into my 20s I could play all day and I did. I used to go to the pool hall and play 8-10 hours straight. Now I get tired after only 3-4 hours, and as much as I'm enjoying myself, I have to call it a day. But even that is likely just a matter of physical conditioning. I'm not in the best shape at the moment. If I got more exercise, ate better, etc., I might be able to endure a longer session. Either way I plan to continue playing pool as long as I'm able.
 
I play regular with a friend of mine Clint Parker he is 85 years old and shoots jam up. Helluva straight stroke and steady as a rock. Also, had another friend Bob Fannin that was 72 unfortunately passed away now since its been over 20 years that beat Cory Duel at DCC one year.
 
mdc said:
I'll turn 52 this month, and I'm getting back into the game after playing only sparsely the past decade or so. It's been a couple of months now but I'm already seeing some improvement, shaking the rust off. The biggest difference I see is that when I started as a teenage and into my 20s I could play all day and I did. I used to go to the pool hall and play 8-10 hours straight. Now I get tired after only 3-4 hours, and as much as I'm enjoying myself, I have to call it a day. But even that is likely just a matter of physical conditioning. I'm not in the best shape at the moment. If I got more exercise, ate better, etc., I might be able to endure a longer session. Either way I plan to continue playing pool as long as I'm able.
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Im in the same boat...im 58 now and when i was in my 20's I could do the same but yeah now my back and shoulder is shot. I'm lucky to do 3 hours. But i think i shoot as good as when i was in my 20's maybe even better. I still have the determination but just dont have that drive or killer instinct i used to. When i was younger it may take me a couple of hours to get into the zone where i was running around the table pocketing everything feeling invincible. Now it rarely is going to happen and if it does it wont last long.
 
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