Pool Became My Oxygen

JAM

JAM

I am the storm
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I started eating healthier, and strengthening my body. Even after hours of practicing when I was forced to rest in bed, I mentally prepared by visualizing myself playing perfect pool.

Still emotionally scarred from my painful childhood, I had a lot of work to do on my confidence. So I faked it and emulated the qualities and fundamentals I saw the in great players around me. I pushed myself until I believed without a doubt that I would be the best. I was willing to do whatever it took to get there. Although it may sound cliche, pool became my oxygen. Really . . .

. . . Yet in spite of it all, I have to keep going.

Today I am strong. Not because I feel strong, but because I keep going even when I think I can't. I have learned that being brave is not the absence of fear but the courage to face it. It is pushing through discomfort, weakness, fear, sadness and doubt.
It is in these moments when you find out who you really are and who you were meant to be.

Read more here: Champion Pool Player Turns Pain Into Will to Win [Retrieved 2 April 2016]

Thank you, Dana Bufalo, for sharing this great article with me!
 

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Great article, thanks for sharing! I had no idea she faced such challenges, very impressive.
 
Thank you Jam, i knew she had health issues but never really knew the whole story. She is a champion at pool & life!
 
All those problems....and she's got gamble too.
I believe the only woman to win the Loius Roberts action award at the DCC.

:bow-down::bow-down::bow-down:
 
I had no idea. Gives new meaning to the word Champion. Thanks for sharing this.
 
"I have learned that being brave is not the absence of fear but the courage to face it."

My favorite statement, right there.
 
Thanks for the link Jam. If H. Clinton commands 600k to speak before wall street and such types, Jeanette is well worth the 10k she charges corps for a motivational speech. That woman has been through some bad stuff in her life and kept getting up and swing away. Johnnyt
 
Plenty more about Jeanette's exemplary life here:

http://blackwidowbilliards.com/about-jeanette/

Also mighty amazing is the fact, per Billiards Digest a few years ago, that she once ran 158 balls during a Straight Pool practice session. The run dazzled patrons of her NY home room who halted their play on other tables to witness the remarkable feat as word of the accumulating racks rapidly spread. To my knowledge, this is the highest practice run ever recorded by a woman player (and witnessed by other players).

Arnaldo
 
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