IMO you could consider jacks a sport. It just isn't played professionally (that I know of).
Pool isn't a Sport?
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IMO you could consider jacks a sport. It just isn't played professionally (that I know of).
We should start a thread with pool shots which require physical agility. Like Bustie shooting behind the back.
Does this Sound familiar Jen ?...:wink2:
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The real point of this thread is: Pocket billiards should be considered a sport so it can take part in the Olympics. This is the only real point pool players are trying to get to.
The Olympics is about the best athletes preforming great physical athletic feats. Pool doesn't provide that. Granted, there are events in the Olympics that don't provide athletic feats (those events should be removed from taking part). However, pocket billiards, most likely will not be there. Snooker would most likely get the call to participate.
Pool a sport, that is a irrelevant statement. Just keep playing pool and enjoy it. This is as good as it gets...
The Olympics is about the best athletes preforming great physical athletic feats. Pool doesn't provide that. Granted, there are events in the Olympics that don't provide athletic feats (those events should be removed from taking part). However, pocket billiards, most likely will not be there. Snooker would most likely get the call to participate.
Pool a sport, that is a irrelevant statement. Just keep playing pool and enjoy it. This is as good as it gets...
Thanks for the confirmation. I remember watching curling at the Olympics a few years back, and I was mesmerized, seeing three team members working together, gliding so smoothly, with precision. It was so captivating.
I know this sounds odd, but it reminded me of a vampire transversing in the the dark of night.
Naw, we have no alcohol in our home. How about you? I seem to recall that you enjoy pumping down a few alcoholic beverages on a daily basis. :wink:
I think that's the way most pool aficionados, players, enthusiasts, railbirds, et cetera, feel. Pool should, and can, be fun!
At one time, I was hoping to see pool in my lifetime at the Olympic games. Personally, today, I could care less if it makes the Olympics, due to pool politics globally and nationally here in the U.S. The draw will be about as fair as the IPT picking its members at the start. :embarrassed2:
But if pool ever does make the Olympic games, the Filipinos will be to pool games what the Ethiopians are to running, Americans are to basketball, and Brazil is to soccer.
Here's one of Jeanette, looks sorta sporty to me. Looks like a lot of activity going on.
When we get together as a unit, we can approach the Olympics as a 30,000,000 strong organization, connected around the world, they will take us seriously. It only takes a few signatures from this Pool Room, that Pool Room around the world, to accomplish this.
When we get together as a unit, we can approach the Olympics as a 30,000,000 strong organization, connected around the world, they will take us seriously. It only takes a few signatures from this Pool Room, that Pool Room around the world, to accomplish this.
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I'll see those reasons, and raise 2500 pounds. :thumbup:
And the same could be said for the best linemen in the NFL. But sumo wrestling and playing football are both physical activity that take a great amount of strength and physical ability. Both Danny and Buddy would fail as Sumo wrestlers or NFL linemen.
I'm seeing a whole new sport (game), with a giant playing area made of ice, six recessed holes in the corners and on the sides, nine of those stones in various colors and one white one pushed along the ice to collide the others into the recesses.
Draw shots might be a problem, though.
Draw shots might be a problem, though.
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Yes, I used to,..But, surely you didn't forget our last semi-misunderstanding about the Babe, and hot dogs, did you ?...You are too young to forget that quickly ! :grin: (no harm, no foul, just want you to stay alert) :boring2:
PS..Late edit; By the way, did you get a chance to ask Keith if he remembered me from my involvement with RA at the '93 LA Open ?...The guy's told me he came through Phoenix shortly after that. He even stopped in my pool room !..It was well known, that I was about the only big action in town, at that time.. Why didn't we get to play then ?..You seem quite prone to dis-credit me..But I have to say..no wonder he doesn't know me !..We coulda had a few drinks, maybe played some, and got to know each other !
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Um...does this shed any light on the sport/game question?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXhp-xUQPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXhp-xUQPk
Yes, I used to,..But, surely you didn't forget our last semi-misunderstanding about the Babe, and hot dogs, did you ?...You are too young to forget that quickly ! :grin: (no harm, no foul, just want you to stay alert) :boring2:
PS..Late edit; By the way, did you get a chance to ask Keith if he remembered me from my involvement with RA at the '93 LA Open ?...The guy's told me he came through Phoenix shortly after that. He even stopped in my pool room !..It was well known, that I was about the only big action in town, at that time.. Why didn't we get to play then ?..You seem quite prone to dis-credit me..But I have to say..no wonder he doesn't know me !..We coulda had a few drinks, maybe played some, and got to know each other !
I'm not sure why you feel I am discrediting you. Truthfully, I really don't know you.
I gave you a friendly retort about alcohol consumption after you posted about Keith drinking alcohol.
It is good to have memories about times gone by, Dick. I have many, as does Keith. One thing about it, nobody can take away our memories of good times. :smile:
Not sure why Keith did not play you in Phoenix. I will ask him and see if he remembers that and the '93 tournament that you keep mentioning. He's been to quite a few pool happenings in his life. Sometimes it's hard to remember dates, places, people, et cetrea. He basically was on the road for the majority of his young adult life, from the West Coast to the East Coast, down South, and up to Detroit. He was the epitome of a rolling stone. Wherever he lay his cue was his home. So it doesn't surprise me that he traveled through Phoenix.
I have always thought that the reason people were not willing to accept pool, let alone chess, as a "sport" and not a "game" was that pool is, at least superficially, too divorced from the realities of nature. Football is played on grass with a ball made out of a pig and you have to put up with the elements of nature. Baseball is played with a leather ball and a wooden bat. A muscular person can only just barely hit the ball far enough to carry to the stands. A person with strong legs can only just make it to the next base without being thrown out. A baseball player is up against the limits of what nature will allow, and obviously so. A high jumper may be six feet two and be able to jump nine feet, or whatever. Horse racing takes horses to their physical limit on a track that is either dirt or grass. A golfer can only hit a ball so far, and if his shot is errant, nobody can predict what element of "nature"--meaning the green world of chlorophyl-- might come into play.
But a pool table takes "nature" out of play. Everything is artificial. The emotional strains may be the same as in those other sports, but the "nature" has been tamed. For the same reason, lawn bowling, croquet, and bocce are wonderful games. They are a degree closer to "nature" than billiards is, but in them "nature" has been tamed, and so we call them, like billiards and pool, "games" and not "sports."
But a pool table takes "nature" out of play. Everything is artificial. The emotional strains may be the same as in those other sports, but the "nature" has been tamed. For the same reason, lawn bowling, croquet, and bocce are wonderful games. They are a degree closer to "nature" than billiards is, but in them "nature" has been tamed, and so we call them, like billiards and pool, "games" and not "sports."