Never going to understand why people complain about where pool is
gonna end up. Or how one person's behavior at the pool table ruins pool it's only going to
give pool recognition. Bad publicity is just as effective as good plublicity and
you just have to ask yourself, why do you let someone else get into your head it's
up to you on how you play. Blaming someone else for acting up doesn't change how the balls roll and
never will. Until you figure that out you'll always be getting mad at someone else for ruining your game your just
gonna have to laugh at them and keep playing. It's entertainment thats it, nothing more. I think sharking is only how you
let things get to you and your personal reaction to things. If you get sharked its because you let yourself get sharked.
you think every other major sport doesn't have their characters that some people either love or hate. Get over it and go
down to you pool hall and go play. That is the only way pool will get better imo. If you keep having negitive attitudes it
never will get better. How many times have you went up to a ball banging stranger and just asked to play for fun. Your
gonna have to start doing things like that and teaching the ball bangers how to play and get them hooked on pool. You like to
run racks, so teach the beginners how to play to they will have the same enjoyment that the rest of us do, just keep passing it on and
around the pool halls in hopes that we get millions of people hooked on pool. It's the only way to make it big. You might want to bash me
and this thread but thats ok because in the end I get the last laugh. I've been a member here for a long time, I don't want this post to make me
desert the forum for the heat i take for this. These are just all of my personal opinions they might not mean much to
you but it's how I feel. I almost gave up on pool because I couldn't make any money doing it and probably
never will so I had to ask myself "why do I even play pool anymore". Thinking back to when i started I said I'm
gonna be pro one day and years past and I wasn't even close to where I wanted to be. I wanted to just quit and this game will
make you go crazy if you play it for the wrong reason. I now just play to try and be the best I can be, not worrying about gambling or what
you or someone else thinks of my game. I've always been hard enough on myself when I mess up in pool and sometimes feel like i almost want to
cry. I act like earl sometimes, well maybe not to the extent he does but I've been mad at myself, broken cues, thrown cues, cussed only mad at me
never who ever i'm playing against. I remember when I first started playing my friends and I would purposly try and shark eachother so that nobody was
gonna be able to shark us, no matter what. You might say that I'm dumb for thinking this way, you might
say that sharking is real, but I think it's only in your own head you just have to say
goodbye to the distractions and focus, focus focus just for a few seconds while your down on a shot. You think a sniper
never has distractions while he is about to take a shot, or he blames a bird for him missing a target because the bird was chirping? I'm
gonna finish this post with me saying that no matter what happens with pool popular or unpopular I will never quit and i'll
tell anybody that. All I got to say now is that you have to just play your own game and not let other people bother you.
A friend once told me he was playing with Mark Tadd and Mark had banked about 30 balls in a row and so my friend said he threw an ice cube, no
lie, he threw a ice cube it hit mark in the head in the middle of his shot and mark drilled the ball into the pocket
and turned to him and said, "you can't phase me, B1tch!" I think that is the kind of mental game we all wish we could aquire, it wouldn't
hurt to have that focus and once your at that point I believe there isn't any such thing as sharking. It's up to
you.
Proof sharking isn't real.
gonna end up. Or how one person's behavior at the pool table ruins pool it's only going to
give pool recognition. Bad publicity is just as effective as good plublicity and
you just have to ask yourself, why do you let someone else get into your head it's
up to you on how you play. Blaming someone else for acting up doesn't change how the balls roll and
never will. Until you figure that out you'll always be getting mad at someone else for ruining your game your just
gonna have to laugh at them and keep playing. It's entertainment thats it, nothing more. I think sharking is only how you
let things get to you and your personal reaction to things. If you get sharked its because you let yourself get sharked.
you think every other major sport doesn't have their characters that some people either love or hate. Get over it and go
down to you pool hall and go play. That is the only way pool will get better imo. If you keep having negitive attitudes it
never will get better. How many times have you went up to a ball banging stranger and just asked to play for fun. Your
gonna have to start doing things like that and teaching the ball bangers how to play and get them hooked on pool. You like to
run racks, so teach the beginners how to play to they will have the same enjoyment that the rest of us do, just keep passing it on and
around the pool halls in hopes that we get millions of people hooked on pool. It's the only way to make it big. You might want to bash me
and this thread but thats ok because in the end I get the last laugh. I've been a member here for a long time, I don't want this post to make me
desert the forum for the heat i take for this. These are just all of my personal opinions they might not mean much to
you but it's how I feel. I almost gave up on pool because I couldn't make any money doing it and probably
never will so I had to ask myself "why do I even play pool anymore". Thinking back to when i started I said I'm
gonna be pro one day and years past and I wasn't even close to where I wanted to be. I wanted to just quit and this game will
make you go crazy if you play it for the wrong reason. I now just play to try and be the best I can be, not worrying about gambling or what
you or someone else thinks of my game. I've always been hard enough on myself when I mess up in pool and sometimes feel like i almost want to
cry. I act like earl sometimes, well maybe not to the extent he does but I've been mad at myself, broken cues, thrown cues, cussed only mad at me
never who ever i'm playing against. I remember when I first started playing my friends and I would purposly try and shark eachother so that nobody was
gonna be able to shark us, no matter what. You might say that I'm dumb for thinking this way, you might
say that sharking is real, but I think it's only in your own head you just have to say
goodbye to the distractions and focus, focus focus just for a few seconds while your down on a shot. You think a sniper
never has distractions while he is about to take a shot, or he blames a bird for him missing a target because the bird was chirping? I'm
gonna finish this post with me saying that no matter what happens with pool popular or unpopular I will never quit and i'll
tell anybody that. All I got to say now is that you have to just play your own game and not let other people bother you.
A friend once told me he was playing with Mark Tadd and Mark had banked about 30 balls in a row and so my friend said he threw an ice cube, no
lie, he threw a ice cube it hit mark in the head in the middle of his shot and mark drilled the ball into the pocket
and turned to him and said, "you can't phase me, B1tch!" I think that is the kind of mental game we all wish we could aquire, it wouldn't
hurt to have that focus and once your at that point I believe there isn't any such thing as sharking. It's up to
you.
Proof sharking isn't real.
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