Eggs don’t have any taste?
straightline: "Can you provide the logic behind this?"
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Nobody, they are simply ways that people who didnt know what they didnt know have gotten in trouble.
Well I did consult and got the permit and passed inspection.
I live on the edge. 
I did rebuild my Chevy small block and 350 auto transmission. I had Chiltons and did it by the book. Both worked fine.you said:
I did get to fly a B-52 for half an hour. Not exactly experiment though. One of the longest lived aircraft in the fleet.you said:
I do play pretty good pool too.
My survival skills keep me in line.
I pay for lessons and of course charge for same.
My price negotiation starts with "What's comfortable for you?^
I guarantee you the OP cooks the spirit of God out of his eggs. An English chef once told me Americans are complete psychopaths for eating solidified yolks.
Soft boiled farm eggs are the best.
So....you think good players want to make a living from instruction by being bad at instruction?
I have done a handful of things well enough that people came to me for lessons or advice. Never kept a count, dozens maybe, not hundreds. I'm still waiting to see the one that followed my advice for any length of time despite the fact that I won far more than my share.
I have spent time with world champions, world class performers. Been friends with quite a few. One reason is I never asked them a question how to do something. If they told me something I listened. However, I didn't ask for advice I ultimately might not follow. A multi-time world champion told me a technique he used. Later, I tried his advice. Didn't work for me. He was one of the top dozen, maybe top half-dozen in the world so about six months later I tried it again. Nope, didn't work. Two years later, another try. Nope. It nagged at me a bit though so about three or four months later I tried it again. It worked like a bandit!
There are a lot of reasons the best don't usually try to help. The main reason is that it is usually a waste of time trying. Most people are looking for a magic bullet, one thing to learn or one thing to fix. Often when advice doesn't work for somebody that isn't ready for it, they go around telling everyone that the expert that tried to help them just blew smoke up their asses.
The best in the world could spend a week with over 95% of the people on AZB answering any questions asked and six month afterward there would be no significant improvement in the person's game. The top pro's have learned long ago that trying to help most people is beating their heads against a brick wall. Why do something with almost no upside and often a real downside?
Hu
I have spent time with world champions, world class performers. Been friends with quite a few. One reason is I never asked them a question how to do something. If they told me something I listened. However, I didn't ask for advice I ultimately might not follow. A multi-time world champion told me a technique he used. Later, I tried his advice. Didn't work for me. He was one of the top dozen, maybe top half-dozen in the world so about six months later I tried it again. Nope, didn't work. Two years later, another try. Nope. It nagged at me a bit though so about three or four months later I tried it again. It worked like a bandit!
There are a lot of reasons the best don't usually try to help. The main reason is that it is usually a waste of time trying. Most people are looking for a magic bullet, one thing to learn or one thing to fix. Often when advice doesn't work for somebody that isn't ready for it, they go around telling everyone that the expert that tried to help them just blew smoke up their asses.
The best in the world could spend a week with over 95% of the people on AZB answering any questions asked and six month afterward there would be no significant improvement in the person's game. The top pro's have learned long ago that trying to help most people is beating their heads against a brick wall. Why do something with almost no upside and often a real downside?
Hu
Being a good player won't make one automatically a good teacher. I've seen great players being really bad at teaching pool.
But even a good teacher won't give free advice if he makes a living of it.
Different sides of the tracks mostly.
Teachers have care to enough about people to at least attempt nurturing their interests.
Pool players have to care enough about people to be able to empty their pockets.
Show unto
Do unto
See how that works?
Different sides of the tracks mostly.
Teachers have care to enough about people to at least attempt nurturing their interests.
Pool players have to care enough about people to be able to empty their pockets.
Show unto
Do unto
See how that works?
While I have seen competitors become teachers when their careers are basically over it is rare for a top competitor at anything to be a good teacher too. Different personalities and few can turn off the competitor side or be both. Oddly enough looking at all forms of competition it is rarely the superstar that makes a good coach or instructor, it is usually a good solid player that was never a superstar.
Hu
My experience is that people don’t appreciate free advice and don’t take the advisor that seriously when it’s free. They appreciate the advice and the advisor much more when they pay for it.Different sides of the tracks mostly.
Teachers have care to enough about people to at least attempt nurturing their interests.
Pool players have to care enough about people to be able to empty their pockets.
Show unto
Do unto
See how that works?
Maybe buying the advice indicates inclination and unsolicited advice hit or miss.
Interesting point Bob. For me many of the so called secrets in Pool are in the myriad of intricacies and complexities available in the safety and kicking aspects of the game. These come up in all the Rotation games and especially in One Pocket. I've often seen very good players overlook a simple option and shoot a more difficult shot when they fail to see the easier way to execute the shot. I realize they are not even aware this option exists. They simply don't see it. Often times a little "bunt" shot will work quite well, rather than trying to shoot two or three rails at a far more difficult shot to execute.
I will only add that I've shown shots to some world class players (that they were previously unaware of), mostly little One Pocket moves, but other shots that they might not know. Did you know that if the object ball is on the point of the side pocket, positioned in such a way it won't go in, there is actually a way to make that ball? Along those same lines there is a way to shoot the cue ball directly into the side pocket with an object ball partially blocking the pocket and not moving or touching the object ball. And it's not a jump shot. I won many proposition bets on that shot.
I can't tell you how many One Pocket players did not know about banking balls cross corner and aiming up at the rack and not at their pocket. They just didn't know. And then there's the two rail bank into the bottom of the rack! Better yet is the two rail kick shot into the rack. Just a little taste for you to think about. Some of you know this stuff (I can guess who) but many of you don't.
Only one name - Carlo Biado. When he first arrived here maybe 12-13 years ago he couldn't spell One Pocket, but he knew that was where the money was. I spent about a week with him teaching him the intricacies of One Pocket on my home table and he quickly became a very competent player. Not nearly one of the best but able to hold his own against anyone.
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It's like a pyramid shot. You have to hit it real hard and moosh the available tit. Course you gotta make the aperture too.
.... lol.... mornin'.... Been teaching since the 90's.
Even when I was working for the BCA I would get calls from so called instructors that would ask me questions (and they played) on how to do this and that, overseeing the instructor program gave all a phone number to get me.
One beginning writer wrote a book using some of my help.
He's still writing and well known.... persons name is not important.
Not all great players understand teaching.
Not all great teachers are Great players.
And this writer/league skilled player/teacher/book writer.... I think was smart, he had no clue and he knew I could help.
bm
Correct. What I'm saying is to place an object ball in such a way that it partially blocks the avenue for the cue ball to get through cleanly. If a pool ball is 2 1/4" in diameter, then place it 2 1/8" from the point in the middle of the pocket. I can shoot the cue ball in past the object ball without touching it, and not from the other side of the pocket. Trust me it can be done.