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The Geezer Thread
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I'm almost an old geezer (56) and deal with aches and pains in my hands, back, legs and feet. But I deal with the same thing no matter what I'm doing. If I'm going to be hurting anyway, I'd rather be doing it in a pool room than at work! Getting older has it's drawbacks, but it has it's advantages as well. I've won matches against younger, better shooting players, simply because I've seen and learned more over the years than many of them have had the chance to learn. My mantra has become, "if you can't out shoot 'em, out play 'em!"
I'm playing overall better now than at any point in my life.
Steve
I'm playing overall better now than at any point in my life.
Steve
Here you go Patrick
At 86-years-old, great-grandmother Morjorie Newlin could be the world's oldest bodybuilder. At the age of 72, Morjorie struggled to move some 50lb bags of kitty litter at a supermarket and then decided that she would do something about her deteriorating physical capabilities.
Now after 13 years of weight training, she regularly runs up stairs and has won 40 trophies at bodybuilding competitions.
She's now taking a break from bodybuilding competitions but at her peak she could bench-press 90 pounds with a spotter, dead lift 95 pounds and squat 135 pounds! Link
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At 86-years-old, great-grandmother Morjorie Newlin could be the world's oldest bodybuilder. At the age of 72, Morjorie struggled to move some 50lb bags of kitty litter at a supermarket and then decided that she would do something about her deteriorating physical capabilities.
Now after 13 years of weight training, she regularly runs up stairs and has won 40 trophies at bodybuilding competitions.
She's now taking a break from bodybuilding competitions but at her peak she could bench-press 90 pounds with a spotter, dead lift 95 pounds and squat 135 pounds! Link
Ok I think I qualify at 51 1/2 I wake up in the middle of the night after sleeping for a couple of minutes, get up to pee--again-- and my feet hurt like the dickens. I noticed it last month when I worked several days in a row (at the poolroom) I play pool all day long and now my feet hurt all the time. I wear reeboks. I think this year I noticed that something hurts all the time now. Yeech!
You got that right, the old guys (80+) come in and I ask them how them how they are doing and they tell me they are verticle
NOW YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE TO VISUALIZE THIS ONE: I had this 80 something come in often, and he was the cutest little fellow, and I'd say what's up Ken....and he would look down to the nether regions and say...not much. I would laugh so hard. What a sweetie, he has now since past, but he was so funny and cute.
NOW YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE TO VISUALIZE THIS ONE: I had this 80 something come in often, and he was the cutest little fellow, and I'd say what's up Ken....and he would look down to the nether regions and say...not much. I would laugh so hard. What a sweetie, he has now since past, but he was so funny and cute.
another old guy heard from
Just shy of 60 myself. I thought once upon a time that if you lived until 40 you lived a good old life. I love pool as much as I ever did. There is nothing sweeter than the look on a young guys face when you kick his uhmmmmm...I am so far a 6 year cancer survivor and last February the EMT's had to bring me back from the great beyond at work. Have an extra piece of hardware installed now. This year I was on an APA team where the average age was 71 (the oldest is 86)....they would laugh at me because I am the only one that works! They would usually put me up last because I was the only one that could stay awake after 10. I have a table being delivered on Friday and I am like a kid on Christmas. I can't wait. Like I said, I love pool now as much as ever. When you go through the things that we go through in life, looking down the table at a 9 ball two inches off the rail when the score is tied 6-6 for $20 just doesn't seem to matter quite as much. Sometimes I make them, some times I don't. But in the end it is the joy of being able to play that keeps me going.
Just shy of 60 myself. I thought once upon a time that if you lived until 40 you lived a good old life. I love pool as much as I ever did. There is nothing sweeter than the look on a young guys face when you kick his uhmmmmm...I am so far a 6 year cancer survivor and last February the EMT's had to bring me back from the great beyond at work. Have an extra piece of hardware installed now. This year I was on an APA team where the average age was 71 (the oldest is 86)....they would laugh at me because I am the only one that works! They would usually put me up last because I was the only one that could stay awake after 10. I have a table being delivered on Friday and I am like a kid on Christmas. I can't wait. Like I said, I love pool now as much as ever. When you go through the things that we go through in life, looking down the table at a 9 ball two inches off the rail when the score is tied 6-6 for $20 just doesn't seem to matter quite as much. Sometimes I make them, some times I don't. But in the end it is the joy of being able to play that keeps me going.
JoeW said:Here you go Patrick
At 86-years-old, great-grandmother Morjorie Newlin could be the world's oldest bodybuilder. At the age of 72, Morjorie struggled to move some 50lb bags of kitty litter at a supermarket and then decided that she would do something about her deteriorating physical capabilities.
Now after 13 years of weight training, she regularly runs up stairs and has won 40 trophies at bodybuilding competitions.
She's now taking a break from bodybuilding competitions but at her peak she could bench-press 90 pounds with a spotter, dead lift 95 pounds and squat 135 pounds! Link
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And let's not forget about "Granny D.", 89 years old walked across America to make a political point. http://www.grannyddoc.com/
60 +
just a little I had cataract surgey & can see so good it's unreal.I play at a place where there are a lot of A players.I thought when I was younger I was too.I can still do most of what I use to do but so damn inconsistant.esp trying to finish,it seems like I play just good enough to lose weather I'm playing an A player or a C player.I use to love playing in front of a crowd & now I tighten up like a moron.The top players don't really want to draw me cause I have some moments..What to do--what to do?? WHA WHA
just a little I had cataract surgey & can see so good it's unreal.I play at a place where there are a lot of A players.I thought when I was younger I was too.I can still do most of what I use to do but so damn inconsistant.esp trying to finish,it seems like I play just good enough to lose weather I'm playing an A player or a C player.I use to love playing in front of a crowd & now I tighten up like a moron.The top players don't really want to draw me cause I have some moments..What to do--what to do?? WHA WHA
My mother gave me a "compliment" yesterday.
She'll be 83 later this month and she said, "Jeez, you know you're really getting old when your kids look like old farts."
Gee, THANKS, MOM!
When I go to the pool room now, it takes me about 25-30 minutes before my back and muscles are strecthed out enough to play comfortably. Then, I can play for a few hours and all of a sudden, I hit a wall. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
I still have spurts where I play like I did in my teens, but not very often.
A friend of mine that's a golfer had a good saying. "As you get older, you have to find a different way to do the same thing you did when you were younger."
For me, the old body still works, it justs takes some parts a little longer to wake up. LOL
Stones
She'll be 83 later this month and she said, "Jeez, you know you're really getting old when your kids look like old farts."
Gee, THANKS, MOM!
When I go to the pool room now, it takes me about 25-30 minutes before my back and muscles are strecthed out enough to play comfortably. Then, I can play for a few hours and all of a sudden, I hit a wall. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
I still have spurts where I play like I did in my teens, but not very often.
A friend of mine that's a golfer had a good saying. "As you get older, you have to find a different way to do the same thing you did when you were younger."
For me, the old body still works, it justs takes some parts a little longer to wake up. LOL
Stones
Guess I belong in this thread...
I'm 60 and still kicking...had a concern about prostate and colon issues but they checked out okay. Have to watch the sugar level and definitely have to shed some pounds that I don't where they came from lol.
I work for a Meals on Wheels organization and it seems weird to me that I know quickly that if someone is younger than I am that they are not eligible for services.
I don't go to poolrooms...too loud...or tournament...too long...anymore. I do play some...not much...on my home table. Been thinking about inviting the local guys that I see posting here...Mike House, Adam Wheeler, Blackjack, Smorgie can come too...maybe I'm missing someone here...to put up a few bucks for maybe an annual Mike Mason memorial winner-take-all straight pool tournament...we'll supply the snacks...
Hanging in there...
Mike
I'm 60 and still kicking...had a concern about prostate and colon issues but they checked out okay. Have to watch the sugar level and definitely have to shed some pounds that I don't where they came from lol.
I work for a Meals on Wheels organization and it seems weird to me that I know quickly that if someone is younger than I am that they are not eligible for services.
I don't go to poolrooms...too loud...or tournament...too long...anymore. I do play some...not much...on my home table. Been thinking about inviting the local guys that I see posting here...Mike House, Adam Wheeler, Blackjack, Smorgie can come too...maybe I'm missing someone here...to put up a few bucks for maybe an annual Mike Mason memorial winner-take-all straight pool tournament...we'll supply the snacks...
Hanging in there...
Mike
Geezers unite
My tivo just caught Mosconi at age 67. He looked great. At age 66, I just had a pair of old frames transformed into pool glasses. They really help. Deadlifts help keep my back in shape as does laying in my jacuzzi under the lilacs. Squeezing a rubber ball & expanding my grip with rubber bands helps the arthritis attacking my trigger finger.
9BallPaul said:
My tivo just caught Mosconi at age 67. He looked great. At age 66, I just had a pair of old frames transformed into pool glasses. They really help. Deadlifts help keep my back in shape as does laying in my jacuzzi under the lilacs. Squeezing a rubber ball & expanding my grip with rubber bands helps the arthritis attacking my trigger finger.
young when i'm here, old in public.
2 months shy of 56, but after golf today it feels like 76.
M.C.
2 months shy of 56, but after golf today it feels like 76.
M.C.
During my drinking days I would play on a bar table when my elbow got tired of liftting drinks. My eyes were good and I could roll the big rock pretty accurately. I stopped drinking, usually a fifth a day, and didn't play any pool until I hit 60. Then a friend took me to room that had a 9 ft table. Bingo! I was hooked. In the mean time I had developed arthritis, had a bout with cancer and spent a year getting rid of Hep C. Oh yeah I gradually lost my eyesight and now have to wear tri-focals. I'm now 72+ and have a ball playing 3 times a week and constantly learning something new. The tight closed bridge--forget it. The nice flowing stroke--in my dreams. Improvement--daily. I have now had a total of 5 bouts with cancer and lost one kidney but look forward to each day that I can play. Where else can an old guy learn something new every day besides college which doesn't have the same appeal. 3 hrs is my max for playing but what good time those 3 hrs are.
i was sitting around the other day thinking about where shits at and where ist going, i'm 41 born in 66. Gen-X i think its called,
i saw the end of pin-ball that really pisses me off, and the end of pool too(well almost the end of pool) everyone is against steroids now, a BAD govt in America, alot of tight ringed people, I remember a few of the hippys in the earily 70's when I lived in San Diego they were laid back and cool as I remembered. I liked the vibe back then.
some pool players were charcters back in the day-something I try and be now(for fun), alot of todays greats guys that can spot me the 5-out and the break are dry and flat, no personality. I do like them, respect them(i'm not knocking them just calling it as I see it) and thats their style but man if I played like them I'd give Keith the 8 ball in shit talking
, Ask Mike Seigal or Cardone if I can lay it down, I cant play a lick compaired to them but Just playing great isnt enough to make pool fun, its very sterile now like snooker, I was watching the snooker world championships and they are awesome players who I respect but, very little emotion, just robots who sit down when they miss, the occasional facial expression, there in the UK and thats their culture, I liked Fats, Floyd, Keith, Corn bread, Ed Kelly(alot), Ervilono(SP?) etc. when they came into the room you knew they walked in to the door. for better or worse....
I'm not one of these people stuck in the past either thinking the past was great and today sucks, I dont listen to old music that I have heard 100,000 times, I NEVER want to hear "Hotel California" ever again. We have the internet now, wow its great-knocks more action than anything ever, but thats the way it goes.
back to my thoughts, I think being born in 52 would have been perfect, I dont know how old I would be now but I would have seen alot more pinball, pool, free sex
(I think-so I have been told), less being politicial corectness(I hate that more than anything) ,and just a cool era in america. The music was better but i'm sick of it now but it was better, the movies were too. Pool was 10000% better. I havent ever smoked weed and never will but I'm glad it was around then too-It is now but its looked down on. Steroids-my drug of choice wasnt blown out of porportion and believe me it is by the media, used right its great(trust me on that) abusing it is death however. things were lose then from my understanding back then. I like the freedom of that time period, things are to by-the-book-now. I am old enough with a good memorie to watch it evolove since the 70's. I am glad they did crack down on DUI's. But man in america we have more people locked up that any country in the world in gross numbers and per capita, they love to put us in cages here-its a industry, the sentenceing guidlines are too strict. Get 5 years for a bag, Geez man. It wasnt so bad before
I really dont like the direction were headed, I never said that until the past 10 years ago. I'm thinking of going somewhere like a 3rd world country, i'm tired of the beef recalls, soccer moms, paranoid people from watchinf Stone Phillips. Everyone is scared of everything, at the Derby this year people were all nutted up about carring $$$, in 85 everyone flashed their bank roll at the pool rooms, people are scared now days beause of a few hijackings, Americans have lost their Balls to a extent.
JAM and other ladies please dont be offended by this post its man talk, kinda post.
fatboy.
i saw the end of pin-ball that really pisses me off, and the end of pool too(well almost the end of pool) everyone is against steroids now, a BAD govt in America, alot of tight ringed people, I remember a few of the hippys in the earily 70's when I lived in San Diego they were laid back and cool as I remembered. I liked the vibe back then.
some pool players were charcters back in the day-something I try and be now(for fun), alot of todays greats guys that can spot me the 5-out and the break are dry and flat, no personality. I do like them, respect them(i'm not knocking them just calling it as I see it) and thats their style but man if I played like them I'd give Keith the 8 ball in shit talking
, Ask Mike Seigal or Cardone if I can lay it down, I cant play a lick compaired to them but Just playing great isnt enough to make pool fun, its very sterile now like snooker, I was watching the snooker world championships and they are awesome players who I respect but, very little emotion, just robots who sit down when they miss, the occasional facial expression, there in the UK and thats their culture, I liked Fats, Floyd, Keith, Corn bread, Ed Kelly(alot), Ervilono(SP?) etc. when they came into the room you knew they walked in to the door. for better or worse....I'm not one of these people stuck in the past either thinking the past was great and today sucks, I dont listen to old music that I have heard 100,000 times, I NEVER want to hear "Hotel California" ever again. We have the internet now, wow its great-knocks more action than anything ever, but thats the way it goes.
back to my thoughts, I think being born in 52 would have been perfect, I dont know how old I would be now but I would have seen alot more pinball, pool, free sex
(I think-so I have been told), less being politicial corectness(I hate that more than anything) ,and just a cool era in america. The music was better but i'm sick of it now but it was better, the movies were too. Pool was 10000% better. I havent ever smoked weed and never will but I'm glad it was around then too-It is now but its looked down on. Steroids-my drug of choice wasnt blown out of porportion and believe me it is by the media, used right its great(trust me on that) abusing it is death however. things were lose then from my understanding back then. I like the freedom of that time period, things are to by-the-book-now. I am old enough with a good memorie to watch it evolove since the 70's. I am glad they did crack down on DUI's. But man in america we have more people locked up that any country in the world in gross numbers and per capita, they love to put us in cages here-its a industry, the sentenceing guidlines are too strict. Get 5 years for a bag, Geez man. It wasnt so bad beforeI really dont like the direction were headed, I never said that until the past 10 years ago. I'm thinking of going somewhere like a 3rd world country, i'm tired of the beef recalls, soccer moms, paranoid people from watchinf Stone Phillips. Everyone is scared of everything, at the Derby this year people were all nutted up about carring $$$, in 85 everyone flashed their bank roll at the pool rooms, people are scared now days beause of a few hijackings, Americans have lost their Balls to a extent.
JAM and other ladies please dont be offended by this post its man talk, kinda post.
fatboy.
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I was born in 1941. The 1960's-1970 was my favorite era. I'm sure there are many things I'd change if I could, but the one thing I hated was the computer, when they started hooking them up state to state to share info. It just about made me go legit. Rock n Roll, Free Love, Drugs, were a few things I would never change even if I could. Johnnyt
while im only 41 my right knee has a completely blown out ACL and all kinds of movement and instability. My right shoulder's rotator cuff is almost completely torn. The ortho doc told me my right knee is hopeless (due to 2 prior knee surgeries and arthritis) and that full knee replacement is my only surgical recourse. He told me i have the knee and shoulder of a very old man.
So i guess I qualify as an old geezer, or parts of me do anyways.
I know one thing, i use to play alot better when I wasnt trying to fade pain every time i get down on the ball.
So i guess I qualify as an old geezer, or parts of me do anyways.
I know one thing, i use to play alot better when I wasnt trying to fade pain every time i get down on the ball.