This is why Pool is COOL...

Why Pool is cool

If you are around long enough you will meet some of the smartest people in the world and some that are not "gifted", and everyone in between.
The smartest don't always win and the ignorant sometimes make shots no one else even considers.
There are infinite ways to play, whether it is by feel or a system or just a wild guess.
If the balls go in consistently thats all that matters.
I have seen people who dress, approach the table and stroke the ball like they are pros and can't run 3 balls and I have seen people who do everything "wrong" according to most experts and they almost never miss.
As others have said , it is a game no one has ever mastered.
I was addicted to the game the first time I ever hit a ball and I will probably die within 20 feet of a pool table, and thats fine with me.
 
JAM said:
I have been trying to get him to take ballroom dance lessons with me as an alternative to pool...
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Love it! Now I'm stuck with some great images in my mind. :eek: You know that if this ever does happen, we are going to need videos. Thanks for this - i'll probably be grinning the rest of the day.

-Howard
 
I know you get it if you're posting in this thread...

I think pool is cool because not everyone gets "it" but those who do are very lucky to enjoy such a deeply nuanced, diverse and enjoyable sport. There are so many different things to appreciate about it. As was mentioned, the sound of the game is absolutely like nothing else but the feel of the game is stirring on an almost primal level. The satisfaction of solidly sinking a ball to the feeling of a well executed stroke. I'm surprised more people don't compare it to the feeling of hitting a ball out of the park in baseball except repeated over and over again. You feel the cue contact the cue ball, just knowing it's doing what you think it's going to do and then have the reward of watching the chosen sharply colored object ball take it's exit from the playing area with a sound unique only to pool. The cheers upon a great shot are replaced by the cues of friends and onlookers tapping the ground showing a quiet respectful appreciation of your accomplishment. Respect is gained, character is developed and friendships for life are created.

Who wouldn't want to be part of that?...

Now don't get me started on the equipment:)
...OK, just a few lines...Having so many great options to get custom playing equipment from the many very talented cue makers who finely tune their creations to fit you and case makers who create your weapons' beautiful armor to the many types of ball sets, accessories and tables on which to use that equipment really just adds to the experience of participating in this sport.

Plus-- There's just a cool factor to playing this sport well and to being a part of the in the know culture surrounding it. It's not high cost to start up, anyone can play with the basic requirements of the game and anyone can get good with the right mindset. It's also great how many people at all levels are very willing to assist in bringing up your game and general pool knowledge for no reason other than the common love of pool.
 
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I really thought that the 'no smoking' laws were going to hurt pool's business. I guess I was wrong to a certain degree.

I see younger players coming into the room more often. The smoking area outside isn't always full of smokers anymore. Seems there are less and less smokers that play pool.

More families are coming into the room also. At least I've noticed more families, mostly because of the Saturday Family specials (1/2 pool time for 2+ hours)

The games seems to be getting the more 'healthier' players. This I think is a good thing.

Lots of really nice 'COOL' comments about Pool..

Ballroom dancing... where did that come from?
 
Pool is a Very Cool game in that every time you break a rack what is left on the table for the most part is never the same, and you have a challenge. People of all ages enjoy pool, and when I say all we have several 90 YEAR OLDS where I live that play pool a couple of time a week.

Pool IMHO has some problems that need to be fixed to attract major sponsorship like NASCAR has done.

But IMHO part of the problem with Pool is there are too many Organizations trying to compete for players in League in many places, (in the Valley of the Sun, we have like 7 or 8 different leagues) and IMHO Pool would function better under ONE GOVERNING BODY, and with ONLY ONE Standard Set of Rules!

Also another observation is in the Valley of the Sun, part of the problem promoting event is too many want to be the BIG FISH in this little pond, rather than Room, and Bar Owners trying to work with one another in a single direction verses the Kill or be Killed Mentality, that accomplishes little. JMHO
 
Great thread.

I agree with many answers...

Here's another one....

It's relatively inexpensive to play.
 
-Because it rhymes with "cool".
-Because there is always something new to learn.
-Because there is always someone better to play.
-Because there is far less luck involved compared to other games that are commonly gambled on.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Pool is a Very Cool game in that every time you break a rack what is left on the table for the most part is never the same, and you have a challenge. People of all ages enjoy pool, and when I say all we have several 90 YEAR OLDS where I live that play pool a couple of time a week.
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Why not just end your post right here??? It would have been much more positive that way......IMO

Pool is cool year round.........due to the sport being indoors and climate controled.
 
BRKNRUN said:
Why not just end your post right here??? It would have been much more positive that way......IMO

Pool is cool year round.........due to the sport being indoors and climate controled.
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TRUTH HURT?

Don't you think ONE GOVERNING BODY, and with ONLY ONE Standard Set of Rules! Would be good?
 
Pool is cool because, It allowed me to bond with my son at something I like to do! And now it allows him to spend time with his dad at something he likes to do also!


FEEEEEEEELLLLLLLSSSSS!!!!! GRRRRRREEAAATTTTT!:smile:





H.P.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
TRUTH HURT?

Don't you think ONE GOVERNING BODY, and with ONLY ONE Standard Set of Rules! Would be good?
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?????? What do I have to do with any of it???

Besides that...this thread was supposed to be about "positive" pool is cool related things...

Nobody cares about Phoenix drama you are trying to create...especially me....and especially in this thread.

I was just trying to help you brother....just trying to help....once again...you have no clue.

geeeeeeeeze!!!!!!
 
Cheaper than golf, and can be played year-round.
No cords to plug in. No TV monitor. No buttons to push.
Its science. Everything that happens on the pool table is due to science and physics.

Never judge a book by its cover, or a poolplayer by their appearance.

Can you go to a golf tournment and sit in the stands with Tiger, or Jack, or Arnold? Negative. Can you match skills with top golfers with a friendly wager on the side? Little chance.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Pool is a Very Cool game in that every time you break a rack what is left on the table for the most part is never the same, and you have a challenge. People of all ages enjoy pool, and when I say all we have several 90 YEAR OLDS where I live that play pool a couple of time a week.
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Even CocoboloCowboy can find some positive and COOL things about POOL.
 
pool is cool because when im playing i forget about all the $hit in this word for a while. so i play as much as i can every chance i get
 
I like hearing the crack of the break....and the endless puzzle of every newly broken rack.:cool:

I like being in The Zone....when that bank shot that everyone said wouldn't go....goes in the pocket like it was on rails.:cool:

I like travelling, finding new places to play, and keeping a journal of where I've shot pool. You can shoot pool in just about every burg in America (I wish I could travel internationally and shoot, too). I've played pool in Las Vegas, Hilo Hawaii, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Montana and Iowa in the last year, since I first started. :cool:

I like getting better each time I play. I've been at it for one year, and it's sooooooo awesome. I love it.:cool:
 
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Here's a similar thread from July of this year:


I have posted the following passage a couple times now, but maybe some new eyes will see it here. It's the best thing I've ever read about the appeal of the game of pool. Beauty ... heart ... renewal -- it's all there in two brief paragraphs.

Playing Off The Rail, by David McCumber, Random House, 1996, pages 276-277. It is the author's thoughts while watching Tony Annigoni's 9-3 9-ball masterpiece over Johnny Archer.

"Tony broke, and made two balls, and I could see the table unfold in my mind, and I knew he could see it even better, and would run it. As he made the shots I was overpowered by the beauty of this game, at once immutably logical, governed by physical inevitabilities, and at the same time infinitely poetic and varied. This game at its best, as it was being played before me, had the transcendent power of a Handel chorus.

I thought about what an impressive mental exercise it was for Tony, after a miserable session against an unremarkable player two hours earlier, to reinvent himself so completely. It was a question of heart, a gathering of everything stored inside a man, a refusal to fall after stumbling. It was a very rare thing for a player to take such advantage of the game's intrinsic quality of renewal, the fresh start with each match, each rack, each shot. Nothing pharmaceutical could ever exceed the jolt of bliss that comes with the self-mastery that sort of play entails: knowing the ball is going in, knowing the cue ball is going to stop precisely where you willed it to, knowing that the next shot is going in too. I thought of Willie Hoppe, running an astonishing twenty-five billiards in an exhibition in 1918, seeing all those rails and angles and spins and caroms in his head like presents waiting to be opened. It was no accident that Hoppe was the most disciplined and controlled player of his era. Power over the cue ball, over the object ball, is power over ourselves. It is the sweetest irony that pool has gathered the reputation of being a game for louts and idlers, when, to be played well, it demands such incredible discipline of movement, of thinking, of emotion."​
 
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