I am so damn tired of reading posts telling people to go take lessons. I think everyone already knows that if you want to pay for lessons it will be worth your money but that's not the point of this forum, so stop with the comments about getting lessons. If someone asks an honest questions about their game and how to improve you should only respond with good advice, not recommending lessons for the 1,000,000th time...
Tired of hearing about lessons...
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I just about agree with you here. Some people think if you miss a shot you need to spend a few hundred dollars with an instructor. Someone told me once the best lesson you can get is simply getting out into the pool rooms and playing against competition, entering tournaments, spending hours at the table, etc.
I know a lesson that covers the basics is probably good but other than that the best lessons are those learned in pool halls, pool rooms, tournaments, etc.
There used to be a lot of people on here that said you should read some silly a$$ book called Pleasures Of Small Motions, that it would help your game a great deal. What a joke that was.
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I know a lesson that covers the basics is probably good but other than that the best lessons are those learned in pool halls, pool rooms, tournaments, etc.
There used to be a lot of people on here that said you should read some silly a$$ book called Pleasures Of Small Motions, that it would help your game a great deal. What a joke that was.
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Playing a lot is fine, once you learn to play the right way. I just saw a guy playing while holding the cue with a death grip like he was holding on to a rope that was over a 100 foot drop. Every time he went to shoot the tip went up and down like a seesaw. Plus he had no idea how to line up on the shot and was standing facing in all sorts of directions He can play for 3 hours a day for the next month and not get better, untill he takes a lesson to learn how to stand/aim/hold the cue.
You take lessons to learn what you need to learn and work on, then you go play to practice that and learn how to use the knowledge.
You don't take lessons to walk away and 10 minutes later you are a level better, or in place or practice or a tournament. In ADDITION to those things.
A lot of times you can't see what may be holding your game back, neither can your friends, but you may run across an instructor who's job it is to look for small things like where your feet are, where your elbow is, how your bridge is, where your head is and would know what adjustments to make to fix what is wrong.
If someone asks how to fix missing a ball, how the hell is anyone going to say what to do if we can't see what he does to miss? That's why you need the instructor there watching you from close up.
It may not even be an official lesson with an instructor, many of us are friends with good players, they can help also.
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Pleasures of Small Motions helped my mental game a lot. I take it out frequently to review.
If you want to read interesting stuff on the forum, provide your own content. I'm not being a smartass here, as long as nobody writes something else, we will get stuck with advertising threads by instructors and their cronies. And threads like "Cuemaker X is such a fantastic guy!" So you either read threads about people sucking up to instructors or sucking up to cuemakers. Pretty lame, and there are actually seperate forums for this stuff.
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I never considered pool lessons as an option until I came on here asking how to get better and being told a lesson is the only way to go.
I'm incredibly thankful they convinced me.
A lesson is the way to go for anyone trying to learn something new.
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I'm incredibly thankful they convinced me.
A lesson is the way to go for anyone trying to learn something new.
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I think your guy needs "driving lessons"Poor Ferrari !!
haha right!
OP...this is all you need to do when posts get you down or frustrated.
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If I had back all the time that I've spent reading "Takes lessons"...I'd have about five minutes of my life returned.
Seriously, the "take-a-lesson" advice is usually offered when someone has described a problem that can't be solved with words, or even videos. The fastest and surest route to solving a problem is to enlist the personal, hands-on help of an expert instructor. (Oops, just took 10 seconds of your life).
What you are referring to, hang, is not an instructor giving lessons, but someone coaching the player.
Truth be told, lessons from a BCA, or any other instructor is a waste of good money.
The only real way to learn to play pool is the way Efren, Scott, Alex, and Mr. Lassiter, learned. Start young, live most of your life in a pool hall, keep your mouth shut and your eyes open, and play, practice, and play some more. A lot more.
Most of the people on this website now, unfortunately, are bangers, and leaguers, and will not get much better than they are now.
While you're telling us what isn't the point of this forum, please let us know what is the point.
The thing that sucks about lessons is that out of every 10 guys trying to make a buck, 9 of them suck at teaching. Majority, have no idea how to analyze lineup and stroke aside from some general comment, many will try make you should their way.
Most people spend a lot of time and money learning the wrong things, going against their nature, etc.
Most people spend a lot of time and money learning the wrong things, going against their nature, etc.
First off if I had the time and the money I would hire a coach which would be so much more than an instructor but that is a different thread.
In my opinion, I think lessons are great if you are teachable, you have a good instructor and you put in the work after the fact. I am not espousing any certain instructor here but I will go on record as having taken lessons and thought it was well worth the time and cost. I wanted to improve and I have learned. I play better now. Things I did that were bad were indicated. Things that would improve my process were shown and methods to get the skills were given to me. Many good teachers have written materials. Many pro's go take a lesson or get feedback from some of the elite instructors. Works for a lot of players low banger to elite pro.
If you are against lessons then hit a lot of balls maybe you will get better.
You might try gambling some people suggest that as a way to improve.
If you don't have time for that then start an anti-lesson thread on AZ.
In my opinion, I think lessons are great if you are teachable, you have a good instructor and you put in the work after the fact. I am not espousing any certain instructor here but I will go on record as having taken lessons and thought it was well worth the time and cost. I wanted to improve and I have learned. I play better now. Things I did that were bad were indicated. Things that would improve my process were shown and methods to get the skills were given to me. Many good teachers have written materials. Many pro's go take a lesson or get feedback from some of the elite instructors. Works for a lot of players low banger to elite pro.
If you are against lessons then hit a lot of balls maybe you will get better.
You might try gambling some people suggest that as a way to improve.
If you don't have time for that then start an anti-lesson thread on AZ.
Amen. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Like I said, maybe a lesson to learn the basics and then the above.
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Pretty lame advice Steam. Yes, folks that work have nothing but time to shoot pool all day long. And league players do get betters.... guess which ones? Not the ones using a piss poor stroke, over and over and over again.
You do know what they say about "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" Yep, insanity.
Funny, how I'd say 90% or more of folks who took lessons got better because they learned something they never knew before. How many years do you expect them to wait to learn something playing in league. I mean, you don't know what you don't know until you know it.