Donald A. Purdy said:
Hey Larry, I am a BCA instructor and don't appriciate your insult.
If you keep your cue level, shoot thru the ball, and drop your elbow some, thats fine. I will tell em if they can stand on their head and never miss, don't change a thing. Please don't lump me in with the arrogant, know it all, misinformed, misguided instructors you might know. Thanks, please keep your cool and just ignore the insults. If you do, you have the "nuts" every time.
Don P.
FAST REPLIES; I have reconciled my past problems with the BCA, I am re joining it, I entertain at their trade show this April, Mr. Ducoff has invited me to be one of the pros at his May Vegas challenge the stars thing. I have also been invited to come back into the BCA teachers program which I have declined. They want me to start over, pay the fee again and begin on the bottom, that I will never do. I have made offers of how I could and would come back in and they wont budge. My read on this is they don't want me back in and therefore is where my hardon with these guys is coming from. I have my pool school, they have theirs, they do their thing, I do mine. I'll be running my power source pool school in Wash DC right after the BCA Vegas show. Right now I have one full day booked. I would like to spend several more days in the area running the school at different places, this I have people out now talking to a couple of room owners on. Don, I'll make you two offers, A, come in, sit in and just observe, no problem, you are welcome, no cost, even buy you a beer.
Why don't you set up a day of lessons at your place, I'll come over, we can teach together, you teach your stuff, I'll do mine, split the fees.. We can find ways to work together and blend our methods where to work as one. I can be very flexible in that regard, I teach, in many cases, there are 4 or 5 ways to do a thing and you see pro's prove that one every day. How many ways are there to stand, how many ways to aim and line up your nose over or along the shaft, etc, etc....
Don, Damn good point and point taken and apology issued. My mistake, I lopped every one into that one, that was not my intent. What I said could also be applied to the indepedent teachers who print up a business card and then call themselves a pool teacher. There are good and bad in both worlds. In my defense, in the past I have said in the top 25 BCA instructors here is the cream of the crop, these people do know what they are doing and are first class. Many of them realize some of these flawed teaching methods pushed by the lead guy are wrong and they just ignored this and teach their own methods. It's when you drop to the bottom tier you get beginner teachers who should stick to teaching beginner players. They don't, soon they are running around acting like some guru.
Any body teaching you can't drop your elbow or to hit all follows and drop your cue tip down into the cloth through the cue ball in a downward angle is teaching no power and how to skid the ball. My method is superior to that, period, sorry boys. I can't help it your wrong and I am right. I am tired of arguing with you on this, in the future, argue with my new DVD's and what they teach.
If you are teaching the draw to hit low and level with a long follow through, I really have you by the short hairs on that one, wait till my DVD's blows the lid off on that puppy this late March. The entire series is all about the people teaching this flawed crap, how they have taught pool dead ass wrong for all of these years and I will show you how it should be taught right for the first time. That is what's coming, so go load up your shotguns with 00 buck shot and go print your wanted dead or alive Fast Larry posters.
What is wrong with the BCA school, is nobody makes these newbies prove playing skills. No apa 4 should be teaching, that is how I see it. I did not begin to take on lessons until I reached an APA 7 Skill level, won city championships and then went on to become a pro. A guy comes in, buys a bar, can't run 3 friggin balls and is too cheap to have you or me in to teach, he is greedy and wan'ts it all. He walks in, buys his certificate, now he has a piece of paper he's a recognized teacher and begins charging his bar patrons for lessons.
You have people like that in the BCA program on the rolls and that is how they got on there, they were too cheap to hire you Don. Take the head guru in billiards digest, the guy writes books, I wont read them, but he writes them and people do buy them. Every month he has the entire back page to teach on, he ran out of any thing new to say years ago. Everyone thinks this guy is the teacher, he does not know squat and cannot run 3 friggin balls. You could bet him your house he could not break and run a rack of 8 ball in an hour, give him 3 hours, all day long, he can't do it. Pool is full of these phony baloney gurus, BD has two of them writing and teaching in that mag. Neither one can run a rack, one of them does not even play pool, he plays 3-cushion but writes like he is the the God of Pool and world wide expert on the subject. It all makes me want to puke.
This is my postion, have a newbie teacher have to prove he can break and run a rack of 8 ball in one hour. Go to lunch, come back, now he has to break and run a rack of 9 ball in one hour. If he does that, he can go forward to earn his teaching credential. Give him two hours for each one if you wanted to be really liberal at it. If he fails, tell him to go home and learn how to play pool before he attemps to go out and teach others to play a game he knows nothing about. I'll be fair about this, I will take the same challenge, I'll do exactly that and put it on my first DVD, proving I really can run 3 friggin balls which there are people swearing I cannot do. I'll break, run a rack and out, and just to say up yours to the guys saying I can't run 3 friggin balls, I'll do it one handed.
If you made all the BCA teachers do that now I'd make a very serious wager that the BCA program probably would go from 114 teaches to less than 50 overnight. That is where I am coming from on this subject, so if you cant run a rack, there is a ton of stuff you don't know that you cant pass on to me. It's the teachers who cant play who are the ones who are giving the teachers who can, the bad name and repuation. I hope this makes my position on this easier to understand.
You don't have to be Mike Sigel to teach pool, but you do have to be able to run 8 balls to teach is what I am saying. My 2nd position is this as well, if you are a teacher and you are not using a camera and filming the lesson, you are not a pro teacher, you are just a guy screwing the student out of fifty bucks. No teacher in Golf ever conducts a lesson without it being filmed. A series of filmed lessons progresses a student foward at a rate 4 times faster that the old fashioned yak and talk to them method of old and those are PGA stats. If you are a student and your paying this guy to teach you who's too cheap to go out and buy a camera and use it, they you are paying him 4 times too much so he can save money. You are being hosed by him. Find a teacher who has a camera and who is a real teaching pro and avoid the pretenders and the amateurs who are not.
Ah hell, every time I bring this up, all hell breaks loose and these guys come out of the wood work after me. I swear I am never going to explain this thing again or go there again, it's a no win thing for me to do so.
. Don't get upset when you are forced to eat your own words. The fact that you only got "upset" when I "teed off" on you shows that you have aggression issues. And, you come across as an idiot 
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