What is your primary objective?
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BigCat said:What is your primary objective... #6 - Other:
"To crush the enemy
See them driven before you
And hear the lamentations of their women"
Conan The Barbarian
I was thinking the same thing Big Cat, here ya go:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...594&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8
a little long...
For me it was other only because all of the rest were also part of why I play...
I play because of the way that I am wired pyschologically. I am a creative, right-brained lateral thinking type of individual. Billiards provides an outlet for me. For me,every time I approach the table I am given this huge chess match that I get to try and solve. And in doing so I also get to use a tool that was designed for this exact purpose. So now, to play at the top of our game we must have a wedding of the cerebral and the physical.
The game, for me, transcends sport and moves into the realm of art for certainly, when a player is at his best, he is an artist circling this giant chess board, moving his armies about, weighing defensive and offensive options all the time.
Of course there is the other part of me that just wants to beat this person into the ground to the point they sell their cue and give up pool...
For me it was other only because all of the rest were also part of why I play...
I play because of the way that I am wired pyschologically. I am a creative, right-brained lateral thinking type of individual. Billiards provides an outlet for me. For me,every time I approach the table I am given this huge chess match that I get to try and solve. And in doing so I also get to use a tool that was designed for this exact purpose. So now, to play at the top of our game we must have a wedding of the cerebral and the physical.
The game, for me, transcends sport and moves into the realm of art for certainly, when a player is at his best, he is an artist circling this giant chess board, moving his armies about, weighing defensive and offensive options all the time.
Of course there is the other part of me that just wants to beat this person into the ground to the point they sell their cue and give up pool...
I play to get better so I can gamble with another person, beat them, then I can make money and go have fun.
It's therapeutic for me. I can have a really bad day, and be in the $hittie$t of moods, then hit balls for about 30 minutes and feel like a new person.
Mike
Mike
BPG24 said:
Golf, a release??? I guess that's a personality thing. When I was a 15 year old caddie (do caddies exist anymore) watching people putting balls in the woods, water hazards, and generally places they don't belong, I said this game is not for me. I'd spend the whole time cursing if I played golf.
2 3 4
4 For years I only played for fun. I was never into gambling but I have always loved the game for it's strategy and the artistry of it.
Then I got beaten. I had been beaten before but this was different. It was by my son who had for years looked up to his dad as a great pool player.
2 I put this down to as my reason. I still play for number 4 but I need to improve my game a lot so I am reading books and practicing for the first time for something I had always thought of as just for fun.
3 I am practicing to get good enough to beat my son once more. Then I will be happy and go back to 4, just for fun.
PS for any of you who know who my son is, you know I have a long road to hoe.
PPS for anyone who sees Mike regularly, tell him I am coming, not today or tomorrow, but it will happen.
4 For years I only played for fun. I was never into gambling but I have always loved the game for it's strategy and the artistry of it.
Then I got beaten. I had been beaten before but this was different. It was by my son who had for years looked up to his dad as a great pool player.
2 I put this down to as my reason. I still play for number 4 but I need to improve my game a lot so I am reading books and practicing for the first time for something I had always thought of as just for fun.
3 I am practicing to get good enough to beat my son once more. Then I will be happy and go back to 4, just for fun.
PS for any of you who know who my son is, you know I have a long road to hoe.
PPS for anyone who sees Mike regularly, tell him I am coming, not today or tomorrow, but it will happen.
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catscradle said:
LOL
I hear you. Golf can be very frustrating, but even when it is frustrating it is a release from the rest of the world. Once you hit a few good shots, you forget that ball you duck hooked into the forest
Caddies do still exist some places. Their roles have changed alot, mainly they are used as guides for resort courses with blind shots and things like that.
Golf carts have killed the old school caddy. Although there are courses that still ban the use of carts.
