Whats the worst thing?

Thanks for the great responses.

For me the worst thing that has happened to my game is that I had become satisfied with my ability. I settled more or less. It was getting harder and harder to reach my goals and I got lazy and called it good enough. Because of that I lost some of my desire that drove me to improve.

It's not always easy to look at yourself and point out the things about yourself that you are not happy with, but I think that by acknowledging our problems we can start to overcome them.


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Attitude

For me it is my attitude without a doubt. Alcohol was a factor in my younger days but now it is my mental approach to life and the game of pool. I just turned 60 and have worked diligently on my mental approach to life and pool. I had a fairly tough time recently losing both parents and having severe health issues all of which dragged me down for a while. By applying a positive mental attitude to both, my life and pool game have improved dramatically. I'd like to thank Alf Taylor personally for the inspiration to change towards a positive living and thinking lifestyle.
 
alcohol

Donny Lutz said:
When I was a young man, alcohol "impaired" lots in my life, including pool. Now, nearing seventy, it's my eyes, my memory and my endurance.

Donny L
PBIA/ACS Instructor
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Same with me along with, drugs, lack of any proper instruction. now i'm getting a little older 56 eyes are not what they used to be. But i'm playing better than i ever have.
 
In 1998 I finally bought a house big enough for a pool table, but for some reason I didnt put one in. My game "went to sleep" until last year when I got another house. This time with table. :grin:
 
Getting married and having kids changed my priorities for the better. I tore a shoulder ligament in my twenties which really slowed down my game for a couple of years. And my eye sight started to go in my late thirties.

But now my kids are mostly in college, the shoulder is all healed up, and a couple of contacts have my eye sight back to normal. My game has never been better, but now I no longer have the killer instinct I once had, so I only play once a week or two. It doesn't help that there is hardly any action in the pool rooms any more at least not near me.
 
The worst thing that happened to my game was when I didn't care if I won or not. Though that could also be the best thing that happened. I suppose it depends on perspective.
 
Learning about sidespin too early and developing the habit of twirling in every single ball. Held me back by about 10 years. Probably not a fascinating blog topic though.

Marriage wasn't bad for my pool game, so much as my pool game was bad for my marriage.
 
KoolKat9Lives said:
Unscrupulous people have deterred me from placing more emphasis on playing pool on a broader basis and working harder at improving.

I have met a lot of terrific people in pool, but unfortunately the deeper you get into pool, the more you have to face the fact that there's a lot of other people that will shark, lie, cheat and steal. :mad:
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Me too, sadly. But I also have to throw in cancer, a spinal fusion, arthritis and 5 eye surgeries. But I'm mostly disappointed in some of the people I used to admire.
 
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The worst thing that could have happened to my game, did. I got old.
The eyes dimmed. The stroke got a bend in it, that seldom matched the one that developed in the cue shaft.
And, if all that wasn't bad enough, there's not enough Quervo in the world to fix it. :)
 
Had a pool table in the house and was able to hit a few balls every day. Even though it wasn't structured practice, I kept in stroke for about a year. We then split the room to make a bedroom for one of my kids, took the table down, and I have been without the table for about 5 years now. Moving into a new home that has a game room upstairs and am trying to convince/coerse/bribe my wife to put it back up. I think I will win the battle this time. Never sold the table - an 8' Anniversary Brunswick. Also kept a few gameroom novelties: antique gas pump, slot machine, Color of Money movie poster, etc. I hope it all comes together!
 
I thought the shoulder surgery was it but......

Cdryden said:
What is the worst thing that you have had happen to your game? The one thing that has had the most negative impact on the way you play.
Was it a bad beat, drugs, getting old, eyes going bad or a accident that left you impaired? Or maybe you got married to someone who didn't share your love of the game.


The reason I ask is that I am writing an article for my blog about my own experience and I was wondering what others have gone through.

So lets hear some stories from folks that have been playing for awhile, what was your one thing?
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Good Thread........

I thought the right shoulder surgery was pretty tough on my game and it was. After 45 days I still couldn't get a fork to my mouth with my right hand.

I was already diabetic but finding out was huge because now I knew why my game would go in the tank for no apparent reason. Low or high blood sugar.

But I have to say the worst thing for my pool game was when I was jacking up the motorhome, a 27' class A Fleetwood southwinds, 18,000 lbs, and it fell on me had to be the worst.

Most people when they have a near death experience their whole life will rush before them like a movie they say.

My only thought except for trying to breath of course was, this is really going to screw up my pool game. How long will it be before I can play again?

And then again, my pool game and the motivation to play and compete again is what pulled me through all the pain I endured for 6 months. It would have been real easy to give up.

On the pain scale from 1 to 10. The first 2 months were a 10 and the 5th and 6th month were about a 4.

It's been a year since this pool and life changing event and I'd have to give it a 2 on the pain today. Still have to ice every night or I can't play pool the next day.

I can live with 2. And happy to be alive and thankful............
 
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