What's Wrong With Making Money?

[CocoboloCowboy]

bchilton...I haven't seen too many "certified instructors" who couldn't run a rack, if all the balls were hanging in the pockets, but there may be some. The bottomline is that rarely are the best instructors the best competitors (in any sport). Teaching and playing are two different mindsets and two different skill sets. Do you need a certain ability level, to be able to demonstrate what you're teaching (which is why there are different levels of 'certified instructors')? Yes. Do you have to be a champion player to be a great teacher? Nope!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

IMHO Scott is 110% Correct...:grin:

 

[pooltchr]

There are some good and some great instructors out there, but there are some who are not qualified in my opinion.

You are correct. There are also good roofing contractors and bad ones. There are good electricians and bad ones.
You can't lump all instructors into one catagory. But you need to evaluate them on their teaching skills, and the material they present to their students, not their ability as a player. Remember, you are hiring them to teach, not to play.

Steve

 

[KRJ]

Not so Fast

I agree with you to a certain point, but if you are going to teach a subject, you should at the very least have a firm grasp of the subject matter, ie, you should be able to execute the things that you are trying to teach.

There are some good and some great instructors out there, but there are some who are not qualified in my opinion.

Well of course there are some instructors who are not qualified, and most of them are team mates who think they know too much, or actually know too much but can't channel that into teaching to someone so they can actually learn from it.

Also, I don't think Joe Paterno can throw a football 50 yards with pinpoint precision or block a 340 pound line man, but I'll bet you my lunch money he can show someone how to do it. Many baseball managers were average to below average players in their careers but were students of the game. Just because they were limited in their skill set surely does not mean they can not teach someone that has superior athletic skills but lack the fundamentals and/or mechanics.

How many folks in an APA league know a good instructor in the area, or what pool books to buy, or good cues to look for. This site opens the door to everyone and if someone wants the lessons, let them take it. I have yet to see someone on this site that took a lesson from any of the instructors from this site say they did not receive excellent assistance.
That itself should say they are all pretty darn good !!

 

[Scott Lee]

bchilton...I agree with you, and I addressed in my post that you quoted. As far as good and not so good teachers...you can find that anywhere, in any sport, or occupation, for that matter. The best teachers are recognized for their contributions, by their students (and sometimes their peers)...they don't have to "promote" themselves.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

I agree with you to a certain point, but if you are going to teach a subject, you should at the very least have a firm grasp of the subject matter, ie, you should be able to execute the things that you are trying to teach.

There are some good and some great instructors out there, but there are some who are not qualified in my opinion.

 

[JB Cases]

I'm probably going to get flamed on this but I don't get it.

There's a number of folks that post on here that have a problem with, Instructors particularly, who offer their services. On most occasions a poster is asking for advice or lesson and when an instructor offers advice or lessons they get grief for doing so.

What's wrong with making a living or supplementing an income teaching how to play pool and billiards? What's wrong with telling someone the truth that certain things just can't be taught with words on some forum.

What puzzles me the most is it's nearly impossible to make a living at this sport and when someone does they get vilified. Cue Makers charge too much. Case makers are robbers. The paraphernalia mfg's are in the gimmick racket. Then on the other hand it's fine and dandy to rob someone in a game of 9 ball cause gambling is what you gotta do to learn this game. If you put your house up that'll make you play better.

And we all wonder why the game is going nowhere.

Give it a break. If someone is asking for something and someone else offers to supply what's asked for, let it be. The asker doesn't have to buy. At least there's a seller. In the old days there were no sellers. Would that be better? Willie Hoppe comes to mind. He went to his grave with most of what he knew.

Done

I haven't read any other responses.

There is nothing wrong with offering something for sale. I think it's sort a love by the sword die by the sword type of thing when a seller chooses to make their offerings in an open forum.

Anyone who comes on a forum like this and offers their services should also be willing to take criticism of their product and be able to stand the heat.

As consumers we rarely have the chance to confront the "makers" of the product and tell them how we feel. On here we do.

Having said that I do feel that many people are unfair or ignorant in their comments. But that's kind of the nature of the beast when people aren't required to have any particular qualifications or experience or education in order to make comments.

The problem with the information age is that it provides as much "bad" information and "noise" as it does good information. More actually since creating good and accurate information usually means someone had to work at it and providing ignorant and inaccurate information requires nothing more than typing a bunch of nonsense.

So the reader is left to sift through all this information to try and figure out what's good and usable. And unfortunately many take the easy way and do very little research and they end up repeating the bad information.

 

[Bigtruck]

Is my signature too big? :shocked:

Ray