Who here takes summers off??

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mrpool06

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I typically take the summers off from playing pool, other than an occasional game or two here & there (once or twice a month). Although, I suffer for it at the beginning of league, I find it takes me at least a month to get my game back.

I've thought about playing through the summer, at least once a week...then bumping it up a month before league starts again. I want to place in the top 10 players in league next year.

I guess it probably depends on how much a person loves pool....yet I do tend to get burned out towards the end of the year, feeling that a break might be a good thing.

Opinions??
 
I play less pool in the summer, but I don't quit. I'll play in the weekly tournaments around the city, but I don't play league during the summer. And yes I find that in the fall, my game isn't where it was in the spring.

Maybe I'll join the local CPA(apa) league this summer just to keep my edge.
 
Now I play 3-4 months a year seriously, and the rest of the time I go back to real life and work like a slave lol. It takes me about 2-3 months to get back to where I was before I quit, every time. :(
Trouble with that is, the action is poor because people want weight that you should be playing even because you are playing poorly- Or the action that you can get, you don't want any part of.. it's too tough!
 
mrpool06 said:
I typically take the summers off from playing pool, other than an occasional game or two here & there (once or twice a month). Although, I suffer for it at the beginning of league, I find it takes me at least a month to get my game back.

I've thought about playing through the summer, at least once a week...then bumping it up a month before league starts again. I want to place in the top 10 players in league next year.

I guess it probably depends on how much a person loves pool....yet I do tend to get burned out towards the end of the year, feeling that a break might be a good thing.

Opinions??
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That's when I get to play( school teacher). Unfortunately
everybody else is golfing.
 
I started playing again in April 2002 after a 14 year stretch of not even so much as picking up a cue. I've taken enough time off. In the past four years, I don't think I've gone longer than 2 weeks without getting on a table, but I was fishing then... almost as much fun! :)
 
I still try to get some pool in during the summer, although I stay away from league. I try to catch a money shoot or play here at home.

I find I am having the opposire problem, and have noticed it the last two seasons. I come into league shooting gangbusters. Around Decemeber-January my game falls off...some nights badly (in my mind, anyway), and then it picks back up to shooting very well to the end of the season. I liken it to when you're really tired and hit the 'wall', and then catch your 'second wind'. Very odd indeed. I am wondering if it's due to the fact that there are too many breaks in league play during the end of November, and then from Christmas thru New Years. No clue, but would certainly like to figure it out.

Lisa
 
I play less in the summer, but that still amounts to 3-5 times per week. IMO if you quit playing altogether in the summer you don't really "love" pool.
 
The pool scene goes very quiet over the summers around here, too much to do after being snowed in for months on end. We're expecting a bit of snow later today, it looks like it hit Billings earlier today ... thanks a lot for sending it up here mrpool06 :mad:

Dave
 
As of right now (3:13pm), no snow here in Billings. It was nice at lunchtime, my wife & I went for a walk.

I just "blew" the snow & cold weather up your way, we didn't want it down here! :D
 
I live out here in Southern California and I play Pool just as much in the summer as the rest of the year. You get these perfect sunny skies, day after day after day. You need a good indoor sport just to get away from it after a while.
 
DaveK said:
The pool scene goes very quiet over the summers around here, too much to do after being snowed in for months on end. We're expecting a bit of snow later today, it looks like it hit Billings earlier today ... thanks a lot for sending it up here mrpool06 :mad:

Dave
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Ha ha Dave, it's those crazy Calgarians that sent it your way. I was talking to a client this morning and he said it was snowing so hard that they couldn't see the buildings across the street.

:( We're supposed to get a bunch here too, so far it hasn't showed.
 
I never take any time off. Play year round, 3-6 hours a day. But... I own a pool room and the tables. I have been doing this for about 6 months now and it has really picked up my game.
 
My off time is from mid-June to early-August. I might see a pool table maybe 4-5 times during that period.
 
Cane said:
In the past four years, I don't think I've gone longer than 2 weeks without getting on a table, but I was fishing then... almost as much fun! :)
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Hello fellow angler!

Last summer I got back into fishing, and pretty much quit pool cold turkey. For me, pool is something that I have to play 4-5 times a week or my game deteriorates considerably. I guess it's the whole muscle memory thing.

-Roger (think about pool when I'm not catching dick, think about fishing when I'm watching the other guy run out...)
 
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