Why can't women play as good as men?

xidica said:
I know a lady (Tara McKracken) who shoots out of Clicks on Marsh and Rosemeade that has wiped the floor with many a road player and pro who's come through. The girl ran 9 racks of 9-ball on me one night and then I proceeded to win one, break dry, and she ran another 12 on a 9 foot brunswick with simonis 860 and this is not the best she can play...
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I don't want to be confentational but I want to know sonething. What were the pocket sizes, and define running racks? Did she break, pocket a ball, and run out to the 9 every time, or did she have to push out once in a while? Did she come up dry once in a whle and you missed and she ran out? Just currious...

Pete
 
What I'm dying to know is does Tara McKracken have a brother named Phil McKracken?.

I used to tour with a guy named rusty bedsprings, and he always wanted to sleep on the top bunk. He had a cousin named I.P. Knightly that would tag along and make a real mess. Those were the good old days.:D
 
xidica said:
I know a lady (Tara McKracken) who shoots out of Clicks on Marsh and Rosemeade that has wiped the floor with many a road player and pro who's come through. The girl ran 9 racks of 9-ball on me one night and then I proceeded to win one, break dry, and she ran another 12 on a 9 foot brunswick with simonis 860 and this is not the best she can play...
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I gotta call Shenanigans here
 
Women in the past have spent their youth not doing eye hand coordination sports or activities, this early development is huge, boys definitely got the jump on them in the past, not now.

Women/Men, the only real difference is the pool of male players is much larger than the gals in the past. Take a 5A school against a 1A school in HS sports, that is real, 1A schools are at a huge disadvantage.

Women now adays are in sports like never before so the gap is closing and the eye hand coordination is now being learned at an earlier age.

Gals growing up in a pool room culture was not acceptable to their parents and famiy therefore minimizing their presence.

Times have changed, I just read a gal in WI this past week has got a spot on the men's pro bowling tour, qualifying and now competing with the guys and a real threat, it's great for the game of bowling.

The game of pool comes down to time at the table, proper training and nothing more. Sex has little to do with billiards, it's a special quality billiards has over all other competitions, strength is not an issue.

Golf may be one of the more telling examples of women competing against men. Strength seems to come into play and my perception is the courses that men play on are set up way more difficult than the womens tour. The womens events have groomed the links and putting surfaces to make their skill appear equal to the men. I only watch golf (don't play it) but I can physically see the differences in the courses. The womens tour needs their product where birdees and low scores are important, the public doesn't enjoy seeing the best in the world not being able to shoot below par.
 
It's TRUE

The reason that women can't play as well as men, is that their jiggily parts get in the way....
Doug
( I've been studying this for a looooooong time )
 
Klopek said:
Fast Larry, is that you?. :D
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AZB Detective Klopek is hot on the trail to catch Fast Larry, in whatever clandestine identity he may assume. :)

Good work in catching the Icon of Sin's impersonator! :D
 
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ussually what happens....

in my vast experience with playin that sexy little species called women is they cant quite figure out why they are bent over at the pool table with nobody behind them.:D ;) :p
 
I'm going to get torched in for saying this... I don't think it's the level of players they play, the % of who plays what, hand-eye coordination, the speed of the break-- any of that.

I think men have an "intangible" quality of "want" - a level of aggressiveness, a form of animal-like competitiveness that allows them to hit the next level. Call it hormones, testosterone, whatever. But it gives them a level of bear-down and "contempt for the opponent" that 99.999% of the women don't have. I hope people don't view that as being sexist, because I don't think it is. I've only seen that quality in 2 or 3 women MAX...Jasmine, Allison and POSSIBLY Jean.

People who only think pool is hand-eye coordination with concentration will have no clue what I'm talking about - so FLAME AWAY:)
 
I think women are every bit as good as men, but they hold back and let us win so we won't withold sexual favors later on.:D
 
SpiderWebComm said:
I'm going to get torched in for saying this... I don't think it's the level of players they play, the % of who plays what, hand-eye coordination, the speed of the break-- any of that.

I think men have an "intangible" quality of "want" - a level of aggressiveness, a form of animal-like competitiveness that allows them to hit the next level. Call it hormones, testosterone, whatever. But it gives them a level of bear-down and "contempt for the opponent" that 99.999% of the women don't have. I hope people don't view that as being sexist, because I don't think it is. I've only seen that quality in 2 or 3 women MAX...Jasmine, Allison and POSSIBLY Jean.

People who only think pool is hand-eye coordination with concentration will have no clue what I'm talking about - so FLAME AWAY:)
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So if a guy played with dolls and such from ages 1-8 and a gal played baseball, basketball, soccer from ages 1-8 and then they both played pool for 5 years they guy would be better, hummmmmmmmm.

Another thought, you could also say women in any situation have allot more going on mentally than a man. If you tell a man to look at a women and give you their feedback and then have a woman look at a man and give you feedback, one will find the women notices allot more things than a man. With that being said, the more you have mentally going on the more possiblities you have for distraction, on the other hand if you think about more you can also be more creative and actually do more. But when its all said and done, who cares?
 
Playing pool well is mostly about developing very finely tuned and nuanced muscle movements and the ability to repeat those movements consistently through muscle memory. In general, then, the better one can develop and then consistently repeat those movements the better one can play.

If there is a genetic-cum-physiological difference between men and women that (at least in part, since I think the other factor in the equation is social) explains why men have more prowess at pool then why wouldn't it be because men are better wired genetically and physiologically to consistently and accurately repeat those muscle movements via muscle memory than women?
 
Smorgass Bored said:
The reason that women can't play as well as men, is that their jiggily parts get in the way....
Doug
( I've been studying this for a looooooong time )
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Unless my boobs are jutting out from my sides, I don't see how my jiggly parts are in the way of anything! :eek:
 
Boobies !

Originally Posted by Smorgass Bored
The reason that women can't play as well as men, is that their jiggily parts get in the way....
Doug
( I've been studying this for a looooooong time )

jema888 said:
Unless my boobs are jutting out from my sides, I don't see how my jiggly parts are in the way of anything! :eek:
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Aw, don't go getting all 'technical' on me or you'll ruin my 45 year 'study'..
Doug
<snort-snort jema said BOOBS, snort-snort>
 
Women players...

I know a lady (Tara McKracken) who shoots out of Clicks on Marsh and Rosemeade that has wiped the floor with many a road player and pro who's come through. The girl ran 9 racks of 9-ball on me one night and then I proceeded to win one, break dry, and she ran another 12 on a 9 foot brunswick with simonis 860 and this is not the best she can play...

I wasn't going to comment on this subject. But "Xidica" you must be smoking some real good stuff! Here are a few things to think about...

1. If she is that good...why ain't she on the road playing for cash?

2. There was a standing offer by someone in California (name witheld), but he will easily play her $10,000+ in 9-ball or 1-pocket.

3. I don't know anyone who ran 21 racks in 2 innings.

4. You kinda young I guess...I doubt she is that good, but thanks for blowing her action.
 
floppybear said:
I know a lady (Tara McKracken) who shoots out of Clicks on Marsh and Rosemeade that has wiped the floor with many a road player and pro who's come through. The girl ran 9 racks of 9-ball on me one night and then I proceeded to win one, break dry, and she ran another 12 on a 9 foot brunswick with simonis 860 and this is not the best she can play...

I wasn't going to comment on this subject. But "Xidica" you must be smoking some real good stuff! Here are a few things to think about...

1. If she is that good...why ain't she on the road playing for cash?

2. There was a standing offer by someone in California (name witheld), but he will easily play her $10,000+ in 9-ball or 1-pocket.

3. I don't know anyone who ran 21 racks in 2 innings.

4. You kinda young I guess...I doubt she is that good, but thanks for blowing her action.
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1. Don't know, just met the chick.
2. See #4. Looks like I knocked her action right?
3. I never did either.
4. See #2. A player this good could care less if you know she's good or not.

I don't even know this girl, first time I ever played her and maybe I'll see her again sometime. I have no reason to lie about an unbelievable probably one in a million run I saw.
 
Its a brain thing. Biological men use one part of their brain more then women.That's the part where the lay out of the table get's visualised easier for them as for women. It's natural for them and you do not need to be smart to be a good 9 -ball player. Allthough you need to be smart to be the best in 8 ball and straight pool because tac tics are involved in those games. Tac tics is what is hidden the other part of the brain and that's the part women use more. Very Good women and men players naturaly use both parts. Next to that factor you can look at percentages. In the Netherlands there about a thousand male players that play competition. 64 of them are good and only 8 or 10 are very good and only 4 are excellent. There are about 100 women players in teamcompetition only 34 played the dutch championships and only 5 are good and 2 are excellent.

So simple fact 1000 men equal 100 women. from 1000 men 4 men are excellent and from 100 women 2 are excellent. So come again why are women not as good... i do not see it!
 
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It's really pretty simple. Women lack the power stroke and I'll tell you why! I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but men just have way more experience stroking their sticks. You see, most women have that little, dainty, "oh-I-don't-want-to-break-it" stroke. Men know it isn't going to break and they aren't afraid to stroke it! Yeah, baby!
 
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