Re: Major progress accelerant tip for teaching beginners

On Dec 30, 12:25 pm, Hass <BHasselb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 30, 10:40 am, Fast Larry <fastla...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Dec 29, 4:16 pm, Fast Larry <fastla...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 29, 1:11 pm, carlton-redf...@xxxxxxx wrote:

I'm getting on in years after playing for over 50 years and thought
that for whatever novices it may ultimately help, I'd like to pass
along my time-tested skill acquiring tip that is a major accelerant to
the progress of beginning men and women pool players:

-- *Abandon for an entire year* all playing of full-rack 8-ball (7
stripes, 7 solids, plus the 8-ball). In spite of being nationally the
most widely played form of pool for amateur players -- on home tables
and in all billiard parlors -- nothing will forever keep you at a very
weak beginner level more than this version of practice play.

During more than 40 years as a paid (and occasionally voluntary)
billiards instructor for commercial pool rooms, high schools, military
bases, fraternal organizations (Elks, V.F.W., American Legion) and a
number of adult community activity programs, I've brought more than
two thousand students rapidly to an intermediate/advanced level in
less than a year's time via a demonstrably efficient game substitution
to EXPRESS 8-ball.

After an initial lesson in pool playing fundamentals, and in addition
to outlining *solo* practice sessions that stress their newly acquired
techniques for aiming, stroking, shot making, spin usage, etc., I
always request and recommend that for one full year all casual play
with other beginners -- spouses, friends, neighbors, visitors -- be
games of *Express* 8-ball (4 stripes, 4 solids, plus the 8-ball).

For the first time in their playing experience their 8-ball table
layouts are suddenly uncluttered, full of open, higher make-
probability shot options. Shot cutting rapidly improves and position
playing now advances ten times faster because the patterns
(relationship of a shot to the next likely shots) are so much easier
to see and achieve with far fewer blocking balls. The playing rules
for Express 8-ball are identical to full-rack and its racking method
is the same diamond formation as for 9-ball. The 8-ball is in the
middle of course, and the formation goes:

-- First row: a lone solid ball (use the 1-ball, it's a bright
breaking target)
-- Second row: two stripes
-- Third row: a solid, then the 8, then another solid
-- Fourth row: two stripes
-- Fifth row: a lone solid

So, if you're teaching a beginner or are fairly new to billiards
yourself, remember that beginners have the rest of their life to play
full-rack 8-ball (and to play it well, hopefully along with 9-ball and
Straight Pool) but first use Express 8-ball to give them/yourself a
solid year of rapidly building their skills to an intermediate, nearly
advanced level faster than any other method I've ever seen or used on
my own students.

-- Carlton

That is easily the dumbest fookin thing I have ever read. A ding dong
like U are gonna get along real good here. People take up the game
to play, have fun doofus, not do fookin drills.

The only way you get better at pool, is playing people better than
you. Then learning how they beat you. Imulating
what they do. Getting tips from them. Join a league as a 2 or 3 and
begin competition asap. Then as your skills increase so does your
rankings. Take lessons early on from a pro teacher to insure your
basics are solid.

And realize pool is full of ding dong teachers Hu don't no ***. Hu
send U down the wrong paths, Hu destroy your natural ability to ever
be good. There is no such thing in my school as a bad student, there
are only bad teachers Hu corrupt good students into bad ones. And if
the newbie does not find two things quick, fun and success, they
quit.

Welcher.

How can you welch on a bet that was never made, you dont, and you then
lie about it, which is why, one does not bet with a pos like U, Hu.
.

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