bluewolf
07-03-2003, 11:28 AM
When Fran started her Life before ccb thread, things got real quiet, except for myself and maybe 1-2 others, everyone that posted was a very experienced pool player or a very good instructor. And guess what, myself and those other two who are not at some lofty sl did not did creamed. Now what does that tell you? They want us to stay!!!
They just want us to be careful what we say. I did not take this personal, even though I have been guilty of the very thing they were talking about. We had a saying in narcotics anonymous about not wanting a person with two days clean trying to tell a person with one day clean how to stay clean.
The difference between you and me? All of those experienced people you heard share went to the 'billiard school of hard knocks'. You heard them:many hours of table time, years and years of hard work, figuring out things often for themselves.
Well I have not been to the same school they went to because I have only been here on ccb and playing for about 10 months. But I went to the ccb school of hard knocks. I made mistakes when I got here, thought I knew stuff about pool I didnt, even gave advice, sort of like a white belt in karate trying to tell the black belt how to do karate.
I can laugh about it now and have tried to make apologies where I needed too and stayed and let it go, emotionally I mean, to the best of my ability.Sometimes I still blow up and have to apologize. I am not perfect and now know that considering many people and what they know here, I know next to nothing about pool. But I do not believe that most people want me to go away or not be here.
I feel very qualified to tell you about how confused I was when I got here. I did not know who was who or what was good advice and what wasnt. I did not know who Earl Strickand was and they were talking about him when I got here. I kept hearing about table time and did not even know what that was either.It took me a long time to figure out who to listen to and that was after my head spun around a few times like the girl in the exorcist or something. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I thought I was supposed to take it all in and do it all at once and I was confused. It was too much too soon.
I finally learned after many months and trying the patience many times of almost everybody here what I was ready to learn and what I was not ready to learn. Once I started a thread on english. Well I found out it was way more over my head than I had realized, closed the thread and did not read about it anymore. I just was not ready.
What I now do as far as my pool is to get something simple off here from the people who know what they are talking about, go practice it. That is about all. Lots of the stuff I hear here, it is over my head and I just have to skip it.
The non pool forum is good for having fun. Lots of topics are okay to post on too like opinions about sandbagging, cuz that is just an opinion about something that does not have anything to do with a person's game. That is my opinion of course.
Not much more I can say. I imagine I will screw up from time to time and give an opinion that sounds like advice, but you have my signature line and you know it is the opinion of a beginner not an expert. And please listen to the experienced people here. Find out who they are.
Advice is cheap and opinions are like a holes, everybody has one. But some opinions are like gold ie people like fran and many others.
Believe me there is lots of rich pool knowlege here and lots of experience.
Catcha later. Scott will be here in 30 minutes yipee
Laura
They just want us to be careful what we say. I did not take this personal, even though I have been guilty of the very thing they were talking about. We had a saying in narcotics anonymous about not wanting a person with two days clean trying to tell a person with one day clean how to stay clean.
The difference between you and me? All of those experienced people you heard share went to the 'billiard school of hard knocks'. You heard them:many hours of table time, years and years of hard work, figuring out things often for themselves.
Well I have not been to the same school they went to because I have only been here on ccb and playing for about 10 months. But I went to the ccb school of hard knocks. I made mistakes when I got here, thought I knew stuff about pool I didnt, even gave advice, sort of like a white belt in karate trying to tell the black belt how to do karate.
I can laugh about it now and have tried to make apologies where I needed too and stayed and let it go, emotionally I mean, to the best of my ability.Sometimes I still blow up and have to apologize. I am not perfect and now know that considering many people and what they know here, I know next to nothing about pool. But I do not believe that most people want me to go away or not be here.
I feel very qualified to tell you about how confused I was when I got here. I did not know who was who or what was good advice and what wasnt. I did not know who Earl Strickand was and they were talking about him when I got here. I kept hearing about table time and did not even know what that was either.It took me a long time to figure out who to listen to and that was after my head spun around a few times like the girl in the exorcist or something. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I thought I was supposed to take it all in and do it all at once and I was confused. It was too much too soon.
I finally learned after many months and trying the patience many times of almost everybody here what I was ready to learn and what I was not ready to learn. Once I started a thread on english. Well I found out it was way more over my head than I had realized, closed the thread and did not read about it anymore. I just was not ready.
What I now do as far as my pool is to get something simple off here from the people who know what they are talking about, go practice it. That is about all. Lots of the stuff I hear here, it is over my head and I just have to skip it.
The non pool forum is good for having fun. Lots of topics are okay to post on too like opinions about sandbagging, cuz that is just an opinion about something that does not have anything to do with a person's game. That is my opinion of course.
Not much more I can say. I imagine I will screw up from time to time and give an opinion that sounds like advice, but you have my signature line and you know it is the opinion of a beginner not an expert. And please listen to the experienced people here. Find out who they are.
Advice is cheap and opinions are like a holes, everybody has one. But some opinions are like gold ie people like fran and many others.
Believe me there is lots of rich pool knowlege here and lots of experience.
Catcha later. Scott will be here in 30 minutes yipee
Laura