bluewolf
08-19-2003, 01:45 PM
Someone said in another post that a two hour lesson should be enough and that a 2-3 day pool school might be a bit much or something along those lines. Well I just have to respectfully disagree with that.
I have gotten a lot from my lessons with Scott but that 3 day pool school with Randy G just set certain things in concrete. When you have had someone standing over you for 24 hours over a three day period and correcting you everytime you dropped your elbow, did not freeze etc, well it is nearly impossible for me to drop my elbow or not freeze.
I look around me and see sl5-sl7 miss shots because they do not freeze and pop up on the shot. I see high skill level players scratch because they did not see the tangent line. Now they can beat me all over the place in position and shot making, no question about that, but I always have that wee chance that they will scratch 8 because they did not freeze or did not see that tangent line.
While I have a long way to go, I feel that that pool school experience burned certain things into my brain like hot coals. When I look around and see these fine players make these simple mistakes, it sure does make me appreciative of that 3 day pool school experience I got when I had only been playing pool for six weeks.
Thanks to randy G.that with all of my weaknesses, at least I do not look up, scratch 8 and dog easy BIH shots. Maybe I should not say that but I can say it for my first year of play because I always look at that tangent line. I think seeing really good players do this kind of thing makes me take each shot very seriously and carefully, taking nothing for granted also.
I understand that Randy has a more advanced pool school and while I have continued to get great lessons from scott, I sure do look forward to the day that I am good enough to take Randy's more advanced school.
Laura
I have gotten a lot from my lessons with Scott but that 3 day pool school with Randy G just set certain things in concrete. When you have had someone standing over you for 24 hours over a three day period and correcting you everytime you dropped your elbow, did not freeze etc, well it is nearly impossible for me to drop my elbow or not freeze.
I look around me and see sl5-sl7 miss shots because they do not freeze and pop up on the shot. I see high skill level players scratch because they did not see the tangent line. Now they can beat me all over the place in position and shot making, no question about that, but I always have that wee chance that they will scratch 8 because they did not freeze or did not see that tangent line.
While I have a long way to go, I feel that that pool school experience burned certain things into my brain like hot coals. When I look around and see these fine players make these simple mistakes, it sure does make me appreciative of that 3 day pool school experience I got when I had only been playing pool for six weeks.
Thanks to randy G.that with all of my weaknesses, at least I do not look up, scratch 8 and dog easy BIH shots. Maybe I should not say that but I can say it for my first year of play because I always look at that tangent line. I think seeing really good players do this kind of thing makes me take each shot very seriously and carefully, taking nothing for granted also.
I understand that Randy has a more advanced pool school and while I have continued to get great lessons from scott, I sure do look forward to the day that I am good enough to take Randy's more advanced school.
Laura