How to act while waiting for your shot

[char]

I know I sound like a old fart but dont even think negative thought even in joke. they have a awful habit of sticking around.

I'm so glad I posted my question last night.

Its shown I that must approach this game with a different mental attitude. Your points are hitting a nerve, the truth usually does.

[pottr]

Don't be too hard on yourself. I like to think I have a pretty good temperament but i've only developed to think that way through years of matchplay and practice.

I am more than sure that when I was starting out I was susceptible to throwing the toys out of the pram on the odd occasion or five.

Experience is often guilty of forgetting how things were in the beginning.

I'm still in my 20's but I was brought up to think old school. I'm sorry to say that I firmly believe etiquette is going from the game entirely. I actually posted on the matter previously.

[vmax4steve]

Handicapped snooker winds me right up.

They say it's to make things fair?

What's fair in me spending hours of my life practicing to get to a decent standard only to have to give 60 points a frame away to some old timer who has never cared to put the effort in.

It's fair because without these players then there would be no league at all, not in my area anyway. Thirty years ago when I was new to the league I was given a handicap of +25, which all new players had, and then went on to hammer several of the established players in the league who had to give me 40+ start. That wasn't fair to them, but I was losing out to the higher handicapped players that I had to give 20+ start to who played penny ball snooker (roll in a red and mess up the colours) and gave me practically nothing to go for.
It took a while to learn how to play against these players but keeping my head when they got lucky was absolutely vital.
Nowadays I don't lose my rag when my opponent gets lucky, never hold up my hand if I get lucky and accept defeat in the same manner that I take a win. It's just a game at the end of the day and win or lose you just go home with your penis still the same size it was when you left for the match.

[pottr]

It's just a game at the end of the day and win or lose you just go home with your penis still the same size it was when you left for the match.

Fantastic

[denja]

Fantastic

If all great champions in all sports felt this way they would never have made it, you must have a will to win, there is too much of the give the losers a prize P.C. thinking, why bother to practice if winning is not the end result.

[pottr]

I get what . As a you're saying Denja but I think it's a bit too soon for the OP to start thinking with the win all siege mentality.

As he's a beginner I'm sure you'll agree that it's more important for him to play the game free of anxiety and to enjoy himself.

Besides, I'm still so hilariously charmed by the penis comment that I couldn't possibly argue my views further.

[denja]

I get what . As a you're saying Denja but I think it's a bit too soon for the OP to statr thinking with the win all siege mentality

Attended a school sports day there were no winners every body got a prize you can call me a old fart but life just aint like that all it teaches you is how to lose.

[pottr]

Like the lion said to the rabbit:

"nice idea, but we have claws and teeth"

[denja]

Like the lion said to the rabbit:

"nice idea, but we have claws and teeth"

BIG Fleas have little fleas on their backs to bite them and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infintum

[Davesnooker]

As an opponent you should always:

Pick the colours out and respot them

Count the current break/score

Offer to put back the rest/long tackle

Don't speak unless spoken too.

Stand still and where possible out of eye line

Never move before the opponent has finished cueing the white

When scoring for a high break, don't make a big show of putting your cue down to pick balls out. If you don't do it on a break of 16 then you don't need to do it on a break of 66.

Never dick about with your phone during a frame.

Also, never concede the frame on your opponents shot or unscrew your cue during the frame that really winds me up.

if you can't do that no matter what's happening on the table, then in my opinion you shouldn't be playing the game. Luck on the table always comes full circle. You get the run and flukes and other times you get them against you. You only play the table at the end of the day. Your opponent can't rugby tackle you. Get a grip of yourself and learn to focus.

Think this list is fairly comprehensive.

My pet hate would be my opponent chalking his cue when I run slightly out of position or is expecting a 'miss'. If I convert the opportunity to a 60+ break, he has chalked his cue more than 10 times.

[denja]

Think this list is fairly comprehensive.

My pet hate would be my opponent chalking his cue when I run slightly out of position or is expecting a 'miss'. If I convert the opportunity to a 60+ break, he has chalked his cue more than 10 times.

DONT Leave your chalk on the edge of the table keep it in a pouch or magnetic chalk holder, If you must go to the toilet inform your opponent at sensible lull in the game (dont just bugger off) Try to conduct yourself like a professional manner its amazing how this can rub off on others I find that even some of the young tear-aways like playing me because of my old fashion ideas of conduct, to quote one youngster "Well it feels important like on Telly and you have played a real game" My worst hate is players who take the dignity out of the game with loud talk and swearing, mobile phones, and other distractions (Am I getting old) No I just love the game.

[vmax4steve]

If all great champions in all sports felt this way they would never have made it, you must have a will to win, there is too much of the give the losers a prize P.C. thinking, why bother to practice if winning is not the end result.

For an awful lot of people the sport or game itself is the opponent and that is the case with me and snooker. To not stretch myself in a match and play well within my ability is not a test for me. O.K. sometimes I have to but it gives me no satisfaction to beat a seventy year old who can only roll in easy balls and then run away no matter how big a start I have to give.
There is a correlation between penis size and the will to win. There is a correlation between lack of height and the will to win. There are those who are alpha males who have a need to dominate and there are those who are beta males who don't, just as there are those who are submissives and have a need for leaders. This is true in all walks of society not just sport and games and also shows itself in human sexual behaviour especially among those incarcerated in prisons be they male or female.
So if one has a small penis, is short in height, or an alpha male or all three then the will to win can be very strong, but what one has to understand is that no matter how often one wins, no matter how much money one makes, no matter how blonde one's wife is, one is always the same person and to strive to put oneself into the history books will be ultimately futile because when the sun goes red giant then it all ends anyway.

[denja]

For an awful lot of people the sport or game itself is the opponent and that is the case with me and snooker. To not stretch myself in a match and play well within my ability is not a test for me. O.K. sometimes I have to but it gives me no satisfaction to beat a seventy year old who can only roll in easy balls and then run away no matter how big a start I have to give.
There is a correlation between penis size and the will to win. There is a correlation between lack of height and the will to win. There are those who are alpha males who have a need to dominate and there are those who are beta males who don't, just as there are those who are submissives and have a need for leaders. This is true in all walks of society not just sport and games and also shows itself in human sexual behaviour especially among those incarcerated in prisons be they male or female.
So if one has a small penis, is short in height, or an alpha male or all three then the will to win can be very strong, but what one has to understand is that no matter how often one wins, no matter how much money one makes, no matter how blonde one's wife is, one is always the same person and to strive to put oneself into the history books will be ultimately futile because when the sun goes red giant then it all ends anyway.

In all walks of life you must have people with the will to win Medicine the will to win the battle against disease and cure people with surgery. Music the arts people who have battled on against all odds because there belief in what the were doing Martin Luther King, the list is endless, no matter what your reasons I think the will to win is a important part of the human race without it what would we be.

[MikeWooldridge]

There is a correlation between penis size and the will to win. There is a correlation between lack of height and the will to win.
So if one has a small penis, is short in height, or an alpha male or all three then the will to win can be very strong

b*ll*cks.

didn't you ever see linford christie in the 100m?

will to win has nothing to do how big (small) your d*ck is, OR your height.

i'm gonna assume your had your ass whipped by a short bloke a few times which explains your bitter prejudices

but you are right on one count - alpha male. that's all it boils down to, a natural drive some people are born with, but most are not.

[denja]

b*ll*cks.

didn't you ever see linford christie in the 100m?

will to win has nothing to do how big (small) your d*ck is, OR your height.

i'm gonna assume your had your ass whipped by a short bloke a few times which explains your bitter prejudices

but you are right on one count - alpha male. that's all it boils down to, a natural drive some people are born with, but most are not.

You must have had the will to win in order to set up your business the set backs the cues in your early days that did not turn out how you wanted, taking the risk of going it on your own and the financial risk I think the will to win is not only confined to the sports arena, thousands of people who are worth while members of society try to win each day of their lives I think the guy who wrote about small people and small dicks may have a Napoleon hate complex