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Hello all. I posted a thread looking for advice for someone starting out a few hours ago in the coaching thread.
I played a fair bit of pool as a teenager. Usual stuff of putting a few pounds on it with other school dodgers to try and win beer and smokes money. I made more than I lost, although it's a close run thing as there was one guy who would always hammer me and my friends. It was worth losing money to him because it always improved our game.
Snooker has always been in the back of my head. I used to watch a lot of it on telly before I gave up on telly. I remember being nine or ten and my grandfather giving me a loan of his snooker videos, mainly a Terry Griffiths one. He banged on about stance in it, and I ended up playing pool with a weird hybrid pool-snooker stance. My mother still tells the story of the time my father and uncle said they'd take her father out for a few frames for a few hours to get him out of the house. He said, "I'll be back in a minute" ran upstairs, grabbed his cue, took them to his club and wiped the floor with them!
Anyway, I played a few games of pool for the first time in about ten years the other night. (In a weird nightclub. There was about five of us, a couple arguing on a couch, the bar staff, a DJ and the owner. The owner likes pool so he put a pool table in, and we were in there long after they should have closed up shop.) I did a bit of searching online and found a snooker club in the city that's less than half the price than an "entertainment complex pub" so I'm planning on heading there the next time I get a chance.
I played a fair bit of pool as a teenager. Usual stuff of putting a few pounds on it with other school dodgers to try and win beer and smokes money. I made more than I lost, although it's a close run thing as there was one guy who would always hammer me and my friends. It was worth losing money to him because it always improved our game.
Snooker has always been in the back of my head. I used to watch a lot of it on telly before I gave up on telly. I remember being nine or ten and my grandfather giving me a loan of his snooker videos, mainly a Terry Griffiths one. He banged on about stance in it, and I ended up playing pool with a weird hybrid pool-snooker stance. My mother still tells the story of the time my father and uncle said they'd take her father out for a few frames for a few hours to get him out of the house. He said, "I'll be back in a minute" ran upstairs, grabbed his cue, took them to his club and wiped the floor with them!
Anyway, I played a few games of pool for the first time in about ten years the other night. (In a weird nightclub. There was about five of us, a couple arguing on a couch, the bar staff, a DJ and the owner. The owner likes pool so he put a pool table in, and we were in there long after they should have closed up shop.) I did a bit of searching online and found a snooker club in the city that's less than half the price than an "entertainment complex pub" so I'm planning on heading there the next time I get a chance.