Stick Pool With A Stick

My typical fee for billiards lessons is $50 an hour. Too little for my advanced expertise? Perhaps. But I’ll discount the cost even further if I feel the student both needs some extra time and is advancing well.

Case in point. I gave a delightful couple lessons this week. He is returning to the game after many years away, she is a newbie but wants to partner her husband in a fun activity, and in giving to the game, she is also giving quality time to him. “He’s so wonderful, she says. I’d like to spend this time with him at the poolroom because he gives so much to me, always.”

A sweet sentiment. And their pool skills sweetened over the course of the evening. I didn’t alter his fundamentals much, they were already sound and sharpened some more after he read my pool book. Yet there was one flaw I needed to correct, and I only needed to hit him in the head with a pool stick to do it.

If you are like my typical billiards students, no matter how advanced your stick pool is, I want to hit you in the head with the stick, too. Try my exercise and see what I mean…

How would Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, have put it?

“Chief! It’s the old…”

Stick Pool With Your Head On A Stick Trick

Billiards Photo courtesy of MorgueFile.com