I decided that my pool school was not going to be like other biliards schools. Nothing wrong with what they do, but I wanted to do more then what others were doing. That was when I decided to make it a school that gave you real-life experiences at the pool table.
I do not use up the students’ time with all the fancy methods used by other schools. The Institute is pure hands on, the old fashioned way of teaching, student at the table all the time and working on something that he came to me with because he had the problem.
I want the student to get more then he or she was looking for when they come to me. I have been to many other schools and they all have a class or course that is much the same at every school. I didn’t want to be like every other school, I wanted something that was different but still made points about how playing pool is easier then most think it is.
There is not a secret to playing pool well in my opinion. It simply takes a good knowledgeable instructor to bring out a good student.
I am so pleased to see so many sides of the mental pool game taught at The Institute. Even beginners learn eye patterns, pool physics and geometry, the inner game, strategy, mental approach, ball patterns… tell us more about the pool math, pool multiplying and adding, you have been teaching lately…
The methods I use are nothing like other schools, as I didn’t want to follow the same path they were on. My mission is to give the student solid material to work with in matches and practice methods that will work if they put in the time required. I have made so many things easy to understand that my students often comment that I did make it easy for them to see things differently.
One example: How to aim without using the cue ball. This is like pure gold and most players ask how come the books don’t tell you how easy this is without the cue ball? It’s not that they don’t know, they just don’t want to tell you how to make it easy. In my opinion, they make it a mystery for the student and I remove the mystery from aiming.
Seeing that I was unsatisfied with all the books basically saying the same things and the schools teaching the same things no matter where you go, (there are a couple of exceptions) I drafted a curriculum for teaching in a totally different way. Which gave results almost instantly to students.
