Got My 9 Year Old Grandson To Listen To Me.
He challenged me at a game of 9 ball. His technique was awful, squeezed the cue and swung it like a ferris wheel, miscuing most of the time. I tried to get him to listen to me to make a couple of easy changes, but he knew it all. I quickly won the 1st 2 games, and finally I make him a deal, changed the grip he had on the cue and leveled off his stroke. That was my deal to him, try those 2 things and if they don't work go back to what you were doing. He conned me into letting him break since he lost the 1st 2 games. He made the 9 ball on the break and stood there in shock, and so was I, and he was recording everything on a video camera.
He came back and won the next 2 games to beat me, with a few mulligans, using the 2 little changes I suggested. He does listen to grandpa once in a while.
I left his house and made it home, a 2 hour drive, got a text from my daughter, the kid just beat her too, dad is next on his list.
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... that a good pool player is the sign of a misspent youth.
And he was a pretty good pool player to our young eyes.
