about US: People Suck at Pool

TRUTH #1: The essence of pool is to pocket a ball and then attain position for the next object ball.

TRUTH #2: Every billiard ball made since the very beginning of the sport, is laden with VISUAL DESIGN DEFECTS!

TRUTH #3: The CEO’s of Aramith, Cyclop, Dyna/Spheres and Vigma do not care about the people who struggle playing pool. The saga that I have endured for the last 8 plus years has come down to creating this Website. There’s over 8.2 billion people in the world today and I would have to say that a very small percentage of that total amount actually has the skills necessary for regularly pocketing either 8 or 9 balls in a row without missing.

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WHAT THE REAL PROBLEM IS!

Probably 99% of all people playing pool are just basically meandering aimlessly on a pool table. Everyone loves the sport, loves the game, but when it comes to playing and shooting, most everyone else just basically SUCKS and everyone feels that they personally are the problem and deficient in some way or another, whether the reason is geometry, physics, chemistry, lack of practice, a full moon, quantum physics, poor motor skills, ya da, ya da, ya da. Well, say it isn’t so Joe. I will tell you the truth. It’s not any of that. What the real problem is, is that every set of pool balls being made today is laden with VISUAL DESIGN DEFECTS for “Sighting & Aiming.”

The real truth of the matter is that after teaching pool for the last 30 years, “THE REAL PROBLEM WITH POOL IS DUE TO THE WAY THE BALLS ARE COLORED.”

Balls are mono-chromatically colored and this even includes the way the stripe balls are colored. There are no visual reference points on pool balls except for the number’s graphics and the edges of the stripes on stripe balls, but both together only helps a minimal amount of time. This is why people that play 8-ball prefer to take the striped balls.

When you have an object or space that has only one color, you have a huge amount of VISUAL CAMOUFLAGE that is occurring. In pool, 3D balls visually appear as 2D DOTS! In 8 ball everyone always prefers to take the stripe balls because the edges of the stripe, on stripe balls, tends to provide a shooter with very minimal visual reference points necessary for “Sighting & Aiming.” Only helps minimally but let’s face it, something is a lot better than nothing.

So, trying to contact the specific desired contact point on the equator of these object balls is a nightmare especially when the 3D balls are projecting a visual appearance of a 2D DOT! Don’t forget that this 2D dot’s equator is not just an equator. What you’ve failed to identify is that this equator is actually a PROTRACTOR!

So, when you’re looking at an object ball straight on, 180 degrees can certainly give you a slippery slope that can potentially do some serious harm and don’t forget about the rest of the ball’s 180 degrees out the back side of the ball to take into consideration when you’re thinking about kick shots!

WHO IS TO BLAME?

Well, for the last 8 plus years, I’ve been on a crusade. I designed the image you see on this page in order to prove to the major billiard ball manufacturers that there actually is a problem that significantly makes pool so difficult. Ask the people around you, how they feel about pool. Most will say they like to play occasionally but they actually admit that they suck at it. What the image provides is that there is a solution to making the sport of billiards more fun and more user friendly.

At the top of my list of manufacturers is Aramith, who declares that they dominate 85% of the world market. This figure is outdated just like the thinking of their current CEO Yves Bilquin, who might add: “doesn’t know how to play pool.” WOW squared! I tried to obtain a licensing agreement with Aramith and their previous Iwan Simonis CEO Curt Bossyut (who also doesn’t know how to play pool), but they just seemed to ignore what truth my image brought to light.

The next manufacturer, Cyclop/Dyna/spheres, comes under the same CEO: Adrian Wang. Well, Adrian pretty much totally ignored me. I’d have to say that I don’t actually know if Adrian knows how to play pool, but I would have to honestly say that I doubt it very much because I do know he’s seen my 6 ball image before for a fact.

The last manufacturer I’ve talked to but got very little communication from was Vigma out of Hong Kong and that CEO was Stanley NG. Stanley doesn’t care about billiards at all. He cannot be bothered one bit.

I would like everyone who visits this Website and Podcast to realize that if they truly love the sport of pool, they should consider personally going out of their way to contact each one of these CEOs to plea to them the need to change their attitude and products for the sport, as the world needs this recreational sport and game that’s necessary for stress reduction.