Caught a Beating!

Had pool league last night and it was the playoffs. Fortunately the team won, but sure not with any help from me. I lost 3-0 in games and points. I played ok, but the other guy played lights out and got every roll. Not the first, nor last, beating I'll ever take like that. I'm still annoyed about last night, but I don't think it's from my pool. As I've stated, I'm attempting to not let outside factors get to me. They did, I was annoyed from the outset of the night basically. Couple guys in the pool hall acting a fool and in very close vicinity to us. I even got annoyed by the people on my own team, asking and doing stupid things (pool wise) and I was annoyed early on. It's my fault, I always say that "people don't know what they don't know". I don't know everything there is to know about pool but I'm pretty seasoned, and my knowledge is far superior to anyone else on the team.

I'm not the best teacher in the world, honestly, I'm probably a pretty below average teacher in pool. Everything I do on the table is self-taught and 2nd nature. So putting into words what I'm doing is often difficult (especially for an introvert) and I struggle to properly convey the message I want. As mentioned, I learned by doing. And thusly, by failing, over and over and over. I've learned the hard way what is "right and wrong". Now, I'll be the first to say there aren't many things in life that are right and wrong, much less in a game of pool. There are a few hard and fast wrongs though, and when challenged about the wrongness, I get perturbed. Admittedly, he was asking "why" is it wrong, not necessarily that it was correct. I have to say to myself, "Yes I'm good, yes I know what I'm talking about but that doesn't mean someone should blindly take my opinion as fact." And questioning the "why's" is how to get better. I sure as fuck wouldn't accept "it's wrong, trust me" as an answer. If it's so fucking wrong, show me. That's what I should have, and will do, in the future.

I also got frustrated with my player on the first game, of the first match. My buddy is playing and played several safeties in a row and was about to be payoff time and then he banks at his last ball, misses, and leaves shape on the 8 for his opponent. I was so mad. I'm mad because I got him into pool and he's progressed very nicely and I want him to keep getting better. Safety play is one of the hardest to learn and he was doing it and it was soooooo close to payoff time and he stopped!! I was baffled. But again, you don't know what you don't know. I will explain to him what the correct play was and show him how to play this particular safety.