I’m putting in some table time and I’m on course to be in
decent shape when I make my return to county next year. I’m also hoping to
qualify for county by finishing in the top eight of the county-wide
interleague, which pits the best players from different leagues in Surrey
against each other.
In my most recent match, we played an all-ladies team and
they had some solid players. I met a few of the newer county ladies, too,
and this was good. I also saw a teenager play and her temperament was
superb. I went over and had a chat with her parents later and, after explaining
that I wasn’t some sort of weirdo, said I’d like to spend some table time with
her because I think I could help her game improve.
I’m really excited when I see potential and I think I
could help her develop into a really good player. It’s a path I’ve trodden once
before when I spent some time with a county junior player and helped him become
an England international.
If I’m going back to play county pool, I also like the idea of
helping to bring somebody else through. It will help focus me and give me a
defined pre-match routine for practice and it will also mean they get something
out of it by practising with me.
It’s something I’ve learnt from a decade and a half of
martial arts: by teaching others we help refine and define ourselves
I hope she and her parents realise it’s a genuine offer
and don’t peg me as some sort of freak.
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