Did you play pool when younger, and then got away from it for decades with family and career? Do you wish you could find a low-key way to keep your body moving, keep your muscles toned, improve your flexibility, and exercise your mind with thoughts of patterns, shot selection, and strategy? Do you wish to do all of this in a safe air-conditioned environment, with no 95-degree heat, sun, sand, sweat, or bugs?
And, most importantly, do you wish to have fun with new friends smashing brightly colored balls into holes with a satisfying thwack! Do you wish to feel that sense of accomplishment, and hear the hooting and hollering when you make a shot way over your head, with big smiles and compliments? Well, then pool might be for you.
The community’s Billiard Club has just formed a Billiard Academy, to formalize guidelines for understanding and mastering the fundamentals of pocket billiards. Instruction is free, at your own pace, and whenever you want. There’s no registration, no curriculum, no structure – all you need is a desire to move, learn, grow, and have a good time.
There will be a class every Thursday starting at 6 p.m. running for one hour or until questions stop in the Arbor Activity Center Billiards Room. Individual coaching is also available from a BCA/PBIA-certified instructor.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never played before, or even if you don’t know which end of the stick goes toward the ball. The game of pool has an especially appealing quality, and that is, you don’t need the slightest bit of ability to still have a lot of fun.
The joy is in the doing, the striving, in keeping your body active and your mind young, in having something that you can do either just to bang balls, or to have a goal of personal improvement. Many of us are stagnant, just existing from day to day.
I, for one, want more … to continue to learn, to try new activities, set goals, and to be all that I can be. Age is just a number – don’t let it define you. Get off that couch, move, think, do, set a goal, learn something new, and stay young in your mind. If that sounds like a plan, we’re here for you!
