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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2294009, member: 1764"] My definition of a sport probably just differs from the accepted definition. IMO a sport requires some level of physical strength and fitness that goes above and beyond your average person. While you have to be strong with concentration to play snooker etc, you don't have to be fit, or strong, or fast, or agile. (FTR, as discussed previously, I also don't rate motorsport or horse racing or sailing or surfing as sports, because it depends on either a self-powered machine, an animal or luck with weather conditions to be successful as much as anything else). But I digress. I think the reason snooker->pool transitions are relatively easy while the opposite isn't true is that snooker is all about not the current shot, but the next one, and the next one. Good snooker players can see their next 3, 4, 5 shots in a row. I'll hit that red into that pocket, apply spin on the ball to bring it back so I can sink the black into that pocket, with the ball positioned for that red...etc. So that lends itself very well to pool - I'll sink that one, then position the ball for that one etc etc. However, a person who's just come through to play pool is more focussed on "I'll try and get that ball in, and if not, leave it on the pocket"...they're not so concerned with precision as leaving a ball in the way of the hole is as good as sinking it sometimes. The more advanced ones also try and position for the next ball, but given early in a game you have 8, then 7, then 6 options, that's not so difficult. In snooker it's pretty much "Sink a red and then try and get the black" to ensure maximum points. At worst you'd look at the pink or blue for 6 or 5 points respectively if you had to. Rarely would you bother positioning for yellow, brown or green. [/QUOTE]

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