Sandbagging 101. I'll give him this match, Now I’ll take this match, Then I’ll give him this match, Ill take this match, here is an opportunity for me to miss the pocket, here is an opportunity to win this one. Let me safety like this cause he cant kick this. I got ball in hand I will now run the table…hm.. Maybe Ill let him win this one by hanging the nine. Ok now Ill take this one after I rack.

I’m-talk’n, about non-professionals here…

Sandbagging 101, continued

Your sandbagging! What does that mean? Can you be a D/D+ player and have the skill to sandbag? That’s like saying; I get the ball in the hole 60% of the time every time. That makes no sense…

It takes more skill to sandbag than it does to get the ball in the hole… Too identify some one as a “sandbagger” is indicating that-that person (the sandbagger or one who is sand bagging) is in control of the match or matches they play with you from beginning to end; manipulating results with great skill. How good does one have to be, to think, “today I’ll lose, then tomorrow I’ll win.”  You have to be pretty damn good to think you can win and lose anytime you want. Unless your gambling on your win and lose manipulation-attempts, and hope you get the results you want, then again, how many D’s, C’s and B’s do you know whom can afford to just give away games, and then know they can take games when they simply want to? Gamblers? Money players? What if you are not a money player, what if you like to gamble once in a while but have a real job? What if, you just have a transcended aptitude for the game? Along with being fearless fast and free. What if one, or a even a team develops a rapore for there environment quickly?

One’s aptitude for billiards, for some pool players, develops and adapt quicker then most billiard handicap systems can keep up. Meaning, yes, some one can be truly a D one-day and jump up a level or two with minor adjustments or just a simple reminder for an adjustment; like the kind of verbal tweaking in the head that can really affect your game. Handicap systems sometimes cannot keep up with one’s fluctuating skill. Confidence, poise, attitude, these behaviors can make the difference in one getting the ball in the hole one day and blind to it the next.

More importantly in the case of sandbagging accusations. One would have to have a series of losses to actually be a sandbagger. A sandbagger does not have a series of wins, nor does a team.

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