I currently play on the Dessert Classic Tour full time and The United States Professional Poolplayers Association (the "UPA") tour occasionally when it comes to Arizona . This tour experience will help me guide you though the pressures of improving your game and playing at a higher level.

            Another improvement the ABA has made is the option of complete private lessons. The lesson is conducted on a pristine 4 ½ x 9 Diamond pool table. The ABA video camera is mounted on the wall. The video analysis occurs on a 52-inch LCD flat panel TV mounted on the wall. Student feed back has indicated the most rewarding part of the lesson is the complete privacy. Students feel they can ask more questions and feel they are in a more relaxed atmosphere. I have some students that do not want their competition to know they are working on their pool games.

          In a few months, I will achieve the next level in the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) system. This is only part of my ongoing billiard training to provide the best lessons possible to my students. Update: I have completed all the training to become a certified BCA instructor.

          Over the last few years, I have seen the hourly rates charged by instructors increase in the billiard-training world. My rate structure has changed over the years and I have found a simple hourly rate works the best. Update: New hourly rates for a completely PRIVATE billiard lesson experience

The student and teacher relationship is very important to me personally. I have taken many of hours of lessons and let me share some of the problems I have encountered over the years.

• Instructors not starting at my current skill level - I felt I had to pay for the information in all the lessons just to receive what I needed.

• Instructors that do not play any high level competition - it was always hard for me to believe someone that has never been under the “BIG” pressure.
  
   
• Being told there is only one way to do something
  
  
  
  
• Low rated handicapped instructors
  
  
  
  
• Being told you have to practice 8 hours a day and if you do not improve, it is not their fault, you did not practice enough.