Timothy Majors

Nickname:  “Lastdimetaker”

At Sticks Training Academy, I offer a student-focused learning strategy for those who want to learn and those who want to improve. The goal is to develop understanding and ability to the point that execution begins to work at a subconscious level: I do this stroke. I get that cue ball.

Everything we do at Sticks Training Academy revolves around three mindsets and three training goals.

The Black Dragon Mindset says: I’m here to learn.

The Yellow Dragon Mindset says: I’m here to train.

The Red Dragon Mindset says: I’m here to compete.

Those three mindsets give purpose to what we are doing at the table. They are supported by three fundamental training goals.

Training Goal #1: Create a consistent, dependable, repeatable stroke that allows you to focus on your object-ball target while trusting that you are going to hit your cue-ball target.

Training Goal #2: Develop a deeper understanding of the cue ball with the mindset that the cue ball is nothing more than a source of feedback. Every result gives us information, and that information gives us an opportunity to learn.

Training Goal #3: Learn to look inward from an outside perspective in a way that allows the student to eventually coach themselves.

My philosophy when it comes to learning pool is simple: becoming a pool player is a do-it-yourself project. Nobody is going to do it for you. Nobody is going to save you. You have to save yourself.

My job as an instructor is to offer information, guidance, and feedback in a way that promotes growth in the right direction. More importantly, I want the student to have access to that feedback when I’m not there. The objective isn’t to create dependence on an instructor. It is to develop a student who increasingly understands what they are seeing, recognizes what their results are telling them, and knows how to respond.

I have been offering pool instruction for more than 18 years, but my credibility as an instructor comes from something deeper than the number of years I have been doing it: it comes from my desire to learn. I remain a student of the game because I believe the better I become at learning, the better I become at helping another student learn.

I believe an instructor is only as good as the feedback they provide. At Sticks Training Academy, my goal is to provide feedback that doesn’t end when the session ends. I want to give students information they can carry to the table, test for themselves, question, understand, and eventually use without me standing beside them.

Because ultimately, the goal isn’t for the student to need me.