Training Camp in Arizona - Page 22

Or what about Basketball? Who needs coaches. I can stand in the court and shoot the ball all day. I'll figure it out in my own time. I mean, it's not like there are coaches in the NBA. All those players are professionals that don't need help anymore to figure out what they lack in their game. Or what about those StarCraft: BroodWar Korean gamers? They don't need coaches. Flash is already the best, what else is there to learn or prepare for?

I grew up on a 70 acre horse ranch. My dad was a horseback riding teacher. People would pay to ride a horse properly. Why didn't they just get a horse and just learn how to ride it? You can basically learn yourself on your own time, right?

In reality. Many people can't learn things on their own about some things. Some have natural talent for certain things and that is why there are super stars/geniuses but then you have those that just work hard AND learn from the best in any way possible.

I know I was terrible at SC:BW until I started getting help from the EG guys. Even you Ballistixz. I'm sure there are things you have no idea how to do and probably don't want to put in the time to learn on your own. For example: What if you wanted to learn how to write HTML? Pretend you're back in the early days of computing and there were no guides or coaches for HTML. What if all the guides you could find were just like our SC2 forums here on TL? Rampant OP's from people with 3 posts claiming X or Y unit is imbalance. If there was a tutor that said: "Hey, for $5 I can teach basic HTML coding." Would you jump at the chance or tell him to fuck off because he's only out to get your money and isn't really interested in helping you.

I worked on a dude ranch during my last year of High School. You would get some of these rich folks that thought they knew how to ride horses and they would bounce around all over the place, endangering themselves and the horse, due to their real lack of ability to ride the horse but they would REFUSE riding help (Which they ALREADY PAID FOR) because they didn't want to look like they didn't know what they were doing. Some of them were smart people though and accepted my help and would tip me extra even though I would explain to them they had already paid for the training but they were grateful for the extra help. (Training I got from my Dad who got it from John Lyons at a week long training camp. God, my Dad is so dumb for going to a training camp and paying a huge sum of money to learn how to do something he could have learned on his own, right? -_- )

Anyways, the basic point is. There are hobbies some people want to learn how to do and understand they won't be the next Tiger Woods or Micheal Jordon. They just want to have a hobby they can do well at, have fun with, and relax to have a good time. To release stress, not cause it because they don't know what they are doing. Why else do we play flag football, or soccer, or little league baseball, or StarCraft? I know I have no desires of grandeur of being a great SC2 player but I know I am a great teacher at helping people. You can ask my CPL team how much time I spent with them before I moved here to Arizona and if they improved at all. I wasn't anything higher then C+ Protoss on Iccup, but I still helped them with basic flaws in their gameplay.

Now look at Incontrol, Machine, Inka, Louder, and LzGamer. They were the top USA players for StarCraft and now they are looking to share their game experiences from not only SC:BW but using their natural talent for SC2 they are looking to help those that want to get better at that game. Look at the guestbooks on the website and see if we are wasting people's time or money. Many of them only want to be able to beat their friends and that's it. Some just want to get to Silver and be content there. Not everybody wants to be the best, they just want to understand and enjoy a great game.