BILLIARD SHOP – BRINGING FAMILY AND FRIENDS TOGETHER

Since 1968 Billiard Shop stores around Queensland have spoken about the social benefits of playing Billiards.

Today Billiard Shop more than ever stands behind its slogan “Bringing families and friends together.”

While Australian households that have grown up with Billiard Tables are acutely aware of the great social benefits this play, scientific research is also increasingly recognising this.

Science supports the notion that play benefits learning or in scientific language, there are cognitive benefits of play.

Clinical psychologist Dr Eric Fisher who penned, The Art of Empowered Parenting: The Manual You Wish Your Kids Came With, highlights one-on-one sports, like tennis and gymnastics as having tremendous benefits as they allow kids to shine individually without being overwhelmed by having to compete for field time.

Dr Fisher’s recommendation is referenced with ways to help shy children break out of their shell.

According to Billiard Shop’s Luke Johnson, “the one on one aspect of Pool is a great way to help grow a person’s confidence and character.”

“As they grow and their skills develop the social interaction associated with the table game also has tremendous benefits,” Mr Johnson said.

While life experience and common sense tells us of the enormous benefits of playing this one-on-one sport, the Neuroscientists of this world require more concrete evidence of the positive effects playful behaviour has on a child’s ability to learn.

There is no ethical way to test this on a human so research falls on rats.

In 1954 Neuroscientists experimented raising some rats in boring, solitary confinement and others in exciting, toy-filled colonies.

They concluded rats raised in stimulating environments had bigger brains and were smarter, able to too find their way through mazes more quickly.

It seems likely that human brains respond to play and exploration in similar ways.

“The reality is that great mates, of all ages, are being forged every week around a Billiard table and that mateship leads to a whole other range of healthy active life experiences,” Mr Johnson said.

Billiard Shop has stores in Townsville, Mackay, Toowoomba, Maroochydore, Bundall on the Gold Coast and services Brisbane at Macgregor and Aspley.

These stores have a complete range of tables of various sizes and budgets along with attachments that transform them into Tables Tennis set-ups.

Billiard Shop’s expert advice will marry up your wants with particular tables and can even offer finance to ensure the good times roll by “Bringing family and friends together.”