I've been thinking about many things in regards to pool lately and thought I would throw down some of my thoughts.
I haven't been able to play much pool lately because I have been making sure that my priorities are in the right place, but it won't be long before I jump back in the saddle.
My bro was playing in recently in a a halloween APA tourney down in san diego and I went down to visit with him and shoot some balls around.
we played a set and it went back and forth and I was able to remember something about my preshot routine that allowed me to play the last five games pretty sporty and come back and win the set. It also got me to thinking.
How many of us that get into a funk every now and then and don't play to our ability are really just forgetting some of the aspects of fundamentals or preshot routines that we've worked on and just for the life of us can't remember what we were doing to play as good as we sometimes do?
Many people get really good or pretty good or better than average by feel or by learning a system, but there is one thing that all players have in common. They consistently do the same things when they are in stroke and consistently are inconsistent when they are out of stroke.
Sometimes it may be something as simple as forgetting a fundamental, like proper stance, or something as complex as not realizing that an injury has changed the way your arm moves.
I think that we can all benefit by taking notes of what we are doing when we are successfull and what we are doing when we are not so successfull. I DO understand that we usually are playing our best when we are not thinking about what we are doing.
When we are practicing, however, there is no reason that we shouldn't be thinking about what we are doing and then seeing what it is that we are doing when we are successfull and making note of it.
Nove to Dec of last year I was practicing about 8 hours or more a day and I was playing probably the most consistently at the level I am capable of playing that I ever did, but I don't think it was the practice that necessarily did it because I hadn't played much at all in the month before I played my bro and as soon as I remembered the part of my preshot routine that I wasn't doing my game went back up.
I think it was that during that month and a half, I was eating right, had lost weight, was exercising, and most importantly, I had been taking notes and actually working on what conscious actions had the best results.
It happened to be the part of my preshot routine that was the last thing I did and thought as I was stroking the ball that I had remembered when playing my bro that made the biggest impact on my game (atleast that time).
I just wanted to share this thought with everyone and see if it might help others to start working on what conscious preshot and shot thoughts are the most successful so that when you get out of stroke, you can review your notes to see if you had forgotten something.
Hope this helps someone,
Jaden
I haven't been able to play much pool lately because I have been making sure that my priorities are in the right place, but it won't be long before I jump back in the saddle.
My bro was playing in recently in a a halloween APA tourney down in san diego and I went down to visit with him and shoot some balls around.
we played a set and it went back and forth and I was able to remember something about my preshot routine that allowed me to play the last five games pretty sporty and come back and win the set. It also got me to thinking.
How many of us that get into a funk every now and then and don't play to our ability are really just forgetting some of the aspects of fundamentals or preshot routines that we've worked on and just for the life of us can't remember what we were doing to play as good as we sometimes do?
Many people get really good or pretty good or better than average by feel or by learning a system, but there is one thing that all players have in common. They consistently do the same things when they are in stroke and consistently are inconsistent when they are out of stroke.
Sometimes it may be something as simple as forgetting a fundamental, like proper stance, or something as complex as not realizing that an injury has changed the way your arm moves.
I think that we can all benefit by taking notes of what we are doing when we are successfull and what we are doing when we are not so successfull. I DO understand that we usually are playing our best when we are not thinking about what we are doing.
When we are practicing, however, there is no reason that we shouldn't be thinking about what we are doing and then seeing what it is that we are doing when we are successfull and making note of it.
Nove to Dec of last year I was practicing about 8 hours or more a day and I was playing probably the most consistently at the level I am capable of playing that I ever did, but I don't think it was the practice that necessarily did it because I hadn't played much at all in the month before I played my bro and as soon as I remembered the part of my preshot routine that I wasn't doing my game went back up.
I think it was that during that month and a half, I was eating right, had lost weight, was exercising, and most importantly, I had been taking notes and actually working on what conscious actions had the best results.
It happened to be the part of my preshot routine that was the last thing I did and thought as I was stroking the ball that I had remembered when playing my bro that made the biggest impact on my game (atleast that time).
I just wanted to share this thought with everyone and see if it might help others to start working on what conscious preshot and shot thoughts are the most successful so that when you get out of stroke, you can review your notes to see if you had forgotten something.
Hope this helps someone,
Jaden
