New techniques for basics

Well, at least you didn't break your cue...

Sing "I feel pretty" like in the Sandler movie Anger Management

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chin0 said:

How"s everyone doing? Hope you all are better than me lol. So I am discovering new techniques to practice my strokes... here is the instructions:

1. Get very very mad
2. Find the nearest 4 inch thick hardwood door
3. With all your force, punch it with your shooting hand repeatedly around 4 times until knuckle prints are on there.
4. Resulting with two broken knuckles:

So for the next 6-8 weeks. I will be learning a new way to shoot pool. Got any brilliant ideas to help? Other than the suggestion of not punching stuff when you are mad and keep my temper in control? Just thought you guys might find it funny.

Happy shooting!

Chino

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gotta try to stay calm and let it go. losing my temper never caused me to hurt myself but i've lost some cash because i couldn't regain my composure

Use an open bridge....very open. Live and learn!

Sorry to hear that about your hand.

Frustration used to be a big part of my game, and I know how upsetting it can be, and difficult it is to control your emotions. Starting the first couple of years, it was the the largest barrier that kept me from improving and playing well. I'm the same person, as well.

The only thing that slowed me down was growing up and growing older. Having a son, and not wanting him to see me behave that way also was a factor. It's very juvenile and unbecoming of an adult who can't control their emotions. It's also kind of sad in a way.

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you find another channel for your emotions. It's not like it ever goes away, for people like myself, but you eventually have to find a way to control it.

Lol

Chino brotha, I broke my stroke hand the same way about 10 years ago man! After about 4 weeks I tried to play pool in a tournament with the cast still on there and after scratching on my first 9-ball I took the damned thing off myself with a hacksaw before my next match! Took second in that tourney, but my second knuckle is a bit bigger than the rest now. LOL

Play to live...live to play...

Thank God, it wasn't my bridge hand! I guess then I would have altered the cast to be somewhat of a mechanical bridge.

A fortunate outcome, and you can adapt

Chino:

Pool-playing-wise, you are fortunate in that you broke only the regressive/inferior fingers of your stroke hand (i.e. the ring and pinky fingers). Believe it or not, you can still play pool. Modern pool and snooker technique advocates using only the primary fingers of the gripping hand (i.e. thumb, forefinger, and the optional-but-recommended middle finger). You can still grip the cue, but instead of the natural floating-in-space curl of your ring and pinky fingers around the cue, these will instead be pointing straight down towards the floor. A caveat of this is that if you have to reach a draw shot that is located in the middle of the table, the rails of the table might be in the way of your downward-pointing ring and pinky fingers, preventing the application of a level cue to the cue-ball.

You might notice some discomfort at some points in your stroke, when certain muscles come into play, and "tug" a bit on the injured fingers, since the hand "wants" to curl those fingers but they are now immobilized in the cast. You'll just have to focus on having a relaxed hand, to try and prevent these muscles from pulling on those fingers. Additionally, you might experience some discomfort as the arm hangs down perpendicular to the cue, since blood will pool in that hand, causing a painful throbbing effect. (I speak from experience here -- in defending myself in a bar one night many years ago when I was in the U.S. Navy, I broke my hand against someone's cheek bone in a bar fight (shattering the guy's cheek bone in the process), breaking the very same fingers you broke. I've experienced what it takes to try to play pool with a broken grip hand, and it's not fun, but it's possible. You'll just have to adapt, like I did.)

I hope this is helpful info!
-Sean

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Too bad, the door won. :grin:

Next time punch with your first 2 knuckles. They don't break easily.

Mental note...

When takin' on a 4" thick wooden door don't use fist....go with TNT or some other form of explosive device...you'll be kickin' that door's ass in no time! :grin-square:

A chainsaw would've shown that door who was the man!

chin0 said:

How"s everyone doing? Hope you all are better than me lol. So I am discovering new techniques to practice my strokes... here is the instructions:

1. Get very very mad
2. Find the nearest 4 inch thick hardwood door
3. With all your force, punch it with your shooting hand repeatedly around 4 times until knuckle prints are on there.
4. Resulting with two broken knuckles:



So for the next 6-8 weeks. I will be learning a new way to shoot pool. Got any brilliant ideas to help? Other than the suggestion of not punching stuff when you are mad and keep my temper in control? Just thought you guys might find it funny.

Happy shooting!

Chino

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The problem is definitely in your follow through. When you get healed up, get with a SPF instructor. After a few sessions you will be able to destroy that door without leaving as much as a scratch on your hand.:smile:

i gotta type fast before this smart mouth stewardess makes me turn my phone off. here's what i think:

- you got frustrated because you think your games is better than your dogging actions

- accect that your game is in fact not above your dogging...get better self assessment

- in order to get better, you have to make changes

- find a coach to help you with those changes

- accept that you'll dog worse than ever for 6mos to a year until you're comfy with the changes

you'll eventually become consistent and know why you miss. it's a hard commitment....to go back a few speeds intentionally. many egos cant take it. i dropped about 2 balls in speed for 6mos until my adjustment began to feel natural.

i hope u get better soon, chin!

Neil said:

Sorry, but you won't get any sympathy here either. You should have been studying, not playing pool. Studies come first. That's the key to your life, pool is entertainment for all except a very few of us.

As far as technique, you need to work on keeping your hand more square to the target. When you hit off angle, as you did, you put too much force on the weaker bones, and they tend to snap. Learn to distribute that force over the other fingers. Granted, you get more force to the target with a smaller area hitting it, but you put yourself in danger that way, and I really don't think the wall even noticed it.

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Neil is right. The fore and middle finger knuckles are what you should hit with. But then again you shouldn't hit doors anyway (as you now know).

Pete

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chin0 said:

How"s everyone doing? Hope you all are better than me lol. So I am discovering new techniques to practice my strokes... here is the instructions:

1. Get very very mad
2. Find the nearest 4 inch thick hardwood door
3. With all your force, punch it with your shooting hand repeatedly around 4 times until knuckle prints are on there.
4. Resulting with two broken knuckles:

So for the next 6-8 weeks. I will be learning a new way to shoot pool. Got any brilliant ideas to help? Other than the suggestion of not punching stuff when you are mad and keep my temper in control? Just thought you guys might find it funny.

Happy shooting!

Chino

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I knew a guy years ago who broke his wrist on his stroking arm. When he started back playing he could not do anything with any force. He would just come in and stroke the balls around by himself. When the cast was off and he started back playing he played way above his previous level. In fact over a short time he became a very good player. It seems the period of time with the broken wrist was sort of a therapy for what was his previous bad stroke. He was playing smooth as silk. By the way, I once put my fist through a plate glass window.