Hey, everyone. I had an idea for another puzzle series. I love the idea of instructional videos where the player comments from the table before shooting. I only know of two---Mike Sigel's 100-ball run instructional and AZB's Poolmanis YouTube run. Soon on my YouTube channel I plan to record videos of myself sharing my thoughts before each shot during a run for us to critique, not because I think I know enough at my level to instruct but because I think we can all benefit from a debate over what should or shouldn't be played next and why. Online, we have free access to many video matches of great players running balls. Watching those videos at normal speed is helpful, but I find that pausing them after each shot gives me time to make sense of the table, determine the most appropriate next shot, and more often predict the player's next move.
So how about we go slowly through a single rack, one shot per day, with screen captures of layouts that great players actually faced and worked their ways through? I'll start with the first rack, but please feel free to continue the series with your own screen captures, just making sure to use the next sequential number for the series in the title.
Any comments would be great, but what I think would be best would be for those commenting to evaluate as much of the entire table layout as it currently stands as possible, something like telling the story of each ball and what role it currently plays (clusters, key balls, break balls, insurance balls, problem balls and why, not problem balls and why not, pivot balls, balls that could be bumped into another role, etc.) And be as detailed as you can about the safest, most efficient plan going forward. Plans will change of course as we go through the rack with the player.
If this gets tedious and the series doesn't take off, I won't be offended. That's what eventually happened to the "Run This" series 9 years ago, but we had a good run. :wink:
So here's the first layout post-break shot. What's the plan?
So how about we go slowly through a single rack, one shot per day, with screen captures of layouts that great players actually faced and worked their ways through? I'll start with the first rack, but please feel free to continue the series with your own screen captures, just making sure to use the next sequential number for the series in the title.
Any comments would be great, but what I think would be best would be for those commenting to evaluate as much of the entire table layout as it currently stands as possible, something like telling the story of each ball and what role it currently plays (clusters, key balls, break balls, insurance balls, problem balls and why, not problem balls and why not, pivot balls, balls that could be bumped into another role, etc.) And be as detailed as you can about the safest, most efficient plan going forward. Plans will change of course as we go through the rack with the player.
If this gets tedious and the series doesn't take off, I won't be offended. That's what eventually happened to the "Run This" series 9 years ago, but we had a good run. :wink:
So here's the first layout post-break shot. What's the plan?
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