SmoothStroke said:

Sports & Hobbies:
Many shooters (archery, firearms) or photographers try to switch dominance to match their handedness, which can improve accuracy.

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I don't have a strongly dominant eye although I am right eye dominant. Shooting a pistol fast I kept both eyes open and exercised to strengthen the right eye's dominance.

Then I started shooting benchrest rifle. Now the weak eye needed to be stronger to read wind flags so I strengthened it.

What is confusing is that the eyes don't see anything. They create signals and send them to the brain. Then the brain turns the signals into images. That allows for some really strange things to happen sometimes!

Hu

Others have already mentioned this, but fillers new pre shot routine (staying down on the shot forever, many little practice strokes) is really unconventional. It will be interesting if he continues to experiment with it, I suppose it’s working this weekend

Rocket354 said:

Who knows where she'll end up, but if she continues she will definitely be a contender on the international stage.

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She had better break her bad habit of pouting, moping, and sulking when things don't go her way. Her mental game is still quite a ways behind the top women players, especially the Asian women.

I'd also like to see better sportsmanship out of her when she loses a match. Her handshake is not sincere in the least, and she never looks the victor in the eye during the shake.

Maybe in the next year or two she can mature to the point where she is not beating herself up after misses/bad positioning. We will see.

I wish her all the best. I hope my damaged heart holds out long enough for me to see her win a "big" one someday.

mikepage said:

You've cited several good examples Stu.
An interesting contrast is Pia Blaeser, who as a 17, 18, 19, and 20 year old was performing in the 640-650 range, 30+ points below where Savannah and Sofia are now and about 80 points below a teenage Kristina Tkatch.

She did get a new sparring partner after that...

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Yes, good example. We'll see where all of this lands.

Mensabum said:

That's why I never played one pocket in my youth. Too impatient to see the complexity of the game.
You had to slow your stroke for certain games and I liked to let the horses run.
Thank goodness that has changed.

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Fortunately for my game I associated very hard shots and excess side spin. When I quit watching the cue ball zing around the table I started shooting a lot softer. Soft to medium is as hard as I shot most of the time. Goes with I liked to get the ball rolling if not shooting stun or draw.

Different styles. There were nights I played four to six hours and realized I hadn't used over half a tip of side even once. This was especially true on barboxes where I was also more inclined to spin the cue ball hard the last shot or two just for grins sometimes. Tuning my game or playing for higher stakes I almost never used spin. When I did use more than tiny amounts of side spin it had been planned before the run started. I tried not to play too well.

Hu