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straightline: "Can you provide the logic behind this?"
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Like straightline said: “hit it real hard and moosh the available tit”? Oh, I see you just agreed with him.
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straightline: "Can you provide the logic behind this?"
- By gregcantrall
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Absolutely! So many had natural ability.. Some just worked harder. Hard work does require guidance.Hard work undirected will just make me tired.
For me the challenge is to be a good student. The lessons are out there. Just gotta find them. A favorite story on Efren was how he watched the less skilled players and learned. He would see a badly botched attempt that yielded a strange result. He would then go to his practice table and investigate the fluked shot he had observed. The end result would be a perfected and useful shot added to his repository.
My devoted efforts to improve led me to lessons from Backward Jan. My request for lessons was met with a pure gold answer. It was , Lessons on one condition. Back to the Basics........
Starting over from the ground up was definitely worth the effort for me. One week between lessons and NO Gambling during the course. 6 weeks was my Basic Training duration.
Starting over from the ground up amounted to 1 week to perfect my stance at address. Heck Willie Hoppe startin out, practiced with one ball only for a month. He proofed the method.
Learning to walk before run, in the long run yields fun. "WE PLAY to have fun. It's easier to have fun when We Win." Is a favorite coaching. I have giggled watching less skilled players attempts to perfect just one trick shot. Kinda like striving to find one thing that they can be best at.
straightline: "Can you provide the logic behind this?"
- By jay helfert
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Phil Capelle used to pick my brain early on, even before his first book came out. More about writing/publishing tips and only a little about playing tips. He took off from there and wrote a series of great texts on Pool..... lol.... mornin'....
Been teaching since the 90's.
Even when I was working for the BCA I would get calls from so called instructors that would ask me questions (and they played) on how to do this and that, overseeing the instructor program gave all a phone number to get me.
One beginning writer wrote a book using some of my help.
He's still writing and well known.... persons name is not important.
Not all great players understand teaching.
Not all great teachers are Great players.
And this writer/league skilled player/teacher/book writer.... I think was smart, he had no clue and he knew I could help.
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