Why Your Skill Doesn’t Matter in Matches - Just in Practice

Skill is a huge percentage of everything but you can't say that without understanding there are a lot more skills required than just pocketing balls as a beginner often thinks. As you advance you keep adding things to what constitutes "skill". One major skill is shutting down the conscious, the part of the brain that thinks in words. Even trickier, you don't want it to shut down completely. I picture it as having an overview from nearby. It isn't jabbering all of the time but if it needs to step in and provide a little guidance it will. Likewise if something goes seriously wrong it will regroup and put together an entirely new pattern if needed.

Jumping to something attributed to Mark Wilson, I have to question the seventy percent performance number. If he said it I would like to see the context. Over ten thousand people compete in the olympics and not considering injuries very few of them don't come within five or ten percent of maximum performance at a guess. The timed events quickly show that the athletes are at very near maximum performance in competition, certainly no 30% fall off.

Far from falling off significantly, I expect my performance to improve in competition and it does. That doesn't just apply to pool, it holds true for half a dozen different sports or games.

Hu

I think that’s the optimum stimulus idea. Maybe from the Bassham book. You need the right level, more than practice less than overwhelming. Can’t remember exactly where I saw that discussed, but performance often improves with the right amount of pressure. I’ll have to find that.

Why Your Skill Doesn’t Matter in Matches - Just in Practice

The title should be something like, “Skill Isn’t Everything.”

Skill is a huge percentage of everything but you can't say that without understanding there are a lot more skills required than just pocketing balls as a beginner often thinks. As you advance you keep adding things to what constitutes "skill". One major skill is shutting down the conscious, the part of the brain that thinks in words. Even trickier, you don't want it to shut down completely. I picture it as having an overview from nearby. It isn't jabbering all of the time but if it needs to step in and provide a little guidance it will. Likewise if something goes seriously wrong it will regroup and put together an entirely new pattern if needed.

Jumping to something attributed to Mark Wilson, I have to question the seventy percent performance number. If he said it I would like to see the context. Over ten thousand people compete in the olympics and not considering injuries very few of them don't come within five or ten percent of maximum performance at a guess. The timed events quickly show that the athletes are at very near maximum performance in competition, certainly no 30% fall off.

Far from falling off significantly, I expect my performance to improve in competition and it does. That doesn't just apply to pool, it holds true for half a dozen different sports or games.

Hu

Savannah “The RoadRunner” Easton using a wood shaft?

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could someone give me the short version on why its 130 posts later and still going
Three years ago, an AZer wanted to know if Savannah Easton had gone from using a Revo to a wood shaft---314 or maybe a Predator Vantage?

Later, she's advertised as using a Lucasi Pro kielwood carbon-fiber InFuzed shaft. Latest sighting in Michigan, however, is that she is using a Lucasi Pro Halo carbon fiber shaft. This took up about a page of posts.

The other seven pages of post are arguments whether wood is better than carbon fiber and that the Ko Brothers use wood shafts.

Maple butt

I am looking for just a butt if possible. I need a maple butt so I can stain it and maybe put a new pin, buttcap and joint rings on. I will be making a carbon fiber shaft to go with the butt. If anyone has one laying around please send me a price and pictures.

Anyone have a used 6 point leather wrapped Gold Rush with 2 std. maple shafts that is not getting play?

Looking for one given they seem quite the quality cue for the price, they are similar to SW cues (like my Carmeli and Jim Pierce cues), and I'm pretty sure they use the Jacoby / SW weight bolt system (also like my Carmeli and Jim Pierce, given I really like forward weighted cues).

The rub is I have never hit a Gold Rush, but I have hit the other cues listed above and a SW satin / pacifier and understand the similarities and differences.

Anyone got one of these GRs used that we can work out a deal? I would like to deal with people that have been a member on this site for a while, have current transaction feedback and/or references...

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