George the Greek said:

I miss easy shots all the time and

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middleofnowhere said:

The simplest way to solve this is to just get up off the ball. Go get a sip of whatever you're drinking relax quiet your mind

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middleofnowhere said:

No matter how you look at it dogging a shot that you would normally make without hesitation is a mental issue. When your playing good you look at a ball and you see it going right in the pocket you don't even hesitate you barely thinking you're almost on muscle memory automatic pilot.

Then all of a sudden and it could be for a number of reasons you look at a ball and you totally hesitate you literally see every way you could miss this ball and imagine everything that could go wrong.

The simplest way to solve this is to just get up off the ball. Go get a sip of whatever you're drinking relax quiet your mind come back get down on the ball. You'll probably pocket it and it'll be like it never happened. You go on to continue the match instead of that one shot becoming the defining point of the match and maybe ultimately your demise.

Sometimes your mind can just go somewhere else. You could be sitting on the couch talking with your wife and she's talking and then she says why don't you answer me. And you look at her and realize you haven't heard a word she said even though she's three feet away talking in a normal voice.

Your mind just checks out sometimes maybe thinking about something else or whatever. Then you tell her I'm sorry what did you say and then you hear every word. Unfortunately your mind can be your worst enemy sometimes and sabotage you.

I know you can fall back on fundamentals and all of the cliches, but just quieting your mind and getting back to business is the best thing that solves the problem.

We've all seen the best players in the world do it. They all of a sudden just stop walk over wipe the cue do some activity while you're looking at them thinking what's going on why don't they just shoot. Then they come back and shoot the ball in with no problem.

I think Yapp is a pretty good example. He looks like he never shoots a shot if he's not 100% ready. Half the time he looks like he's meditating. I think you could fire a gun in the place and he wouldn't even hear it.

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iusedtoberich said:

Did you guys miss the last 5 years of pro pool officials? They’ve been calling miscues fouls. Shaw spoke up because they were doing that all season. It wasn’t him being an ass.

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HouTexPlayer said:

Don't disagree at all - agree with everything you said - I guess my point was more along the lines of we need to take our preparation for the event (in general) much more seriously rather than have the US team show up and pick up what looks like a participation trophy most years. It's a little disheartening getting crushed consistently.

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gregcantrall said:

Yes, so my guess is uh wrong.
I can't remember when a miscue becomes a foul now.

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straightline said:

It's the ferrule contact that makes the click.

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Flakeandrun said:

I prefer to play and practice with the Aramith balls they have there, reason being, that they tend to stay cleaner for longer.

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