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Shoot a Million Balls? Give me a break.

spartan
sixpack said:
The book by Malcolm Gladwell - “Outliers” suggests that it takes on average about 10,000 hours of good practice to become world class at something. So you are right on track here.
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that book and that 10000 number almost 2 decades ago was like gospel. But it is passe no longer relevant. Gladwell was being simplistic trying to quantify give easy answer to something complex to sell books. :LOL:Apparently he misunderstood and oversimplified the research
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Shoot a Million Balls? Give me a break.

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jjohnson said:
I wasn't trying to launch Starship. I just wanted to frame the proposition. When you shoot a million balls you take the time necessary to shoot a million balls. The time you take includes figuring out your next shot, walking around the table, etc. 30 seconds is quite reasonable. T-minus 30 seconds and counting. 29, 28, 27,...

Let me add: standards, once again. Shooting for the center of the pocket develops an accurate aim. So when you can make the pocket center whenever you want to, you then have the ability to cheat the pocket whenever you want to. It is wise to acquire this ability. Mike Sigel consistently hits pocket center. I recommend emulating him unless your goal is intentionally striving for a lower standard. But hey. Go figure.
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Sigel is an alltime great, no doubt but not someone I would recommend imitating, his stance, a bit jerky warm up strokes, cue fencing is not something a beginner necessarily would benefit from.I'd take Buddy or Mizerak over him as far as fundamentals are concerened.
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2025 Reyes Cup, Oct 16-19, Manilla. Team Asia vs Team World

skor
jbart65 said:
Scheduling is bound to result in conflicts if WNT and WPA keep expanding, as they say they will.

Even if the two entities communicate well, there are only so many prime dates in the calendar. They also have to contend with established events not entirely controlled by them (Derby, Chin Open, International, etc).
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Solution is easy, work together, joint resources and plan a full year. All events could be WPA sanctioned and MR are better on the production side.
It's a win win
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WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

sjm
JAM said:
Hanoi Open questionable hit incident, but in this case, all's well that ends well with Sky Woodward and Roberto Gomez. But where was the ref?

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I watched this match live and there is no question in my mind that Sky did not realize he had fouled. I didn't see the foul, either.

Part of the problem that arose here was that Gomez presented it to Sky incorrectly, suggesting that a "shirt foul" had occurred. Sky noted that given how he had set himself over the shot, his shirt was nowhere near the ball that was supposed to have moved. Hence, Sky was initially upset by Gomez' suggestion of a "shirt foul." Gomez backed down from the "shirt foul" stance, but claimed to have seen the ball move, after which they went to video and Sky was then willing to accept the call of a foul.

Where was the ref? Good question.
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