It's bugging me and I want some answers.

a good practice buddy

poolmaster said:
Why do we continue on making the same mistakes over and over again?
This problem is bugging the crap out of me. If it was only me doing it then
I would be forced to believe that I have some kind of mental problem but
everybody does it, even pros.

It would be easy to explain if you were not aware that you making a
mistake. We are aware of what not to do and we still continue on doing it.

Example #1 - Taking shots for granted. How many times are we guilty
of that sin?

Example # 2 - If you're down on the table and ready to shoot but
something doesn't feel right but you still execute the shot. We all are
guilty of it.

Makes me laugh to see that we preach to other people about what not
to do but we do it ourselves. The solution seems so simple, just don't
do it , so why are we keeping on doing it?:confused::confused::confused:
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Example #1 - This is just a lack of focus. Everybody is different and you have to find what helps or makes you focus.
I for example concentrate on breathing in and out, something I used and learned when shooting my m-16 in the Army/Military.
Another example from my friend Tom Rossman "Dr. Cue" during our boot camp in Jacksonville, FL was to vision a fly on the object ball, now picture the wing/wings of the fly and the ridges or ripples in the wing, now image it catching on fire and the red and yellow in the flame.
Now the question to ask your self when you did this down on the shoot did you see anything else other than the object ball if so, try it again or the key is to find something that helps you FOCUS.

Example # 2 - the best thing to stop this from happening is to have a buddy or pool partner stop you in mid stroke and let you know what you are doing.

I have a friend and we shoot pool about once a week, if possible. In mid stroke I will stop him and ask him why I stopped him. Sure he may not be expecting it or even a little bit annoyed but in the end. He thanks me. Now remember this is only when we practice.

I think because of the annoyance it makes you think.
Remember catch them when they are almost ready to let it go.
It makes him consciously keep in mind typical checks.
Eventually it becomes second nature in his mechanics and fundamentals.

Another think that I didn't see that was mentioned was standing up before the full shot was delivered or executed.
I call this "standing up for the ocassion".
My father when I was younger stood behind me and held the but of his cue directly over my head if I stood up, it hit my head. Sometimes I think he exagerated the hit on my head.
But now a decade plus later, I personally do not have much of a problem with this.

You know practice makes perfect
but it's not the practice that does it
it is the type of practice. :cool:

Happy Holidays, Michael
 
poolmaster said:
Why do we continue on making the same mistakes over and over again?
This problem is bugging the crap out of me. If it was only me doing it then
I would be forced to believe that I have some kind of mental problem but
everybody does it, even pros.

It would be easy to explain if you were not aware that you making a
mistake. We are aware of what not to do and we still continue on doing it.

Example #1 - Taking shots for granted. How many times are we guilty
of that sin?

Example # 2 - If you're down on the table and ready to shoot but
something doesn't feel right but you still execute the shot. We all are
guilty of it.

Makes me laugh to see that we preach to other people about what not
to do but we do it ourselves. The solution seems so simple, just don't
do it , so why are we keeping on doing it?:confused::confused::confused:
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because we are human, not robots....every player on the planet does these things, even the best...its just how often we do it, or better yet how often we don't do those things that separates the worlds best and the worlds worst.

Grey Ghost
 
There is one simple reason why we make the same mistakes over and over again. It's because in order to improve in pool, we KNOW that repetition is key. It is the very definition of consistency. The underlying problem with that is, our repetitious act has parts that are both good and bad. We bring both with us on every execution. Now, as we improve (hopefully), we hold onto more and more good traits and fewer bad ones but we cannot eliminate ALL the bad ones immediately.
 
Develop a consistant pre-shot routine.

Use it on every shot (cures your example 1) and don't be at all shy about standing up and reloading if you start to second guess yourself in the middle of a shot (cures your example 2).

Made a big difference in my game.
 
greyghost said:
because we are human, not robots....every player on the planet does these things, even the best...its just how often we do it, or better yet how often we don't do those things that separates the worlds best and the worlds worst.

Grey Ghost
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I think, you hit this one right on the nose. We are all humans and we will never be
perfect. We just have to learn how to accept this fact.

P.S. Check your pm
 
I've wrote earlier that confidence is the most important thing, at least
in my eyes. But, everything has a gray area. Over confidence will also
bite you in the ass. It seems, that the more you think about it, the more
complicated it gets.:o
 
I call it the 80% rule. Eighty percent of the time we made the shot. So a miss doesn’t count and we attribute it to something else such as that fine pair of legs walking by.

We put a mouse in a cage and pay him food once in 20 times for pushing a lever and he will sit there and push that lever all day long. We are not too far removed from the mouse who is wrong 19/20 times.

If you miss once then you have to go make it 20 times to wipe out the 80% rule. Others state it differently but it is the same idea.

Of course the mouse who does not sit there and push the lever dies from starvation so htting it 20 times to get paid once does have survival value hmm
 
poolmaster said:
I think, you hit this one right on the nose. We are all humans and we will never be
perfect. We just have to learn how to accept this fact.

P.S. Check your pm
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hey its a big point, Confucius say....we can only find perfection in our actions when we stop trying to control our perfect actions.

Life is like a pool cue, the more you try to "steer" it the more you miscue. You can plan but trying to completely control everything, is just disaster waiting to happen. Thats why its so big to be able to have those openended or two way shots, b/c hey sometimes you can't control that one perfect aspect, but you can leave another way out and get there. Its not perfect, but its perfectly capable of completing the task at hand.
 
I know you said everybody, but the pro's do it a lot less.
One problem I have is that I know I can make the shot.
The pro player knows he can miss it.
steven
 
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