My Combined Training System

If you are looking for expert insight into this project, I'm not your guy. I could probably be a control line for the bottom of the barrel for ya!

Seriously, I am an extreme beginner. .

fuxin, lol !!. If you are what you describe as far as "extreme" beginner, alot of these drills will be absolutely brutal for you. Even down on the "C" level of the test, they will be pretty tough. And frustrating I would imagine.

But, if you have the stones to really focus on the drills and the commitment to work on them rather than just "smacking balls around" like most beginners do when they practice... you would stand to benefit more than probably anyone else. Im sure you've heard it, and if you haven't let me assure you... There is NO MAGIC button or lesson that will suddenly make you a run-out player... it takes work, and focus... but you want to improve at the fastest rate possible? Focused practice is bar none the quickest way to get there...

BTW, if your only a year deep I would suggest some simple fundamental lessons before diving into this... better to get it right first than to drill in bad habits... I'd like to have a clean slate again with my stroke/fundementals.... I will envy you that, now don't fuxer it up... lol. Get some evaluation on what your doing right & wrong... If you do both, your learning curve/skills will get better at a rate you will never believe.
 
fuxin, lol !!. If you are what you describe as far as "extreme" beginner, alot of these drills will be absolutely brutal for you. Even down on the "C" level of the test, they will be pretty tough. And frustrating I would imagine.

But, if you have the stones to really focus on the drills and the commitment to work on them rather than just "smacking balls around" like most beginners do when they practice... you would stand to benefit more than probably anyone else. Im sure you've heard it, and if you haven't let me assure you... There is NO MAGIC button or lesson that will suddenly make you a run-out player... it takes work, and focus... but you want to improve at the fastest rate possible? Focused practice is bar none the quickest way to get there...

BTW, if your only a year deep I would suggest some simple fundamental lessons before diving into this... better to get it right first than to drill in bad habits... I'd like to have a clean slate again with my stroke/fundementals.... I will envy you that, now don't fuxer it up... lol. Get some evaluation on what your doing right & wrong... If you do both, your learning curve/skills will get better at a rate you will never believe.

Fair enough. I understand, and appreciate your thoughts. While I'm quite new to playing pool, I'm not a kid. I can see what I should do, though still can't find any consistency. I realize that takes time, and practice. Lot's and lot's of practice! :p

And that is the difficult thing, getting the time to put in all that practice. I don't have a table at home (and have no place to put one, trust me, I've thought about it!) and I have a 54-hour a week job, and a family. So I'll not be putting in 4-5 hours a night like many folks I see posting here. I play as often as I can, though not nearly as much as I'd like.

I'll watch and see how your program develops. I love reading about this stuff, even when I can't get on a table. Good luck with it.
 
Rather than posting the whole thing up here hap-hazardly and because I was planning to fine tune it down to (at least what I felt was a science) I think Im just gonna pass this cross training program/measurement test down to a dozen or so of you who I can trust to evaluate it, use it and give me feedback on potential improvements I could make... or just get some genuine opinions as to the effectiveness of the program...

I'll count everyone who had responded as interested and you guys will get all the documents, drills, explanations, etc.... If you'll agree to give me feedback (good bad, or indiferent) I'd also like to stretch it across a fairly wide berth of skill levels so... to try it all all 3 levels of difficulty (A,B,C) and submit scores to me.... Call it a fine tuning my project... Hope some of you have some exposure to ipat, proskillsdrills, guarenteed imrpovement, or some other drill programs to have something to comapre this too...

anyone else interested in evaluating it ? Figure if I can line up 20 people that should cover a good "control group" for testing...

~D4\/\/G~
I'm definately interested in this - sign me up!
 
Ok, Everyone who has replied to this thread and sent me a PM is on the list, if anyone else wants to participate please PM me.

~D4\/\/G~

I think these are the PM's that I have with what I need (email, name, general skill level):

~jj~
djkx1
Tak81
D Player
Ten Pin
Spimp13
Ratta
dr9ball
Neil
MOJOE
Big h515
Wedge

Im sure I miss a few, please PM me again if I didnt post ur name.

Thanks!
 
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sorry for the delay, been super busy.

have been working on finishing the text for the "test"

also been fine tuning... have system down pat, and images done, etc,etc,etc...
 
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Dawg,

I sent you a PM.. Hope that you consider letting me evalutate it too.

Peace, Joey
 
Out Of Town

I have been out of town so I missed this thread. If you still want feedback on the system I love drills. Well actually I love the results after drills they can get tedious so having new ones is always a good thing. I do use Joe Tuckers drills in the Guaranteed Improvement booklet and find them quite usefull.
Always interested in trying new ideas and techniques.
Dan
 
geeeeeeeeez. Ok, finally.... Im done. Worked on it all weekend again. formatting & typing out this crap is alot harder and more time consuming than it looks. Just need to finish re-formating the scoresheets (they changed since I changed a few drills) and I should have the beta versions out to you guys by wednesday. Woulda had it done today but forgot to email it to myself at work.

Dave *aka* ~D4\/\/G~
 
Interested in thread since the beginning. Forgot to subscribe and luckily stumbled upon it again. PM sent!
 
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