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pooltchr said:
The more you use it in practice, the more it becomes your natural eye movement in competition.

We practice to develop habits that can take over under pressure. If you have to think about it when you are playing, you are in trouble.

Steve
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Thank you

Its great to hear advice from professional instructors who take the time to hear and answer questions.

I read one of your posts where you recommended to take at least 6 weeks for a change?
 
When I want to maintain my focus, I put more concious thought into my breathing. When people panic, start mentally conversing with themselves, or allow people to frustrate them...etc their breathing becomes shallow and their mind is no longer functioning optimally.
 
accustatsfan said:
Thank you

Its great to hear advice from professional instructors who take the time to hear and answer questions.

I read one of your posts where you recommended to take at least 6 weeks for a change?
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There is no fixed amount of time to develop a new habit. It takes as long as it takes. I'm presently studying a lot about the mental aspects of pool. One thing I find is that we have to "hard wire" ourselves to handle the physical things automatically. (eye patterns are a physical part of shooting) It may take a few weeks, it may take a few months. The important thing is to practice the individual aspects of our physical game until each one becomes hard wired. When you are practicing to develop your eye pattern, practice eye patterns. Don't worry about anything else. Develop a feeling for what your eyes are doing. The same is true for stroke drills, or alignment drills, or anything else. We train our bodies to automatically do what needs to be done. Once we have done that, we can turn the actual performance of every shot over to our unconscious mind, once our conscious mind has determined what we want to accomplish.

Steve
 
nice posting Steve :-)hope you re feeling good!

The mental part of the game is the most underestimated (in my opinion-but i m sure it is for sure^^)- the subconscious mind can be a really good friend...or also be the little devil for a billiard-player. If you re able to find an instructor who can tell you things about it....get him- you ll see how amazing helpful it will be!

tc
Ingo
 
I have always set aside about 10 to 15 percent of class time just for the mental game, but with some of the research I have been doing lately, I think I am going to end up expanding that. Guess my classes will soon be getting a little longer.

Steve
 
dumbs high Steve!
Imo i think i m able to catch many ppl to think about the mental part- just showing 1-2 examples and they act like......"oh yes....somethin like that happened to me, but never gave attention on it ^^"
Most underestimated and sometimes hardest stuff to teach- because most guys wanna just shoot balls :p

I remember always you great sentence about the 3 categories of players :p that s the point

take care,
Ingo
 
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