Drills?????
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Here's a hint.
Keep track of your drills on paper. Shoot the drill 10 times and check your scores. Now next time you can go for your best score.
It actually brings alot of pressure if you make a shot like 30 times in a row and are going for a high run.
Keep track of your drills on paper. Shoot the drill 10 times and check your scores. Now next time you can go for your best score.
It actually brings alot of pressure if you make a shot like 30 times in a row and are going for a high run.
I really like Joe Tucker's "Guaranteed Improvement" drills. The book is only $12 or so and the drills are pretty challenging.
I hate doing drills but i do like to work on stroke consistency and long shots.
I like to throw 3 to 5 balls down table randomly (everything 2 diamonds past the side pocket) then i take the cue ball and place it within 1 diamond from the endrail randomly and try to runout. The first shot has to be a shot that i'm NOT comfortable with, if i think i can make the shot with placement no problem, i choose another ball to shoot at.
Stroke consistency i usually focus on draw shots because shots with forward spin feel easier to control. Drawing the cueball from 3, 4, 5, 6 etc diamonds away and trying to get anywhere from a stop shot to 8 diamonds of draw. So if you're 5 diamonds away try to draw back 3 diamonds, once you do that then go for 4, 5 etc.
These work for me, maybe they will for you too. Best of luck.
Get this book. You won't regret it. It has you keep score. I can promise you, if you are a competitive type, that part of the drill aspect will guarantee you won't get bored. When I see that I'm close to breaking my score, I get the same feeling as playing a set for a good piece of cheese.
To work on technical things like alignment/stance/straight stroke is a hard provement. Here i usualy recommend 5-10 minutes a day.
There are so many drills-hard to recommend a special one. And especiall without knowing your abilities. The advice for the PAT Series (1-3) is a good one. I like them a lot- for me it s more about to see where i have to work with someone. But to play 1 or even Pat2 completley under pressure and concentrated is a challenge for everyone (A Player woudl recommend 2 or 3, 3 is really hard!).
For example: i booked to play 2 tournaments for the beginning of last year. 3 weeks before i started training seriously. 5-10 minutes just technical fundamentals- and then about 1 hour just technical drills.
Every 2nd day i played a complete PAT 1 or PAT 2 test.
In the evening then i played some sets with guys in the clubhall. Worked good for me. 9b 3rd and 10b 1st place.
The most important thing-and wondering i don t hear it really often is, that you NEED to have a TARGET for your training what you wanne reach!
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There are so many drills-hard to recommend a special one. And especiall without knowing your abilities. The advice for the PAT Series (1-3) is a good one. I like them a lot- for me it s more about to see where i have to work with someone. But to play 1 or even Pat2 completley under pressure and concentrated is a challenge for everyone (A Player woudl recommend 2 or 3, 3 is really hard!).
For example: i booked to play 2 tournaments for the beginning of last year. 3 weeks before i started training seriously. 5-10 minutes just technical fundamentals- and then about 1 hour just technical drills.
Every 2nd day i played a complete PAT 1 or PAT 2 test.
In the evening then i played some sets with guys in the clubhall. Worked good for me. 9b 3rd and 10b 1st place.
The most important thing-and wondering i don t hear it really often is, that you NEED to have a TARGET for your training what you wanne reach!
lg
Ingo