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Talk to yourself???
- Thread starter Maniac
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I do. I talk to myself a lot while playing.
No wonder Dene talks to himself....
..the guy flukes the yellow-ball...
...and then does a 'Brumback' on the re-spotted black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnUw5fbkbk&feature=related
TheThaiger
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Actually, I know a British player who congratulates himself after every successful shot, along with no end of other rambling madness.
go on then , name that loon
TheThaiger
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I came to the conclusion it was too tedious to continue past the first chapter.
Mine? Quoting from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", I'd hafta say mine is "Party on, dudes!!!" :thumbup:
Maniac (life's all about the FUN, imo)
When I was a kid, cartoon show, Deputy Dog, his sidekick was called Mumbles, all he did was walk next to Deputy Dog and mumble all the time.
Lately, I find myself talking to myself while at the table executing a runout (or in my case ATTEMPTING to execute one). I'm talking in a full voice but a rather muted one, but out loud nonetheless. I guess that unless you were standing fairly close, you wouldn't be able to understand what I was saying. I'm talking myself through the pattern, assuring myself of where I want the cueball to go and how to get it there. Sometimes after a real nice shot, I tell myself to calm down, or when I get to rolling too fast, I tell myself to slow down. I find that I can obey my thought processes better if I communicate with myself orally. Basically, I'm just thinking out loud.
Would you consider this rude/unsportmanlike behavior? Could this be considered cockiness by others? I haven't had anyone say anything about it yet but I was just wondering if any of ya'll ever do it and what kind of results you have with it, or if anyone has ever said anything negative to you about it.
Comments???
Maniac (never been accused of being too quiet:smile
Yes, it would be unsportsmanlike if you were in a tournament or league and disturbing others shooting on nearby tables. But I have found that most TDs don't care enough to bother to issue a warning, so you'd probably get away with it. I think it's rude, and I don't enjoy playing people who chatter away while they're at the table.
The unconscious mind is more capable of anything the conscious mind is. When you hit dead stroke there is little internal or external self talk. My worry for you talking aloud is that you are "overthinking" and not allowing your higher mind to direct your play. Once you have played and practiced shots and techniques and have them engrained in muscle memory, pool is best played with little conscious thought at all.
When people talk aloud to themselves and overthink they overfocus on one aspect of the shot and not see it in it's entirety. They end up making a shot without position, overrun position zones... You need a mental preshot routine. One that with practice becomes so routine you just fall into it and runout with ease. Any tension, even mental stress, will transmit to you stoke.
When people talk aloud to themselves and overthink they overfocus on one aspect of the shot and not see it in it's entirety. They end up making a shot without position, overrun position zones... You need a mental preshot routine. One that with practice becomes so routine you just fall into it and runout with ease. Any tension, even mental stress, will transmit to you stoke.
No its not rude at alll. I talk to myself all the time when shooting. I even use hand gestures to imagine the cb travel after the initive shot.:thumbup:
I find when Im talking to myself (which I do quite often, not only in pool 
) I find that I am either over complicating the situation or not being very nice to myself...... I find that when I start talking to myself playing pool it is time to get up re chalk or walk around the table, then get down on the shot and just fire it off like I meant too. ( sometimes this works sometimes this doesn't as I still reaaaaaaaaly suck at this game) More often than not though, I'll stay on the table and finish the conversation with myself to the detriment of my pool game, but the conversations are always interesting. Especially after missing the shot I just talked myself into taking 
) I find that I am either over complicating the situation or not being very nice to myself...... I find that when I start talking to myself playing pool it is time to get up re chalk or walk around the table, then get down on the shot and just fire it off like I meant too. ( sometimes this works sometimes this doesn't as I still reaaaaaaaaly suck at this game) More often than not though, I'll stay on the table and finish the conversation with myself to the detriment of my pool game, but the conversations are always interesting. Especially after missing the shot I just talked myself into taking
FTR, I am never talking once I'm down on the shot. It is only in the pre-shot/thinking position. And imo.........I don't think it's ever really loud enough to bother anyone on an adjacent table.
As far as those thinking that I am overriding my sub-consious thoughts, we must realize that no two people think the same. I have always done better at learning something by being shown as opposed to being told. So, during my PSR/thinking if I touch the tip of my cuestick to the place on the table to where I want the cueball to go to after I shoot, I am more likely to put it there than I would have if I only thought/visualized of where I wanted it to go. So talking in a semi-audible voice to myself SEEMS to have me doing better on the table than when I was only thinking/visualizing about it.
It's too early to tell if this is going to be a permanent thing.
Maniac
As far as those thinking that I am overriding my sub-consious thoughts, we must realize that no two people think the same. I have always done better at learning something by being shown as opposed to being told. So, during my PSR/thinking if I touch the tip of my cuestick to the place on the table to where I want the cueball to go to after I shoot, I am more likely to put it there than I would have if I only thought/visualized of where I wanted it to go. So talking in a semi-audible voice to myself SEEMS to have me doing better on the table than when I was only thinking/visualizing about it.
It's too early to tell if this is going to be a permanent thing.
Maniac
Absolutely, the thing is, the moment to allow self two to perform are the seconds prior to your getting down on the shot, and all the way through its completion. Certainly not the moment you hit the CB.
