What Are The Top 3 or 4 Things

[3kushn]

That noticeably improved your game beyond practice.

This may be more appropriate in the Main Forum where it can get blasted from everyone, but what the heck, I thought I'd put it here. Maybe It might help if we had a list of 3 or 10 things most of us will agree on are nearly always essential to good play.

This one is tough for me to figure out for myself. There's several small fundamental tips I've been taught over the years but certainly there's a few that stand out.

In no particular order.

Stepping Into The Shot (Don't put your foot in the bucket)
Personal Eye Pattern
Pause at the CB
Slow Backstroke, pause, accelerate through the ball.

I'll stop and leave it at that. There's much more to each of those as well as what others might have learned.

 

[Scott Lee]

Some good stuff there, Tom. Watch out promoting PEP...it's voodoo, you know! :grin: Glad to have been part of giving you some things that have helped! :thumbup:

Mine list of most important things would be developing an accurate, repeatable stroke. PEP would be second on the list.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

That noticeably improved your game beyond practice.

This may be more appropriate in the Main Forum where it can get blasted from everyone, but what the heck, I thought I'd put it here. Maybe It might help if we had a list of 3 or 10 things most of us will agree on are nearly always essential to good play.

This one is tough for me to figure out for myself. There's several small fundamental tips I've been taught over the years but certainly there's a few that stand out.

In no particular order.

Stepping Into The Shot (Don't put your foot in the bucket)
Personal Eye Pattern
Pause at the CB
Slow Backstroke, pause, accelerate through the ball.

I'll stop and leave it at that. There's much more to each of those as well as what others might have learned.

 

[3kushn]

Yes Scott there's much more to be listed. These are just the few that jump out as having the most benefit to ME

Regarding accurate repeatable stroke and SPF. I'd say the Freeze is so important.

Just read a story of an expert Balkline player and room owner offering to train a kid under one condition. He could not lift his bridge hand till he was told to. The kid takes his first shot under his tutledge doing as he was told. For the longest time. Finally, he turns his head to find out what's up (keeping his hand on the table) and sees the master back in the kitchen doing the dishes. A big stack of em!!

lesson learned.

 

[BilliardsAbout]

That noticeably improved your game beyond practice.

This may be more appropriate in the Main Forum where it can get blasted from everyone, but what the heck, I thought I'd put it here. Maybe It might help if we had a list of 3 or 10 things most of us will agree on are nearly always essential to good play.

This one is tough for me to figure out for myself. There's several small fundamental tips I've been taught over the years but certainly there's a few that stand out.

In no particular order.

Stepping Into The Shot (Don't put your foot in the bucket)
Personal Eye Pattern
Pause at the CB
Slow Backstroke, pause, accelerate through the ball.

I'll stop and leave it at that. There's much more to each of those as well as what others might have learned.

1. Chalk between each and every shot
2. Break with accuracy first, worry about speed and power later
3. Choose whether to play safe and lock 'em or a two-way shot with some offensive opportunities for later

What is "Don't put your foot in the bucket"...?

 

[Donny Lutz]

The "freeze"

Yes Scott there's much more to be listed. These are just the few that jump out as having the most benefit to ME

Regarding accurate repeatable stroke and SPF. I'd say the Freeze is so important.

Just read a story of an expert Balkline player and room owner offering to train a kid under one condition. He could not lift his bridge hand till he was told to. The kid takes his first shot under his tutledge doing as he was told. For the longest time. Finally, he turns his head to find out what's up (keeping his hand on the table) and sees the master back in the kitchen doing the dishes. A big stack of em!!

lesson learned.

1) The "freeze" or "pose" after every shot.
2) Planning complete before striking the cue ball.
3) Realizing that pocketing balls and playing position are not separate plans.
4) Building a memory bank full of successful shots as opposed to misses.

 

[BobN]

In order of importance for me...

1. Repeatable stroke.
2. CONSISTENT set of routines (standing, preshot, shooting).
3. Freezing on the table AFTER the shot. This is actually part of my "Shooting Routine", but a VERY important chapter in that routine... important enough that I almost look at it as a 4th routine... the "post shot" routine, if you will... If I'm feeling good and shooting my best, I won't move anything unless a ball is going to roll into me or my cue for 2 or 3 seconds, longer if my back is feeling really good, after I execute the shot.
4. Doing exactly the same thing on an easy shot that I do on a hard shot... that really goes back to #2.

 

[FranCrimi]

That noticeably improved your game beyond practice.

This may be more appropriate in the Main Forum where it can get blasted from everyone, but what the heck, I thought I'd put it here. Maybe It might help if we had a list of 3 or 10 things most of us will agree on are nearly always essential to good play.

This one is tough for me to figure out for myself. There's several small fundamental tips I've been taught over the years but certainly there's a few that stand out.

In no particular order.

Stepping Into The Shot (Don't put your foot in the bucket)
Personal Eye Pattern
Pause at the CB
Slow Backstroke, pause, accelerate through the ball.

I'll stop and leave it at that. There's much more to each of those as well as what others might have learned.

What do you mean by "beyond practice?"

Isn't everything you listed a result of practice?

 

[3kushn]

What do you mean by "beyond practice?"

Isn't everything you listed a result of practice?

The result of doing those things well (or not so well) is the result of practice.

Can't practice something I don't know about. I was taught them, then practiced them, they helped, then had them profesionally evaluated, then more practice.

I'm not smart enough to figure it all out myself. That's been proven over and over.

 

[Ratta]

+ slow down your backswing
+ stepping correct into the shot
+ visualizing
+ pep
+ stand like a statue

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