As mentioned, how do you improve your game?
How to improve my store as well. Does anyone have have tips to share?
How to improve my store as well. Does anyone have have tips to share?
How to improve your game?
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Sorry, I meant stroke
read azb......
"Playing Great Pool's all in the hands" Earl Strickland
Understanding how the wrist/hand/fingers accelerate the cue {in the most effective way} will give you immediate {stroke} improvement. "Playing Great Pool's all in the hands" Earl Strickland
Understanding how the wrist/hand/fingers accelerate the cue {in the most effective way} will give you immediate {stroke} improvement. "Playing Great Pool's all in the hands" Earl Strickland
Contact Scott Lee
http://www.poolknowledge.com
http://www.poolknowledge.com
Ask yourself how good you really want to be. Write this down.
Next ask yourself what you're willing to give up to achieve it. Write this down.
Study the two things you've written down and see if you really are ready to commit the needed resources of practice time, money, time away from family and other activities. Adjust your goal with what you're truly willing to give up until you find a balance that you and your friends and loved ones can agree with.
Show the list to your friends and loved ones. Get their buy in.
Now hopefully you have a somewhat reasonable goal that you are working towards.
You may now begin.
Great advise. Not just because it came from a great player either. CJ simply stated the single most important piece of the improvement puzzle to you.
Smooth ACCELERATION through the CB. That doesn't mean hard, it doesn't mean fast. Acceleration is subtle relative to the delicacy of the start of any particular stroke.
Follow through also can be subtle, but both must be there.
Great advise you were given. The secret is not so much aiming. If you were told to pocket OBs without using the CB and simply hit them in directly with the cue stick, you might never miss. So you know where to hit them.
The secret is alignment and proper delivery. Practice delivering the CB as explained with a very light relaxed grip on the cue.
It is really hard to give just one advise, True stroke is 1/2 the puzzle if you shoot every shot 10000000 mile and hour. In pool there are at least 10-15 steps needed for consistency; My best advise is on every shot before you bend and after you decide on speed, give these three words a quick consideration, throw, swerve , and squirt if you think any is involved in the shot adjust aim accordingly, they account for 80% of missed shots if not more. When you mix speed, the three words, and distance you got close to 4000 shots possibilities of which you will have to learn to be a pro; others do not agree, but many pros loose matches because they encounter a shot they never practiced busy running racks during their practice and depend on "feel to make an OB". True at pro level your depend on position for success, but we all go out of line once in a while, and it takes one or two bad misses to loose a match.
The way I learned was by doing everything wrong 30-50 million times until you figure out what the effective way is. Notice I didn't say the right way, because there is no right way. I can effectively make shots by doing everything 10 different ways of wrong proving there is no right way. There are more correct ways of executing shots, but that does not mean there is only "one way" to do it.
Now if you want to be good and "Consistent", that's a whole different can of worms. Being consistent means you must find not only the effective way, but a way that is repeatable time and time again. That's where good fundamentals come in to play, and for that you must seek out a qualified instructor who is willing to help you get there. No teacher on earth can show you how to improve, what they can do is help you avoid the poor fundamental issues that will hinder your growth and consistency improvements. With instructor guidance, you can take that 30-50 million number and make it a 5-10 million times number.
In the end, it's all up to you and your dedication, financial and time investment. Now go back and read what "dr9ball" wrote 50 times to begin to understand whats being said here. Best of luck.
Dopc.
Now if you want to be good and "Consistent", that's a whole different can of worms. Being consistent means you must find not only the effective way, but a way that is repeatable time and time again. That's where good fundamentals come in to play, and for that you must seek out a qualified instructor who is willing to help you get there. No teacher on earth can show you how to improve, what they can do is help you avoid the poor fundamental issues that will hinder your growth and consistency improvements. With instructor guidance, you can take that 30-50 million number and make it a 5-10 million times number.
In the end, it's all up to you and your dedication, financial and time investment. Now go back and read what "dr9ball" wrote 50 times to begin to understand whats being said here. Best of luck.
Dopc.
Yes, then go backwards for a few months until one day it all starts making sense... I am still waiting for that day
Lessons are the best. I've seen serious improvement even when it's just a mediocre player teaching a total beginner.
Nobody wants to pony up money and they think it won't be worth it, "how much can you possibly learn and improve in a few hours?" But you'd be amazed, it can shortcut the learning process by years. And most importantly the instructor can pick out bad habits that you have before you spend years ingraining them.
Second choice is books and dvds, learned a ton from them. I credit "The 99 critical shots" with jumping me straight from 0 to C player in a very short time.
Nobody wants to pony up money and they think it won't be worth it, "how much can you possibly learn and improve in a few hours?" But you'd be amazed, it can shortcut the learning process by years. And most importantly the instructor can pick out bad habits that you have before you spend years ingraining them.
Second choice is books and dvds, learned a ton from them. I credit "The 99 critical shots" with jumping me straight from 0 to C player in a very short time.
everyone here for the most part gave you good advice. I dont know how you play, so my answer would depend on that to a extent. CJ is a stone cold world champion with a nuclear hi-gear. his answer was a bit much for a beginner if thats where your at, CJ teaches more advanced stuff(for the most part), Scott Lee is good if your just starting out, both guys are great instructors. I know them both well and depending on your level of play i'd recommend CJ if you been playing a few years, if not Scott. If your in the middle-then both. Randy G is good, Stan Shuffet, Bob Jewitt in SF is triple smart. Dr Dave has a million great videos online for beginners and mid level players. Today there is more instructional stuff than ever. Lee Brett has a good book, but again for his book you need a year IMO. I know all these guys and they are all good. One of them might be better for you than another one-IDK thats up to you, point is they got what your looking for.
Watch youtube videos, video yourself, get a instructor ASAP, play better players, play for $$$ in games where you have a chance to win(not getting robbed), small weekly tourneys, read AZB(not the fights about Bouns Ball), ask better players questions(back in the old days that didnt work, now it can sometimes). and practice practice practice.
thats all the answers,
so how do you play?
best
eric
Watch youtube videos, video yourself, get a instructor ASAP, play better players, play for $$$ in games where you have a chance to win(not getting robbed), small weekly tourneys, read AZB(not the fights about Bouns Ball), ask better players questions(back in the old days that didnt work, now it can sometimes). and practice practice practice.
thats all the answers,
so how do you play?
best
eric
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