Maybe you can help me do it better ?
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Maybe you can help me do it better ?
I'll start with you and then help the rest of the pros. Most instructors teach better than they play. You can't become good without Individual training.
Talk to a professional to figure out what is best......
A player needs to get down and work on the shots that are giving you trouble.
To shoot the shot over and over until you completely understand it is real practice and gets you results,
you can work on patterns when playing the ghost but the real work is done in the trenches doing your own drills that work for you.
I watched rodney Morris the other day. Came into Q Masters and shoot a few drills for about 39 minutes. That's about all it takes when shooting yourself.
Good Luck......
A player needs to get down and work on the shots that are giving you trouble.
To shoot the shot over and over until you completely understand it is real practice and gets you results,
you can work on patterns when playing the ghost but the real work is done in the trenches doing your own drills that work for you.
I watched rodney Morris the other day. Came into Q Masters and shoot a few drills for about 39 minutes. That's about all it takes when shooting yourself.
Good Luck......
Were you hitting the CB just hard enough to barely make it back to the starting point? Try hitting it hard enough to go 3 or 4 rails; I predict you get very different results.
I hate drills.
I like setting up problems and figuring them out. Set up a shot where playing shape is tricky and figure it out. Figure out all the ways to play it including playing safe. To me that translates into more creativity when similar situations come up. I think you can learn a lot more doing this than doing drills.
Ray Martin's 99 Critical Shots was way more helpful to me than any book of drills I have ever read.
I think if you learn how to solve problems on the pool table then you rarely face a situation where you don't know what to do.
I like setting up problems and figuring them out. Set up a shot where playing shape is tricky and figure it out. Figure out all the ways to play it including playing safe. To me that translates into more creativity when similar situations come up. I think you can learn a lot more doing this than doing drills.
Ray Martin's 99 Critical Shots was way more helpful to me than any book of drills I have ever read.
I think if you learn how to solve problems on the pool table then you rarely face a situation where you don't know what to do.
Yer up a whole $35. That will keep you in Rotten Ronnie's Gut Bombs for a day or two.
At 35 bucks a day, what will you do for gas money and hotels.
Good stuff. Someone will probably want to make a movie soon.
They will call it: The Color of No Money.
At 35 bucks a day, what will you do for gas money and hotels.
Good stuff. Someone will probably want to make a movie soon.
They will call it: The Color of No Money.
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1. Cool, you're explaining to one of the best teachers the worthlessness of drills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJaAJz6G5FY
I've heard SVB say he doesn't practice drills (and practically never has). Chris Bartram just said much the same thing in this thread.
Apparently he practices breaking for hours on end. Would you call that a drill of sorts?
Ah, fair point. Yeah I'd call that a drill as your learning/refining a skill through repetition.
Well damn, son. Can you play at all?!
Haha. I have never done drills either...and when I shoot a ball, my stroke never follows the same path twice in my pre shot strokes. :shrug:
LOL...This tired old video AGAIN! I'm sure there's nobody on this forum who ever missed a ball in hand shot...especially in the middle of the night, after several cocktails! BTW, I won the game. My experience as an instructor speaks for itself. If SakuJackoff wants to repost it for the umpteenth time, that's okay!
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
BTW, I won the game. My experience as an instructor speaks for itself. If SakuJackoff wants to repost it for the umpteenth time, that's okay!Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
I have won so much money on the prop bet saying that I can make the up and down cue ball shot to come back and hit my tip at least 9 out of 10 times. easy money, really.
best,
brian kc <----- loves his new kamui black soft 166mm tip. :grin-square:
p.s. dorabelle; if I ever see you, you got action on your 9 out of 10 (standard tip, though). :wink:
best,
brian kc <----- loves his new kamui black soft 166mm tip. :grin-square:
p.s. dorabelle; if I ever see you, you got action on your 9 out of 10 (standard tip, though). :wink:
I was watching a livestream and guy was just practicing. He would shoot and if he missed he would try again until he made the object ball. The commentator said that's the difference with pro's. Amateurs will shoot a shot until they make it and pro's will shoot a shot until they can't miss. I would guess every pro has some type of drill they work on. Might be something to get warmed up. Might be a shot they missed or weren't comfortable with in a match.
LOL...This tired old video AGAIN! I'm sure there's nobody on this forum who ever missed a ball in hand shot...especially in the middle of the night, after several cocktails!
Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
I've been practicing about 3 to 5 minutes twice a week for about 6 months
<~~~. Missing balls,over drawing . Playing the worst I've played in years. I play in one money league and they are swearing I'm sandbagging . I can see my stroke swerving
Never mind...... I'm on the wrong thread.
Sorry Rhea
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Interesting how you say you hate drills, then state how you like doing a certain drill. And then state what drills can do for you.
I agree. That's because they spend most of their time teaching. Just knowledge won't make you play better. You need to train with that knowledge. Just trying to run racks is not training, it's playing. Sure, a few can become very good that way. But the vast majority won't. The vast majority will end their pool careers thinking they really accomplished something by becoming an APA 7 or 8. Which really is just the start of learning what pool really is about. When, if they had trained properly, they could have been A players or shortstops or pros.
You state you can't become good without individual training. I, and every instructor, totally agrees with that statement. Yet, for some reason, you seem to be against individual training, and only want to play.
If you want to just be a sociable player, basically what most league players are, then your way is just fine. Just understand that you won't ever become very good that way. But if you really want to get as good as you can, then it will take a lot of training. A lot of training on the proper things. The things that really matter.
As far as the up and down drill back to your tip. You say you used to do it. And, mistakenly think you can still do it at all speeds consistently. You gave it up because you didn't understand the importance of it. Yet, Steve Davis, one of the best cueist ever, practices just that drill for hours at a time. He understands the importance of it.
Shane says he doesn't do drills, yet practices the break for hours at a time. When he has a trouble shot, he practices it until he totally understands it and it isn't a problem anymore. So, he does do drills. So many want to jump on a misspoken statement (that he doesn't do any drills) and use it for their own excuse not to practice properly. All it does is hold them back.
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At least he appeared to be vaguely bending over in that video. Great commentary, too. Superb shirt and creative use of the jaws to boot. Impressive.
I did find it ironic this clip popped up when Scot's masterclass finished. I know who my money would be on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CniPRkwqteI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJaAJz6G5FY
I've heard SVB say he doesn't practice drills (and practically never has). Chris Bartram just said much the same thing in this thread.
I thought this was pretty classless when CJ did it and I have some respect for him. There isn't a person on this forum, or any pro for that matter that hasn't had numerous moments like that. To take a snipit like that and portray it as their regular game is pathetic.
Someone does that to you and it's just a joke, but when you do that to someone who makes a living from instructing you're doing more than just joking. How would you like it if Scott came to your job and jeopardized it? Thankfully there is enough people here who know better.
Is your life so pathetic that it makes you feel better to try and drag someone else down?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJaAJz6G5FY
I've heard SVB say he doesn't practice drills (and practically never has). Chris Bartram just said much the same thing in this thread.
Not sure what your point of putting up that video of a guy just banging balls around socializing having some fun is, other than you stating that instructors can't play. As far as Shane, he does do drills. He just doesn't do structured drills that someone else came up with. Chris, I bet he does the same thing. No way anyone ever got great by not practicing certain shots, buy just by trying to run out every time.
So, if you really want to use them for your excuse not to practice properly, if that makes you feel better about being lazy about your game, then good luck with that attitude on ever getting much better than you are now. :wink:
Interesting how some people always point to what they think someone else is doing and go "see, see!", he doesn't do it, so I don't have to either! Guess what, you aren't them.