True confidence emerges from true consistency.
If you're at the stage where you likely to plant any given shot straight into the rail, confidence ain't gonna help.
Lou Figueroa
Pool is a game of confidence
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True confidence emerges from true consistency.
If you're at the stage where you likely to plant any given shot straight into the rail, confidence ain't gonna help.
Lou Figueroa
lou you and fran are talkng about apples and oranges
lou you are correct if you cant hit the side of a barn confidence isnt going to make you hit the side of the barn
BUT
what fran says (my interpretation) is the confident person after missing will tell himself "I CAN DO THIS" and this self belief will allow him to persevere and practice until he can make it
rather than say to himself "i stink this is hopeless why even bother"
jmho
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when you are at a stage where you can make balls consistently
confidence can play a role imho
for example
playing on a tight table
if the first few balls you try to make jaw in the pocket
you might get tentative and pass on a cucial tough shot due to lack of confidence at that time
if you nail the first few hard shots and the next one comes up you are more confident of making it ie more relaxed and imho more likely to spilt the wicket and make it
You said it and you are right
Well I have to agree with you here Lou. Making balls is about a reality check. You have to have something that gets you closer to it, balls will not go into the pockets without you doing something on your end that will help. Blind confidence and a big bank roll will a poor man be in short order.
Well I have to agree with you here Lou. Making balls is about a reality check. You have to have something that gets you closer to it, balls will not go into the pockets without you doing something on your end that will help. Blind confidence and a big bank roll will a poor man be in short order.
Perhaps, Larry. But the truth is that there are players who have been playing the same for 20, 30 years and never gotten better, not improved. And it wasn't because they lacked confidence. So in that regard I'm not sure confidence is all it's cracked up to be.
Lou Figueroa
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Reminds me of something... just can't put my finger on it at the moment.
Lou Figueroa
I think a lack of confidence could be the reason for a lot of those peoples inability to improve. Self image is hard to overcome and if someone who lacks confidence sees themselves as a ____ player, whatever level that may be, then that is where they are going to be stuck at.
I've seen some well respected members here say stuff like "I could practice day and night but I could never play as good as _________" or "some people are just born with it" as if they were simply one who was not "born with it". Those are not the thoughts of confident people and those limiting beliefs are holding them back.
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A fool and his money
A fool and his money soon go separate ways.
I would bet that was it.
You definitely did make a point about blind confidence, I agree that you have to have a basis for confidence, in my way of thinking and in my game if I know how I do something I am ten times more confident I can do it and play safe at the same time just in case.
A fool and his money soon go separate ways.
I would bet that was it.
You definitely did make a point about blind confidence, I agree that you have to have a basis for confidence, in my way of thinking and in my game if I know how I do something I am ten times more confident I can do it and play safe at the same time just in case.