Crazy amount of practice

ddg45 said:
People like you who make unnecessary and needlessly negative comments are the ones who ruin threads. Try to be tolerant of other opinions.
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You've obviously misread me.

I'm sure reading all my posts will make you tingle inside.
 
Phil Carr said:
Oh, I don't know. Concert pianists practice for 6-10 hours, EVERY day, especially before a concert. 6-time World Snooker Champion, Steve Davis, said he would stroke the cue ball up and down over the spots on the table for at least an hour every day, to the point of wearing a groove in the cloth! The end result of course was history making, with the (then) straightest cue action in the world.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won more titles than anyone else simply because he trained harder than anyone else, with iron-like determination.
I think anyone who wants to seriously be the very best, will endure as many hours of hard practice as can procure the results they are looking for. We all know that playing is NOT practice as well so this makes it even more remarkable as you say. Personally, I have put my time in on the piano (my profession) because I was hooked on it and loved it, and my pool game, though benefitting from regular (proper) practice, would not yield the results in the time I have left (I'm 62) were I to commit to so many hours per week, so I practice to the point where I'm tired and then..... you get the picture. (I did practice on just my break for at LEAST 45 minutes for FIVE days - that's a LOT of re-racking! - and it had an AMAZING effect on my breaking accuracy, timing and confidence, so it really DOES work. Other players even commented.) It's up to you. Dedication breeds success - it's all a matter of degree.
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Lol. Arnold had doctors with 0 fear about the results of what was injected into him.

Yes, he worked out but his PEDs took him to the top.
 
DaveK said:
I know .. replying to myself, but with something to add. The "10,000 hour rule" has never sat well with me, it seems contrived and simplified. Above I tried to recall what Ericsson said about the rule, and was not quite accurate. Below are pictures of a couple of pages from Peak ... consider them sample pages :) Hope this helps folks understand the relevance or irrelevance of the "10,000 hour rule":

Dave
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DaveK said:
I know .. replying to myself, but with something to add. The "10,000 hour rule" has never sat well with me, it seems contrived and simplified. Above I tried to recall what Ericsson said about the rule, and was not quite accurate. Below are pictures of a couple of pages from Peak ... consider them sample pages :) Hope this helps folks understand the relevance or irrelevance of the "10,000 hour rule":

Dave
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Put your finger away and don't make me tell you twice?
 
5 years and 2 months since this thread was a thing. A full time job is 2,000 hours a year?

Since then, we have all had an opportunity to have practiced 10,000 hours.

Therefore, we should all be disappointed in ourselves that we are not yet professional level violinists.

Shameful. I would expect the orchestras of most major cities to have been infiltrated by pool players disguised as violinists by now.
 
gerryf said:
Steve Davis' was interesting as well. He spent his early years focusing on fundamentals before becoming competitive. He also described himself as more of a mechanic who excelled through hard work, rather than being gifted like Hendry or O'Sullivan.
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It did bring him success. But other than that, he loves playing the game and appreciate the gifted players abilities and motivate him to enjoy the game. I remember him spoke highly of Efren and somehow rediscover things that pool players play the game.
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
If you love the game, investing time on it shouldn't be an issue.
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I currently invest an hour most mornings to a fitness program. As I am approaching 75 the fitness maintenance is my goal. The pool table in my shop provides the fitness equipment that I employ. The barbells and bicycle have long since been mothballed.
 
If you watch SVB praxtice youll notice he practices all different shots and when he misses hell shoot same shot over and over until he can repeat successful potting of any particular shot. Svb was littleary born with a cue in his hands and has a true love for the game. Because of his work ethic he has helped chane the game forever in a good way.
 
Geosnookery said:
I lived in Montreal until I was 13, hockey was our life. I had one friend and a school mate who both made it to the N.H.L.

I was as good as them playing ball hockey on the street ( we played everyday). However, on ice they were both on another level compared to the rest of us. Just natural skaters. There were NHL players from our part of Montreal and they would sometimes visit their local boyhood arena or play ball hockey with us when they were in the city. One was a New York Ranger, Rod Gilbert. He’d stay at his parents then come out and play with us until it got dark. He never lost the ‘fun’ of the game.
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Rod Gilbert!! Member of the “GAG” line with Jean Ratelle and Vic Hatfield. I remember him well.

Edit: aw, crap, I just realized I am responding to a nearly six-year-old post. Lol
 
1sttbone said:
If you watch SVB praxtice youll notice he practices all different shots and when he misses hell shoot same shot over and over until he can repeat successful potting of any particular shot. Svb was littleary born with a cue in his hands and has a true love for the game. Because of his work ethic he has helped chane the game forever in a good way.
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Musta been pure hell for his poor mudda!

When I was addicted to pool I spent 60-80 hours a week on a pool table, often more. I was working 50-60 hours a week at a full time job or business too. Fortunately I was young and dumb and sleep was for old people!

I didn't have the gift to go with the work ethic. Did OK, but you won't read my name anywhere.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Musta been pure hell for his poor mudda!

When I was addicted to pool I spent 60-80 hours a week on a pool table, often more. I was working 50-60 hours a week at a full time job or business too. Fortunately I was young and dumb and sleep was for old people!

I didn't have the gift to go with the work ethic. Did OK, but you won't read my name anywhere.

Hu
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Lesse….

60-80 + 50-60 = 110-140.

There are 168 hours in a week….

So you had 28-58 hours or 4-8 hours per day for everything else, including sleep.

Tough schedule. 😁
 
It struck me that I was playing pool more hours than I was working so I logged pool hours for three weeks several times years apart. The longest I have played pool was 48 hours straight, on the natch. I have played 36 hours straight probably over a dozen times. Eight to twelve hours was pretty much the norm.

I would go ten days or two weeks on about two hours of sleep a night then I would crash twelve or fourteen hours and start over again. When I would crash I crashed hard. I've slept against a stage with the band playing hard rock many a time. Same thing at race tracks, put a leg either side of the pit wall, tell another crew member to wake me up in 30 minutes or thirty-five laps! Back before speed limits on pit row cars might pass within a couple feet at sixty or eighty miles an hour. I would wake up, change tires, and go back to sleep.

I crowded a lot of living in from fifteen to twenty-five. After that I cooled my jets and slept more. Aside from anything else I was naturally nocturnal. I could easily stay awake all night then sleep an hour or two and do it all again. Owning my own businesses I was there but I might be just chilling in a chair.

Hu
 
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