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I have been wondering about this for a while, it seems gambling is a major part in pool. I've heard it's common for Filipinos to not even play if there's no money on the table. "Hustling pool" seems to be very common. I've had some offers to play for $$$ when practicing at some places. It seems...

Sylvain is building me a practice routine with target pool and other placement drills. Set up an OB and a CB and find the most ways to end up with the CB on the target while pocketing the OB. I think this is gonna help greatly. I will also take a look at Bert Kinister videos!

Very bad, I think stress got the best of me. First tournament and everything. Gonna take a break from that for a while, gonna focus on practicing the right things and will come back strong.

Thanks for the great advice Colin! CB placement/control and positional choices is definitely my next target. I will begin working on that as soon as tonight! I will try to find some additional exercices to practice my positional choices. Of course, I will also try to fix the problems that...

Yeah that was a bad move on my part. I spent way too much time on that and I think, as other said here, that I really need to focus on CB placement for now. What good is it to always break perfectly with 4 balls in if I can't pocket the 5 balls left! But breaking is so much fun :)

Thanks for the advice Tony! Actually, I already spent a lot of time on that exact progression. If I drop down the power, I can actually get pretty accurate breaks using only my arm. Unfortunately I was breaking pretty bad in the video. Eventually after practicing arm only for a while, I added...

Most of my time was spent on stroke drills actually! A (very) considerable amount playing and breaking over and over (way too much actually) Sylvain (my coach) actually showed me another very helpful drill for cueball placement a few days ago, I’m gonna start heavily practicing that. He has...

Indeed, didn't think much about the 3!

Thanks for the advice! I tried to get good position for the 2 ball with my 1 most of the time (it might not seem like it though! I guess I'm just bad at it), but didn't think much about the pocket line, that would definitely have helped, gotta keep that in mind!

So I said I would make a 4-ball ghost video yesterday or today after it was suggested in this thread. So here it is! 4-ball ghost, race to 9, with a few breaks at the end because I was very disappointed with those during my set, lost control of whitey on pretty much all of them. I tried to...

4-ball ghost video incoming in about an hour! I tried to incorporate what was told on the previous replies about my stroke and shot selection. I included some breaks at the end too because those during my set of 4 ball were terrible. Also, thanks for the great advice JoeyA and Zphix!

Oh well. I'm getting too defensive I think.

I'll take that as you thinking of it as ironic? In other words, you are saying that I can't have made my mind about aiming systems? That's special. If I conclude that I don't want to eat carrots, are you gonna argue with me that I'm wrong and that I'm ignorant?

I really don't care and I'm not complaining. I read them for a while, then I started to find most of them uninteresting. When I made this thread, I didn't know aiming systems were so controversial. I already made my mind about this matter, mostly after reading a good bunch of replies here. The...

Here we go again..

I was taking a jab at the eternal debate more than anything! We could say the thread itself died after about 50 replies.

I think we should start a bet where we guess how many replies this thread will have when it dies. If you bet you can't reply anymore, the one that is closest wins the pot. You need double-ply TP man.

Some of the ideas/opinions I get from here are actually quite helpful, and it's not hard to weed out the bad ones. If I hesitate with one of them, Sylvain tells me whether an advice is good or bad, and he usually add to them in a very good way. Now I don't think I have to defend myself from...

Indeed it was mentionned a few times! I'm not too sure why I didn't listen. It wasn't the first time Sylvain told me about doing drills either, it's just that yesterday was the first time that I saw such quick improvement just from trying a few things over and over and it stuck to me. After a...

Pretty much that. I only played straight pool once or twice before that. I never really bothered learning the game and just went with what I felt I should do. If it wasn't for the suggestions on here to try the game, I probably wouldn't have tried it before a long while. I asked Sylvain about...