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Tip top advice for all pool players: "put in the work" "Guys get "good enough" just by keeping on doing it." "The math is 1% inspiration, 99% perpiration. But, it's gotta be efficient and concise work or it's just global warming." "A good breathing routine helps endurance as well." You mean...

Luck, by definition, happens infrequently. And if it's rare enough, it's called a miracle. So, if you get lucky, get a few rolls, in a session, but you lose much of, if not all your cash to a better player, a good player, you can walk away happy? I think not. Good is consistency. You can...

Fallacy: "When they start giving center pocket a higher value than the rest of the pocket then I'll start aiming center pocket." You mean that whenever you make the ball it doesn't matter if you hit center pocket. How much money have you ever taken down by not aiming center pocket and missing...

Cole was talking about a slouch. Not a hustler. Don't forget, it takes one to know one and Cole was unquestionably one hell of a hustler. I met a guy at Hard Times, Bellflower. He would come in regularly there for a while. He told me that Cole wouldn't come into a town to hustle up a game...

I'd sure like to. What do you mean: "work the shit out like it's the work it is." You mean hit a million balls? Maybe someone else might also like to offer an explanation?

I wasn't trying to launch Starship. I just wanted to frame the proposition. When you shoot a million balls you take the time necessary to shoot a million balls. The time you take includes figuring out your next shot, walking around the table, etc. 30 seconds is quite reasonable. T-minus 30...

30 seconds per shot is reasonable is if you are learning and focusing to remedy errors and perfect your routine.

You agree that I started this 10,000 idea, "Who said 10,00 balls guarantees to expunge all flaws or grant you championship status?" or anything nearly so? This poster that you are replying to obviously made a typo. But the comma indicates he meant 10,000. But my reply about 10,000 was to this...

If you say so. You know what is best.

I use Allen Hopkins as an example of mitigating or eliminating as many degrees of freedom in your technique to minimize or eliminate errors.

Calvin told me he watched Buddy Hall run 11 racks right there on table 10 at Hard Times, Bellflower. If you look at his play on the many YouTube videos, he doesn't shoot much faster than once in 30 seconds. And he's one of the greatest ever. But I commend you for making Earl your bench mark...

I said 1 million balls was BS. You say 10,000 is enough for most guys to get pretty good. And the next 10,000? And the next? That's not too many balls. Easily made in 6 months. That would make this game pretty easy. I'll admit, at Hard Times, Bellflower, the tournaments were full of...

No... and yes. The shot is the total of what your eye(s) see, everything. "...I see no difference in the shot, both of them look exactly the same..." They don't both look exactly the same. Simple proof: use the technique I describe how to correct for parallax. Compare before and after...

Intelligent. Like knowing when to quit gambling or drinking. Efficient, as well.

Let's have some fun. "Getting to a million balls isn't nearly as hard as the OP thought..." Make a fist. Now raise and extend one index finger. Now, retract it back into your fist. If I offer you $1000 to do this 1 million times, would you do it? No? Then how much? For free because you'd...

Give me a break. You mean to tell me that you believe hitting a million balls "with focus" means that this is enough to remedy, expunge all your flaws? If this is true, then most everyone who is not a champion or at least a pro who has hit a million balls must have an extremely vanishingly...

If you are not consistently delivering the cue stick precisely on every shot, in other words, if you still have flaws, statistically, you may still make shots. So, if you are not fooling yourself, even though you may have made the shot, technically, you missed the shot. But I guess it all...

You look for a debate? You make a false premise then argue in support of everything I've said. There is a reality. But you can choose whatever you wish to believe.

My original post was intended to show that repeating the same mistakes over a million times won't improve your game. The assumption is that shooting a million balls will insure you will break old habits. Obviously this is not necessarily true. It is all about close observation of what you are...

Take it or leave it. Whatever you are doing, just make sure you do it every time. Exactly the same. You can tell because the cue ball will react the same way. Once you have perfected exactly how to miss shots, you at least know you can be consistent. Now, look for each and every flaw, one...