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Anytime I start to go into a slump, I'll start overthinking everything and once I do that, the doubt sets in. Once the doubt sets in I can make anything, even the easiest of shots, look impossible. What I usually do during a slump is take a few days off to clear my mind. Whenever i return, I...

There are few things in a pool players life that are better than watching Efren Reyes play pool. The magician is really a sight to behold. However, I recently stumbled across an old video of Efren playing in a 9 ball tournament. He was in a situation where only the 8 and 9 were left on the...

A friend of mine recently suggested that I watch the Mark Wilson tutorials on YouTube. He said something in one of those videos that really stood out to me. Basically he said that there are only 2 differences between an average player and a pro player: 1. A pro player has a straighter, more...

Here lately I have been in a shooting slump, but was looking for something to do last night. The local pool hall was having a scotch doubles 8 ball tournament. I went down to the pool hall not knowing if I was going to play, thought I just might hang out a while. One of the rules of the scotch...

A loss or change of fine motor skills can make relatively simple task seem impossible. I remember years ago when Jon Lester went through his YIPS, he couldn't throw a ball from the mound to first base. I always thought it was strange how he had been doing it his whole life, but there for a...

I know there are some threads already about the strangest rules ever seen. I don't want to dig too deep into the list of crazy rules I've seen in my near decade of pool playing, although if yall want to post some they are entertaining to learn. I just basically wanted to ask yalls opinion about...