intermediate players: who many times can you run 6 balls in rotation ?

judochoke said:

I love this drill, (I guess its a drill). just throw 6 random balls on the table and start with ball in hand, and shoot in rotation. sometime I only get one rack, sometimes two or three.
I think my best in 6 in a row before a mistake In position.

just wondering how my fellow intermediate brothers do in this drill

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judochoke said:

10 for 10 nine corner??

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Bob Jewett said:

Instead of that, try breaking nine ball as usual and removing the low balls until there are 6 left. That way you will be dealing with more realistic layouts. The general method is called "progressive nine ball ghost" or "progressive rotation ghost" if you manage to get to 10 or more balls. It's been around for fifteen or twenty years as a standard practice technique.

If you can't beat the 6-ball ghost in a race to, say, 11, you have to go back to the 5-ball ghost. You have to earn your advancement.

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mvp said:

Bob this compliments what I said about the randomness, I’ve seen too many people throw balls out then spread them out with their cue even more, random needs to be random

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iusedtoberich said:

I'm too lazy to rack and break. What I do if I'm keeping score like this, is take 4 balls in each hand, throw them at each other near mid table, and when they stop, remove the lowest numbered balls until 6 remain. Even doing this, and trying to throw them hard to make it as random as possible, a lot of the balls end up zig zagging near center table and/or fall in the side pockets.

Still, it beats bending over racking every few minutes when practicing by yourself. Especially if your game is at the level where you might break and run 1 out of 50 racks, so the break means nothing.

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