The best way to increase feel is to sandpaper your fingers tips.
Suddenly, use some 60 grit and you'll immediately get a "surge" of feel/touch (and start looking for some Advil or Tylenol) or just feel for something that may potentially guide you to safety.
Ideally you'll want to see the shot predominantly when standing up so that you can connect the cue ball to the object ball (if you're not bleeding too badly.)
When you go down on the shot and touch your bridge hand to the table you want to shift into the feel/touch mode, if your fingers have regained some feeling.
So, how can you train yourself to have more feel and touch with bleeding fingers?
The way that I do this in pool is to deliberately twirl around in place a couple of times, yell, "Kawabunga!" and then quickly shoot... this forces you to use more instinct!
This does take away from your ability to "see" the shot and but makes it essential to "feel" the shot. It's great for instinct training and when you go back to your normal shooting position you'll have more feel and touch... once your fingers heal.
I suggest doing this for an hour straight, and just accept the pain. DO NOT get frustrated if you're bleeding all over the table, it's not about bleeding, it's about bleeding.
It helps to have good eyesight to play pool, but I've known exceptional shotmakers that win major tournaments that don't see well, but their hyper-sensitive finger tips, raw from using this method, makes them superb.
I have several other ways to increase YOUR feel/touch and fine tune YOUR instinct in my "Bleed for Pool series." Do you have any suggestions? I'm always willing to learn more.
Lou Figueroa
Suddenly, use some 60 grit and you'll immediately get a "surge" of feel/touch (and start looking for some Advil or Tylenol) or just feel for something that may potentially guide you to safety.
Ideally you'll want to see the shot predominantly when standing up so that you can connect the cue ball to the object ball (if you're not bleeding too badly.)
When you go down on the shot and touch your bridge hand to the table you want to shift into the feel/touch mode, if your fingers have regained some feeling.
So, how can you train yourself to have more feel and touch with bleeding fingers?
The way that I do this in pool is to deliberately twirl around in place a couple of times, yell, "Kawabunga!" and then quickly shoot... this forces you to use more instinct!
This does take away from your ability to "see" the shot and but makes it essential to "feel" the shot. It's great for instinct training and when you go back to your normal shooting position you'll have more feel and touch... once your fingers heal.
I suggest doing this for an hour straight, and just accept the pain. DO NOT get frustrated if you're bleeding all over the table, it's not about bleeding, it's about bleeding.
It helps to have good eyesight to play pool, but I've known exceptional shotmakers that win major tournaments that don't see well, but their hyper-sensitive finger tips, raw from using this method, makes them superb.
I have several other ways to increase YOUR feel/touch and fine tune YOUR instinct in my "Bleed for Pool series." Do you have any suggestions? I'm always willing to learn more.
Lou Figueroa