14 Days: The Great Pool Experiment with Tor Lowry.....my diary

great work, excellent read, and good luck!

it was a great motivation for me to read your progress!
 
With all you had going on and still taking the time to write an excellent daily post... WoW! A big sincere Thank You!
P.S. Hope you get the position you interviewed for!!

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Good work Justin. See on the road sometime... I'll bring my tools. :wink:

Randy
 
So the 64,000 dollar question is -- are you now a better player after going through these 14 days or do you at least feel like you are now headed in the right direction?

Thanks for taking the time to document this journey of yours.
 
Thanks for posting ! great read. I certainly hope you got out of it what you wanted. Good luck in the future !
 
So the 64,000 dollar question is -- are you now a better player after going through these 14 days or do you at least feel like you are now headed in the right direction?

Thanks for taking the time to document this journey of yours.

You're right. Justin didn't answer that $64K question. I know that when you are inundated with so much information, there can sometimes be a down period where you have to make it rote before you can actually see consistent improvement overall and sometimes, you're just too close to the problem to make the call.

Anyway, I hope to hear the answer as well, either now or in the future, when the answer will be fairer to answer. :cool: (Have a feeling, the answer is yes.

JoeyA
 
Well, here's the (non)answer to the $64K question.

My friends say I look much better at the table. I appeared pretty jacked up originally. I know that I FEEL much better. My stance is much more stable. I'm happy with my new grip. All of this has solved some of my vision problems.

BUT..........I have SO MUCH info swimming in my head at this point, I'm suffering from paralysis by analysis. Not to mention that I'm EXTREMELY competitive and VERY hard on myself. The problem has literally become worse before my very eyes upon joining NAPA before Tor. I think it's now compounded.

Why, you may ask?

On the NAPA website, I can see my overall rating in each discipline. I see "points per match". I see "Snaps on the Break". I see individual league leaders. I see Rackless leaders. I see Shutout leaders. Break & Runs. And so on.

I want SO BADLY to be at the top of every category.....that I'm beating myself up for not snapping the game ball in on every rack. Seriously. I'm immediately upset when I miss a ball or get out of shape and realize that I can't get a Break & Run. Then, when I lose a single game in the set, I'm pissed because I've lost my chance at a shutout. Hell, I'm immediately miffed when I don't win the opening lag, as that negates the possibility of a Rackless. God forbid I go on and lose the set.

I'm a mess mentally.

I see the patterns better than I ever have before. I generally know what I need to do. I even usually know how to hit it. But, I still have a problem executing things perfectly. Perfectly. PERFECTLY.

And that's my problem. I'm obsessive compulsive (which is great for my PSR), but it's hell at the table when you're constantly trying to be perfect in every way.

Oh yea, I also have an overinflated sense of how good I'm SUPPOSED to be with all the time I put into this. Strangely enough, I absolutely take responsibility for my actions and play.....rarely, if ever, blaming the rolls, but I keep telling myself, "You've done this and that. Practiced this many hours. Learned from this person. Now WHY can't you do this when you're supposed to????"

Very frustrating.

If anyone cares to watch NAPA ratings, you can type in my name and state (Wray....Arkansas) and follow my progress.

Yes, I'm a better player NOW than I was before. But, seeing actual results hasn't really happened yet, but it's only been a hair over a week since Tor left. I honestly think I'll be 2-3 balls better in 6 months, after it's all burned in and tested in competition.

My friend Butch is already 1-2 balls better (if not more), right out of the gate, from this 14 Day Experience. My time will come.

Tor's methods and knowledge are no joke.
 
Hi Justin, sorry to bring up this topic again. But now that you have embedded and burned in the methods and knowledge from Tor, how would you rate yourself? Did you became a (much) better player?
 
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