A 'Critique My B&R' Video

JessEm

JessEm

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Critique away. Bear in mind, in January it will be 2 years since I started playing. But I did shoot with friends at the pool hall a lot when we were younger.


Thanks
 
My favourite term as of late is "scattered". Meaning: unstructured efforts.

You made some solid shots, but it looked like nearly the whole rack was done without purpose. Shoot something, see what you end up with, rinse/repeat.

Even the first combo was unnecessary.

Considering you say that you're at year 2 of your playing career, the above is expected. Nearly everyone that isn't a natural born world beater becomes a potter without purpose first. It isn't a bad thing. Just the first step in the natural progression of a player. Keep up the good work.
 
The_JV said:
My favourite term as of late is "scattered". Meaning: unstructured efforts.

You made some solid shots, but it looked like nearly the whole rack was done without purpose. Shoot something, see what you end up with, rinse/repeat.

Even the first combo was unnecessary.

Considering you say that you're at year 2 of your playing career, the above is expected. Nearly everyone that isn't a natural born world beater becomes a potter without purpose first. It isn't a bad thing. Just the first step in the natural progression of a player. Keep up the good work.
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Pretty much my thought too. Some decent shots, most of which should’ve been unnecessary. I would’ve also looked to resolve that tied up ball down in the corner much earlier in the rack.

Kudos on the run though, and your progress to date!
 
Thanks for the replies. I agree completely with the comments here. After watching this again today, this rack was basically just a series of recovery shots after the failed breakout on shot 2. Had I got the breakout then, I think the pattern play could've been more conventional /less disorganized.

Tin Man is partially to blame for the poor pattern play. When we met, I sucked so bad we had to skip patterns and focus on fundamental cueball control stuff. That said, I doubt he would be very impressed at all with this video. I was rushing and skipping pre-shot stuff.

I really just released this security footage because I thought the longer shots accentuated my mechanics better...

Imagine my embarrassment upon returning to this thread to find out it wasn't a B&R, lol.

Thanks again.
 
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JessEm said:
B&R, part II.

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On both your break shots, I was struck with your bridge hand being placed on the rail even though you appeared to place the cue ball on the headstring. Assuming an 7-foot diamond, that’s a 19 inch bridge from the rail cushion nose to the back of the cue ball. In my opinion, that’s just way too far. You may get a lot of power, but there is no way you’re going to be able to control your contact point on the cue ball from that distance, particularly with breaking hard as you did. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that you might miss hit or even miscue once in a while on your break shot attempts, with that length of bridge.

If you want to stick with that bridge hand position on your break, that’s fine, but I would experiment with setting the cue ball back 2-4 inches behind the headstring to see if that gives you more control. You also might experiment with giving up that closed bridge on your break and laying the shaft directly on the rail, guided between your index and third finger. The closed bridge you appear to be using off the rail results in an extremely elevated butt, which means you are significantly hitting at a downward angle on the ball, which also means they’ll be little control as to your accuracy as to where you are hitting that lead object ball. You could try setting that closed bridge hand on the playing surface just inside the end rail, and set the cue ball on the headstring, which would still be giving you a 12+ inch bridge. You might be giving up a little break speed but gaining way more control.
 
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