A tough drill

spanky79

spanky79

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Shane and Donny were practicing this drill last week the day after there match up. It can be done with 9 balls or all 15. Shane and Donny were using all 15. Shane got to 12 on a diamond.
The object is to run the balls in order without touching any of the balls.

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I teach a slightly different variation of this, but along the same lines. However, instead of having to shoot them in order, you can pocket any ball, in any order. Here are the rules: NO contact with another ball, no banks, no combos, no misses, and most important, you have to verbalize 3rd ball position every time you shoot (you are allowed to change your mind, if you make a positional error, but you have the have the 3rd ball mindset working).

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spanky79 said:
Shane and Donny were practicing this drill last week the day after there match up. It can be done with 9 balls or all 15. Shane and Donny were using all 15. Shane got to 12 on a diamond.
The object is to run the balls in order without touching any of the balls.

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that looks like hours of pain to me....
Bert Kinester has a drill like that called "the ladder" its one of his best tapes
 
Hours????...............

Mowem down said:
that looks like hours of pain to me....
Bert Kinester has a drill like that called "the ladder" its one of his best tapes
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That looks like YEARS of insanity..... bring the straight jacket and haul me to the funny farm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


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Ok your table has an error in it, but Im not gonna tell you where. SVB was shown this game for a $100/rack in Des Moines, IA this summer...let's say he lost bad at it. Some of the most notorious members of AZB prop bet on him on this and showed it to him. I did see him get out a few times though which was amazing.
 
spanky79 said:
Shane and Donny were practicing this drill last week the day after there match up. It can be done with 9 balls or all 15. Shane and Donny were using all 15. Shane got to 12 on a diamond.
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Got to 12??? :eek: Wish that could be seen on tape. Not that I don't believe it but that's extremely difficult. I know only two people who practiced this drill with 6 balls and managed to make it, and one stopping at 5. Again, note the opposite long rail is free of balls and can be widely used. So, a video of anyone making even 6 of this variation could be priceless.
This drill is ultra tough and I would say impossible (which equals to nothing according to adidas anyway)

[add-on] Actually having said that and taking another look at the layout I must say that last 6 balls are in fact easier to play than the starting ones - just because there are less balls and the rails are free and if one could run them from 1 to 6 what can stop him from running 10 to 15?
 
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I thought the 4-5-6 and 13-14-15 were supposed to be switched so the lowest # ball is towards the corner.....right? so your not shooting past the side pockets...

G.
 
Gerry said:
I thought the 4-5-6 and 13-14-15 were supposed to be switched so the lowest # ball is towards the corner.....right? so your not shooting past the side pockets...

G.
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Yes, that's the way I've seen it set up. As shown in the initial post, and assuming bank shots and combos aren't permitted, getting as far as the six ball would be a monumental achievement, even for a world-class player. In fact, as shown, getting shape from the four onto the five seems near impossible, and would be fairly challenging with ball in hand. If one somehow manages to get past the six, this drill starts to get easier, but by no means easy.
 
from what i heard, the way they were doing it banks were aloud, only rules were to shoot them in order and you could not hit another ball. Either way with any variation of the rules it is tough. I tried it myself on a diamond pro am just like the one they played on. But i only had 1-9 set up and that was hard enough. I can only imagine doing it with the other 6 balls there to have to go around.
 
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