Someone told me that making this shot is the accuracy equivalent of hitting a dime with a rifle bullet 100 yards away. I call BS. What do you think?
Someone told me that making this shot is the accuracy equivalent of hitting a dime with a rifle bullet 100 yards away. I call BS. What do you think?
Someone told me that making this shot is the accuracy equivalent of hitting a dime with a rifle bullet 100 yards away. I call BS. What do you think?
It will test your fundamentals.
Thats why its a good drill/ warm up shot. Immediate feedback as to how you are hitten em that day.
This is an ideal question for ShootingArts (aka Hu) who does competitive shooting from what I remember.
I googled the size of a dime (about .7 in.) and then for "accuracy grouping 100 yards" and found several people making reference to successfully grouping several shots into a .5" - 1" circle at 100 yards.
In a forum, one guy said something to the effect of "I've made a .6" grouping at 100 yards with 5 shots... never bragged about it on the internet, I thought it was fairly common." Another poster replied to agree. It sounds like it's great shooting but not uncommonly great.
And I think that's a fair description of hitting a shot like this 5 times in a row. Actually, I may wonder if this shot is harder to hit 5x in a row than the rifle shot. It really is quite difficult even for those with great fundamentals.
My initial reaction was "BS" when I read the title too, then I wanted to say it's apples to oranges... but both shooting situations require careful aim and perfect muscle control to execute. I don't know if holding something perfectly still is more or less difficult than the muscle control needed to repeat a motion with perfect consistency.
I think your buddy made a pretty interesting and accurate comparison. If anyone thinks this shot is not a ballbreaker, get down on a 9 footer and try it sometime.
I don't know if I'd call this a good warm up shot. If anything you probably want to wait until you are already warmed up to practice it.
I think a lot about the mental aspects of the game. In my opinion, and feel free to argue this one, when warming up you should shoot easy shots that you are 100% sure of making every single time.....unless some act of God blows through to make you miss it. Hear me out though. No matter how much confidence you have in your game your subconscious mind is really the one in control. So, I think you need to feed it positive reinforcement before you play. If you go in and set up something like this long straight in shot you're basically dooming yourself for failure. Unless you are in dead stroke right out of the gate you're going to miss this more than you're going to make it. Every time you miss it you'll be saying to yourself "Man, I'm not shooting good today" and although you may consciously think that you can overcome it, your subconscious mind isn't letting you out of it. You're already programming yourself for shooting bad and missing shots. You're filling it with negative junk.
Now, on the other hand, if you start out with easy shots your subconscious mind is seeing those balls go in and is getting positive vibes from it. Start with 10 shots or so that you *KNOW* you won't miss. After that, challenge it a little, but don't make it tough. Simple cut shots work well. Get your mind into seeing the balls going into the pocket. Then move on to some 2 and 3 ball shots where you have to play position, again, easy shots and easy positions. Don't even practice those hard shots for warm up. Just keep making balls and making positions and keep feeding your brain with positive reinforcement. I guarantee you will shoot better and win more matches.
MULLY
and you'll make more of those tougher shots when they do come up
I just shot it 10 times and made it 6 with the cueball closer to the jaw of the pocket. If I ever fire a rifle at a dime from a 100 yards I will let you know which is more difficult. (I once explained the best way to shoot straight in shots in my opinion but no one cared.)
This is an ideal question for ShootingArts (aka Hu) who does competitive shooting from what I remember.