After 60 years of playing pool It’s still a never ending battle to play an “A” game in 10-ball rotation all the time for me. With the tighter pocket tables you see now (I have 4 ½”), the bouncy rails, fast cloth, and deep shelves, it makes it an up hill battle to improve for me.
With the old style table’s position didn’t need to be pinpoint on most shots. The pockets were larger and more forgiving (could be cheated a lot). The slower cloth made it easier for speed control (for me) on both long and short position. About 6 months ago I took my whole game apart and threw most of it away after watching many streams of the top players. I noticed that they hardly ever juiced the QB. A good percentage of the time if they were left with a long shot or left themselves a shot they had to juice that they either go for a two-way bank, cinch the shot and take another tough leave, or just play safe.
In the last six months with the tighter pockets and unforgiving pockets, fast cloth and rails I went down to “C+” and back to “-A”. This is playing at least 4 hours a day everyday. I use to use a lot of sidespin to throw balls in the pockets. Now I use very center ball and very little side and shoot pocket speed on most shots. It took me forever to make balls as well as I use to this way. I went back and forth from day to day. One day I was making balls but my position sucked and the next day I was getting good position but missing too many balls. This is a hard, hard game…but I love it. Johnnyt
With the old style table’s position didn’t need to be pinpoint on most shots. The pockets were larger and more forgiving (could be cheated a lot). The slower cloth made it easier for speed control (for me) on both long and short position. About 6 months ago I took my whole game apart and threw most of it away after watching many streams of the top players. I noticed that they hardly ever juiced the QB. A good percentage of the time if they were left with a long shot or left themselves a shot they had to juice that they either go for a two-way bank, cinch the shot and take another tough leave, or just play safe.
In the last six months with the tighter pockets and unforgiving pockets, fast cloth and rails I went down to “C+” and back to “-A”. This is playing at least 4 hours a day everyday. I use to use a lot of sidespin to throw balls in the pockets. Now I use very center ball and very little side and shoot pocket speed on most shots. It took me forever to make balls as well as I use to this way. I went back and forth from day to day. One day I was making balls but my position sucked and the next day I was getting good position but missing too many balls. This is a hard, hard game…but I love it. Johnnyt
