Alison Fisher straight pool video

dmgwalsh said:
From Straight Pool Challenge Derby City 2008

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1052585246876644586


Compliments of Bob Jewett http://www.sfbilliards.com/

and Elvicash.
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Just a few notes from watching this video...

Her major problem was that her opening break shots were ineffective - she never was able to disperse the heart of the stack on any of her break shots - that opening scratch kinda sharked her and every break shot afterwards did very little to open the balls for her. This is why she was always in trouble.

She had one rack, where she forced herself into situations where she had to shoot in her break ball(s)... ??? This is a positional issue - too much cue ball movement and getting on the wrong side of the table.

At the end of that rack, somehow she ended up with a side pocket break ball - that entire rack was painful to watch - but she did get into the second rack.

She ends up with what looks like a few dead balls coming out of the pack - I don't think she ever saw them - they looked good from the camera angle - I could be wrong, but I've never missed one of those from the chair.

Allison ended up going into the balls wrong and making a bigger mess than what she started with - she dealt with it pretty well with a great shot on the 1 ball - however I would not have shot off the 15 first - it looked like a pretty good break ball, but hey, who am I, right?

She is able to get into the 3rd rack, but once again, her break shot was not very effective - I believe that she used the wrong choice in selecting a break ball - go back and look, she shot off the 6, which IMO was a better break shot to get into the balls.

Allie, if you read this, it was just too much cue ball movement that got you in trouble, combined with ill advised shots to try and break up the clusters. It's a good idea to map out your patterns (shot sequence) early and identify your last 3 balls - and work towards getting where you need to on your setup ball and key ball.

Shotmaking will only get you so far in 14.1, and if you lack knowledge of patterns and how to effectively break up clusters - you will continue to find yourself in trouble and the big runs will elude you.

No matter who you are, or how many championships you have won, the game of 14.1 will take any weakness that you have and exploit the hell out of it just to motivate you to keep on trying. That is what makes it such a great game - and the game's best teacher!

:p
 
Her essential "weakness" was a lack of playing straight pool very much in her lifetime and an almost total absense of that game for quite a few years.

Her practice time leading up the the event was zero due to the press of other things.

Someone there talked her into that opening break shot with the ob in the side jaws.

Still, she had a high run of 46 if memory serves which was pretty sporty under the circumstances.

Regards,
Jim
 
All she lacks is knowlege of the game. That she could learn.

Her skills with a cue are called talent and that, you are born with. To a point you can learn them but she is way past that point.
 
Paul Dayton said:
All she lacks is knowlege of the game. That she could learn.

Her skills with a cue are called talent and that, you are born with. To a point you can learn them but she is way past that point.
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Exactly, Paul.

With a little fine tuning & obtaining the knowledge of the intricacies that I mentioned in my earlier post, she would do much better at this game than she does in this video.

All the skill is there - she just needs to add the vital ingredients necessary to put the big runs together.
 
Thanks Bob, Elvicash, and Dennis

I'm really enjoying these videos. Thanks so much for providing them. I absolutely love the idea of the straight pool challenge. I hope it becomes huge. I also hope the fella who posted that he wanted to see the 14.1 Mosconi record broken provides some funding. I think this is where it should be put.
 
av84fun said:
Her essential "weakness" was a lack of playing straight pool very much in her lifetime and an almost total absense of that game for quite a few years.

Her practice time leading up the the event was zero due to the press of other things.

Someone there talked her into that opening break shot with the ob in the side jaws.

Still, she had a high run of 46 if memory serves which was pretty sporty under the circumstances.

Regards,
Jim
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I saw Deuel breaking the same way. He also scratched once doing it. Thanks for posting the video and thanks for Bob Jewett for putting on this event.
 
Great stuff. This is a very good teaching tool. You can tell she rarely plays 14.1 as she does not recognize patterns and looks awkward walking around the table. But boy can she pocket balls. I would bet with a little help from Blackjack she could be a great 14.1 player.
 
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