any "speed" drills????

shooter777 said:
You guys have any good drills for dialing in cue ball speed?



Thanks!!!! :)
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Jose Parica showed me this one, in which you work on both your pocketing and speed, designed for strong players. I tried showing it to Helena Thornfeldt once, and she said Jose had shown it to her, too!

Set up a spot shot. Pocket the ball and go two rails back into the kitchen without hitting the top rail. Now put a ball on the other spot, From wherever you left the cue ball on the first shot, pocket that ball and leave the cue ball in the opposite kitchen without hitting the bottom rail, and so on, and so on......

The first time you either a) miss the shot, b) hit the short rail opposite the spotted ball, or c) fail to leave the cue ball within two diamonds of the short rail opposite the spotted ball, you are finished. Score one point each time you meet the requirements for the shot.

It takes great pocketing and speed control to keep it going.
 
Practice with just cue ball on table...
Hit cue ball to travel 1/2 diamond
then start again and hit cue ball to travel 1 diamond.
then 2 diamonds.
3, 4, 5, etc.
to far rail and stop.
to far rail and back 1 diamond
to far rail and back 2 diamonds
to far rail and back 3 diamonds
etc.
to far rail and back to near rail and stop (lag shot)
+1 diamond
+2
+3
etc.

Then throw all 15 balls on table at random. Practice shooting them so they travel up to a pocket, but do not drop into the pocket.

You learn that with a full ball hit, the object ball gets all of the cue ball energy and the cue ball loses all of its energy. And with a thin cut, the cue ball retains most of its energy and the object ball gets little energy, etc.

You also learn how slowly you can shoot a ball and still make the pocket. And that you need a lot of speed for a thin cut.
 
an alternative method

Something I came across in my internet travels recently when it came to shot speed was using sound as a gage. memorize the sounds of different strength hits and when your faced with a shot conciously pick the level of sound you want to produce from the cb hitting the ob. Then shoot.

I haven't tried it yet, but it's an interesting approach since it uses a sense (hearing)that we wouldn't normally associate with playing pool.
 
supergreenman said:
Something I came across in my internet travels recently when it came to shot speed was using sound as a gage. memorize the sounds of different strength hits and when your faced with a shot conciously pick the level of sound you want to produce from the cb hitting the ob. Then shoot.

I haven't tried it yet, but it's an interesting approach since it uses a sense (hearing)that we wouldn't normally associate with playing pool.
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It may be an interesting trick to teach you to use your subconscious to control speed, but it's got a major flaw in that background noise greatly and unavoidably affects your perceived volume of sounds, and also different balls will produce different sounds given the same contact, due to material, temperature, and possibly age of the ball.

I think it might be effective for the same reason visualization is so crucial though; it gets your conscious thoughts about speed out of the way of your subconscious judgments, since focusing on a certain sound will almost definitely get your mind off how fast your arm is moving.

-Andrew
 
Place a quarter on top of the object ball. Shoot the Q ball into the ball, rolling the quarter off the front of the ball, NOT sliding the ball out from under it. When you get to where you can roll the quarter off the front consistantly move farther away.
The person that showed this to me was shooting this shot as a long rail kick.
Chris
 
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