Best speed controll drills.

[Wedge]

Dr Dave

His stuff is always excellent (Thanks for all the free stuff you do). I might say that the PAT 1, 2 & 3 drills are also excellent. PAT 3 is nor for the faint of heart!

Wedge

 

[bountybuddy]

Kim Bye, I disagree with most of what has been said here. The strongest part of my game was position play. When I played the best I ever played I was just below half as good as Earl Strickland. He has the run from the break record of 13. My best was 6 racks ran from the break. I know of no drills to learn position. Position is learned through repetition. When standing before a shot, you tell your brain which ball you are going to shoot, the path of the cue ball, what English you will use if any and where you want the cue ball to stop for your next shot. When you get down to shoot your body goes into robot mode. All you do is focus on the ball you want to make and put your cue stick on the cue ball where you want to hit it. Your mind is blank. You think about nothing but making the ball. Your brain tells your body how hard to shoot the shot and the cue ball goes where you wanted it to go. I hope this helps you.

 

[dr9ball]

Still working on my mechanics and things are improving, but i tend to misjudge the speed by a ball or two too much.
What is the best speed controll drills to practice?

Set up a shot put a piece of notebook paper on the table where you want the cueball to stop when you go 1 rail for position, again set up the shot and put the piece of notebook paper where you want the cueball to stop for 2 rail position repeat for 3 rail position. Log your performance out of 10 shots. Then move to a new shot and repeat for 10 shots for 1 , 2 and 3 rail position. This offers virtually endless variety. Loging your performance will help you set your baseline and measure your progress.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Kim Bye, I disagree with most of what has been said here. The strongest part of my game was position play. When I played the best I ever played I was just below half as good as Earl Strickland. He has the run from the break record of 13. My best was 6 racks ran from the break. I know of no drills to learn position. Position is learned through repetition. When standing before a shot, you tell your brain which ball you are going to shoot, the path of the cue ball, what English you will use if any and where you want the cue ball to stop for your next shot. When you get down to shoot your body goes into robot mode. All you do is focus on the ball you want to make and put your cue stick on the cue ball where you want to hit it. Your mind is blank. You think about nothing but making the ball. Your brain tells your body how hard to shoot the shot and the cue ball goes where you wanted it to go. I hope this helps you.

I think it will not help Kim.

Feeling comes only with experience and doing drills is a good way to get specific experience. An alternative is to get that experience during competition but I think it is much harder to work on specific shots outside your comfort zone during competition.

There are lots of drills to learn position.

 

[pokeandhope]

:smile:

Set up a shot put a piece of notebook paper on the table where you want the cueball to stop when you go 1 rail for position, again set up the shot and put the piece of notebook paper where you want the cueball to stop for 2 rail position repeat for 3 rail position. Log your performance out of 10 shots. Then move to a new shot and repeat for 10 shots for 1 , 2 and 3 rail position. This offers virtually endless variety. Loging your performance will help you set your baseline and measure your progress.

I love this drill! I put a piece of paper on the table, then I throw out an object ball and the cue ball. From where they land I try to touch the object ball and land on the paper. As this becomes easier (and it will) make the paper smaller. When you can land on half of a playing card 99 out of a hundred times give Efren the six ball:wink: