Break-n-Run w/your eyes closed

[IA8baller]

I was doing some practice drills today and started setting up shots then before my final stroke I would close my eyes and concentrate on my stroke and totally trust my aim. I was pocketing almost all my shots w/o any trouble and I was getting really good feedback on how the mechanics of my stroke felt so I decided to try shooting ghost games this way and broke and ran twice out of 5 attempts.

I had never attempted this before and started wondering if there is some real benefit to doing this other than it's kinda cool to do? Anyone else tried this? If so, do you agree that you can really "feel" your stroke?

I think it's giving me some much needed confidence on my fundamentals/aiming/stroke.

I'm going back out to the table to try it some more right now.

 

[Snapshot9]

Blind aiming

I used to do the same thing, only I would stare at the object ball, visualize the table in my mind and where the ball was, close my eyes, then get down in position and shoot the shot. It was kind of fun to see how close I got, and I did make a good deal of them. It teaches you to use your other senses when playing Pool besides just your eyesight.

I don't know if it helped or not, but for a long time now, I can visualize the complete out of an open table in only 5 seconds at most. It's like I see pictures of each shot throughout the whole run very rapidly.

 

[chefjeff]

I was doing some practice drills today and started setting up shots then before my final stroke I would close my eyes and concentrate on my stroke and totally trust my aim. I was pocketing almost all my shots w/o any trouble and I was getting really good feedback on how the mechanics of my stroke felt so I decided to try shooting ghost games this way and broke and ran twice out of 5 attempts.

I had never attempted this before and started wondering if there is some real benefit to doing this other than it's kinda cool to do? Anyone else tried this? If so, do you agree that you can really "feel" your stroke?

I think it's giving me some much needed confidence on my fundamentals/aiming/stroke.

I'm going back out to the table to try it some more right now.

I do that when my right arm is twitching. When I look up for the last time, I close my eyes and put full focus on my grip arm, how it goes back, the speed of it, my knuckle position, keeping my 'ducks-in-a-row,' my pause and my forward stroke.

I like to use this on those long shots where my eyes give me trouble so that I sometimes tend to subconsciously adjust my final stroke and miss.

No one has ever noticed that I do this...Have you had anyone comment on it yet?

BTW, my success rate is less than yours.

Jeff Livingston

 

[gonegray]

Aiming Blind

Really this is not aiming blind, but firing blind. I have been doing this for years. Actually, to get in action, I have played many sets where I give the "I'll shoot every shot with my eyes closed" spot. Only in one pocket and bank pool. My bank pool game is almost the same with eyes closed or not. I practice lagging the ball with my eyes closed every time I play, to get the feel of the table. If it's a new table, first with eyes open, then after a few shots, eyes closed.

My most memorable session was when I missed two spot shots while in action, so after it was over, I shot spot shots both right handed and left handed, rotating, then went to the same drill with eyes closed. I did that for two hours. I am a masochist, but what do you know, about two hours later I got into some eyes closed action and busted the guy (banks).

 

[IA8baller]

I sometimes tend to subconsciously adjust my final stroke and miss.

Jeff Livingston

That's exactly what I was doing on occasion as well and I thought doing some drills/games "firing" blind and trusting where I was at might help me quit doing that.

 

[chefjeff]

That's exactly what I was doing on occasion as well and I thought doing some drills/games "firing" blind and trusting where I was at might help me quit doing that.

Must be too much corn.

Jeff Livingston