I worked on my stance, line of aim, PSR, and delivering a consistent straight stroke for a little over an hour last night at the dinning room table using Mark Wilson's text book. I went out on the patio this morning (39 degrees) and ran 3 racks of 14.1 right off the bat W/O anything even close to a miss. I had to quit after 3 racks as I was getting too cold. The funny thing about it was it was the exact way I use to set-up from the advice I got from Jerry Briesath many, many years ago in NY. I felt comfortable with no back strain that I could notice in the short time I played. The big changes I made were to stand up a bit higher and center my eyes between the cue instead of my left eye over it.
I'm going to read each chapter and see if I can find other things that I have picked up bad habits on over the years. Two things I know for sure are I was not hitting the CB where I thought before and my PSR was far from consistent like I thought it was. I'm not big on reading to learn, but this first chapter has already been worth the $70 to me. Best 3 new things in pool in the last 5 years IMO are the Magic Rack, Ridgeback Rails, and Mark Wilson's book "PLAY GREAT POOL". Can't wait until it warms up a bit more to go out and practice some more. Life/pool is good again. Johnnyt
I'm going to read each chapter and see if I can find other things that I have picked up bad habits on over the years. Two things I know for sure are I was not hitting the CB where I thought before and my PSR was far from consistent like I thought it was. I'm not big on reading to learn, but this first chapter has already been worth the $70 to me. Best 3 new things in pool in the last 5 years IMO are the Magic Rack, Ridgeback Rails, and Mark Wilson's book "PLAY GREAT POOL". Can't wait until it warms up a bit more to go out and practice some more. Life/pool is good again. Johnnyt
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