Do you look at the object ball?

[m79a]

That's weird, I wasn't looking at the object ball or the cueball when Sam was shooting.

This is weird. I watched this video the other day. I got to thinking, what the hell am i looking at when I shoot? I went to the pool room and worked on looking at the object ball last. I worked on this for 3 or 4 days. It really had me screwed up in the tourney Friday night. I don't know if I want to try and stick with this or go back to looking at the cue ball last. Which is what I figured I must have been doing since I was so uncomfortable looking at the object ball as I shot.

 

[Jaden]

NO that's not necessarily what you were doing....

This is weird. I watched this video the other day. I got to thinking, what the hell am i looking at when I shoot? I went to the pool room and worked on looking at the object ball last. I worked on this for 3 or 4 days. It really had me screwed up in the tourney Friday night. I don't know if I want to try and stick with this or go back to looking at the cue ball last. Which is what I figured I must have been doing since I was so uncomfortable looking at the object ball as I shot.

Any time that you focus on a single aspect of your game, it's going to screw up your overall game until you train it to be motor reflex. If you're consciously thinking about specific things, and it's different from what you're used to doing, it's just going to temporarily screw up your game, the only thing to do is trudge on and continue to work on individual aspects and build yourself up through them if you want to improve.

Jaden

 

[m79a]

Any time that you focus on a single aspect of your game, it's going to screw up your overall game until you train it to be motor reflex. If you're consciously thinking about specific things, and it's different from what you're used to doing, it's just going to temporarily screw up your game, the only thing to do is trudge on and continue to work on individual aspects and build yourself up through them if you want to improve.

Jaden

Thanks, i think I'll stick with it a while longer. It's not like I've been setting the world on fire in tourneys lately anyway. It just pissed me off that I double dipped. :thumbup:

 

[aj6788]

I think I made a boo-boo yesterday.. I read this whole Thread, and when I actually went to start play after I got off the clock... All I could focus on was what I was doing. I was so set into doing everything "right" I couldn't make a three ball run. It was really upsetting. And yesterday, I've been planning this for a few weeks now I traveled to a pool hall out of state so they were all expecting me and I just embarassed myself. I coudn't get over on how much I thought about what I was doing.. After all the money games left.. I just started closing my eyes and playing by feel. I finally ran the rack put away my cue and called it a night!

I think I more or less am playing by feel now. I have done drills and gone through this stage before of what it is I'm doing "right" or "wrong" and now it is all just natural in my stroke, atleast I hope it is! Maybe I'm just crititiquing myself too much?

Maybe I'm just crazy... I'll go with that...





Sorry about the rant! lol

 

[frazz]

the percentage of top snooker players getting coaching is actually really high, i personally know john higgins who has had coaching several times at different points of his career. also i know graham dott who was being coached off of del hill at the time he won the world championships. ronnie o'sullivan has had coaching off of a few different coaches during his career, most notably del hill when he won his first world title then ray reardon when he won his second. top players are constantly being coached in some way or another, even they go through tough spells where they need a bit of help