Drills
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drivermaker
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bankNfoo said:
Your multiplication tables........
bankNfoo said:
I see you're new on the forum. It's amazing how often practice drills are shared and discussed on the forum. If you haven't used it yet, you should get used to the search feature on the forum's overhead menu. This will enable you to share not only in the forum's present but its past, too.
Hi bankNfoo,bankNfoo said:
Sorry for the rude reception you seem to have received from "drivermucker" and maybe others. Some people don't remember how it was starting out. If someone really bothers you, just put them in your "ignore" list. (I'd tell you how to do that, but I forget -- it's somewhere under the "User CP" button above.)
Anyway, this topic was just being discussed over in the Billiards Digest discussion forum. Here are some of the sites they came up with.
Pool Drills and Other Stuff
Most pool books have suggested drills and they have the advantage -- if the author is any good -- of showing you what you need to know before you can try the drill.
Here is one of my favorites when I was starting. Put three balls in a semi-circle near the side pocket. Play them all into the pocket (left-to-right or right-to-left) using draw (backspin) to place the cue ball for each following shot. When you can do three nearly all the time, add a fourth ball to the semi-circle, then five and so on. See what your record is.
This drill is from a book by Willie Mosconi, who was the greatest player of his day and his day lasted about twenty years.
Good luck with your practice.
drivermaker
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Bob Jewett said:
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drivermaker
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1pRoscoe said:
She loved the hell out of me and I loved her, along with my father. I don't think Uncle Bob is going to love me though.
The best thing I ever did was to practice shots I could never make or shots which were frustrating and were the *last* thing I wanted to be practicing!
For example; balls frozen to the rail. Could never make these balls. So I practiced by freezing all 15 balls to the rails and trying to shoot them in with ball-in-hand.
Man was this frustrating at first! But after a few months of working on this, I started to get better at these shots.
So remember the shots you have trouble with and spend time practicing those shots.
And remember that it can take *months* of practice before you start improving. Just keep practicing...
For example; balls frozen to the rail. Could never make these balls. So I practiced by freezing all 15 balls to the rails and trying to shoot them in with ball-in-hand.
Man was this frustrating at first! But after a few months of working on this, I started to get better at these shots.
So remember the shots you have trouble with and spend time practicing those shots.
And remember that it can take *months* of practice before you start improving. Just keep practicing...