Eliminating head movement: Calling all instructors.

I think a lot of head movement is derived from doubting the alignment, trying to ride the ball in, and it is often accompanied by swooping.

Just trust the line, relax, shoot straight and see where it goes. If you miss, that's a chance to learn to improve your aim.

And, get someone to whack you on the head everytime you lift up. You'll soon learn to keep it down.

There really shouldn't be any tension in the body that is pushing the head upward. If you feel that tension, then learn to put those muscles at rest.

The no.1 thing I think, is trusting your aim and just shooting that line, rather than trying to ride the balls to where you want them to go.

Colin
 
Colin Colenso said:
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The no.1 thing I think, is trusting your aim and just shooting that line, rather than trying to ride the balls to where you want them to go.

Colin
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I agree. And these aiming approaches we're discussing that encourage players--once they have the desired alignment--to completely ignore the pocket help with this.
 
pooltchr said:
My explanation is just a more wordy version of Randyg's answer.
Properly using SPF will cure a lot of ills!

Steve
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Please allow me to exibit my ignorance, I have no idea what SPF is ?
 
androd said:
Please allow me to exibit my ignorance, I have no idea what SPF is ?
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Set, Pause and Finish are the three stops in a pool stroke. It is the way we teach students to develop a consistent, repeatable stroke. All of the movement (and the ONLY movement) is from the elbow down to the grip hand. When you learn to move only the forearm, head movement, along with other issues, tend to go away.

Steve
 
Years ago I saw a documentary about how in Japanese prisons they have mandatory meditation lessons for the prisoners. The meditation instructor was a wizened old man who was shown walking up and down rows of motionless meditating prisoners sitting cross-legged on the ground.

Every so often he would take a thick bamboo stick he was carrying and crack one of the prisoners across the back of the head with it. I guess the idea was if they flinched they weren't meditating properly, and therefore deserved the blow, and if they were that they wouldn't notice.

Seems to me all you need is a willing volunteer with a whiffle bat :-)
 
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