Examples Of How I Hose Up Racks

When you have full confidence in your cue ball control and stroke ability these patterns are fairly simple to figure out.
It is easier to recognize your options and routes to get through a rack, any rack, any game. It's all about the cue ball.

After the break in a game of 9 ball it should take less than 10 seconds to choose your pattern.
If you lose the cue ball it should only be a few seconds before you move on to plan B, unless balls are jammed up or complicated, then add a few more seconds.

Rotation patterns are easy to read,including 15 ball rotation.
Without total control and confidence in the cue ball, life will always be a struggle on a pool table.

Not to sound condescending or insulting, these patterns you have shown are routine, fairly easy outs when you are in control. How anyone else would play them does not matter.

I think you are putting your energy in the wrong areas.
I would dedicate some time to Stroke Technique, the cue ball, and play straight pool.
If a 3 cushion table is available I would sleep on it.

You can't build a house without the tools. Once the house is built you can walk from room to room with ease.
 
Neil said:
Fran, yes you can. It's called free will. You are totally free to choose how you want to think and behave. Sure, it can take a while and sometimes a lot of effort to change bad habits, such as negative thinking. But, that does not equate to not being able to do it. It can be as easy as flipping a switch is one so chooses.

Past influences surely can influence how we think, but each action we take is a choice. You can either choose to be negative, or choose to be positive. Many choose negative because it is usually the easier choice to make. It takes no effort to say "I can't". It takes a lot of effort to say "I can, and I will find a way.". They are used to being negative, and are comfortable there, so they stay there. They are afraid of the unknown, which for them is positive thinking. All the while, they hold themselves back, and make themselves slaves. It's in accepting that we are free to make our own choices that one becomes actually free. All one really has to do is choose to flip that switch, and say NO MORE!

You can say I don't know what I am talking about, but, in reality, I know exactly what I am talking about, been there, done that.
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Here's a quote from someone else that I truly believe in-

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument,or your age that is to blame. You, and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
 
Let me make one thing clear about the first diagram. It was pretty close to straight in. It was almost as if you had to "pop" the CB off the rail after you made the 1-Ball. I set this up with inside English as a lot of posters mentioned and the CB spins around close to where you need, but there's not much room for error.

Fact is that this is a difficult position play from the 1B to the 2B.

r/Mike
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Let me make one thing clear about the first diagram. It was pretty close to straight in. It was almost as if you had to "pop" the CB off the rail after you made the 1-Ball. I set this up with inside English as a lot of posters mentioned and the CB spins around close to where you need, but there's not much room for error.

Fact is that this is a difficult position play from the 1B to the 2B.

r/Mike
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Another option is to draw it back two rails towards the center of the table. Point is, you haven't bothered to work on your options in the past, so when presented with this actually routine shot, you basically gave up.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Let me make one thing clear about the first diagram. It was pretty close to straight in. It was almost as if you had to "pop" the CB off the rail after you made the 1-Ball. I set this up with inside English as a lot of posters mentioned and the CB spins around close to where you need, but there's not much room for error.

Fact is that this is a difficult position play from the 1B to the 2B.

r/Mike
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Maybe right draw would work better.
 
Neil said:
Here's a quote from someone else that I truly believe in-

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument,or your age that is to blame. You, and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
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Why not give credit to who you are quoting?
 
Neil said:
Fran, yes you can. It's called free will. You are totally free to choose how you want to think and behave. Sure, it can take a while and sometimes a lot of effort to change bad habits, such as negative thinking. But, that does not equate to not being able to do it. It can be as easy as flipping a switch is one so chooses.

Past influences surely can influence how we think, but each action we take is a choice. You can either choose to be negative, or choose to be positive. Many choose negative because it is usually the easier choice to make. It takes no effort to say "I can't". It takes a lot of effort to say "I can, and I will find a way.". They are used to being negative, and are comfortable there, so they stay there. They are afraid of the unknown, which for them is positive thinking. All the while, they hold themselves back, and make themselves slaves. It's in accepting that we are free to make our own choices that one becomes actually free. All one really has to do is choose to flip that switch, and say NO MORE!

You can say I don't know what I am talking about, but, in reality, I know exactly what I am talking about, been there, done that.
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Free will is a conscious thought.

It's extremely difficult to recognize every single trigger that causes your subconscious reactions to things. Most people have no idea what those triggers are and would never be able to figure them out without intense therapy.

When you are a person who in general, lacks confidence, you have two choices --- You can undergo intense therapy over a long time to find out what caused the habit to form in your childhood, or you can manage the negativity as it creeps into your brain --- somewhat like neurolinguistic programming ---Catch it when it's happening, put it away in a small box in the back of of your mind and move on.

Sometimes --- not always --- it's better to just address the symptoms rather than try to find and address the root of the problem which took a lifetime to form.
 
Neil said:
Another option is to draw it back two rails towards the center of the table. Point is, you haven't bothered to work on your options in the past, so when presented with this actually routine shot, you basically gave up.
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Fact is that this was very close to a straight in shot and it was very difficult to go forward or draw back. Unless you really pounded it and "popped" it off the rail. No way was trying to draw back a good option here. This was, in no way, shape, or form, a routine shot.

Like ENGLISH! says, don't pay any attention to 95% of the people on here. And not very often with the other 5% either.

r/Mike
 
Straight in, off straight, on the rail or off the rail....that 1 ball is a routine shot that wouldn't cause an issue to 90%of the guys I play with.

If, as you say it's not a routine shot why beat yourself up?
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Fact is that this was very close to a straight in shot and it was very difficult to go forward or draw back. Unless you really pounded it and "popped" it off the rail. Snip....

r/Mike
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There is a shot for too straight to draw or follow that does involve a pop. Actually it is a jump shot. Hit the cue ball so that it jumps about an inch and lands just before it contacts the one. It then goes airborne and lands on the point of the rail and heads straight up table. A nifty shot but you have to know and practice it.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Fact is that this was very close to a straight in shot and it was very difficult to go forward or draw back. Unless you really pounded it and "popped" it off the rail. No way was trying to draw back a good option here. This was, in no way, shape, or form, a routine shot.

Like ENGLISH! says, don't pay any attention to 95% of the people on here. And not very often with the other 5% either.

r/Mike
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You have asked for help and we are trying to help. You can weigh everything on its merits and see if it applies to your situation or you can ignore it. Either way is fine with me.

It does get annoying though when you ask for help, get defensive when it's offered, keep changing the original problem to be unsolvable and then say everybody isn't worth paying attention to. Presumably because we didn't give you the answer you wanted to hear.

It's like you are trying to prove that pool is impossible to play. Or that your situation is so unique, so special, that we will all just acknowledge how hard it is for you. We all have a different experience with pool.

I say this with all empathy and caring as one who has gone through a lot, you might want to seek some help for your mental game. Depending on your situation it could range from a good instructor/sports psychologist/coach to reading and thinking about yourself and what makes you tick (Steve Chandler, Tony Robbins, etc...) or you might need to see a professional therapist trained in cognitive therapy. Or maybe something else entirely.

I think the thing that you need to work on most in your pool game is you. It's worth doing. Take the time. Do the work.

I've found that a holistic approach to your overall life can help performance in pool as well. Type of food you eat, exercise, sleep patterns, etc...All can impact your mood, depression levels, anxiety, confidence. I have best results eating paleo and sleeping A LOT. If there are things in your life that aren't working, maybe now would be a good time to go through and make them work. Or just stop worrying about them.

Steve Chandler has a few interesting books on personality. His contention is that our main personality is formed when we're in 8th grade. Then we spend the rest of our life living a life designed by a 13 year old. We react to fears that a 13 year old has. (Nobody likes me!) We respond to rewards that a 13 year old wants (Oh goody! Cake!) and we have the same beliefs about how things turn out for us (Why does this always happen to me?) etc... The good news according to him is that we can change our personalities. We do it all the time, for example if someone threatens our child. We go from meek to lion in about 1/10th of a second. The key is to design the personality you want now and then work on removing beliefs that don't work for you anymore and creating beliefs that will help you create the life you want.

I went through this process a few years ago and it was well worth it. It's a lot like washing your car or brushing your teeth. You need to make it a habit or you won't do it and you'll revert back to your old beliefs.

Books I recommend:
The Story of You (And How to create a New One)
Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted To Be

If I'm way off base here, no worries. Just ignore me. Maybe it will be useful to someone else.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Fact is that this was very close to a straight in shot and it was very difficult to go forward or draw back. Unless you really pounded it and "popped" it off the rail. No way was trying to draw back a good option here. This was, in no way, shape, or form, a routine shot.

Like ENGLISH! says, don't pay any attention to 95% of the people on here. And not very often with the other 5% either.

r/Mike
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Sorry, I mistook you for someone actually wanting help, not someone just looking for a pity party. Incidentally, the draw advice was also given to you by a national collegiate champion. Go ahead and just dismiss it out of hand, and listen to advice from such as Rick. Good luck with that.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
... No way was trying to draw back a good option here. This was, in no way, shape, or form, a routine shot.
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This was not clear from the diagram. Partly that's the drawing tool's fault since it is a little coarse, but mostly it's your fault for not explaining what you saw as the big problem to start with.

Given that the shot was nearly straight, it's hard to control the distance the cue ball goes for the shot you chose because you were getting there essentially by stun and the distance is determined by exactly how full you hit the object ball on a nearly full shot. In general it is better to choose a path that does not depend so much on exact fullness of hit. The draw shot is one of those. I think it can be made to work given the diagram.

I think that your problem is that you simply don't know what can be done with the cue ball or which paths have inherently higher error. I think negative attitude has nothing to do with it unless it keeps you from learning about the cue ball.
 
Bob Jewett said:
This was not clear from the diagram. Partly that's the drawing tool's fault since it is a little coarse, but mostly it's your fault for not explaining what you saw as the big problem to start with.
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You do have a point there Bob. It is hard to tell from those diagrams exactly what the shot is. I guess from now on out when I post a diagram I need to get into the details.

But in the past there has been so much nonsense with regards to advice on shots that its bordered on ridiculous. I've just started posting some diagrams again after several years and hope that the stupid BS doesn't start again this time around.

r/Rat
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
You do have a point there Bob. It is hard to tell from those diagrams exactly what the shot is. I guess from now on out when I post a diagram I need to get into the details.

But in the past there has been so much nonsense with regards to advice on shots that its bordered on ridiculous. I've just started posting some diagrams again after several years and hope that the stupid BS doesn't start again this time around.

r/Rat
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Or.....

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung...hite/3359024.p?id=1219091050973&skuId=3359024
 
Whenever I come across a shot that I never seem to get right, I'll try to find the situation in a pro match and see how the best of the best handle it. The best are the TAR race to 100 matches as it seems every position comes up at some point.

I learned so much studying positional routes in the first action challenge. The routes the pros take always maximize the room for error.
 
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