frustration

I see something........

driven said:
this is a short video of me after another uneventful practice session of straight pool. It begins with me messing up yet another end game pattern.

I was talking with the 3 man the other day about proper warm up before a match and said It might be better to just smash in balls for a couple minutes just to get everything loose. I saw the Yankees in person last year and part of Jeters warm up was very impressive. Jeter stands about half way to first base on the line and someone else at home plate. they start tossing the ball back and forth but after every throw Jeter steps back about 10 - 15 feet. He ends up about 3/4 the way to the right field foul poul and is throwing strikes all the way to home plate. I was thinking the throw from short to first is going to look pretty simple after this. Smashing in the balls might be the same concept.

anyway that is not what we have here. this isn't warm up, only letting off some steam I guess and playing with a new camera.most of these shots are at warp speed, not coming out of my shoes or anything but as hard as i might ever shoot in a game.

things I noticed that I never knew before:

sometimes my stick bends on a draw shot
Sometimes I pull back at the end of the stroke, I don't know why but will look into this.
it seem the correct number of practice strokes for me is 3
If you guys see anything weird please let me know.
thx
steven


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Hi there Steve,
You're left eye dominant it looks from the video. Being left eye dominant , right handed it is reall important that you be left eye dominant in the preshot.

On the shots that you miss it is obvious that you know you are going to miss them before the stroke is done. I can see that.

give me a call as long as your at the table and I will run you through a little something that will help you.

No charge. just want to help.

920-840-5296. Call right away. I'm available for the next hour.

looking forward to it. geno.................
 
I noticed on you very first shot the cue at follow thur went waaaay left, you didn't seem to do it that much after that. I also noticed you putting your complete hand on top of the rail with a closed bridge, this extra elevation is generally not needed and its better to have your bridge preferrably lower than higher for most all shots, there def. are exceptions. I did feel your attitude on table and did not get an informative feeling of your swing rhythm with your video. To me I would of shot in this manner to break a new tip in, to then shape it properly, but I didn't see anything constructive with this four minute hitting session, and that complete miss on the cut to the r/h upper corner said allot about me using the word constructive.
Hopefully some of this makes sense, you do tho have allot of good attributes with your game from what I can see.
 
I might be related to the frustration, but do you not like your cue? I don't mean it as a knock, but at the price of laminated shafts here I'd never treat my cue like that. I'd hate to have to smooth that poor thing down.

Take a video when you're feeling better to get a good comparison BTW. After I decided to seek out some shot-making help I ended up with 5 hours of tape, cropped so it is only PSR and shots that I'm going through to see what has changed and find any remaining weak links. It's a good tool.
 
thx Island and Ghost. I put that stick on the table one day to rack the balls and the kid I was playing took his stick and whipped the cue ball up table denting the shaft real good, I really can't go any thinner and could only getpart of it out. ever since then I kind of abuse it. someday need to have a new one made.
One possible benefit could be that any flaws would have to be magnified, I picked up a couple things to work on just in those four mins I would never of seen.
I think the closed bridge on the rail was just a matter of holding on...
thx for the feedback
Gene, I'll call you next chance I get, thx for the offer
 
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