Good drill??

[mvp]

drills are hard for me, but Ive been using a 9-ball evaluation sheet that was posted in this forum under ABC players? thread. Ive been using this as a drill and love it!! I try and only focus on the 5 games because a instructor said to use intense focus 15 min @ a time. Is this doing my game any good? I also keep my records to look at later. but Its only my second week so i cant see any improvement or negative affects yet.

 

[JBailey]

I'm not an instructor.

For what its worth the drills that work best for me are the simple ones that allow me to work on everything that happens before the shot.

I like to shoot 15 stop shots each day. The shot is easy and I can focus on each aspect of my preshot routine and execution.

I also like practicing my lag. I like to get the cueball to come straight back and hit the tip of my cue. I see how firmly I can stroke and still get the ball to stay on the same line. I also lag soft with draw, it is a good way for me to see if I put any unintended english on the ball.

I use these drills as warm-ups before I play. I like going in to a match with the feeling that my stoke is good and these drills really help me do that. This is my main form of practice. I do other drills, but only when I have found a weakness in my game such as breaking clusters, playing safe, banking, kicking, etc..

My time for pool is limited so I try to get the most out of the time I have and still be able to play a good amount. Hope some of this helps and good luck.

 

[Bob Jewett]

drills are hard for me, but Ive been using a 9-ball evaluation sheet that was posted in this forum under ABC players? thread. Ive been using this as a drill and love it!! I try and only focus on the 5 games because a instructor said to use intense focus 15 min @ a time. Is this doing my game any good? I also keep my records to look at later. but Its only my second week so i cant see any improvement or negative affects yet.

Here are five sets of basic drills. They allow you to keep track of how well you are doing on very basic skills. They are based on the general idea of "progressive practice" which puts you near the edge of your comfort zone.

An extension of this idea is "progressive nine ball" which will tell you pretty quickly how many balls you can really expect to clear. Suppose your current level is "six" meaning that you can (or think you can) clear 6 balls from the table over half the time. To test this, break the balls, remove all but the highest 6 from the table and see if you can run out with ball in hand. If you can do that 3 out of 5 times, it's time for you to try for 7. If you can't do 3 out of 5, back off to 5 balls. Sometimes people call this "beating the 6-ball ghost." If you can beat the 9-ball ghost, move on to 10.

 

[Ratta]

Hi folks

@mvp:
With Bob one of the great instructors already answered here and shown up some nice drills. If you practice them with passion they ll help your for sure.
It seems a bit to me, that you re having *problems with playing drills* because you re perhaps looking for the sense of em. But this just shows that you re interested and thinkin about whar you re doing-
You wrote that you re wondering that you re thinkin about if the drills already worked for you- hehe-
slow down *Fast Eddie* (grin)
If a qualified inxtructor gave you drills to work on , they will help you if you work on them. And further he would always tell you why and how you have to play the drills and patterns.
This is the most important on drills- to play them correctly and to know WHY. Usualy the time *before* an instructor will give you drills etc. is the important part of lessons with trainers and instructors! Reason is easy to explain, because in this period he is able to *cover* and detect your abilities. And then he would give you instructions what kind of drillsa re useful for you and avoid that you ll burn in bad habits!

You can find countless drills in the world-wide-web- but not one makes sense if you re not playing them the right way.
And at least:Without good fundamentals (from my experience) it s not more than wasting time

keep on training mate, show passion- and try to set up a meeting with a qualified instructor, it will help you a ton! You have the luck to have many extremly good instructors there overseas in the land of pool.)

keep shooting,

lg from overseas,

Ingo

 

[Scott Lee]

Excellent post! Good job Ingo! :thumbup:

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Hi folks

@mvp:
With Bob one of the great instructors already answered here and shown up some nice drills. If you practice them with passion they ll help your for sure.
It seems a bit to me, that you re having *problems with playing drills* because you re perhaps looking for the sense of em. But this just shows that you re interested and thinkin about whar you re doing-
You wrote that you re wondering that you re thinkin about if the drills already worked for you- hehe-
slow down *Fast Eddie* (grin)
If a qualified inxtructor gave you drills to work on , they will help you if you work on them. And further he would always tell you why and how you have to play the drills and patterns.
This is the most important on drills- to play them correctly and to know WHY. Usualy the time *before* an instructor will give you drills etc. is the important part of lessons with trainers and instructors! Reason is easy to explain, because in this period he is able to *cover* and detect your abilities. And then he would give you instructions what kind of drillsa re useful for you and avoid that you ll burn in bad habits!

You can find countless drills in the world-wide-web- but not one makes sense if you re not playing them the right way.
And at least:Without good fundamentals (from my experience) it s not more than wasting time

keep on training mate, show passion- and try to set up a meeting with a qualified instructor, it will help you a ton! You have the luck to have many extremly good instructors there overseas in the land of pool.)

keep shooting,

lg from overseas,

Ingo

 

[Ratta]

thx Scott,

pleasure to read something like that from a person like you

lg
Ingo