DrCue'sProtege said:
Why bother posting something that everybody knows? Clearly phrases like "guaranteed improvement" are nothing but advertisement slogans.
Guaranteed Improvement?
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Why bother posting something that everybody knows? Clearly phrases like "guaranteed improvement" are nothing but advertisement slogans.
NervousNovice said:
exactly!
DCP
Great post!
3kushn...What an excellent and eloquent way of putting it! That's all any good instructor can do...is teach someone how to teach themselves. Then you have to maintain the information that's been assimilated, with regular structured practice. The Mother Drills focus on this type of disciplined behavior, and help ingrain the process into a habit.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
3kushn...What an excellent and eloquent way of putting it! That's all any good instructor can do...is teach someone how to teach themselves. Then you have to maintain the information that's been assimilated, with regular structured practice. The Mother Drills focus on this type of disciplined behavior, and help ingrain the process into a habit.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
3kushn said:
You're mistaken NervousNovice. The guarantee I offer, in writing, is that you'll improve, and be satisfied...or the lesson is free! That's no slogan...it's a fact! 
The only way you won't improve, is if you think you won't! The knowledge works (for anyone)...if you apply it correctly!
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
The only way you won't improve, is if you think you won't! The knowledge works (for anyone)...if you apply it correctly!Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
NervousNovice said:
582 threads started by this twit and yet people keep coming back for more.
Notice that in Grady's thread as he talked about "Randy" DCP comes in and asks "who's Randy?"
DCP is on this forum day after day. He's here all the time but thinks only of himself. He has no idea what is happening to people other than himself. He is totally self-centered.
Self-centered means that his thinking is centered around him. He thinks of little else. Drop him like the leech he is. He'll suck you dry and move on to the next "helper" that he can suck in to his vortex.
And by the way.... Joe Tuckers book "Guaranteed Improvement" is a great book of skill building practice methods and DCP has not earned the right to speak of it in any way shape or form.
Notice that in Grady's thread as he talked about "Randy" DCP comes in and asks "who's Randy?"
DCP is on this forum day after day. He's here all the time but thinks only of himself. He has no idea what is happening to people other than himself. He is totally self-centered.
Self-centered means that his thinking is centered around him. He thinks of little else. Drop him like the leech he is. He'll suck you dry and move on to the next "helper" that he can suck in to his vortex.
And by the way.... Joe Tuckers book "Guaranteed Improvement" is a great book of skill building practice methods and DCP has not earned the right to speak of it in any way shape or form.
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If you don't listen or practice what is taught, you will not improve, that is guaranteed because you will continue to do the same things wrong that you are doing now.DrCue'sProtege said:
I still go back to your lesson with Mark Wilson a few years ago that you posted about.
You had mentioned that he wanted you to change a few things and you weren't comfortable with the changes so you disregarded the advice.
If that is your attitude towards instruction you will never improve.
JMO.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way, you're right.
Brian in VA
Brian in VA
Shrug, if you sincerely work at a legit drill... then it's impossible to fail to improve.
Maybe one guy with a very specific and peculiar learning disability might come to the instructor after hitting 250,000 balls in legit drills... and that particular guy can't improve.
That guy is not you. For one thing, you probably haven't hit a quarter of a million balls in practice yet. For another thing, I strongly suspect that weird disability doesn't exist. You fall in the category that the other 99.99% live in... who CAN improve if they apply enough time to legit drills. "Enough" might be 4 hours a day vs. someone else's 2 hours, but you can improve.
Remember you have to sincerely work at it -
Ever see a guy who was asked to mop the floors at work, and he can't leave until it's done? He gets passive-aggressive about it and sullenly does a halfassed job quickly swiping the mop back and forth until the entire floor is wet, but not clean... all the while thinking pissed-off, negative thoughts. He knows the right way to do the job ...but he just wants to get through it so he can say he did it and b|tch to his buddies later when he leaves.
Don't put that kind of effort into your drills. If you get annoyed because you're trying to draw 5 feet, and you can't do it with the first three balls you hit, it does no good if you switch to a comfortable, flawed stroke that you've been using that you know will get you at least 4 feet of draw. If you hit 100 more balls this way and you rush through it and then claim "I did the drill and I still max out at 4 feet" then you're just sabotaging yourself.
Do each drill correctly, hundreds of times, and I guarantee you'll improve or god will kill a kitten.
Maybe one guy with a very specific and peculiar learning disability might come to the instructor after hitting 250,000 balls in legit drills... and that particular guy can't improve.
That guy is not you. For one thing, you probably haven't hit a quarter of a million balls in practice yet. For another thing, I strongly suspect that weird disability doesn't exist. You fall in the category that the other 99.99% live in... who CAN improve if they apply enough time to legit drills. "Enough" might be 4 hours a day vs. someone else's 2 hours, but you can improve.
Remember you have to sincerely work at it -
Ever see a guy who was asked to mop the floors at work, and he can't leave until it's done? He gets passive-aggressive about it and sullenly does a halfassed job quickly swiping the mop back and forth until the entire floor is wet, but not clean... all the while thinking pissed-off, negative thoughts. He knows the right way to do the job ...but he just wants to get through it so he can say he did it and b|tch to his buddies later when he leaves.
Don't put that kind of effort into your drills. If you get annoyed because you're trying to draw 5 feet, and you can't do it with the first three balls you hit, it does no good if you switch to a comfortable, flawed stroke that you've been using that you know will get you at least 4 feet of draw. If you hit 100 more balls this way and you rush through it and then claim "I did the drill and I still max out at 4 feet" then you're just sabotaging yourself.
Do each drill correctly, hundreds of times, and I guarantee you'll improve or god will kill a kitten.
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APA7 said:`B U M P`
Brian
Brian, I am within one keystroke of banning you.
If you have any questions as to why that you are unsure of, please feel free to drop me a line.
If you understand exactly where I am coming from, then we agree that you are and have been pushing your luck for a very long time with me.
try me just once more and I'll be sure there is no further confusion.
Sincerely,
Dave
Mr. Wilson said:
I do have a question. Is some of my posts N E worse than a lot of others on here? Do I `attack` people?
I say my opinion N it's not popular with sum peeps, but is that so wrong?
N why is it that U seem to have it in for me so i am `1 keystroke away` but others can say the same things N not have U hawking them??
Brian
cuz youre a bumper
Russ Chewning said:
Hah hah.. He ACTUALLY gave me bad rep for this post...
Well, at least now that he has given me bad rep recently, I can get raheeeeeeeeely stooopid on him, and not have to worry about (oh no!!!!!!) bad rep.....
APA7........You're pathetic, bro...
Russ
I guess I wasn't clear enough.
See ya round.
See ya round.
