How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha. 
HAMB - Hit A Million Balls
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How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
Ask Naji...... Its a secret. :thumbup:
Chuck
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
A thousand balls a week? That means that you're stopping your practice before you even get warmed up. Should be at least 5000 balls a week.
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
Ok, so I've been playing for 10 yrs! The first couple yrs I'm not even going to attempt to calculate how many balls I hit(a lot)! I have slowed down a bit, but I can safely average 1500-2000 balls a week! It's not hard.
I play 5-6 days a week, I play 2 races to 9 with the ghost and the score is usually fairly close! I run a 30+ in straight pool, not hard to do, after a miss, I rerack and break again! I usually get there 4-5 sometimes 6 times! And I play Joe Tuckers 10-ball drill, always in the 50's plus!
I'm usually done in 3-4 hrs and go to bed, I work 2 full time jobs and the game helps me sleep better at night
So then what you ask?? Nothing, I'm still a C player, always will be! I don't play to go out and prove to the world that I'm the best, that takes talent which for pool, I have none! I Olay because it makes me happy!
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
I think there are 3 possibilities...
1. You start sobbing uncontrollably because you realized that you just spent the last 20 years of your life playing pool and no one really cares.
2. You are a pool Yoda: the last person alive with archaic knowledge of a skill long since forgotten. And because you spent 20 years playing pool, you've gone a bit mad and speak correctly you do not.
3. You are a professional pool player. (see #2... and #1)
Ok, so I've been playing for 10 yrs! The first couple yrs I'm not even going to attempt to calculate how many balls I hit(a lot)! I have slowed down a bit, but I can safely average 1500-2000 balls a week! It's not hard.
I play 5-6 days a week, I play 2 races to 9 with the ghost and the score is usually fairly close! I run a 30+ in straight pool, not hard to do, after a miss, I rerack and break again! I usually get there 4-5 sometimes 6 times! And I play Joe Tuckers 10-ball drill, always in the 50's plus!
I'm usually done in 3-4 hrs and go to bed, I work 2 full time jobs and the game helps me sleep better at night
So then what you ask?? Nothing, I'm still a C player, always will be! I don't play to go out and prove to the world that I'm the best, that takes talent which for pool, I have none! I Olay because it makes me happy!
Liar, you are a B+. If you play a shortish bald guy in Snookers don't let him try to get weight from you! Wish I could play 5-6 times a week, I'm at 2-3 and almost none of that is actual practice. It goes, drive 30-45 mins home from work, pick up daughter from school, feed kids, grab son from home to take with me, drive 45 minutes to the pool hall for tournament that starts 5 minutes after I get there. End of my "practice" LOL.
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
Nothing happens. I hit a million balls before SVB was born and millions since. I probably shot a thousand last night. I stopped counting years ago. There is no magic number. The guys that are out there saying that are just plain wrong. I have already done it several times over during the last 40 years. I went 6 years hitting balls 8 to 16 hours a day. I got a little better. Nothing remarkable. If you are not doing it correctly then just hitting balls will not make a difference.
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
The cue ball will be so worn down that draw will become extremely easy
Seriously though, in addition to HAMB you need to learn proper technique and strategy to get good. This might happen naturally due to how you study the game, but for most people that involves getting instruction.
The basic principle is that when you perform the same action over and over, your brain builds wiring to make it automatic. This allows you to focus on more complex tasks, such as strategy, during competition.
Some may not agree and the stats may not back me up but I do have a theory that those players that play fast have a significant advantage when it comes to improving more quickly.
The guys that don't waste a lot of time between shots and don't spend an enternity while down over the cue shoot so many more balls over the course of a year or two that it has to be an advantage provided they don't develop bad fundatmentals along the way.
Theory may not hold upon closer inspection...
The guys that don't waste a lot of time between shots and don't spend an enternity while down over the cue shoot so many more balls over the course of a year or two that it has to be an advantage provided they don't develop bad fundatmentals along the way.
Theory may not hold upon closer inspection...
Interesting. I'm not disagreeing with you but maybe just tweaking the idea a bit. I was watching some of Ronnie O'Sullivan's youtube videos recently and noticed that he moves around the table relatively fast, reads his next shot and then seems to slow down slightly just before the shot. Makes the shot (because you know...he's Ronnie O'Sullivan) and then speeds back up.
I have been wondering about that. Does it make sense to speed up and slow down like that?
The trick is that you shoot 1000 balls a day, then it only takes 3 years.
But In general I agree with the earlier poster::
After you reach 1,000,000 quality strokes,
a) you will realize that you are a pretty tolerable player
or
B) you will give up in disgust
or
C) both
I started playing just over 4 years ago. I have a table at home. I play about 2 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, sometimes or even many times I spend more than that at the table. I can say I have improved a lot since I started but I am finding it is tough to get better and better.More often than not I either hook myself or just plain old miss my position to end a run. This is playing 8 ball, that's mostly what is played in our area on bar boxes.
It's a big table... if he doesn't walk fast he'll never finish the frame!
How does this work? I mean shooting 1,000 balls a week with say 52 weeks in a year and we are at 52,000 so that will take you close to 20 years. Then what happens?, haha.
1,000 is about 6 sets of equal offense. One set is about an hour so that's about six hours of pool a week.
What happens is you will lose to someone playing more frequently.
Trying to learn to play the piano by "hitting a million keys"
You're right, learning to play advanced pool by hitting a million balls would be like trying to learn to play the piano by "hitting a million keys" (Hamk). :groucho:
The short cut to knowledge is to tap into other's (knowledge and experiences). My game was developed by standing on the shoulders of the great players of my era......and before, like Efren, Earl, Wade Crane, Vernon Elliot, "Bugs", Buddy Hall, Mike Sigel, and Luther Lassitor.
You're right, learning to play advanced pool by hitting a million balls would be like trying to learn to play the piano by "hitting a million keys" (Hamk). :groucho:
The short cut to knowledge is to tap into other's (knowledge and experiences). My game was developed by standing on the shoulders of the great players of my era......and before, like Efren, Earl, Wade Crane, Vernon Elliot, "Bugs", Buddy Hall, Mike Sigel, and Luther Lassitor.
Don't feel bad. Everybody skids on that ball.