Home Lesson from Favorite Pro Player

[JMW]

What do you guys think? Anyone done this before and got good results?

Items needed:
Home table
Laptop or portable media player
Accustats DVD of your favorite player and commentators

1. Watch the match.
2. Note which games are break and runs.
3. Wait a few days and then forward to the first break and run game.
4. Freeze the screen immediately after the break.
5. Mark paper hole reinforcers from one to nine and place them on your table exactly like the layout in the game.
Mark cue ball location too.
6. Try to run out. When you miss, set the balls back on the marked hole reinforcers and start over. Do this until you can run
the rack. You will become very familiar with the layout and position options after a few tries or a few days.
7. After you can run the rack, play back the video of the match and watch how your favorite pro chose to run the rack. Listen to what the commentaors have to say.
8. What did they do different than you. This is the lesson.
9. Play the rack the way they did and compare.

 

[Ratta]

Many could to this if they would want to. Thx to the internet. I m sure many buys here know a lot of very knowledged good players or ppl who has the knowledge to say *how to play*.

Straight-Pool is here a good example JMW. I know straight-pool-champs who are giving lessons on straight-pool like this:
they play *double*. Each shot the other guy has to play- The pro would immediatly interact if you would play a shot, what would be not a good choice- with "why not and how would be better".

If it s about patterns, strategy and tactics this is in my opinion a very good way of teaching this game (if not the best imo). To make notes beside and to video it would be *your turn* of course.

In 8-ball it has to do extemly much with strategy and expierience. here you have a much wider leeway for *what is right and what is wrong*.
But in rotation-games you have more often the chance to say what is wrong and what is right in my opinion.
To learn *how to not misjudge* a situation is a one of the most important points you have to learn in each discipline. You have to really understand why some ways would be the better choice-perhaps being the only right choice to play.

pool is a game of judging your chances in percentages. Those from time to time upcoming "crazy 1 % winnershots" some guys make once in a week often force them to choose this shot again in later games-just because they re not really able to judge or rate themselve in this situation. Overrating themselves is their biggest enemy in pool
Too decide to just runout or just to stay out controlled is important to learn-and it s hard

so your idea is for sure good. and easy to follow it for the most people. you just have to really do it and want it.

lg

Ingo, hoping that it was readable enough to understand

 

[dr9ball]

I think this idea has merit. I once made 10 templates I could use on a 9 ft table to set up the same layout for practice. Lay down the template put the paper reinforcers on the table through holes in the template / remove template and set the balls up and play that same pattern over and over. People looked at me funny putting the template on the table so I stopped taking them to the room.

There are many ways to do this. You could even become creative and set up a rack that could be played as all stop shots if that's what you wanted to work on.

Of course, having an accurate and repeatable stroke help too.

 

[RWOJO]

Good Idea

I don't have a table at home or I would probably do that.

I play at Johnny Archers pool hall and get to see him, Shawn Putnam and Kim Davenport shoot when they're not traveling. I tend to not focus on their entire run outs, but rather try to predict the position play they do and then see what they actually do. Most of the time I am right, but they surprise me from time to time. I try to remember the 'new' position routes I wouldn't of thought of, and then try them on the practice table. I've learned alot from these guys.

Another thing is to find a player the same skill level or better than yourself and play some games where you talk out loud what your plan and positions would be. If the other player disagrees they speak up and explain why. Typically I find the other players being too complicated and there is a more simple way to get the same results.