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(this is dead ,well it's almost dead ) Never Shoot em if there almost dead
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Patterns Are The Name of The Game ........
Never bet a golfer with a tan; and Lilly white glove hand.
Don't forget to make the shot.
this could happen while trying to break up clusters or bump something.
All available thought is used trying to accomplish whatever mission you have for the cueball. A person can literally forget to make the shot.
I know from experience it is possible to miss the easiest of shots like this.
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this could happen while trying to break up clusters or bump something.
All available thought is used trying to accomplish whatever mission you have for the cueball. A person can literally forget to make the shot.
I know from experience it is possible to miss the easiest of shots like this.
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Here are two that I've come to realize are ones about which I need to be more conscious: (1) Don't get straight down below the rack, and, (2) at least at my (developing) level, don't work from below the rack when you can work from the middle of the table.
I find that I too often allow my subconscious to think that getting position equals making the next shot easy, which too often results in having inadequate angle. I then have to try to cheat the pocket, sometimes with force, and even if I don't rattle it, I can't control the cue ball as well. When below the rack, this is trouble.
I find that I too often allow my subconscious to think that getting position equals making the next shot easy, which too often results in having inadequate angle. I then have to try to cheat the pocket, sometimes with force, and even if I don't rattle it, I can't control the cue ball as well. When below the rack, this is trouble.
I just noticed that the very first reply to the OP addressed the first of my two (somewhat related) "Don'ts" (don't get straight below the rack). Apologies for the redundancy.
Let me elaborate briefly on my second point. I find that because my competence in controlling the distance of draw shots is less than great, I just don't have the full skill set to always safely work in the relatively small space the exists below the rack, especially when most of the balls remain on the table. Sometimes, of course, the only sensible, or possible, place to work is from underneath. But if the option exists, working from above often does not require quite the same level of precision, and allows you to more easily keep the cue ball free. Little mistakes, when playing from below the rack, can cause you to get stuck, or to end up going down table as a result of having to play a thin cut shot into a corner pocket. As for playing from above, you need to be prepared to waste a break ball in order to separate the cluster. Funny how the open shots from above, at least early in the inning, seem to so often be break ball candidates, ones that you'd rather not take. (The other funny -- or not so funny -- result that I experience too often is ending up right back in the same spot from which I just played a shot, only this time, without the option of playing the ball I just pocketed. Seems like one of the punishments doled out by the pool gods to those of us who are slower learners).
Let me elaborate briefly on my second point. I find that because my competence in controlling the distance of draw shots is less than great, I just don't have the full skill set to always safely work in the relatively small space the exists below the rack, especially when most of the balls remain on the table. Sometimes, of course, the only sensible, or possible, place to work is from underneath. But if the option exists, working from above often does not require quite the same level of precision, and allows you to more easily keep the cue ball free. Little mistakes, when playing from below the rack, can cause you to get stuck, or to end up going down table as a result of having to play a thin cut shot into a corner pocket. As for playing from above, you need to be prepared to waste a break ball in order to separate the cluster. Funny how the open shots from above, at least early in the inning, seem to so often be break ball candidates, ones that you'd rather not take. (The other funny -- or not so funny -- result that I experience too often is ending up right back in the same spot from which I just played a shot, only this time, without the option of playing the ball I just pocketed. Seems like one of the punishments doled out by the pool gods to those of us who are slower learners).
Don't disrespect the shot.
I am real good at this one.
This particular screw up only happens if a person starts hitting it pretty good.
The guy magically gets down to the last four, five balls and suddenly everything is in line and no more problems.
He is making everything and thinks for some reason he will continue making everything and just shoots at a ball because he knows it is already in. Wrong.
could also be named overconfidence.
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I am real good at this one.
This particular screw up only happens if a person starts hitting it pretty good.
The guy magically gets down to the last four, five balls and suddenly everything is in line and no more problems.
He is making everything and thinks for some reason he will continue making everything and just shoots at a ball because he knows it is already in. Wrong.
could also be named overconfidence.
steven
Don't ever concede! Anyone can miscue!!
'almost dead'
.....I like this one.When I was young, I had to struggle to stop playing shots that almost went.
I can't tell you how many of my runs get cut short because I just go into clusters blindly without having an insurance ball.
And because you'll have to run into a cluster (or more) each rack, I think this should be #2 right after don't miss.