This is a drill for experts, Lou, and I agree that it's good for developing one's skills. In this thread, however, a newbie to straight pool whose high run is 14 is asking for advice.
I disagree, Stu.
A newbie doing this drill is going to start out making just a few and as they learn to work the center of the CB their high run at it is going to go up. I certainly didn’t mean to give the impression that the expectation was to run all 15. That’ll take a while. But if they do this drill often enough I think that a 14 ball runner will soon become a 28 ball runner.
Which brings me to this. A few days ago a local guy asked me for advice, saying he seemed to be stuck at 28 balls. I told him that to go further, and like be a 40 ball runner, he needed to work on his end patterns. Specifically, to go beyond thinking about a break and key ball and think of the last three, four balls in the same general area of the table near his break ball. A lightbulb went off and he immediately got it.
Lou Figueroa