I saw Jerry Seinfeld spectating several professional 14.1 tourneys in NYC. I'm sure you likely did as well. It's certain that characteristically (as a top stand-up comedian) 14.1's requirement of instantly dealing with changing situations (as with his own hecklers, and creating reactive gags for his comedy writing) greatly appealed to him.
If you really are a beginner, maybe you need to work on some fundamental tools. How are your draw shots? If you bring the cue ball off two cushions with outside english, do you know pretty close what path it will take? I like Rempe's brainwash drill mentioned earlier but it takes a lot of tools in place to be successful at it.
I feel that Jayson and Schmidt have that approach as well, and have variously said that they find that approach to break shots has become their preferred way.
The unique thing that both Jayson and John share is their total confidence with deliberately setting up the most acute imaginable, back-cut break ball angles on their break shots. More acute than any of the top high-runners.
There's a self-evidently instructive principle in becoming very comfortable with those alarmingly acute angles. Needless to say their make-miss percentage on them is off-the-charts positive..
Arnaldo ~ Mosconi himself routinely and daringly set up for his break ball exactly as JS & JS do in modern times. Few of Willie's competitors were as daring and flawlessly accurate with those uncommonly acute breaking angles. It just occurred to me that aspiring high-runners could have a leg up by going down to city hall and for $25 bucks get their name legally changed to a first and last combo that conferred on them the initials JS.
-- Couldn't hoit to try that.
That was just textbook beautiful.
You’ll get there.
I would say all six pockets are in play. The first tournament I saw Hohmann in, I think two of his 100+ ball runs ended when the cue ball hit a ball in the rack on the low side and then shot into the foot pocket. I don't think he breaks like that as much now, but it is still at least occasional for him.
I can see that. Im in a weird phase where i quit playing for ten years and now have been shooting steadily for maybe a year again. Half the time my patterns are excellent and i just blow the execution
Most especially and perversely -- immediately after making a very difficult positional or pocketing shot.
The one I posted earlier are the modified rules. Just forgot to mention to respot whatever fell on the break.
The disadvantage I see of your modified form is that it omits getting on a break shot for the following rack. Your version stops at 15 each rack.
Yes I can be good but it comes and goes. Today I was a mess--today I had my "Phat disease." Sometimes my sixtysomething eyebrain just wants to hit everything fat. Undercut everything. It's like a mental glitch. Sometimes it lasts for a few tables (racks), sometimes a few hours, once it lasted for three weeks. Often I go back to fundamentals to try to get out of it. I have developed a beautiful stroke by working hard at it but under pressure, when tired, lazy, hot, cross, etc., I sometimes revert to my old bad habits. It can be subtle and hard to detect at first sometimes.
Yeah why is that?!? I was yelling at myself for missing shots that are automatic most times.
The shots in 14.1 are usually part of a longer and critical sequence. You can easily find yourself in situations where if you end up slightly off in a 2 or 3 ball sequence, you essentially, dogged the whole rack. Those ducks you miss are in effect more critical than hanging the game ball in single rack games. Small steps...Yeah why is that?!? I was yelling at myself for missing shots that are automatic most times.
It's very interesting. All I want to do now is go out to the pool table shed and torture myself doing straight pool racks.
Yeah why is that?!? I was yelling at myself for missing shots that are automatic most times.
It's very interesting. All I want to do now is go out to the pool table shed and torture myself doing straight pool racks.
Actually, no. I never saw Jerry attend anything other than the WPBA Brunswick New York Classic, a women's nine ball event contested at the Amsterdam Billiard Club in New York City from about 1994-2001. Jerry didn't live far from Amsterdam at the time.
14.1 can sometimes be a game of fractional inches of position,way different from rotation games where most of the time position is just getting to a "zone" area.