How much time do you spend on the break?

Floppage

Floppage

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I have been watching the break video Shane made for The Action Report over a year ago.

http://theactionreport.com/svb-instructional-breaking/

He says he spends about 20 hours a week practicing that but he's also a very accomplished player who I am guessing doesn't have to spend as much time on other practice drills as lesser players. For example, most of my practice time is still devoted to building basic fundamentals which I am guessing he doesn't have to work on as much at all.

My question is how much time do you spend on the break (per week or whatever) and how has that changed as your skill level changed?
 
I spend as much time concentrating on the break as I do any other shot that is "important". It is funny that people will spend plenty of times practicing shots that "may" come up in games, yet NEVER practice a shot that comes up in EVERY game (the break).

To me, I think the break is probably the MOST IMPORTANT shot in 9-ball or 10-ball. If you are playing winner breaks and you can't break, you are NEVER going to have a BIG-pack unless you get extremely LUCKY rolls on the break. I was practicing yesterday with the SOLO rack and there were quite a few times I was making 2 or 3 balls on the break and coming up with "playable" outs. I didn't get out EVERY time, but it was mostly because of me screwing up or clusters that neither me nor Mosconi could have gotten to.

The key is making a ball (hopefully) and controlling the cue ball for the first shot. If you can't do that, then SVB will have the "advantage" almost every time...because he CAN.
 
I try to devote at least 1 hour a week to it. I don't really get a ton of practice time in right now, maybe 7-10 hours a week. When playing I make sure to take the break very seriously and hit it as good as I can each time.
 
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