Just curious. My first drill every day, which also serves as a great warm up, is the straight stroke drill where you put the cb on the button, stroke it to the other end rail and bring it back over the button. I also combine this with a speed drill similar to the mother drill taught to me by Scott Lee. For discussion purposes, let's call cb to other end rail 1 speed, a lag shot 2 speed, lag plus one table length 3 speed and back and forth over the button twice 4 speed.
The first 3 are fairly easy. After a couple of warm up strokes, I am successful 80 to 100% with accuracy and speed. My acceptable tolerance level is plus minus one diamond in speed, any part of the cb passing over the button for accuracy.
Going to 4 speed seems to separate the men from the boys. I'm lucky to get 2 to 4 successes out of 10. The good news for me is the deviation on the misses has tightened considerably.
I'm curious if other people who do this have similar experiences? What did you personally do to tighten up the accuracy at the higher speed?
Just as an aside (names will be withheld to protect the innocent), one of the people I take lessons from told me about a reasonably decent Pro he was working with who was doing this drill and was knocking the ball all over the table at 4 speed. Perhaps he was exaggerating to make me feel better. Lol
The first 3 are fairly easy. After a couple of warm up strokes, I am successful 80 to 100% with accuracy and speed. My acceptable tolerance level is plus minus one diamond in speed, any part of the cb passing over the button for accuracy.
Going to 4 speed seems to separate the men from the boys. I'm lucky to get 2 to 4 successes out of 10. The good news for me is the deviation on the misses has tightened considerably.
I'm curious if other people who do this have similar experiences? What did you personally do to tighten up the accuracy at the higher speed?
Just as an aside (names will be withheld to protect the innocent), one of the people I take lessons from told me about a reasonably decent Pro he was working with who was doing this drill and was knocking the ball all over the table at 4 speed. Perhaps he was exaggerating to make me feel better. Lol