How to get over it???

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RickyD77

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First excuse my english...

yesterday I was in a tornment and loose my first match. so i have worked hard to get throw the tournement. win all my match on the looser side.

then finaly came that match for the looser side final. It was against a guy who had very bad attitude throwing my chalk away if I let it on the table.
throwing the cue in the pocket on the 9 and tell me you almost scratch... etc

finaly I miss a 9 at 4-3 in a race to 5 so it at became 4-4. On the last match I have clean to let me a failry easy 9 on the side but the anger make me shot that shot very hard for the deliverance and I missed it

now I can stock thinking about it and how I loose control

thank
 
RickyD77 said:
First excuse my english...

yesterday I was in a tornment and loose my first match. so i have worked hard to get throw the tournement. win all my match on the looser side.

then finaly came that match for the looser side final. It was against a guy who had very bad attitude throwing my chalk away if I let it on the table.
throwing the cue in the pocket on the 9 and tell me you almost scratch... etc

finaly I miss a 9 at 4-3 in a race to 5 so it at became 4-4. On the last match I have clean to let me a failry easy 9 on the side but the anger make me shot that shot very hard for the deliverance and I missed it

now I can stock thinking about it and how I loose control

thank
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12 shots of Crown Royal, 12 hours of sleep, then replay the match in your head the next day when you're objective, and evaluate your good and bad, and your opponent's good and bad. Then practice the shots that cost you dearly, over and over.
 
RickyD77 said:
First excuse my english...

yesterday I was in a tornment and loose my first match. so i have worked hard to get throw the tournement. win all my match on the looser side.

then finaly came that match for the looser side final. It was against a guy who had very bad attitude throwing my chalk away if I let it on the table.
throwing the cue in the pocket on the 9 and tell me you almost scratch... etc

finaly I miss a 9 at 4-3 in a race to 5 so it at became 4-4. On the last match I have clean to let me a failry easy 9 on the side but the anger make me shot that shot very hard for the deliverance and I missed it

now I can stock thinking about it and how I loose control

thank
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It has happened to me too. My advice would be to simply recognize that this guy is sharking you and don't take it personally.

I used to be a competitive distance runner. I dealt with the pain by detaching myself from it and keeping my focus on other things. A mind over matter kind of deal.

So with a shark, just put the sharking into a category of who the guy is. He likes to chew gum, wears tennis shoes, wears a blue shirt, and he sharks. Don't take the sharking personally any more than the other stuff.
 
Its hard to ignore somebody when they are being rude or disrespectfull but that is what you need to do. From what you said it sounds like he was able to get in your head and you shot some balls hard as a result.

When I play somebody with a bad attitude I really try to play the table and not the opponent. This will let you focus on what is in front of you and not what the jerk is doing.
 
Next time something like this happens, focus on the CB till you get sort of a tunnel vision. That tunes the shark in front of the object pocket out. Works like a charm for me. Also, if he's annoying you, just smile at him. It'll confuse the hell out of him and probably get him to tone it down because it appears that whatever he's doing clearly isn't getting the desired results.
 
everybody has to play someone like that sometime. the advice to replay it in your head is good. but don't just think about the shots. think about how you mentally didn't hold it together and how you need to calm down and ignore it next time. keep focusing on how you play and how much the other guy's behavior can not affect your skills. visualization can help get rid of some of that. vizualization and johnny archer's line to earl strickland - hey shut up. i'm shootin. when you're shootin you can say whatever you want. that's not an exact quote but it's close.
 
I will pass on some wisdom that my brother passed on to me many moons ago. He was a Green Beret and if you know anything about their training regimen, you know that it is all-encompassing...both physical & mental. Green Berets learn to survive in all conditions, how to compete, & how to defeat. He has some hair-raising stories to tell of those years. Ever jump out of a plane into the darkness & eat snake for breakfast?

He developed a crystal clear approach to "sharking". He summed it up like this (paraphrased using pool terms and to clean up the language LOL):

"When someone tries to shark you, it's a clear indication that they fear you. In their heart, they know they can not beat you using their skill alone, so they must diminish your's either through words or actions. You will not allow that to happen. You will defeat them with the confidence gained from knowing they are timid & weak."

His idea of fun was to play games of all sorts with me. Board games, golf, video games...anything. He would try his best to shark me in an effort to make me a stronger competitor. He understood that the difference between winners & losers is a good mental game.

Sharking materializes in aggression, but you must not allow that to intmidate you. You must realize that their "aggression" is thinly-veiled weakness.
 
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RickyD77 said:
First excuse my english...

yesterday I was in a tornment and loose my first match. so i have worked hard to get throw the tournement. win all my match on the looser side.

then finaly came that match for the looser side final. It was against a guy who had very bad attitude throwing my chalk away if I let it on the table.
throwing the cue in the pocket on the 9 and tell me you almost scratch... etc

finaly I miss a 9 at 4-3 in a race to 5 so it at became 4-4. On the last match I have clean to let me a failry easy 9 on the side but the anger make me shot that shot very hard for the deliverance and I missed it

now I can stock thinking about it and how I loose control

thank
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You MUST take EVERY SHOT seriously or things like this will happen....NEVER ease up on any shot...
This how the pro's do it so shouldn't you??
Good Luck:smile:
 
You have plenty of political correct answers on here so far. Listen to them. Me, if someone did that to me I'd tell them one time to knock it off. If he did it again I'd shut his mouth with the butt of my cue, swung like I was going for the fences. The fx jaw will shut his mouth. If something else gets broken...it's all good. I hate people like that. Most are nothing but bullies that someone hasn't got around to bringing down a peg or two. Where was the TD while this was going on? Johnnyt
 
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