If You Know You Are Going To Miss.......

Get behind the object ball looking from it to where you are pocketing it. Look at where the cue ball will be when it hits the object ball. Not the spot on the object ball, the spot half a ball behind it where the center of the cue ball will be. Slowly go back and forth between the spot the cue ball will be when it hits the object ball and down the path to the center of the pocket opening to make the ball take advantage of the inside rail of the pocket to add extra width to your shot area. Don't aim at the corner of the long rail, you are taking a lot of margin for error out of one side. Aim for the center of the area where the ball will fall. Stare at that spot the cue ball needs to be in when it hits the object ball. Now you have locked in what you need to do. If at any time during your preshot routine and shot you let thoughts of failing in, get up and get behind that object ball again.

The ball will fall, no other option. I would set up this shot and the similar shots from moving the cue ball and object ball around until I absolutely own what was a difficult shot for me. Going work on some long rail banks, my table has lockjaw too right now!

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FranCrimi said:
Can either of you draw the shot as a diagram and post it here?
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your wish is my command fran... :)
both shots you are using high left or left english
the lines are for conceptual value not for accuracy
hit short rail running english
hit long rail reverse
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bbb said:
your wish is my command fran... :)
both shots you are using high left or left english
the lines are for conceptual value not for accuracy
hit short rail running english
hit long rail reverse
DONT KNOW WHY BUT YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON EACH PIC
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Thanks for doing that. Yes, you're right. It's more of an issue of which way the cb is traveling off of the ob rather than the angle of the shot. I was wrong in saying that an obtuse angle (or back cut) is the determining factor. That's not necessarily true.

The correct rule of thumb should be: If the cb travels away from where the ob stood, after the cb contacts the 1st rail, then outside is running. But if it travels towards where the ob stood, --- after the cb contacts the 1st rail --- then outside is reverse. I will go to my previous post and make an editing comment.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
For years and years its always frustrated me that I miss shots and/or position and hose up racks I should run. I've done it so much that I guess I expect something bad to happen. Sometimes, in the privacy of my basement, I will say outloud "Alright, How Am I Going To Hose This Up?" and most of the time, I do.

Nick Varner told me to think of these things as opportunities. And I've read where Nick - and others - have said that usually what you are thinking happens so you better think good things.

r/DCP
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Well I'll take a long shot guess. It sounds to me like you don't compete nearly enough. Put something on the line --- even if it's just your pride --- and then I think you'll change your attitude from knowing you're going to miss to putting everything you've got into trying to make the shot.
 
FranCrimi said:
Well I'll take a long shot guess. It sounds to me like you don't compete nearly enough. Put something on the line --- even if it's just your pride --- and then I think you'll change your attitude from knowing you're going to miss to putting everything you've got into trying to make the shot.
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Agreed. And I am sure you already were aware of that. I live in a small town and there's basically nobody to play with. Nobody that even comes close to being worth a sh~t, that is. I cant drive to Evansville once a week to play in leagues either.

So, since my two buddies died of cancer years ago, I am sort of hosed.

r/DCP
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Agreed. And I am sure you already were aware of that. I live in a small town and there's basically nobody to play with. Nobody that even comes close to being worth a sh~t, that is. I cant drive to Evansville once a week to play in leagues either.

So, since my two buddies died of cancer years ago, I am sort of hosed.

r/DCP
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No, I did not know your living situation. It's hard to change your attitude with no incentive. You will have to figure out a way to find incentive to give it your all. Set some goals for yourself. It's never too late and we're never too old to look forward to something. I've been stuck home for a year. My father passed away last January and I took a couple of months off to regroup. Then the pandemic hit and I was stuck home. I bought a blackboard, and every night I write down a few goals for myself to accomplish the next day. You can do the same thing with pool. Write down two or 3 things you want to accomplish the next day. Even if you are able to cross off one thing, you've done well.
 
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Look up Bert Kinister's 8&9 ball 60 min. workout. That's shot #21, reversed. It would also be shot #5 in his shot makers workout, but that brings the CB across the table, no help for the six.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
.......then you usually do.

This has plagued me for years. No matter how much I practice I cant get past it. Had the below shot on the 5B tonight, just breaking some racks. I suspected I was going to miss - and I did. What does a guy do about knowing you are going to miss???

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That particular shot always gave me trouble until Gene "got my eyes right" with a perfect aim skype lesson. I don't know if this shot is troubling for you always, but with limited info, I'd wager a guess that if the layout was mirrored and on the other rail it wouldn't give you as much trouble.

Trust your eyes, if you're thinking you will miss, you probably will because there is a reason for it. I'm not trying to be too shilly as you're not asking for an instructor, but if I'm correct on my guess Gene can help with that. As I understand it, if you have trouble cutting on one side of the table more than the other, the issue is how you're seeing the balls.

As for advice on the issue at hand, everyone else has the correct idea, get up, re-chalk, re-examine and after a few times if you still know you will miss, play a devious safety instead. If you're playing solo and snooker/safety yourself so bad you cant contact the ball, give yourself BIH as a reward. It's important to work on safety play and getting out of safeties and this is one way to do so other than competing a lot.
 
The_JV said:
Stand up, repeat PSR, then shoot. If the bad feeling returns, rinse / repeat. If the bad feeling returns again, stand up re think the plan.

IMO the difference between a good and great player, is the discipline to listen to themselves when things seem bad.
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I thoroughly agree with you to listen to feelings/disconnects.

I also want to take the opportunity to emphasize how feeling confident while eyeing up the scratch you want to avoid can be a classic way to scratch the c.b. (per the visualization that drives body movement).
 
Life is full of two kind of people, Talkers who do nothing but talk, and DOERS who try. If you are down on shot light goes off in brain, saying I am going to miss. Why not stand up, get you thoughts together, get down after recalculating, and planning on being successful?

Then there are situation not to get in like picking fight with Mike Tyson, as you should loose, should bet hurt, so why get beat up?

Why get in a Pool gamer with some big name play, know you have zero chance of winning>. Not my game.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
Agreed. And I am sure you already were aware of that. I live in a small town and there's basically nobody to play with. Nobody that even comes close to being worth a sh~t, that is. I cant drive to Evansville once a week to play in leagues either.

So, since my two buddies died of cancer years ago, I am sort of hosed.

r/DCP
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It's interesting that you say "nobody that even comes close to being worth a sh*t" People have said that is the attitude you give off and it turns people off from wanting to play with you. ANY competition is good. In addition, the shots you post could make others think you aren't good enough to play with.

I was just in Evansville and I had NO problem getting a $ game or people to practice with.

I wanted to edit this to add, not subtract anything. Maybe try a different personal approach in getting a game with someone regardless of your perceived level of their expertise.
 
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