If you play one pocket for many days will it hurt your 9 ball game?
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yes. imo it does hurt your game when it comes to games where you actually have to stroke the ball.
It will help your rotation game....
Sure, if you jump up there and try to play cold without practicing a little rotation first you might be a little uncomfortable for awhile...but over the long haul it will improve your ability to play rotation...
Sure, if you jump up there and try to play cold without practicing a little rotation first you might be a little uncomfortable for awhile...but over the long haul it will improve your ability to play rotation...
The answer is no. Why? Because playing One Pocket makes you a better person. Being a better person is advantageous for all things in life, including Nine-Ball. Your wife, your kids, and your dog will all like you for it. Your friends and neighbors will notice an immediate difference in the way you walk, talk, and handle yourself. You will become a pillar of your community. People will come from far and...this Quervo is starting to get to me. Now what was it you wanted to know? 
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The games work on different skill sets. As long as you can successfully incorporate the skills developed in one game to the other without getting sloppy you should have a net increase in "game." It all comes down to how you play and what you will or will not let yourself get away with when changing games.
The answer is no. Why? Because playing One Pocket makes you a better person. Being a better person is advantageous for all things in life, including Nine-Ball. Your wife, your kids, and your dog will all like for it. Your friends and neighbors will notice an immediate difference in the way you walk, talk, and handle yourself. You will become a pillar of your community. People will come from far and...this Quervo is starting to get to me. Now what was it you wanted to know?
Dam you hit the nail on the head tramp.
your fellow one pocket pillar of the community,
Grey Ghost
Not at all if you mix in a little 9-Ball in between One Pocket games. I will say that if you play One Pocket exclusively for a period of a few weeks, there is a good chance your 9-Ball stroke will be MIA for a few days when you try to play again. :frown:
There are days at work where I may need to run a motor grader for 12 hours and then go home in my personal truck, for the first few moments I might try to grab a lever or flip a switch that is part of a grader but not part of my truck. I quickly figure out that I am now into a different vehicle and adjust and I don't make the mistake again. I play eight ball, straight pool,rotation and the mother of all games... one pocket nine ball with out difficulty making the switch. The benefit you gain from playing many disciplines of pool far out weighs the occasional moment of grabbing a lever that is not there.
It sure hurts my game. When I play 1p, I don't runout very often or even try. I would rather cinch a shot and play a safe than dog a run out and sell that whole game out. In 9 ball, its different. So when I play a lot of 1p, my ball running goes down, my banking, touch and safety play goes up.
So maybe that is not true for everyone, but it is for me. For this reason, I have slowed down on how much I play one pocket.
So maybe that is not true for everyone, but it is for me. For this reason, I have slowed down on how much I play one pocket.
I actually intended to post it as a poll but I messed up the original post.
It was sort of a trick question. After Efren won the 9 ball at dcc in the interview he was asked if it is hard for him to go from one pocket to 9 ball and change games.
He answered if you always go back and forth it's ok but if you play one pocket for many days and you don't play 9 ball it's no good.
Thus sayeth Efren.
It was sort of a trick question. After Efren won the 9 ball at dcc in the interview he was asked if it is hard for him to go from one pocket to 9 ball and change games.
He answered if you always go back and forth it's ok but if you play one pocket for many days and you don't play 9 ball it's no good.
Thus sayeth Efren.
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It takes exactly 6 1/2 days to regain your 9 ball stroke. No more no less.
I completely agree with Jay. No reason not to throw a few 9 ball cames in your schedule to keep you in stroke.
I don't really play anything exclusively. So I feel even though its not at a high level, I can switch back and forth between whatever and at least be at the same level I was last time I played.
I don't really play anything exclusively. So I feel even though its not at a high level, I can switch back and forth between whatever and at least be at the same level I was last time I played.
but on the 7th you must rest or your stroke will burn in the fires of hell!
This kind of reminds me of a problem that I often have...
When I go for weeks or months having two girls in bed with me at the same time..:yes:..and then I switch back to just one girl...I have to change mindsets and re-adjust, because you know, the timing and the moves are totally different....
- Ghost
When I go for weeks or months having two girls in bed with me at the same time..:yes:..and then I switch back to just one girl...I have to change mindsets and re-adjust, because you know, the timing and the moves are totally different....
- Ghost
See Jonathan "Henessee" Pinegar's performance at the 2009 Derby City Classic. For the first three days, he played banks and only banks, and finished third out of several hundred. For the next three days, he played one pocket and only one pocket, and finished fifth in a field of several hundred. When the one pocket ended, he played nine ball exclusively for three days, and finished fifth out of several hundred.
Would be tough to argue that three grueling days of playing one pocket practically all day and all night brought his nine ball game down at all.
Would be tough to argue that three grueling days of playing one pocket practically all day and all night brought his nine ball game down at all.
What a great player does isn't always applicable to a normal player. One could exposit that great players can be great at all cue sports if they set their mind to it,,,or can extrapolate pearls of knowledge from all the various nuances of any given game, and apply them to any other given game. To paraphrase Lex Luther, "some people can unlock the secrets of the universe from a bubblegum wrapper",,, and he wasn't referring to your ordinary person.
I'll say it comes down to your mental game. If you've got your stroke in muscle memory it shouldn't take too much to tune it up when you change games. The barriers are in your mind. If you think you'll play poor 9-ball after too much 1p you probably will. If you let bad habits creep into your game because you don't need to practice a certain discipline for one game or another, your game will suffer. It takes discipline to keep playing to your peak when the effort will yield nothing tangible.
WOW What a response
Need I say more.
The answer is no. Why? Because playing One Pocket makes you a better person. Being a better person is advantageous for all things in life, including Nine-Ball. Your wife, your kids, and your dog will all like you for it. Your friends and neighbors will notice an immediate difference in the way you walk, talk, and handle yourself. You will become a pillar of your community. People will come from far and...this Quervo is starting to get to me. Now what was it you wanted to know?
Need I say more.