Interesting comment today from Masters winner Bubba Watson

alstl

alstl

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On television the announcer said Bubba has never taken a lesson or watched his swing on film.

On the final hole he was in the woods and hit an amazing shot where he curved the ball out of the woods, around the trees onto the green. In an interview he said he saw the shot in his head before he shot it.

I suspect a lot of great pool players do the same thing.
 
alstl said:
On television the announcer said Bubba has never taken a lesson or watched his swing on film.

On the final hole he was in the woods and hit an amazing shot where he curved the ball out of the woods, around the trees onto the green. In an interview he said he saw the shot in his head before he shot it.

I suspect a lot of great pool players do the same thing.
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This idea is well known by most great pool players. It is just not shared much here on AZB.

Think Freddy The Beard (imagine the shot being pocketed before you shoot)

The problem is that there is no money to be made using this idea.

It brings us into a long discussion on type 1 and type 2 decision making and I don't want to get involved in it.
 
It's very simple really. Visualize it and it usually happens. Let negative thoughts creep in when your down on the ball and you will miss most of the time. I've stood up several times over a critical shot to get my mind right. I end up making it just like I saw it in my mind most of the time.
 
Nicklaus said he would never pull the trigger until he visualized the entire shot perfectly. I try to do the same thing in pool. It always amazes me to see a player fram the balls hoping something good will happen. :cool:
 
I've heard Mika Immonen say many times that he visualizes exactly what is going to happen on each shot before he pulls the trigger.
 
AimWithYourMind said:
This idea is well known by most great pool players. It is just not shared much here on AZB.

Think Freddy The Beard (imagine the shot being pocketed before you shoot)

The problem is that there is no money to be made using this idea.

It brings us into a long discussion on type 1 and type 2 decision making and I don't want to get involved in it.
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Oh hogwash.... and Tiger Woods, and countless others took lessons, were coached in college, from their fathers, brothers, sisters, etc... this mean nothing other than there are a few freaks of nature out in the world who can succeed without any help from anyone else... but proves not a darn thing about the importance of instruction....


I was a ball better after spending one weekend with Stan Shuffet.... and I"m pretty sure I"m not the only one....

 
AimWithYourMind said:
This idea is well known by most great pool players. It is just not shared much here on AZB.

Think Freddy The Beard (imagine the shot being pocketed before you shoot)

The problem is that there is no money to be made using this idea.

It brings us into a long discussion on type 1 and type 2 decision making and I don't want to get involved in it.
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Are you serious? We have been talking about visualization long before you came along with 36 incarnations.

Seriously some of the boobs and noobs need to get better drugs and learn how google and the AZB search function work BEFORE they open their mouths.

Unreal how far trolls will go to troll.
 
Jeeeeeeeeeeez,
The guy just said that the winner of the masters never took a lesson, he didn't say that all you people who give lessons eat your young.:cool:
 
I find it hard to believe he has never got any sort of instruction or tip from another Golfer.

Even the best pool players in the world at one point have been coached. Visualizing the shot(s) is fairly common in 8 ball, to me anyway. Walking around the table after the break and planning your out should be fairly common practice, if it's not well chances are they don't get out anyway.
 
thommy said:
Jeeeeeeeeeeez,
The guy just said that the winner of the masters never took a lesson, he didn't say that all you people who give lessons eat your young.:cool:
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Well, NOBODY is arguing with the OP.... it was the "troll" after the OP that we have a hard time with.
 
This is nothing ground breaking... It's a must. Even when I'm down on a ball...if I get a bad thought through my head like the ball missing I stand up and approach it again.
 
The very last thing that goes through any high level athlete's mind, before execution, is visualizing the entire shot sequence...the same is true in pool, and it can be taught (we've been teaching it for decades).

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
 
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