I don't believe there's a rule forbidding it, unless it's something on the local level specific to your area
League timeouts: advice for team captains
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I don't believe there's a rule forbidding it, unless it's something on the local level specific to your area
This is a simple drill that teaches the shooter to shoot softer.
Put the cue ball on the center spot. Put one object ball centered between the side pocket and the cue ball.
The object of the drill is to make the object ball in the side pocket using as many shots as possible. Forget rails. Just roll the cue ball at the object ball and make contact. Do NOT take BIH after every stroke. Just tap it little by little until it finally pots. 20 is a good score.
You will gain the soft shot of the gods.
Credit for this idea falls squarely on one of the pool magazine writers. I forget which one.
Put the cue ball on the center spot. Put one object ball centered between the side pocket and the cue ball.
The object of the drill is to make the object ball in the side pocket using as many shots as possible. Forget rails. Just roll the cue ball at the object ball and make contact. Do NOT take BIH after every stroke. Just tap it little by little until it finally pots. 20 is a good score.
You will gain the soft shot of the gods.
Credit for this idea falls squarely on one of the pool magazine writers. I forget which one.
I agree with you. It's difficult to tell a 2,3 or 4 to hit it at speeds 1-10 when many times they can't control their speed under on normal circumstances. I have a 5 who is a 56% winning percentage that has difficulties controlling speed under pressure (usually touch safeties). I also find it's best to show them what I'd want the path of the cue ball to take and allow them to work out how hard to hit it.
Coaching, not teaching
Definitely time outs are for coaching within a minute limit. You can't teach within a minute!! Most lower level players feel pressure when time outs are called, they are already a little confused. I find that TMI is a good guideline. No need to get too technical with a player on a timeout. Know your players, A timeout to a 3 is different than a timeout to a 5. Too many times I see a coach trying to give technical instructions / teaching to a player within a minute with everyone watching. That should have been done in practice when you are not rushing without any pressure.
Definitely time outs are for coaching within a minute limit. You can't teach within a minute!! Most lower level players feel pressure when time outs are called, they are already a little confused. I find that TMI is a good guideline. No need to get too technical with a player on a timeout. Know your players, A timeout to a 3 is different than a timeout to a 5. Too many times I see a coach trying to give technical instructions / teaching to a player within a minute with everyone watching. That should have been done in practice when you are not rushing without any pressure.
And yet you choose to post with degrading remarks that have less to do with the subject than mine. Well played jojopiff, well played.
I couldn't agree more. Every post I've ever read from that Skip guy is filled with negativity and egotism.
I could be wrong, but I think that was a technique presented by Bob Jewett. Good stuf!
imop the best thing to use in this situation. if they have played then then have or should have shot a lag shot...so even sha lil baby should understand this across the board as well or better than anything else as a basis of speed.....many are talking numbers nad it could be shapes or smells in the situation for all it matters...most wont get it. if i just talk in a players ear and tell them every bit of pbia/spf info on it they still wouldnt undertand. Because they havent ever physically applied it....osmosis doesn't occur here. So you need to establish a basis for them, it really doesn't even matter what the basis is, just so that they understand THAT SPEED and what IT DOES...they can then postulate what to do off that. good post
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SlewFootLag
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Great stuff!
Common sense? of course this is The APA, sometimes a "common sense impaired" league.
I think that sportsmanship complaints are largely ignored. If the LO's took time to respond to every sportsmanship complaint there'd be no time for anything else, like sleep, or food, or.....
I can remember trying to explain that my watch face was bigger so 60 seconds on my watch took longer, or trying to explain the difference between a rule and guideline.
Some APA player can be pretty sensitive. I love how sometimes the whole back of a score sheet is filled with what the other team did to "my team" and how they're all under-rated sandbaggers. I'd sign a score sheet like that (which was usually accompanied by a threat of some sort) and I'd just have to laugh
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I've been on both ends of the time out and I've found that using a 1 - 10 system during a timeout is not useful and if you know your shooter, you know how to talk to them and how they shoot. Lag speed is a good reference but something else that helps, IMO, is showing them where the cue should end up for the next shot and whether it's supposed to bounce off the rail before landing in said area. I've found it gives the player an idea of what they're doing instead of "just following orders" and eventually they'll learn a little.
There isn't enough time to teach during a timeout and that's not the time for it. After the shot, explain but go practice with your teammates and try to help them improve their basics. If they're interested in the game and enjoy it, they will get better.