Mechanics Question?

krelldog

krelldog

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I've only been playing for a couple of years. I own my own table and play at the local pool room almost daily. I have taken some lessons, and I'm blessed to be able to play with some great players who have helped me tremendously in every facet of the game. I also video tape my game at home to help in my progress.

My questions are :

I'm constantly changing things in my mechanics trying to achieve perfect mechanics. The reason being the obvious-I want to play at the best level possible. At what point do we accept our imperfections and try and tighten up everything around it to be the best player within our abilities? In other words...consistency is extremely important. Some of the best players in the world aren't exactly perfect fundamentally. Yet they play at a world class level. At what point do you stop the expectation of perfect fundamentals...and perfect what you have as much as possible? The obvious tradeoff being that being consistent is a lot easier when your not trying to change and tweek your fundamentals constantly.

Thanks in advance to any and all opinions and reply's. I would especially appreciate the opinions of Randy/Scott/Poolteacher/Mark Avalon.
 
Perfect Mechanics?

Well you only have to monitor four things. SET-PAUSE-FINISH & EYES.

Send me a 2 minute vid and I will analyze it for you.

I'm waiting,
randyg
 
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krelldog...You're correct that most pros have flaws in their fundamentals. However they have overcome those flaws through persistence and longevity. The difference between them and us is that they do their thing, their way, the same way, on every shot...even under pressure. Most of us have our 'fast n loose' stroke, but when pressure is applied the quality of our stroke goes down. What we teach is how to train yourself to have your best stroke be there on every shot. What you need help with is finding out what the parameters of that process are. If you've had lessons and they didn't include video analysis, you need to seek out a better instructor. Randyg has made you a fine offer. Take him up on it. The best part of what we do, is to teach you how to diagnose what errors you make (even after you create a great process), and how to fix them immediately at the table.:D

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

krelldog said:
I've only been playing for a couple of years. I own my own table and play at the local pool room almost daily. I have taken some lessons, and I'm blessed to be able to play with some great players who have helped me tremendously in every facet of the game. I also video tape my game at home to help in my progress.

My questions are :

I'm constantly changing things in my mechanics trying to achieve perfect mechanics. The reason being the obvious-I want to play at the best level possible. At what point do we accept our imperfections and try and tighten up everything around it to be the best player within our abilities? In other words...consistency is extremely important. Some of the best players in the world aren't exactly perfect fundamentally. Yet they play at a world class level. At what point do you stop the expectation of perfect fundamentals...and perfect what you have as much as possible? The obvious tradeoff being that being consistent is a lot easier when your not trying to change and tweek your fundamentals constantly.

Thanks in advance to any and all opinions and reply's. I would especially appreciate the opinions of Randy/Scott/Poolteacher/Mark Avalon.
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Send me a PM. Video analysis is one part of the course we teach, and it is an important part. But in addition to having the video done, it is also important to not only recognize any problems observed in the video, but to develop a plan to correct the problems.

If all you want is a video analysis, I can do that for you in an hour or so.

I live in Charlotte, although I am out of town at the moment, if you are interested, we can try to set up a time to do it when I get back home. Video analysis only would be $50.

Steve
 
Excellent question! Humans learn by imitation (consciously and unconsciously) more than any other animal, so we pick up both good and bad habits very easily. If you are a beginning player, I would say go to an instructor immediately and strive for perfection in mechanics. If you've been playing for a time with bad habits, they may be difficult to eliminate completey, even with the best instruction. There have been world champion bowlers who bowled off the wrong foot (Lou Campi), and champs in all sports with unorthodox styles. Ask your instructor for advice on what to accept and what to change.
 
Krelldog,

you already named the persons who should answer you- all well known and very experienced professional instructors. Here you ve already choosen the right way. And you got repsones from almost all of them.
I just can highly recommend to do a video analysis.
Just 2 weeks ago i had some students in a near town where a railbird was watching- a great talent and a very advanced player (already shot crazy high runs in straight-pool. Personally saw 170 from him).
he was just curious about what i was doing with the cam and made a short 5 min vid of him. He was really afraid after he saw a funny habit he was continuesly doing. I m not sure if he will trying to fix it, because he s already a very complete player- but this should show you, that there is nothing to let a player/student see how they re executing.
There is nothin better than a video- a video-camera can lie :-)

Sorry that i responsed here, even if my answer wasn t expected.

lg from overseas,

Ingo
 
krelldog said:
I've only been playing for a couple of years. I own my own table and play at the local pool room almost daily. I have taken some lessons, and I'm blessed to be able to play with some great players who have helped me tremendously in every facet of the game. I also video tape my game at home to help in my progress.

My questions are :

I'm constantly changing things in my mechanics trying to achieve perfect mechanics. The reason being the obvious-I want to play at the best level possible. At what point do we accept our imperfections and try and tighten up everything around it to be the best player within our abilities? In other words...consistency is extremely important. Some of the best players in the world aren't exactly perfect fundamentally. Yet they play at a world class level. At what point do you stop the expectation of perfect fundamentals...and perfect what you have as much as possible? The obvious tradeoff being that being consistent is a lot easier when your not trying to change and tweek your fundamentals constantly.

Thanks in advance to any and all opinions and reply's. I would especially appreciate the opinions of Randy/Scott/Poolteacher/Mark Avalon.
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Have a look at this video, this deals with all the mechanics you are trying to correct and if you feel this cue will be beneficial and you want to purchase get back to me tgwusauk@hotmail.com
video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNU7pQnwaI
I would welcome opinions on this cue good or bad from all people on here, thanks
 
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