What do you think would be a better investment? Does anyone have any of these dvds? What are your thoughts?
Mika's Mastering Pool or Pat Videos
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djpstacked03 said:
I bought the Mika-set and am quite content with it. However I have only seen some excerpts of the PAT-videos on YouTube....and as far as I can understand, they serve somewhat different purpose.
Where Mika's vids give an overview on many aspects of the game, shot selection, shotmaking, running racks etc. the videos I have seen for PAT are more concentrating on drills.
My understanding of the PAT-test is that it is actually a series of drills aimed to measure your consistency on wide variety of shots...but that is what they essentially are....it will not teach you anything about tactics (neither will Mika's really, but it gets closer).
I am happy with my purchase of Mika's stuff...the volume 1 had only 1 or 2 things of real interest to me....volume 2 a little more...and 3 was quite interesting as a whole. What I found great as well was the 8/9/10ball runouts on each of the DVDs with commentary from Mika himself.
(I am by no means a good player....but I can run a rack or two sometimes)
Personally I am considering also getting the PAT-videos to bring some more structure to my training....and they would fit the bill quite perfectly I believe.
cheers,
Kimmo