Thanks for the insight/input. It's amazing how much you can see from a 3rd party perspective. Looking back on this run and replaying it a few times, I couldn't help but think, "what were you thinking?" on some of those shots.
In the first rack, while it was my intention to break with the 9, it was never my intention to get to it by putting the cue in the rack. I had 2 other balls around the rack and a ball in the center of the table to get to it. When I shot the 4, I wanted to come back out to the center of the table, but what possessed me to use high-right and go 3 rails for this - for which I came up miserably short. If you listen closely, you can even hear me say "That was terrible" after that shot because then all I was left with was the ball in the middle of the table up in the far corner pocket. I should have just drew off the near rail back out to the center. So I'm stuck shooting the 12 up in the far corner - and that was originially my ball to get to the 9.
David, yes I came off the cushion about 3 inches too far and you can see it in my expressions after I hit the shot. But where I think I really screwed it up was the shot before when I shoot the 12 in the side. I come up short on the follow. Another inch or two of roll gives me a not so steep angle on the key ball that I could pull it more straight back. I used a ton of right spin on that shot and still couldn't hold the angle. I did watch your "finding the key to the key" video, and I thought I actually had a pretty good ending pattern the second rack and just didn't roll it far enough and got too steep of an angle on the key. These are the stupid things that keep me from higher runs.
And watching that video again (and again and again), I do move the cue ball way too much. But I do have a sequence in the 2nd rack where I think I cleared out all the balls behind the rack pretty good, going back and forth between the corner pockets with very little cue ball movement. I do seem to depend on speed control too much, and again Blackjack makes a very good point that I'm kinda making an analogy to golf to help me remember. In golf, if you don't want your ball to go in the water or bunker or whatever, you hit it in a place that you take that water or bunker out of play, and I think that's what Blackjack is trying to tell me. I wouldn't be so dependent on speed control if I patterned the balls better to try to take moving the cue ball out of play.
In the third rack, I miss the cut on the 1, but I know someone's going to point out that why didn't I shoot that BEFORE I shot the 6. That's because you really can't tell from the camera angle, but the 6 partially blocked the 1. I only had 1/2 a pocket to shoot at, so I decided to shoot the 6 to clear the way and get back out to the center of the table to then shoot the 1. I just got a little steep on the angle and missed it.
Funny... when I watched Wiggly's video, that's pretty much what I told him - that he needed better shot selection. Looks like I need to practice what I preach.
Again, thanks for the input.
