New Guy - Advice Wanted

G.Ouellet · 2014-03-02T07:27:17+00:00

What's up AZBilliards! I have just registered to this forum after learning from a friend that this was the best online community regarding billiard. It was also the first time I had to google the answer to a security question while registering to a forum :grin:. So here I am, 25 years old guy from Québec, Canada. I recently decided to pursue pool as a more serious hobby, after teaching myself to play foosball competitively. I've always considered myself ''alright'' at pool from a layman point of view, but after getting my ass kicked by a friend and league player in 8-ball my ego took the best of me and I decided to practice and see how far I could push myself in this sport. While doing so I really discovered a passion. I found alot of great instructional videos on youtube, about different types of strokes, english and cue ball control. I don't consider myself a total amateur, here are my issues: - How should I schedule my practice time? Am I better off just playing, playing and playing for a while until I get the hang of it or should I do drills? a mix of both? - Should I be playing all the variants of pool, 8,9,10 ball or focus on one or another to get better fast? - Should I be playing on bar table to practice cue ball control or bigger tables to practice long shots. Basically I want to get better as fast as I can and am wondering how I should proceed, I have alot of free time and I just bought myself a nice cue stick. Thanks alot!