On And Off Switch, A Good Thing?.

poolrod

poolrod

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I used to hustle and play on the road. I also played tournaments. My on off switch is still in tact. I'm not a super strong player, I can miss balls for hours, and be in dead punch when the money starts flying. Has my on off switch hurt me from being a world class champion?. I heard before that practicing to not run out, and practicing to barely miss isn't good for your game,lol.:thumbup:
 
I seem to have that problem with any sport i do. just depends on how bad i want it.


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Motivation...that's all it is. Without the cash motivator your just going through the motions. This doesn't bother some people. Others want to win every encounter even if its against a 2nd graders first time with a stick.

If you want more of a killer game at all times you have to develope more reasons for motivation. When you find yourself playing good without the money motivator take note of what's driving you. Remember that reason and keep it in your mental bank to use when you need your game picked up. You should have at least a dozen motivators at your disposal...
 
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My problem with the on/off switch...

Is that I don't play enough anymore such that the last time I thought I needed to turn the switch, I found out it was already on. When I flipped the switch, my piss poor play went even farther south.

Freddie <~~~ on/off switches need lubrication too, apparently
 
poolrod said:
I used to hustle and play on the road. I also played tournaments. My on off switch is still in tact. I'm not a super strong player, I can miss balls for hours, and be in dead punch when the money starts flying. Has my on off switch hurt me from being a world class champion?. I heard before that practicing to not run out, and practicing to barely miss isn't good for your game,lol.:thumbup:
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This thread probly should be in the action forum.Sounds like you are
WOOFING:D LOL
 
always worked for me

With the less than serious replies you are getting I almost hate to post a serious one but when I played and gambled daily for ten years or so I had three gears, maybe an overdrive too. First gear was with a date or friends that didn't play pool. I loved to hit balls and would roll pool balls around with the best of them. No need to mention I was often aiming at points and that required much better aim than pocketing a ball in bucket pockets. Now I am trying to exactly control where two balls are going to stop too, as if playing a lock up safety but my goal might have been the opposite. Played like this a lot practicing on coin op tables too. Saved me money and it wasn't my fault if some bar room banger small time hustler thought he was seeing my best game. :grin-square:

Then there was the game for other regulars. We played each other for a few bucks and nobody got hurt.

Next was the stranger coming in the door wanting to gamble. I used as much gear as needed.

Finally there was when a monster came through the door or there was serious dollars involved, serious dollars varying by the moment! With over a hundred challenges on a table at five dollars a pop one night serious money was five bucks when I was out of work!

This gear didn't come out but once or twice a year, absolutely peddle to the metal best game total focus on winning. I was waiting to catch a bird in Atlanta and with an hour to kill I gave a pretty good bar room player that was taking me to the airport a huge spot, eight ball but I was shooting nothing but banks and legal combinations. No intention of ever being in that room again and a long ways from home I broke out the big game to try to outrun that spot. We were super friends but very competitive with each other in all things. I was into what I was doing and didn't notice people gathering around for a few games. When I did notice the entire hall had shut down and the maybe eight to twelve midday patrons were watching me. Who are you? Do you want us to call somebody? The group was very excited sure they had a "somebody" in the hall. Told them that I was just a pool shooting country boy from south Louisiana (the truth) and that everybody shot the way I did where I was from. That was stretching it more than a mite, I was playing as strong as I ever have or would with nothing on the line but pride and I didn't often shoot the way I was that day myself!

Aside from anything else pool was a source of income for a lot of years. I didn't work the absolute hardest and fastest I could going like a steam shovel when I was getting paid by the hour or even by the job, I didn't see why I should playing pool. Pool it was always to my advantage to do just enough although the super competitive battles are the ones I remember today and thousands of little gambling matches are long forgotten.

Hu
 
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Master hustler switch?

poolrod said:
I used to hustle and play on the road. I also played tournaments. My on off switch is still in tact. I'm not a super strong player, I can miss balls for hours, and be in dead punch when the money starts flying. Has my on off switch hurt me from being a world class champion?. I heard before that practicing to not run out, and practicing to barely miss isn't good for your game,lol.:thumbup:
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A Master Hustler never intentionally "turns off the switch", they just make it look so...
 
ShootingArts said:
With the less than serious replies you are getting I almost hate to post a serious one but when I played and gambled daily for ten years or so I had three gears, maybe an overdrive too. First gear was with a date or friends that didn't play pool. I loved to hit balls and would roll pool balls around with the best of them. No need to mention I was often aiming at points and that required much better aim than pocketing a ball in bucket pockets. Now I am trying to exactly control where two balls are going to stop too, as if playing a lock up safety but my goal might have been the opposite. Played like this a lot practicing on coin op tables too. Saved me money and it wasn't my fault if some bar room banger small time hustler thought he was seeing my best game. :grin-square:

Then there was the game for other regulars. We played each other for a few bucks and nobody got hurt.

Next was the stranger coming in the door wanting to gamble. I used as much gear as needed.

Finally there was when a monster came through the door or there was serious dollars involved, serious dollars varying by the moment! With over a hundred challenges on a table at five dollars a pop one night serious money was five bucks when I was out of work!

This gear didn't come out but once or twice a year, absolutely peddle to the metal best game total focus on winning. I was waiting to catch a bird in Atlanta and with an hour to kill I gave a pretty good bar room player that was taking me to the airport a huge spot, eight ball but I was shooting nothing but banks and legal combinations. No intention of ever being in that room again and a long ways from home I broke out the big game to try to outrun that spot. We were super friends but very competitive with each other in all things. I was into what I was doing and didn't notice people gathering around for a few games. When I did notice the entire hall had shut down and the maybe eight to twelve midday patrons were watching me. Who are you? Do you want us to call somebody? The group was very excited sure they had a "somebody" in the hall. Told them that I was just a pool shooting country boy from south Louisiana (the truth) and that everybody shot the way I did where I was from. That was stretching it more than a mite, I was playing as strong as I ever have or would with nothing on the line but pride and I didn't often shoot the way I was that day myself!

Aside from anything else pool was a source of income for a lot of years. I didn't work the absolute hardest and fastest I could going like a steam shovel when I was getting paid by the hour or even by the job, I didn't see why I should playing pool. Pool it was always to my advantage to do just enough although the super competitive battles are the ones I remember today and thousands of little gambling matches are long forgotten.

Hu
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:smile:

This really reminds me of myself. Kind of like looking in a mirror. I can tell you enjoy the game just to play. Making money is great but not always the important thing. I always liked putting money into my pocket...it was always more fun then taking money out of my pocket. When I used to gamble, I always used one pocket if I was a head:D and the other pocket if I was losing.:frown:

I have an old habbit of making every game close...then when I need to, run out if I have to. :smile:
 
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Excellent pool playing is mostly a matter of turning the process over to the subconscious. We can't describe in words the exact angle, power, or finesse that is needed for a shot. All these calculations are made by the subconscious.

In normal everyday things our subconscious takes a back seat and follows the conscious mind assisting where it is able to help. The subconscious does not usually intrude unless it is "necessary." Given that this is how most minds operate most of the time. It is a good idea to have a trigger that tells the subconscious to step up and take control.

In my opinion, triggers are a good idea and useful in many ways when playing pool. An overall "A" game trigger puts the subconscious on alert that it is to step in as needed more than usual.

Triggers are things that need to be trained into the mind and body. Most people do not take the time or make the effort to use them wisely.
 
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My on switch is flipped whenever someone irritates me or pisses me off, If you get under my skin I won't lose. I don't get mad at the game but I do get mad at the individuals.
 
me too and a chuckle

BillyKoda said:
My on switch is flipped whenever someone irritates me or pisses me off, If you get under my skin I won't lose. I don't get mad at the game but I do get mad at the individuals.
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Most people couldn't get under my skin, when someone did they were indeed likely to see my big game. After the average bar room competition of thirty or forty years ago was smashed I was often still stirred up a bit. Sometimes I slashed through a few more games and a date, friend, or even a regular would remind me, "hey this is me you are playing now." That was a chuckle in my neighborhood bar, nobody found it unreasonable that my game would jump several speeds when a stranger walked through the door and then I would drop back down to play the regulars. With someone steering from Greenway, one of the major hubs of pool in that day, road players got pretty common for awhile in that little bar.

Hu
 
I ,like many on AZ ,have seen a lot of match ups over the years.
Players "switching gears" has usually been=players concentration level-
raising to the challenge.Observing the "switch" may not be the same as
what the player feels.How many times have you heard a player claim
"I cranked it up a notch" while you noticed that they either got better
lay-outs,or quit driving balls into the rubber?

I knew a individual who ran around small time hustlin -friendly banter,plenty of misses,never steamrolled his opponents. Guy could really get down if he had to.Problem was he could not keep from driving a ball into the point!
He confided in me that he has intentionally missed so many shots that he
expected to do it!


Maybe some players can turn it "on" at will I just don't believe they always
can.
 
This is great stuff, guys, I'm one of those guys that can play pool for hours, or days by myself and keep myself entertained. I went to a dive yesterday, it had one pool table, with red felt and red chalk. All the locals had red stained shafts from the junk equipment,lol. It was nasty. There were 6 guys rotating in, playing 8 ball. One guy told them I was a pro player, so they forced me to play on that crap. The best player there said let's play for $100 a rack, you break he said. I didn't want to get red chalk all up in my Showman shaft, so I broke with my OB break cue with a wooden ferrule and it must be a well shaped rock for a tip, when I hit the cue ball, it was loud like a gun shot. That was before the ball hit the rack,lol. I ran down to the 8 ball with my break cue, played picture perfect, then he says bank it for $200, give these guys a real show. I had enough room to cut it, but not bank without getting fancy, so I got fancy. I took the Showman cue out, it had plenty of blue chalk on it for one shot. I'm sitting between the short rails one diamond from the side pockets. I tell him I'm going over his 4 ball and banking across corner. He said, your jumping over my ball?, and banking wow, this I got to see. I punched it perfect. The switch must have been on. It was fun, I bought a round of drinks, or he did,lol. Diagram added. WARNING,do not try this near windows.
 

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