out of town and no table what to do to keep instroke?

seanjonsean

seanjonsean

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my new job takes me out of town 2 weeks away from evrything ,i travel down to a ranch in llano texas and im bout 30 miles away from any bar ,my boss has a table ther in his hoouse but im sure he wont want me there evrynite and plus his table needs recovering ,wen i do come home i practice like heck lol , but it has been playing on my mind that im not benefitting from missing my time practicing im thinking of buying a cheap light portable table and usiing that ,unless u guys have any ideas?????
 
Yes i've been in that position many times now i have used the coke bottle lay it on it's side and stroke your cue through it without touching the bottle but this got to be very easy the hole was so big. So i took a flat piece of wood and drilled a hole using a drillbit that was just a little bigger than my shaft now i use it for about 15 minutes in the evening then when i do get to play it does'nt take very long for me to get in the groove at the table. I once did this for 2 weeks every day about 15 min a day and went to the poolroom and beat one of the better players who plays all the time so that proved to me that it really does help. Im not sayin it'll help your cue ball control or speed but you will adjust back into the groove alot quicker.
 
i personally use a beer bottle and stroke about an inch to 2 inches in.

it definately helped me get a straighter shot.
 
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seanjonsean said:
my new job takes me out of town 2 weeks away from evrything ,i travel down to a ranch in llano texas and im bout 30 miles away from any bar ,my boss has a table ther in his hoouse but im sure he wont want me there evrynite and plus his table needs recovering ,wen i do come home i practice like heck lol , but it has been playing on my mind that im not benefitting from missing my time practicing im thinking of buying a cheap light portable table and usiing that ,unless u guys have any ideas?????
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Watch accustats matches. You can not only stay in stroke that way, you can get in stroke that way. I won't pretend to know the mechanism that makes this work, but it does work.
 
A good method and one that may help even the best players is to place a an index card in a pair of vise grips just the corner and so that the card is sticking up in the air. Get yourself a nice place to swing a cue. Some chalk for the tip. This is so you know exactly where you hit the paper with different amounts of stroke speed and body english. This is a good drill to practice even if you have a table in your living room. This can teach you how to break at a dead run or if you are imparting english when you don't want this will tell you why. What I do is place a blue dot on the paper using my tip full of chalk. Next I bridge up and swing to hit my blue dot. I pretend I am swinging at the break full speed ahead and I do this ten of fifteen times. When I am done I know if I am hitting the cue ball right and how often. I turn the card around and I try cueing draw shots and follow shots I hit spin shots always trying different speeds and amounts of follow through. If you can remember what your arm needs to do for each type of stroke this can keep you in tip top condition. I have learned so much about bridging and my stroke from this it has been one of the best things anyone ever taught me. I am sure I will be tuning in with this drill for years. Thanks Rick.
 
man i am so in this predicament myself. Get this, my only local pool room frickin shut down!!! So i go from playing 20 to 30 hours a week.......to almost zilch. Luckily id started workin on my own poolroom recently but it wont be ready til next spring some time........this sucks. I can travel 2 hours back and forth to play......which it looks like im going to be doing for a few months........woe is me.
 
I discovered something recently for practicing at home.
I have Joe Tucker's Third Eye stroke trainer. He suggested using
a glass in place of a ball if you don't have a table, but I found
something better. I like to juggle, and I have something called
Klutz Juggling Balls. You can buy these at any Barnes and Noble
for about $8. They should be in the kids section in a big Klutz
standee (just ask). They are square, but are exactly 2.25 inches
across.

So, you set these on a table, and stroke into them with the stroke
trainer. It's nice, because it gives you something to hit, instead of
just air. And since they're square, they don't roll off the table.
Then you can take the stroke trainer off, and stroke some more.
I recommend cleaning the chalk off your tip first though.:)

If you can create some sort of a long straight line on the table,
you can ensure that everything is really really nice and straight
in your stroke. Line up straight to begin with, and compare your
stick to the line at various positions: Full backswing, cue ball, and
full finish/follow through.

For even more fun, if your phone has a video camera on it, you can
record yourself from different angles, and see what you look like.
I recommend talking about what you are doing, because you may
not remember when you go back and watch it. If you have a
computer, you can save these videos and watch them later for
comparison of your progress.

I've learned a lot from doing this lately. You can really focus on your
stance and bridging this way. There is no ball to
pocket, so you just focus on those things. I've also been doing
it left handed, and it has really helped my left handed game. I can
now make balls consistently, though not really play position yet.
I also am starting to develop that feeling of power, like I have with
my right hand. Where I'm not just hitting the cue ball towards the
object ball, but stroking it.

And of course, once you finish stroking, you can use the Klutz Book
to learn how to juggle. Tips on that: Learn one ball, then two. Then
go back to one ball again. Then two and three. Then one ball again.
It's about good throws, not good catches.:) I used to play music
instead of counting my catches once I got good enough. I would
try to juggle for an entire song.
 
stroke on

Offer to have the table covered for him and I'm sure he would let you play on it all you want.
 
thanxz guys for the answeres, slatehumper im in the process of buying house cues with the ranch logo so hopefully i make points that way lol but u kno last week i was practicing and noticed something bout my stroke that i never have had before,i aim i stroke and wen i shoot just before i hit the object ball i grip thr butt at point of contact and noticed my accuracy improved ,i recently bought some cheap house cues and they play alot difrent cuz of no wrap maybe that caused it?who cares i tried it on wed my league night and my confidence improved and im making balls with no rail contact they go in clean wat do u guys think happend ?who cares lol ,im trying to emulate efrens stroke and maybe im doing something right.......
 
Amen to longhair's post! It has long been observed that the mental practice is often as important as actual physical time spent at the table. If you find yourself in a position where you have no access to a table, watching good players play, particularly in a format like Accu-Stats where some of the most knowledgeable players in the world are giving you insight about how to THINK the game, is of great benefit. In addition, your mind is observing and absorbing things like the quality of the pros' mechanics and just as importantly, you are programming the various cue ball paths into memory, thus improving your ability to visualize the shots before you play them.
 
well i tivo all the billiards events and i have several hours of viewing material,watching and observing is a major part i take magazines with me and read articles over and over ,maybe i should look at it as 2 weeks of mental practice ha!
 
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