Jay Helfert posted this in another forum when giving Robley some advice.
Just remember this one piece of advice. Quiet your body when you get down to shoot. Be still and yet relaxed, with only your arm and eyeballs moving. Nothing moving but the correct parts. That's all for now. Play a lot of pool. You can't get too much practice. In fact when you practice until you get tired is when you will make the most improvements in your game. When you're tired, your body and mind finds ways to operate more efficiently. That equates to a better shooting technique. When you're are tired, you will unconsciously make minute adjustments to some part of your game (i.e. stance, stroke, bridge, aiming etc.), and often this very small adjustment will make you a little better player than you were before.
This got me thinking. When I was gambling alot and playing till 3am, I would get in this limbo kinda state and just start playing jam up. Usually I would start playing at like 7pm and at around 11 or midnight something funny would happen. I would start getting physically tired but I would drink coffee like its water and mentally I would be wide awake. It was a weird feeling but then I would start to play jam up, like 2 balls better than I was. Many a times I would be in a tough match when this gear would kick in and I would take down the cheese. Granted this didnt happen all the time, but i did happen enough to wear I could expect it.
So Jay if your reading this, is this what your talking about in your original post? Also any of you readers ever experienced what Jay or I are talking about?
Just remember this one piece of advice. Quiet your body when you get down to shoot. Be still and yet relaxed, with only your arm and eyeballs moving. Nothing moving but the correct parts. That's all for now. Play a lot of pool. You can't get too much practice. In fact when you practice until you get tired is when you will make the most improvements in your game. When you're tired, your body and mind finds ways to operate more efficiently. That equates to a better shooting technique. When you're are tired, you will unconsciously make minute adjustments to some part of your game (i.e. stance, stroke, bridge, aiming etc.), and often this very small adjustment will make you a little better player than you were before.
This got me thinking. When I was gambling alot and playing till 3am, I would get in this limbo kinda state and just start playing jam up. Usually I would start playing at like 7pm and at around 11 or midnight something funny would happen. I would start getting physically tired but I would drink coffee like its water and mentally I would be wide awake. It was a weird feeling but then I would start to play jam up, like 2 balls better than I was. Many a times I would be in a tough match when this gear would kick in and I would take down the cheese. Granted this didnt happen all the time, but i did happen enough to wear I could expect it.
So Jay if your reading this, is this what your talking about in your original post? Also any of you readers ever experienced what Jay or I are talking about?