Practice practice practice

Just a quick check: I use the eyes closed touch to the cue ball as a wellness check.
Lefty seems fixed but I am not sure how. My solution attempt is a slight stance adjustment. Easy enough to monitor throughout with random testing.
 
Had to invent. Is Mother the necessity of invention? Where was I? Oh yes I needed a 3 point shot for the Slow Chase. With pocket Ed ball 1 and a hanger 2, it's only natural to make a Natural Hanger 3. That would be no contact with rail.
Num num me like .
Besides it's Erotica not porn.🤪
 
Trainer report: Left is making progress.
It seems my stance had closed ever so slight. Big run in the slow roll kiss uh er double kiss. Thank you Sir, May I have another. On to the Chase.
The Slow Kiss is the optimal way for me to start. Taking time for the Karate Kid. As part of the stretch and flex.
 
Ships Log:
Did the shovel variation of weight work yesterday. Back to the Slow Kiss weight work today. Playing alternate shot is giving the physical therapy my left shoulder needs. Can play by inings or to a timer. Or to submitted. At my age I am allowed to make the morning session all slow kiss.🤷🤪
 
Found a nugget: just not sure of the source. PerhapsHere or Ronnie Allen stories.
This is classified as Bank master knowledge. Might have been The Beard .
Ok here it is; center Ball regulation of the angle through velocity. Maybe while watching the..... oops I found it. Bill Stroud Interview he opens with it.👍
 
Oh the nostalgia. Hearing Ronnie Allen tell of dumping Harry with the disclaimer reminds me of the life and culture of the top players back in the day.
Harry was a whale. Known as King Harry in Seattle. I got to witness Cole taking $25,000. All night until about noon Sunday, is how I remember.
The back story was that Allen Hopkins was part of the plan. He came to town and got stuck uh not sure of the number but maybe $7 grand. He had to go wire for more ammunition. Cole slid in.😉 Harry's game was a thousand a game one pocket. Each player had a spot. Allen's was something like 10-6 or even 10-4. Cole's was 8-7 or 9-7 depends on the break. Cole would come to play Harry with one barrel. Cole played break and..,..well first shot after break run out. He once played 7 games against Cecil Tugwell in 35 minutes. A tournament race to 4. Each game was won by the breaker in his second inning.
Cole's work against Harry amounted to cut the ball in 90 degrees and splatter the rack and run out. He did one at a time, well the second game would have the splatter giving Harry the chance to get out. If he did fine, if not Cole would steal. Pretty sure he made better than union wage.🤪
There was a corporation formed to play Harry. they shared an apartment. When Harry came in he would meet with them and ask them to empty their pockets. That was the bet and they picked the player with each having a different spot.
 
The form work: Two kinds, concrete and Tai Chi. On to the second this morning.
The address is position that I go to Crane. For the fitness. Balance point familiar is good.
Getting centered before the step.
Here Comes the Sun.Here it comes
 
Or is it Kung Foo? Anyway going through forms at address maintaining my perspective of the center to center line/plane. With special attention to center of gravity.
 
Gotta crow. The Sun is coming up.🤷
Tournament psychology was one of my earliest studies.
Yesterday I earned second and was gifted 1st.
Pretty much every time I do well, there's A Shot. A do or die assessment of odds. Then the Attitude. Follow the Training. Execute the shot. Simple?
Last night it was a pair of shots. I made them and knew I was as ready as I could be (considering my handycapy).
Eight ball with my 3 and the 8, my shot.
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A rough approximate. The cut was available but too wild on the cue ball. Single rail bank was available with cue ball control. Leaving a makeable but difficult cut on the 8 to upper left. My version of a push out. I didn't have confidence in the bank but followed procedure right through the cue ball. It works 🤷.
This was my second match, so......
The Fear factor gave me an edge at that point.😉
 
The foundation should be monumental .🤷
THe Australia Billiards. Champion practicing a full month before getting more than 1 of the 4 balls ........ well his monument is a full size snooker table of stone.
So when I set the foundation or stance, self to self says, "this is the pose for your monument. Better be able to hold for a while as the artist is chipping it from stone and we'll I am forced to model.
Evolution has the Slow Kiss Equal Offense as my opener. The slow is key. Warm up starts slow. Pose is melded with yoga.
The solid part is the physical therapy. Half hour should fit easily in the morning budget.
The Bonus is.... I am learning, no make that refining. Sifting and getting the fine gold. I observe a lot by watching....... with the Big I.
 
Ronnie recently spoke to the power of robotics. His adherence to the routine (dance step) was striking in the Championship. The urge to single pump when in Dead Punch must be quelled.
I just watched a recent league match with Ronnie, to determine if he had changed chalk. In the championship he was still Triangle. Anyway I couldn't tell what chalk in a century break. I did notice the adherence to the routine in the way he touched the chalk to the tip. Every shot well he did skip it on the first ball after 100 was exceeded. In the Championship would wager it was even stricter adherence to the routine.
My lesson story: In the Northwest BCA champion match(perhaps the finals). Playing Dan Louie a player in the decider of the first set had ball in hand shape on the case 9. Just 2 degrees off of straight. He single pumped it in the heart. Then slowly dropped his raised arms as the cue ball slowly drifted to the opposite corner and fell in. Danny won that set and the next handily.🤷
 
I gave up counting, I looked at pages 39-42 & you posted 68 times, phew. From your OP I guesstimated you've replied to your OP over 600 + times. What's goin' on?
 
Island Drive said:
I gave up counting, I looked at pages 39-42 & you posted 68 times, phew. From your OP I guesstimated you've replied to your OP over 600 + times. What's goin' on?
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I gave up counting.
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Don't give up! It has been my experience that when I am frustrated, it's time to take a deep breath and start over.......1-2-3 is my way to remember the dance. Just like the Waltz lessons in Phys Ed. 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3. All of my.....uh most call it a preshot routine, I think of it as a full shot dance. 123, 123, 123.
When I am feeling pressure in competition and start to go brain dead. I fall back on the basics...1-2-3. Ready-Shoot-Aim ain't the 1-2-3 I prefer. It has never worked for me.😉
39-40-41-42 doesn't work for me.🤷
Back to the Basics.
. From your OP I guesstimated you've replied to your OP over 600 + times
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Ok🤷
What's goin' on?
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Just chillin'. What's up with you?
 
boogieman said:
Practice journal with a lot of gems.
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You got me all puffed up now.😉
I assume I have the right to claim, "Journalist"?🤷 A title I have historical respect and now responsibility for.
Kind of like when the Player called me a player.😉
 
Learning to crawl: Back in the day, a mother would be proud that her child learned to walk early.

The conventional wisdom is that crawling (or cross-lateral locomotion) otherwise known as quadrupedal movement is for babies while walking is for adults. But there’s growing evidence that crawling – one of the most basic developmental movement patterns – has surprising physical and mental benefits for adults as well.

Benefits of Crawling ​

Spock says it's logic to start my morning workout with a slow crawl or "slow roll" exercise. Slow not only in the roll but the entire dance. Taking time to smell the flowers uh figurative Lee.
At address I am allowed to do form work. One of my favorites I call "The Hat".
Standing on the lead leg, I raise the rear leg to bring the heal up as if to kick the cue ball with the heal. At my age and dexterity level keeping the heal behind the rail and just holding the pose is the challenge. In the day Rich used the hard heel of his dress shoe to kick the cue ball and never touch the table. Kind of like Mike Massey's finger pool.
 
For these reasons, then, it’s clear that crawling has some amazing physical and mental benefits. So don’t be afraid to find your flow and channel your inner child – crawling across the floor may be the very movement that your body needs.
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I just finished the linked article and find an analogous relationship with my left-right Scotch Double practice. Things that make me say, Hmmmm 🤔
 
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