Practice practice practice

4 point stance. Learned from Coach McHargue. Applied to my snoo...uh er pool stance, has 4 point contact with both hands chin chest. Better than 3 points (for me). Maintaining a pure stroke through the most advantage mechanics.
Note to self: use the damn camera and self analysis. Duh.....😉
 
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The giggles shot. Attempt to bank 12 cross side with billiard of 9 ball. Over cut the bank but perfect for the double double in the other side. The thin hit on the bank allowed for the cut of the 9 to the corner!😁 Four point shot!!😉
An option I had completed overlooked. My persuit had favorite of cross side with crash power to full hit on the 9 ball. The added power does shorten the 12 off the first rail.
It all makes sense now. So....."yeah I planned that" would be an accurate statement.
 
Left still prevail 12-10. Singles him to the ground. Right came back with two big hits in the end finish with a double on final shot.
The Chase Tail:
Starting with 3 balls plus cue ball.
Cue ball head spot ob foot spot with bank kiss to open. Then go to Colin's shots moving #1 to the end. On the foot spot cut to corner I place the next 2 balls on their spot. .then score 1 point for the make and 2 if billiard on next ball. 3 points for both pocketed. As soon as I make a ball it remains 2 object balls. Current position and next. Take prescribed cue ball and object ball positions. Striking prescribed balls for any pocket.
17 prescribed shots.
My highest total points is 28 combined left and right.
Margin of victory going 22-3 to the left hand.🤷
 
The Strike:
I am striking the cue ball. My cue stick is my instrument.
The ability to make sweet music depends on precision.
Ronnie put exquisite display of cue ball precision. The only way I can approach cue. Ball precision is with cue tip precision.
Uh oh: Dr Polka showed me surgical precision. In the field Army doctor grabbed a single razor blade of the type in the tape cutters. (looks like crab leg tool) After the game I was waiting for the tool to remove the tape on my knee. Probably 16 inches now, as the coach loved taping a little high. Damn near had the whole leg shaved by the time the knee brace arrived.
Anyway Dr Polka great Ed me. No really. He delivered me and nicked me "Tarzan". Well I guess I needed a shave. He grabbed the razor and motion me to come here. I present the knee and he used both hands to run the blade top to bottom in one continuous swoop. Walla the tape parted and the red line of blood I expected, wasn't there. Oh yeah skills.
So I call it training. PT(not potty)😉
 
Unicorn sighting: Cross corner bank on 5 missed but made 9 in left side with cue ball in jaws of low right corner and 5 took the cocked hat route to the right side. Stopped just short!!😉
Seriously possible Unicorn.
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The creative vs the analytical: No doubt adding the left has stabilizer effect for me.
Ronnie and Efren are proof. Being able to have same confidence to trust that I have selected the best option. Sometimes very simple hand selection is position at the table. Second is bridge location. Third would be what feels good.
If I can imagine it... the left is ready. The right.....draw the line s then follow the numbers. The dance is slower and more deliberate....
 
The Grand Finally:
Just made the 3 point shot on the last. Sends me off into the wild blue yonder with a smile.
Have A Nice Day.👍
 
The Routine:
How many times have I felt good and uh focused to miss the "routine" shot. Well I guess seeing Ronnie or any top player do it......makes it easier to swallow.
In the Championship series that Ronnie won, I noticed a devotion to the Routine. (Call it pre-shot if you must.😉) I watched all of his matches and don't recall a routine miss on his part.
So missed routine shot leads straight to analysis of my routine and where did I vary from it. The answer is always there.
Comparison of my fundamental s to what I see in Ronnie is a fun pass time. It fits nicely with the lesson videos that Barry Stark makes available. Hence my shop now has reasonable simple access to record and view. Then delete 😉. Well analysis then solution proposal then put it behind.
 
Sometimes there's so many parts broken or out of sync that it's overwhelming.
Rhetorical answer is go back and start over. Footings and sound platform can give me a make on ball I thought I had missed. Shure is nice making adjustments on the fly. As opposed to ruminating on it in my chair.
 
The tapping of ring or middle finger in the bridge hand, was something I tried and couldn't insert it in my dance routine. Now weeks later I am detecting the ring finger tapping.... kinda like the dog tail wagging... So rather than do it.... I should just wait for it as a sign that the subconscious likes it.🤷
 
OMG!!! Unicorn bagged!!!
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The giggles shot. Attempt to bank 12 cross side with billiard of 9 ball. Over cut the bank but perfect for the double double in the other side. The thin hit on the bank allowed for the cut of the 9 to the corner!😁 Four point shot!!😉
An option I had completed overlooked. My persuit had favorite of cross side with crash power to full hit on the 9 ball. The added power does shorten the 12 off the first rail.
It all makes sense now. So....."yeah I planned that" would be an accurate statement.
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OMG!! The Unicorn has been potted! By the plan! 12 banked cross side 9 cut to corner and cue ball comes straight into the corner at my left hand. Guess it's not that rare.🤷🏋️
 
Another fun session. Trailing 7-11 the right prevail 14-13 with the Unicorn and the left catching the double with a narrow miss of the 3 for a tie on the final shot.
It pays to eat the vegetables (broccoli or cauliflower or spinach) first. Building the foundation and platform first then the mechanics then the dessert.
 
The sparing partner: Some of the strongest players had sparing partner to train with.
Story time:
Tuesday night was a $5 tournament on the east side. Maybe Redmond. I encountered a player interested in $3 nine ball until close after the tournament. Every Tuesday night. I prevailed in the range of 3 to 1 on victory. Usually in the $30-40 range. He did have to hit the cash machine one time. The match could take a 10 game swing easily. 20 was possible on the 8' valley. We had great competition. Moved on only to see (6 months later)in the pool news paper...He got 7-8 on the 9' tables in the Sands Reno pro 9 ball event.
Guess I was a good sparing partner.😉 In baseball I was a good batting practice pitcher.🤷
 
gregcantrall said:
It pays to eat the vegetables (broccoli or cauliflower or spinach) first. Building the foundation and platform first then the mechanics then the dessert.
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Translation: lose the chalk. Be happy with 2 or 3 balls....one ball for a month is the prescribed discipline. Time to learn about the rails?🤷
Learn to love the one you are with.😁
 
The Routine or is it practice practice practice? Or is it practice practice practice of the routine.
Something I have not advertised (well lately) : In the months previous to my Place at the Big Show, I worked in office furniture shop in Woodinville (of course) So just previous to the tournament I was assigned a task that was repetitive; to the tune of pallet at a time of rails. The top and bottom 1x2 of hardwood (mostly oak) in various lengths but most were long enough to replicate a pool cue.
Each rail needed a slot at both ends to fit an aluminum connector. I was operating a pen router. I modified the set up of the machine to resemblance of a pole vault pit. Or better still the aerial refueling. I set my stance to resemblance of pool stance and inserted using my stroke.
I could take a rail off the input with a simple reach then insert using my stroke and open balance stance. Then remove spin in the transfer to the other hand. Then insert remove and stack. While the left offload the right onload and insert at rapid fire/semi auto rate. The router was the noise e. Ist. Machine (part of my hearing loss.) I made that machine sing! 600 pieces. The shop crew was uh impressed.😉 Of course my work had to be micro accurate as I was exceeding by multiple the output of the uh boss's son.🤷
It was my version of weight work. I had spent time spraying lacquer by the 50 gallon drum. So had developed the fine tuning spraying with a gun in each hand. One stain the other sealer. They had a way of wanting a big order shipped the next day. So I had unlimited labor to load and offload the spray racks.
The fortunate timing of a week off(I had resigned and felt good) before the Big Show.
The 3 ball break/kick practice for the week.
Then the preparation strategy (top secret)😉 execution, put me in a place to be the best I could be.
 
My final position is a replication of the shot I made that was the nail in the shipping crate for the 10' Diamond in Sun City West. No really!
Playing one pocket on her. I had hung the game ball with only one other ball on the table. That ball was a diamond and a half out and half diamond off the foot rail. My opponent made the hanger and went in with it. Putting 2 balls together on the spot. Leaving me my practice shot 🤷 So I made it leaving the other 2 undisturbed. My opponent on the other hand got so disturbed that he lobbied to have the table.....uh fixed. The pockets were not right(too tight!). It worked! Diamond gave them a regulation 9' table as even trade for the 10'er with the defective ly tight pockets.
Bye bye, Sun City West.
 
gregcantrall said:
The Routine:
How many times have I felt good and uh focused to miss the "routine" shot. Well I guess seeing Ronnie or any top player do it......makes it easier to swallow.
In the Championship series that Ronnie won, I noticed a devotion to the Routine. (Call it pre-shot if you must.😉) I watched all of his matches and don't recall a routine miss on his part.
So missed routine shot leads straight to analysis of my routine and where did I vary from it. The answer is always there.
Comparison of my fundamental s to what I see in Ronnie is a fun pass time. It fits nicely with the lesson videos that Barry Stark makes available. Hence my shop now has reasonable simple access to record and view. Then delete 😉. Well analysis then solution proposal then put it behind.
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Ok, in review of the finals, I just noticed a miss of a routine shot by Ronnie. His response was interesting. A good example for me to follow. Gawd forbid that I should miss a routine shot.😉
 
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