Practice practice practice

Opening with the left, thinking of the lead off hitter in baseball. Get on base period. A single is better than a home run. Singles were the formula I taught in slow pitch. 17 runs in the final inning against the team that had us one game from the mercy rule earlier. Singles set an easily obtainable goal. My rule was if you hit a home run it must be a line drive. With the score tied and bases loaded our clean up hitter hit that line drive for the Slam!🤷
 
Stand at attention: Note to self; you are cheating sliding into the shot from the side......no matter how slight. Go to top dead center at attention then stride into the shot. Ok slide in from the side is because of feeling dead punch...... but it can bite. Ronnie observed the rule, ever shot in the finals.
 
Lock the wheels is the pause at the back. Nothing but the fingers with the ring finger in charge.
Pocket speed practice is the therapeutic prescription.
 
Pocket speed rule: Hang it for the double. 8 ball strategy.. Blocked pocket is more value than pocketed ball, at times😉
 
The slow roll: The left shoulder injury has forced me to Go Back to the Basics. Rehab is coming along, the rebuild is going to put me back together stronger than before.(Like the $6 Man)😉. The left hand just did 9 in a row on the opening kiss back. Positive that's a personal best. The original challenge was shoot a stop shot. I am just rolling the ball. However through the insights I gain, perhaps I will be more accurate when I am able to stop my rock 🤷😉
 
Story time: Pigeon Dave. At the Seed 2 in Bellevue, we were assumed to be the easy money in the $10 / player 3 handed ring game. So the top 6 players on The East Side. I had just started playing lefty with undefeated success. All the players knew I was right handed. Oh yeah did I mention, Scotch Double s? We clipped the game at around $110@. Damnedest thing!
Dave was a Successful Card Player that had graduated from pool. He gambled with Shawn with the 8. I wanted the 7 from Shawn.(Of course I had just clipped Shawn +200 playing lefty). He was good with the other hand and I was better. So anyway the game came about at the having a beer table. Pidgion and I occupied spots 5 and 6 on the ratings chart.
It was a Friday night and far enough in that I had a disagreement with my wife. She had been a Mother image/advise to Pidgion. He had overheard a rude/juvenile remark I made. Probably an indicator of my alcohol content.🤷 Pidgion would not miss. Oh boy was he mad at me. We didn't speak the whole way. We closed the place with the game.
I missed, uh 2 balls. Both with the right hand. $110 was the depth of my pocket money at the time.😉 Oh yeah that was when all my money was in my pocket.🤷
Blame the Pidgion we just adopted. He is learning to fly. On the back of the stool now. Yesterday his name was Wilbur. His first big hop😉 Today he is Dave.😁
 
Stool Pidgion now. Just pooped on my handcrafted stool.
BlackMDX said:
I can’t even imagine what your life must be like! Do you have family or friends? God help them! My advice is stick with the therapy and spend more time in the other rooms of your house.
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My current therapy:
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Will be foundation for RV cover. Retaining wall as well. Using salvaged wire fence to reinforce the concrete along with rebar. 3 foot sections using metal roof salvage as form. At 6' going for 15' on each side.....so I expect to be here a while.😉
 
BlackMDX said:
I can’t even imagine what your life must be like! Do you have family or friends? God help them! My advice is stick with the therapy and spend more time in the other rooms of your house.
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Try The Ballad of Cable Hougue, will compare.🤷
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I built it All. The table is a free Fisher that I have about$200 plus time investment. I built the shop, ground up. You Wanna Play ..... Some?
 
Coming to the bottom of the quart of The Champagne of Bottle Beers . Feel good, let's get it on. No Really. I am a man of my word.
 
I looked the Other Old C*** Sucker straight in the eye and said, "If you touch my cue Again, I will put you on your back on the floor." Sunday afternoon free pool, no less. We had the whole room including owner. Nobody stopped it ......Who doesn't like to watch old fu.....s fight? Here hold my walker, and watch this.
He had already defiled Roger's work. At the behest of my well meaning wife, he had removed Rogers first Ivory ferrule. She it. It was cracked from day 1 and under life warranty. I paid a $10 tip to Roger. Grrrrrr he took it off!!! Replace it with...... some uh fake ivory.
So after agree to Ring Game. Then see that he was 3rd best 3 handed. So not only resigned game but wanted to commander the table. As he had been on it before the ring game. He took my cue off the table as I had laid it to rack. He caught me looking away. As we discussed what was going to happen on that table next.
I replaced the cue and let him know he would never touch it again. He knew me as a man of my word
 
Ships log: Woop E Sunday is chalk day.
Safety First; just a self reminder! There will be mistakes. Survival is about minimum damage from boo boos. Following my personal safety protocols has allowed me to survive this long 😉
The practice refocus on speed is a long neglected facet. Morning challenge is .. ..head spot to foot spot double kiss that leaves balls kissing at the end. A ball between them is my measure of success. Watching the precise ball speed put on display in snooker safety play..... make this challenge seems like putt putt golf.🤷 Keep me amusing through the morning therapy.
 
Right is power, left is fin S. In boxing too. Get them thinking about that left jab//stinger until it opens the path for the power hand.🤷
Karma is smiling today. Wilbur is on the roof. Taking longer hops now. Reminded me of my 25 minutes Driving the B-52🤷
Left hand opens with a uh 11, on the modified kiss. Definitely more fun than the sister.
Anyway the modified kiss is a fun challenge. With bonus point for finishing with in a cue butt. So opening with an 11 with 6 bonus points. 2 or 3 finished with an eighth of inch.
I surmise that the left starting late avoiding bad habits that became imbedded in the right.
Funny part is I was counting the double s and lost track of the quest for the unobtainable 10🎉. Looked up and the coin was on the 10.🤷
 
My Weight loss program is the name for the modified program (game sounds uh unimportant). Taking Colin's 16 positions that came from DrDave billiards . I score one point for the make, two points for the hanger (can't be removed) and a bonus point for leaving the cue ball on a rail(cue butt or less).
 
Oh the piano lessons: The scales to develop the dexterity that is required to make beautiful music. My shoulder injury has shown me that I have underestimated the power in the finger. Just remember that the middle finger is the escalator, the ring finger is commitment.
One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest . Funny thing about being committed.🤷😉
 
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