Practicing on those 'bad days'

[Bluewolf]

I am trying to up my practice time, do more drills too.

Some days are great and everything seems to drop. Sometimes I am not having a good day poolwize and not being nearly as successful.

What do you do if you are practicing and it is a bad day? I used to get mad and quit but those days are gone. Do you quit and practice on a better day? Or do you work you way through it or keep practicing even if you arent shooting well that day?

Laura

 

[Chucklez65]

In this case, I would think that you could to use this bad day as a lesson in itself. Try and figure out a way to settle yourself down and get focused on the game again. In my opinion, the whole good day/bad day thing is all in how you keep focused on your game. If you are focused on what you are doing, you play well, if your mind is not on the game at hand, then you wont.

In summary, losing your focus when you are in a tournament match and not shooting well, or in a league situation and not playing well, happens to most of us, more often than not in my case, and learning how to deal with this situation is as important or possibly more important than just practicing to make shots. Turn this bad practice session into a lesson in how to regain your focus and composure.

Just a thought

Chuck

 

[dmgwalsh]

What do you do if you are practicing and it is a bad day? I used to get mad and quit but those days are gone. Do you quit and practice on a better day? Or do you work you way through it or keep practicing even if you arent shooting well that day?

I was doing a shooting drill I saw in Byrne's book where you put the ball on a spot and cut it left, cut it right and bank it one long rail. When you make the shot you move one diamond further away with your cueball. The first time I did the drill they were going in pretty well. Yesterday they weren't , so eventually I started doing drills for cue ball control and shapes instead. I figured just cuz my long shots weren't going in , it didn't mean I couldn't learn something.

 

[Zims Rack]

We all have our good days and our bad days. What you learn from that bad day could be the best lesson you could learn. When I'm practicing and balls are just not dropping when they should and the cue ball is not coming to a stop where I had planned it to. So what I do is go back to the basics, back to the simple "confidence building" shots. For example: I will set up simple slightly straight in shots and work on my stop, draw and follow shots. Then once my confidence is rising, I'll move on to simple cut shots and again with stop, draw and follow. I practice what I know is "simple" shots to me to build my confidence back up and gain my composure. After that is consistent, I'll hit the short banks, long banks, long cuts, and then into the more difficult drills! You have to be confident, willing and definatly have to want to progress in your game to get any improvement out of your training time. This was a good topic Bluewolf!
...Zim