Practicing Perfection

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ok folks, this is one of the "Routine" shots that i practice a great deal of the time. tonight i was practicing making the 1-Ball, and drawing back off the rail with just a little low left (or just some low) to Point A for position on the 2-Ball.

i was using a circle about two inches in diameter as the target, cut out of regular paper. i put the cue ball around it alot, but only once in about a half hour did i put the cue ball smack on the target at Point A.

i've heard Mr. Williebetmore talk about using a credit card for his target, and practicing it until he got on the card. its not as easy as it looks, do you posters ever practice this method? and how successful do you honestly think you would be at getting the cue ball SMACK on the two inch target?

DCP

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poolplayer2093 said:
i'd practice getting better shape on the 1. probably not thinking 3 balls ahead with shape like that.
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I wish I could get perfect shape on the 1. How do you practice getting shape on the first ball? ;)

-td
 
there's only 2 balls on the table. you're assuming that he's playing 9 ball, could be 14.1 or 8 ball but more likely than that it's just a drill and i was just making a comment. i was implying that i think he'd get better results doing a speed drill or something and working on tightening up his possition. no only on this shot but shots in general.
 
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Here is a practice drill I read in the Nick Varner 54 Drills package:

Set up the OB slightly off the rail on the side rail one diamond. Take the CB and place it wherever you like. Place a dinner napkin on the bottom rail 2 diamond and practice shooting that shot and landing on the napkin. Move the OB along the rail until you make it around the table to where you started. Now move the OB off the rail to the one diamond one diamond position and do it again. Done? No chance. Now you move the napkin! It is a really long drill and took me nearly two weeks doing the drill 2 hours a day 5 days a week.

Well that's my drill for the day! LOL:o
 
PoolSponge said:
Here is a practice drill I read in the Nick Varner 54 Drills package:

Set up the OB slightly off the rail on the side rail one diamond. Take the CB and place it wherever you like. Place a dinner napkin on the bottom rail 2 diamond and practice shooting that shot and landing on the napkin. Move the OB along the rail until you make it around the table to where you started. Now move the OB off the rail to the one diamond one diamond position and do it again. Done? No chance. Now you move the napkin! It is a really long drill and took me nearly two weeks doing the drill 2 hours a day 5 days a week.

Well that's my drill for the day! LOL:o
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can you diagram this shot so we will know exactly what you mean?

thanks!
DCP
 
Wherever you like. Make the OB and get the CB on the napkin 10 times in a row then move the OB up to the two diamond on the same rail etc...until you have moved around the whole table then move the OB from the rail out one diamond and do it again.
 
hitting the circle

DCP, I can't view the diagrams since I'm on LINUX.
But I've heard you ask a similar question before regarding
landing the cue ball on a small target.

Have you ever watched Bert Kinister's tape #1 which is
the 60 minute workout for 8ball/9ball?
 
whitey2 said:
DCP, I can't view the diagrams since I'm on LINUX.
But I've heard you ask a similar question before regarding
landing the cue ball on a small target.

Have you ever watched Bert Kinister's tape #1 which is
the 60 minute workout for 8ball/9ball?
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yes, i've watched that video, many times. he uses a sheet of paper. way, WAY too big to improve your game as far as i am concerned. not that i could hit the piece of paper alot, but its still too big.

DCP
 
circle

Yes, but he has a black circle in the middle of the sheet
of paper. In a later video, the advanced 60 minute workout
he uses just a sheet of paper. And he comments that
he no longer uses the circle, as it was 10 years ago, and
he's "lost a step" since then.

On tape #1 he lands in the middle of the circle very often.

I suspect that if he went to any other table, it would take him quite
a while to do so.
 
One drill I use with some of my past student was using an 81/2 by 11 paper. Draw a target on it and aim for centre and see where you land. You can also flip the paper and draw a triangle to simulate real play where you need to land in a safe zone. Also, using a larger paper is easier to keep it flat.
 
I've been using a 6" round piece of paper with a 1" circle drawn in the center of it. I created my own point system and score points depending where I land.

Within 6" of the paper circle = 1 point
On the paper cirlce = 3 points
On the 1" circle = 5 points

I shoot one session of 9 balls and total my score. I do about 40-60 of these nine ball sessions a day. This system helps me gauge how my overall accuracy is improving, rather than just counting hits and misses.
 
I would not have liked to have to play this shot in a tournament but I practice that shot a lot and I just love it when I do it right but its not easy.
 
Pool is not a game of perfect. (hey, that's got a nice ring to it ;) ) Having said that, you say you have difficulty hitting a full sheet of paper yet it is too WAY too big to use for improvement ? That just makes no sense at all. Walk before you run and all that ...

Dave
 
I would shoot the shot with just a smidge of inside right to play 2 or 3 rail shape. I hate going cross table one rail like you diagrammed. I swear the side pocket grows exponentially when I overhit that shot slightly.
 
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