preshot routine - my first youtube effort

It was a bit drawn out. You either need to split it up in about five parts or you need to shorten your descriptions and ideas. I honestly was getting bored by watching it and you kept basically repeating yourself a couple times before moving on. The information was wonderful and accurate but most people won't take it all in because it was, to be brutally honest, boring.

What I would do is write down all the information you want to present. Cut out anything that seems like you're repeating yourself(this isn't a one-on-one lesson, they can watch the video over and over). Take that paper and use more descriptive terms and proof read over and over. Now use that paper as a script. That will cut out wasted time where you were thinking of how to describe what you wanted to explain and going back to something that you didnt finish explaining.

Once again, you gave great advice and wonderful explanations but it just doesn't work in a video format. For a first try at an education youtube video, you did a wonderful job. Please don't take my criticisms as anything more than advice to help your presentation. It would work well explaining it to someone in person but for a video you should be a bit more brief and to the point to keep the viewers attention. :)

That's just my opinion.
 
mikepage said:
Just a recreational pool player and wanabe pool instructor..

But I'm no stranger to teaching

I've taught physics a little bit in a high school setting as well as

(University Undergraduate courses)

General physics
General chemistry
Physical chemistry I - quantum chemistry & spectroscopy
Physical chemistry II - thermodynamics and kinetics
Biophysical chemistry

(University Graduate courses)

Quantum Chemistry
Statistical Thermodynamics
Intermediate Physical Chemistry
Advanced Quantum Chemistry
Kinetics


For better or for worse, that (in the video) is about my "teaching physical chemistry" persona.
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funny, i used to teach school too, at the secondary level up around the Indianapolis area. but i didnt teach anything as intricate as those physics/chemistry classes.........:eek:

DCP
 
I always think your posts are informative and really liked this video and your style of presentation. I will be quite interested to see the rest.
 
third_i said:
It was a bit drawn out. You either need to split it up in about five parts or you need to shorten your descriptions and ideas. I honestly was getting bored by watching it and you kept basically repeating yourself a couple times before moving on. The information was wonderful and accurate but most people won't take it all in because it was, to be brutally honest, boring.

What I would do is write down all the information you want to present. Cut out anything that seems like you're repeating yourself(this isn't a one-on-one lesson, they can watch the video over and over). Take that paper and use more descriptive terms and proof read over and over. Now use that paper as a script. That will cut out wasted time where you were thinking of how to describe what you wanted to explain and going back to something that you didnt finish explaining.

Once again, you gave great advice and wonderful explanations but it just doesn't work in a video format. For a first try at an education youtube video, you did a wonderful job. Please don't take my criticisms as anything more than advice to help your presentation. It would work well explaining it to someone in person but for a video you should be a bit more brief and to the point to keep the viewers attention. :)

That's just my opinion.
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You should follow your own advise, you repeated yourself numerous times. Try to be a bit more brief and to the point to keep the readers attention.
 
mikepage said:
Wow Lou. I don't know what to say...

I suppose you enter and exit the pool hall without bowing as well.
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hmmm, no.

But only slightly more seriously, regardless of the physical activity, shouldn't one practice in the same footwear one is likely to be wearing during competition?

Or were you just giving your Nike Mike "Air" Page sneakers a rest this particular day?

Lou Figueroa
 
wayne said:
You should follow your own advise, you repeated yourself numerous times. Try to be a bit more brief and to the point to keep the readers attention.
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that was the point. ;)

I guess you're not familiar with the art of subtly. It's one thing to tell someone that you're doing something wrong, but when you show them why it is wrong then you get the point across better. :)
 
Just bumping this post up. I don't think I ever really paid much attention to my pre-shot approach, but I watched this video and utilized it this morning. I approached the table the same way every single time, stood with the object ball directly in line with the pocket for 5-7 seconds, and approached the shot from behind the cue ball as instructed. I ran 3 racks of 9 ball, and now im going to bed before I miss a shot. I really think this helped me tremendously and I want to give as many people as possible a chance to see the video.. I think it could help a lot of players who are near my skill level.
 
Pool Instructors like to get paid. :-)

poolnut said:
Just bumping this post up. I don't think I ever really paid much attention to my pre-shot approach, but I watched this video and utilized it this morning. I approached the table the same way every single time, stood with the object ball directly in line with the pocket for 5-7 seconds, and approached the shot from behind the cue ball as instructed. I ran 3 racks of 9 ball, and now im going to bed before I miss a shot. I really think this helped me tremendously and I want to give as many people as possible a chance to see the video.. I think it could help a lot of players who are near my skill level.
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Send Page his "jelly". He has to be encouraged to continue as a pool instructor.

JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
Send Page his "jelly". He has to be encouraged to continue as a pool instructor.

JoeyA
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No no no... Don't send any jelly here. I'm strictly a peanut-butter guy.

Thanks for the kind thought though....
 
mikepage said:
No no no... Don't send any jelly here. I'm strictly a peanut-butter guy.

Thanks for the kind thought though....
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I live next to a school and there has always been a rodent problem (Big RATS) and I feed the rats some poison but they always seem to die inside of a wall or someplace difficult to get to. Anyway I had the bright idea to spread a dollop of peanut butter on the trigger of a large rat trap, planted in an outdoor water heater shed where they enjoy communing.

What do you think happened? The damned rats licked the trigger clean and the trap remained unsprung until I reached to resupply the peanut butter. With your preference of payment du jour and my recent experience, I will have to be overly cautious when you ask me to gamble on your next visit. :p :p :p
JoeyA
 
I forgot to mention in my previous post---

I had dinner with Allison Fisher in Baltimore a year ago and, of course, I asked the question:

"What's the one thing you most attribute to increasing your ability from a good player, to becoming the best ever?"

She said "preshot routine" without hesitation. When she practices at home, she focuses on her preshot routine in an effort to eliminate variation--- as variation is what causes break-downs (of every kind).

Ever since that dinner last July, I've focused a lot more effort into developing a repeatable preshot routine and it has definitely made a big difference.

Dave
 
This is freaky... I cut off the volume and it reminds me of a player around my way who takes forever to shoot, and talks to himself.

Nice video, waiting for the rest of it.
 
I pay very close attention to my preshot routine and it's very much like yours Mike. I thought I was the only one to check out the angle from behind the ob and then from the cb. I also use a very robotic way to step into the shot so that the butt of the cue is always over the front portion of my back foot. I have a habit of leaving the stroking arm too close to my body so I also incorporate a very deliberate move that gets the arm away from my body and thus enables a free stroke with no body interference until the back hand hits my chest on ending the follow through.

It's also important for me to have my right eye over the cue so getting that lined up is also a part of the pre-shot routine.

I havent counted the seperate, deliberabe moves that make up my preshot routine but there are several.

In golf the pre-shot routine is recognized as highly important to shot making and reducing stress. I never have to think about whether I'm lined up properly. After many thousands of practice shots where I focused entirely on the routine it seems like my body just knows how to do it.
 
poolnut said:
Solution to that problem is also mentioned in the video..
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Sometimes I state things that are too complicated... I'll try this!!! I place chalk on the side cause I don't like it face up. Face up can leave a mark on my shirt.
 
Jason Robichaud said:
Sometimes I state things that are too complicated... I'll try this!!! I place chalk on the side cause I don't like it face up. Face up can leave a mark on my shirt.
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Hey, I've been to NB. You guys have waterfalls that go up, and you have hills that you can roll up with your car in neutral. So I guess you may as well have sideways chalk ....
 
We have a tide that reverses the falls, a hill (sloped road) surrounded by hills that look to be sloped and are not and we have clean shirts because we put chalk on its side, not face up or down...I have been to ND once. I looked to my right and could see Montana, looked to my left and saw Minnesota. I drove all day looking at a bridge that was an over pass for the I90 in SD.
 
Jason Robichaud said:
We have a tide that reverses the falls, a hill (sloped road) surrounded by hills that look to be sloped and are not and we have clean shirts because we put chalk on its side, not face up or down...I have been to ND once. I looked to my right and could see Montana, looked to my left and saw Minnesota. I drove all day looking at a bridge that was an over pass for the I90 in SD.
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LOL. ND, where you can watch your dog running away for four days.

I have relatives in Fredericton, Oromocto (or maybe it's Queenstown), St. John, as well as many places in NS. And last year I drove by "magnetic hill" at 7:00 am on a cool drizzly morning. So I took an hour, without ever seeing another person, putting my car in neutral facing forwards and backwards at every section of that "hill." I now have a topographical map of the whole area in my head...but then I'm kind of a data guy...

OK the chalk thing is not the biggest issue in the world. And the carom guys are rolling their eyes at us even talking about placing the chalk on the rail. But it seems to me if you put it face up you can just move it out of the way and not lean your shirt into it. While if you put it any other way you'll get chalk particles on the rail such that after a while there's no safe place for your shirt. ...and there's always the blue shirt solution ;-)

BTW I have a cousin who is a ship captain and now does basically valet parking of ships in the St. John harbor. I think he has an unusual knowledge
of the vaqueries of those tides, which I gather can be kinda tough for a "normal" ship captain.
 
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