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3RAILKICK

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Any opinions as to how much playing or practice time is required to maintain your skill set. If that's not possible-how long before your game falls off noticeably.

Any suggestions to slow this inevitable decline?

Thanks

3railkick
 
I try to do my drills for 15-20 minutes 4-5 days a week. That's not playing but doing my Mother Drills to work on my stroke mechanics, my eye patterns, my speed control and my process. I try to play twice a week if possible.
 
Do you have any drills that you recommend? I'm going to start practicing for about an hour and a half a few days a week after work.. I've been playing some 14.1 starting from a set up break shot, and practicing 9 ball against the ghost but I'd like some structured drills (maybe last 10 to 20 minutes) to start off the session..

Any input would be appreciated..
 
jetlau3 said:
Do you have any drills that you recommend? I'm going to start practicing for about an hour and a half a few days a week after work.. I've been playing some 14.1 starting from a set up break shot, and practicing 9 ball against the ghost but I'd like some structured drills (maybe last 10 to 20 minutes) to start off the session..

Any input would be appreciated..
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one of the best alignment check drills out there is what i call the indian guide. You put the CB 1/1 diamond up and over from the bottom corner, then put the OB right in line with the opposite corner up table about 3/4 of the way to the hole. Shoot the CB into the OB and FOLLOW(SCRATCH) the CB b/h the OB.

Its a very good shot, you can see what your doing wrong when you hit it. If you make the ball and the CB don't go straight then you know your not hiting center. If you miss the shot completely then your probably not in line with the shot are am gaffing the delivery.

I used to get in gear VERY VERY quickly on the snooker table shooting that shot, if i was dropping it consistently I knew for a fact that I was ready to do whatever. For if your not in alignment your just pissing in the wind overall anyways.

This drill will teach you to be consistently aligned right,
Grey GHost
 
3RAILKICK said:
Any opinions as to how much playing or practice time is required to maintain your skill set. If that's not possible-how long before your game falls off noticeably.

Any suggestions to slow this inevitable decline?

Thanks

3railkick
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Every thing is based on how well are your Mechanics?????

Players with poor Mechanics have to keep them well honed all the time.
Players with great Mechanics may not play for long periods of time and are in stroke all the time.

Pool School will teach you a set of drills called....Mother Drills.
They keep me alive....SPF=randyg
 
I agree, if you have put time into your mechanics and stroke, you can go for stretches without practice and still maintain a fair amount of skill. Scott Lee gave me a lesson last month and other than grip pressure, he couldn't find anything wrong with my mechanics. I havent practiced for over six months before I saw Scott. I have only played in tournies and gambled, no practice. So, for him to only find one flaw boosted my confidence and helped explain why I was able to still be competitive in tournaments without practice. I have practiced my stance, grip, stroke, and bridge excesively in the past. It apparently shows.
 
Randy is correct (as usual)!
Devote your practice time to just the fundamentals. These are the things that you must do properly on every shot you shoot. That's what the Mother Drills are all about.

If you develop and maintain your fundamentals, the rest of the game isn't going to go away. 15 minutes of perfect practice is better for your game than 3 hours of playing rack after rack.

Steve
 
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Just for example: if i do a warm-up for myself i do always the same drills/patterns/strokes. Just 2-3 minutes easy straight in follow-shots, then some minutes draw shots from same position- same then with stop-shots. After this an easy (seems :p , my favourite for *big mouths*) *endless-drill* for 5 minutes.
This i used to do before every league match or even so before i goint to play a training match. With easy drills you can a good warm-up- good for your muscles, to get into alignment, feel confidence-and because there are usualy no *difficult* shots the greatest advantage (next to , that you ve stretched a bit your muscles etc) is a positive mind.

Same patterns i described above i even so give to other players/students-then with a higher workload/pensum. After these *easy* drills (i let them play em 30-45 minutes) they all increased their average balls per inning on equal-offense!


lg and have fun while practising- without fun it won t work :)

Ingo
 
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