So I'm taking a "break" from pool...

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mrpool06

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this week was our bye week in our BCA pool league. I decided to take 1 1/2 weeks off.....no practicing, playing, or thinking about pool (impossible, thats why I'm here now). After months of serious practicing & competition in league/tournaments, I thought it'd be good to refresh myself by taking a little time away from the game.

Will probably hit the pool halls on Monday & start practicing again though.

Anyone else think that taking breaks from pool is a good thing for your game?
 
Breaks are good

I always try to take a break during the short "off season" at the end of the year in December & January. Alot of times I still go up to the pool room just to hang out with my friends, but I try to avoid playing. This helps me from getting burned out during the spring season when I have tournaments every other weekend leading up to Vegas in May.

Alot of times after the break I come back playing stronger because I have the drive to play again after limiting myself for a few weeks or more.
 
If you feel like you need a break, then it's a good idea. It's not like 1 1/2 weeks is really that long, except for obsessed pool players!
 
Firecracker said:
I always try to take a break during the short "off season" at the end of the year in December & January. Alot of times I still go up to the pool room just to hang out with my friends, but I try to avoid playing. This helps me from getting burned out during the spring season when I have tournaments every other weekend leading up to Vegas in May.

Alot of times after the break I come back playing stronger because I have the drive to play again after limiting myself for a few weeks or more.
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Agreed, 100% :)
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I just can't do it..... Too much to learn and accomplish, and I'm not getting any younger....
I'll take a break when I'm DEAD

Whoa....I might be just a little obsessed with this....

McCue Banger McCue
 
DelaWho??? said:
I just can't do it..... Too much to learn and accomplish, and I'm not getting any younger....
I'll take a break when I'm DEAD

Whoa....I might be just a little obsessed with this....

McCue Banger McCue
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After 35 years of playing, I've always been one of those who seemed to need to play more than most to sty in stroke. Once in a while though,I needed to get totally away for just a while. I could take maybe a week off and the first day back, everything was foreign for a couple of hous and then I was back in the swing of it.

I was traveling a lot with Danny Medina back in the 80's and he had some personal business which kept him out of the pool hall for about 30 days.

Th Reds Tournament in Houston was coming up and he called me and said he needed to come over a practice some. We practiced a lot with me getting the 8 for like $50 sets and at this point, I owed him like $450 over a hears period. My thought, was that since he was so rusty, I could trim the debt a little.

Well, he showed up and I won the first three sets pretty easily as he was just out of Whack and not getting out. In the fourth set I was up like 7-2 and out of nowhere, he put a 7-pack on me. I was absolutely furious. How in the hell could anyone take that amount of time off and put a 7-pack on someone?

Some are just naturals, while others {like me} always struggle. Life ain't always fair!!!
 
There's never been an "off season" for me. I've never played in apa and don't plan to. One of the best players where I played in NY told me that he takes a week off if he's not playing well and it helps a lot. Sometimes, when I haven't played for several days, it seems like everything falls into place when I start again.
 
back when first started i couldn't make it to the pool hall during the week so i'd only be able to gon on weekends. i think that helped a lot. i ran my first rack after i took my first week off
 
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