Take a Home Lesson From your Favorite Pro Player

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Items needed:
Home table
Laptop or portable media player
Accustats DVD of your favorite player and commentators
Little sticky white donut paper hole reinforcers

1. Watch a 9-ball Accustats match of your favorite player.
2. Note which games are break and runs.
3. Wait a few days and then forward to the first break and run game.
4. Freeze the screen immediately after the break.
5. Mark paper hole reinforcers from one to nine and place them on your table exactly like the layout in the game. Mark cue ball location too.
6. Try to run out. When you miss, set the balls back on the marked hole reinforcers and start over. Do this until you
can run the rack. You will become very familiar with the layout and position options after a few tries or a few days.
7. After you can run the rack, play back the video of the match and watch how your favorite pro chose to run the rack. Listen to the commentators.
8. What did they do different than you. This is the lesson.
9. Play the rack the way they did and compare.
 
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I like it! Didn't do exactly that but did learn from watching the accu stats and then running over to the table to try similar shots.
 
Neil said:
I'll agree that this does have some merit to it. However, don't take it as gospel that just because a pro shot a shot a certain way, that it was the necessarily the right way to shoot it. Sometimes, the pros make the "wrong" choice. Meaning, they feel good about it with the way they shoot, but, the majority of pros might choose a different way.
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I agree. But luckily, the Accustats commentators are critiquing and they are also part of the lesson. Make sure you pick a match with good commentators.
 
Yep. Completely agree with Neil...not that I'm a teacher...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! ;)

Seriously though...I really enjoy seeing the layout of a table and playing it out in my mind...then watching someone else play it out (a "better" shooter)...sometimes it's the same...sometimes they saw something I just couldn't (or didn't)...it's a great way to see how many "options" are/were available! Anytime you can tuck something away for "next time" you've learned!!!

p.s. It doesn't have to be Accustats...it could be any number of available vids of the pros playing (youtube for example)...

Neil said:
I'll agree that this does have some merit to it. However, don't take it as gospel that just because a pro shot a shot a certain way, that it was the necessarily the right way to shoot it. Sometimes, the pros make the "wrong" choice. Meaning, they feel good about it with the way they shoot, but, the majority of pros might choose a different way.
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Oh,

you posted it twice here- just copied it from the other section :)

Many could do this if they would want to. Thx to the internet. I m sure many guys here know a lot of very knowledged good players or ppl who has the knowledge to say *how to play*.

Straight-Pool is here a good example JMW. I know straight-pool-champs who are giving lessons on straight-pool like this:
they play *double*. Each shot the other guy has to play- The pro would immediatly interact if you would play a shot, what would be not a good choice- with "why not and how would be better".

If it s about patterns, strategy and tactics this is in my opinion a very good way of teaching this game (if not the best imo). To make notes beside and to video it would be *your turn* of course.

In 8-ball it has to do extemly much with strategy and expierience. here you have a much wider leeway for *what is right and what is wrong*.
But in rotation-games you have more often the chance to say what is wrong and what is right in my opinion.
To learn *how to not misjudge* a situation is a one of the most important points you have to learn in each discipline. You have to really understand why some ways would be the better choice-perhaps being the only right choice to play.

pool is a game of judging your chances in percentages. Those from time to time upcoming "crazy 1 % winnershots" some guys make once in a week often force them to choose this shot again in later games-just because they re not really able to judge or rate themselve in this situation. Overrating themselves is their biggest enemy in pool
Too decide to just runout or just to stay out controlled is important to learn-and it s hard :-)

so your idea is for sure good. and easy to follow it for the most people. you just have to really do it and want it.

lg

Ingo, hoping that it was readable enough to understand
 
Thanks; sometimes blinding shot of the obvious is needed. I have all those resources available but have yet to do this; until tonight ! thanks
 
Neil said:
I'll agree that this does have some merit to it. However, don't take it as gospel that just because a pro shot a shot a certain way, that it was the necessarily the right way to shoot it. Sometimes, the pros make the "wrong" choice. Meaning, they feel good about it with the way they shoot, but, the majority of pros might choose a different way.
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My pool "fantasy" is to give, say the top 10 pros, the same table layouts and see how they would run. In 9 ball you might see minimal variation, but certainly more variation in 8 ball.
 
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