Teaching Speed Control....

In addition to a few of these other drills, sometimes I play the ghost with a twist. As I progress from one shot to the next, I place a 5" round paper target on the table where I'm trying to put the cue ball. At first it was embarrassing, but after a few sessions I noticed my position play improving. I also got in the zone more frequently while practicing, as opposed to just bangin' balls. Works for me...Tom

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nineballman said:
I was playing a friend the other night and she said she has a lot of difficulty judging the speed of the cue ball. She makes ball consistently and on many shots get the right angle. I told her she needed to practice drills on speed control and really pay attention to where the cue ball goes after each of her shoots. I told her to practice rolling the cue ball off another ball/rails and trying to make it stop on different spots marked by a dollar bill.

She wanted me to teach her speed control, but I told her that was something that I could not do as opposed to aiming.

Any more ideas?
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What I was taught, about 80% of shots only require moderate acceleration. How I guage my own speed, place the CB at either headstring or footstring, cue it let it hit the end of the rail come back hit the rail again and then watch where it lands. My own ideal of moderate is the CB lands between the second and the third last diamonds. Of course not forgetting different tables have different speeds.
 
supergreenman said:
You can teach:
- how to aim
- the effects of different spins
- how to calculate banks
- how to calculate different kicking systems
- how to plan patterns and runouts
- how to play safe

You can not teach speed. This is something that comes with experience.
JMO
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James...This last statement is completely false. I have taught fantastic speed control on ANY table very easily to 1000's of students. You might learn it too, if I make it up to your neck of the woods.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
 
Scott Lee said:
James...This last statement is completely false. I have taught fantastic speed control on ANY table very easily to 1000's of students. You might learn it too, if I make it up to your neck of the woods.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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Tap! Tap! Tap! Thank you for backing up my statement, it is completly possible to teach speed control! I too have taught people (not to 1000's) how to control their speed on the table as well. It's actually fairly simple to do, with a consistent stroke.
Zim
 
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PoolSponge said:
Get the Kim Davenport box set "Target Pool". It has step by step drills designed to show you the goal and help you get there. I used it in the beginning of my learning and now use it with many students. Easy and fun. Each drill shows the proper setup, where the target should be, the path of both intended balls, as well, it shows the cue ball contact point and has a brief explanation about the objective and goal of the drill.

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When i started teaching my grandson, i of short money means used a peace of paper or napkin layed it on table and showed him a cut shoot that the q ball had to travle a route and finish on the paper over and over, it worked he became a above average player at the age of11 yr STICK
 
Here's what I show to beginners once their stroke is decent.

Set up a medium cut shot into a corner pocket as shown; mark the starting positions of the balls exactly. Have the student play position on the 1 ball as shown. Then try for position on the 2 ball as shown (next page of cuetable diagram). Then the 3 ball, etc. Have the student strike the same point on the cue ball each time (slight, natural follow); from the exact same starting position; so that the only difference is the speed of the hit.

Good luck. There are 4 pages to the diagram.

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