Techniques for helping a player stay down on the shot

[chin0]

how about if they don't stay down, hit them with a whip on the behind. I heard that this was banned? lol jk

 

[SJDinPHX]

Since many of us have a tendency to "come up" on some of our shots, usually the most important ones, how about compiling a list of techniques for helping a player stay down as they pull the trigger on a shot? I'll start off with a few I have run across.

1) Nick Varner said it helps you to stay down if you always try to watch the cue ball hit the object ball. A more extreme version is to try to stay down and still until you see the object ball go into the pocket. Just remind yourself, as part of your pre-shot routine, to watch the cue ball hit the object ball.

2) Incorporate into your pre-shot routine the thought, as you drop down on the shot, the sage advice of Jay Helfert, "Be still."

3) My friend Billy Carrelli offered two solutions. He said when he worked on this problem within himself, he would imagine that he was playing in a room with a very low ceiling, just a couple of inches above his head when he was down on a shot.

3a) Billy other suggestion was to have a friend with a ping pong paddle stand near you as you shoot and whack you on the head real hard if you raised up on the shot. He predicted it would take only a couple of whacks to cure the problem.

4) Put a 40 pound weight on the floor between your legs. Tie one end of a piece of twine to the weight and loop the other end around your scrotal sac. Just be sure there is no slack in the twine as you are down on the shot.

5) A poster here on AZ (Colin Colenso?) suggested that a player who raises up on his shot did really drop down on the shot with the INTENTION of staying down through the shot. I have noticed that when I am nervous about a shot, I can just feel, as I drop down to the table, that my body is preparing to "bail out" and come up rather than stay down. So it might help for you to think, as you move down to the table for the shot, "I am settling in and staying down on this one."

6) Add your suggestions here.

Bill,

Slight adjustment to rule #4...... Lee Trevino's method for keeping your head down was as follows;

A. Put a sweatband around your head.

B. Attach a 20# fish line, (with a large size barbed hook on the other end,) to the head band.

C. After you take your stance, remove all slack and insert insert the fish hook into your shorts immediately next to your scrotal sac.

D. You WILL only raise up one time.

Dick

Sorry Trigger, this only works with men. (I think)

 

[chefjeff]

Bill,

Slight adjustment to rule #4...... Lee Trevino's method for keeping your head down was as follows;

A. Put a sweatband around your head.

B. Attach a 20# fish line, (with a large size barbed hook on the other end,) to the head band.

C. After you take your stance, remove all slack and insert insert the fish hook into your shorts immediately next to your scrotal sac.

D. You WILL only raise up one time.

Dick

Sorry Trigger, this only works with men. (I think)

When did Trevino say this?

Do you have a link?

Thanks,

Jeff Livingston

 

[akaTrigger]

This is perfect. I was just explaining to my teen daughter that she needs to establish some goals and they must be written down or they have no power. You not only wrote it down but published it for the world to see, which makes you accountable.

I saved your site to show her I'm not the only one who writes down my goals.

I am glad to you share these things with her. It took me many years and many books to figure this out.

I enjoyed the book Dare to Win - which talks about, among a lot of things, goal setting and exactly what you state above.

As for my blog and goals, if you get a chance, point her to this entry which complements your comments:

http://pooljourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/pool-goal-for-2008.html

P.S. Thanks for the vid links!

 

[akaTrigger]

Bill,

Slight adjustment to rule #4...... Lee Trevino's method for keeping your head down was as follows;

A. Put a sweatband around your head.

B. Attach a 20# fish line, (with a large size barbed hook on the other end,) to the head band.

C. After you take your stance, remove all slack and insert insert the fish hook into your shorts immediately next to your scrotal sac.

D. You WILL only raise up one time.

Dick

Sorry Trigger, this only works with men. (I think)

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