I'm playing a lot better because of 4-5 hours a day practicing, reading two basic books, and listened to a lot of you here on AZ. Thank you all that help. Too many names to mention here, but I can tell you they weren't all old schoolers that helped. There were plenty of young players that have only been playing a few years themselves.
These were some of the things I was doing wrong, Stance (standing too square, Not following through, poking the QB, shooting way too hard, too much English, not walking around the table looking at angles and position, and pulling the trigger before I was really set and sure I was going to hit QB and object ball where I needed to. Probably I had a lot of these bad habits for years, but I was a lot younger then and could get away with some of it. I'm sure starting with the basics is the reason it took so long to get almost back to where I was, but I feel I might get to be better than I ever was down the road because of it.
I know 7-foot tables are easy, but mine is out in the weather in a screened room in Tampa Florida. Conditions change with the cold, heat, and humidity, some times by the hour. Anyhow, I've got to the point that I beat the 9-ball ghost 3 to 5 sets in 10. On a good weather-wise day now I run four or five 35 to 45 ball runs. Not many play 14.1 anymore but it has always been my favorite on a big table. My best money game was 8-ball on a bar table. Tied with 14.1 is three cushion. I really played a lot of that from 1960's to the mid 1980's. I hate 9-ball but kind of getting to like 10-ball, and 15-ball rotation I cut my teeth on rotation. I really whish the pros played it.
I couldn't be happier with the way my game is progressing and my health. I took down and put up four new sections of barricade fence the other day and never even breathed hard. Holy **t, sorry for the long post. Johnnyt
These were some of the things I was doing wrong, Stance (standing too square, Not following through, poking the QB, shooting way too hard, too much English, not walking around the table looking at angles and position, and pulling the trigger before I was really set and sure I was going to hit QB and object ball where I needed to. Probably I had a lot of these bad habits for years, but I was a lot younger then and could get away with some of it. I'm sure starting with the basics is the reason it took so long to get almost back to where I was, but I feel I might get to be better than I ever was down the road because of it.
I know 7-foot tables are easy, but mine is out in the weather in a screened room in Tampa Florida. Conditions change with the cold, heat, and humidity, some times by the hour. Anyhow, I've got to the point that I beat the 9-ball ghost 3 to 5 sets in 10. On a good weather-wise day now I run four or five 35 to 45 ball runs. Not many play 14.1 anymore but it has always been my favorite on a big table. My best money game was 8-ball on a bar table. Tied with 14.1 is three cushion. I really played a lot of that from 1960's to the mid 1980's. I hate 9-ball but kind of getting to like 10-ball, and 15-ball rotation I cut my teeth on rotation. I really whish the pros played it.
I couldn't be happier with the way my game is progressing and my health. I took down and put up four new sections of barricade fence the other day and never even breathed hard. Holy **t, sorry for the long post. Johnnyt
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