Would love to take credit for it but it was first published by the International Billiards Society back in March of this year. By the way, I love the way you play. Landon is becoming quite the player. I watched you back in the day when I lived just over the river in Ohio. Came down to Campbellsville once with James Roland and some of that clan.
Trouble with consistency
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Would love to take credit for it but it was first published by the International Billiards Society back in March of this year. By the way, I love the way you play. Landon is becoming quite the player. I watched you back in the day when I lived just over the river in Ohio. Came down to Campbellsville once with James Roland and some of that clan.
1) Throw those Fargo ratings out, they look wildly inaccurate. Likely not enough data for an accurate rating.
2) It's preference if you want to choose an instructor based on their playing ability, personally I choose an instructor based on their knowledge and instructing ability. In almost every pro sport there are examples of coaches who never played that well but are terrific coaches - two different skills sets that CAN overlap, but don't have to.
3) This (from boogeyman's post). This will change your whole game for the better and take out a lot of the "inconsistency"...
- Work on the fundamentals--
that means play with no English and learn how to make balls and what the cue ball does naturally.
- (If you don't already have one, create) or improve on your pre-shot routine.
You can always make THAT consistent-- great start.
The goal is for that pre-shot routine consistency to "feed into" your actual game.
THIS ONE IS HUGE. REMEMBER IT. USE IT.
- Plan and execute shorter and more serious practice sessions.
You play too long and you stand to get into bad habits.
2) It's preference if you want to choose an instructor based on their playing ability, personally I choose an instructor based on their knowledge and instructing ability. In almost every pro sport there are examples of coaches who never played that well but are terrific coaches - two different skills sets that CAN overlap, but don't have to.
3) This (from boogeyman's post). This will change your whole game for the better and take out a lot of the "inconsistency"...
- Work on the fundamentals--
that means play with no English and learn how to make balls and what the cue ball does naturally.
- (If you don't already have one, create) or improve on your pre-shot routine.
You can always make THAT consistent-- great start.
The goal is for that pre-shot routine consistency to "feed into" your actual game.
THIS ONE IS HUGE. REMEMBER IT. USE IT.
- Plan and execute shorter and more serious practice sessions.
You play too long and you stand to get into bad habits.
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