Friend just sent this worth watching if your brave.
Truth about winning
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PracticeChampion
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You hear it often, especially in pro golf. You have to learn how to win! Getting to the final table might come easy but learning how to win mentally is as tough as it gets when the crowd is watching just you
Well I think that it has become common knowledge now after all the available books, and Internet forums that winning at sports is always an external goal that should reside outside of each individual performer's goal of executing each pool stroke, golf swing, tennis swing, etc. ,etc. as close to perfection as possible.
Thinking of winning during competition, " battling" the competition, etc. do nothing but create emotions that will hinder the ability to focus at the point of execution on that which results in success. Winning is outside of control, playing your best on every shot is all that you can control- the rest is left to whatever the resulting outcome ends up to be at that time.
Control your thoughts and you control your emotions, control your emotions and you control your actions, control your actions and you control your own outcome - where that outcome results in the realm of a competitive event is beyond anyone's control - the competitors that approach the game this way consistently are usually the winners. This is what being mentally strong is really all about- and it is not easy to do at all.
The "greats" in sports usually live in a place most competitors cannot reach mentally. It truly is what separates them beyond skill levels and so- called " natural talent". They can separate the emotion of a given moment from their actual performance skills and allow themselves to " just do it" with the best of their ability over and over again.
Thinking of winning during competition, " battling" the competition, etc. do nothing but create emotions that will hinder the ability to focus at the point of execution on that which results in success. Winning is outside of control, playing your best on every shot is all that you can control- the rest is left to whatever the resulting outcome ends up to be at that time.
Control your thoughts and you control your emotions, control your emotions and you control your actions, control your actions and you control your own outcome - where that outcome results in the realm of a competitive event is beyond anyone's control - the competitors that approach the game this way consistently are usually the winners. This is what being mentally strong is really all about- and it is not easy to do at all.
The "greats" in sports usually live in a place most competitors cannot reach mentally. It truly is what separates them beyond skill levels and so- called " natural talent". They can separate the emotion of a given moment from their actual performance skills and allow themselves to " just do it" with the best of their ability over and over again.
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In his book Pleasures of Small Motions, Bob Fancher calls that focusing on the process rather than the outcome.
Words of wisdom.
pj
chgo
Its simple. You just gotta get the rolls.
If you want to win a tournament, you need to get lucky such that you get the rolls until the end of the final. Btw having the rolls go along ways of your opponent not getting any. So even if you're playing horrible, if your opponents keep getting unlucky or bad rolls either by layout or break or both, then its your time to win.
Very very simple, it is sad but the truth that nobody wants to admit.
If you want to win a tournament, you need to get lucky such that you get the rolls until the end of the final. Btw having the rolls go along ways of your opponent not getting any. So even if you're playing horrible, if your opponents keep getting unlucky or bad rolls either by layout or break or both, then its your time to win.
Very very simple, it is sad but the truth that nobody wants to admit.
tomatoshooter
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I can hear that in his voice.
tomatoshooter
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I've been doing better on the table lately. It seems like I'm not playing much better but I'm getting a lot more good rolls and a lot less bad rolls. The more I practice, the better the rolls are.
That’s why I don’t count other peoples moneyFriend just sent this worth watching if your brave.
Good post cowboy
dquarasr
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People have misinterpreted my reactions during competition. When I was into bowling, and more recently with pool, people have told me I am a sore loser and I’m very competitive. They misunderstood me.
I don’t care if I win or lose. I DO care if I play poorly. If I perform well and lose, I am happy. If I perform poorly and win, I’m dubious. If I perform poorly and lose, I’m disappointed but not because I lost, but because I performed poorly.
I am seriously taking @Tin Man’s recent post re: best v worst performance scatter and trying to adjust my reaction to poor performance as just inevitable reality.
I don’t care if I win or lose. I DO care if I play poorly. If I perform well and lose, I am happy. If I perform poorly and win, I’m dubious. If I perform poorly and lose, I’m disappointed but not because I lost, but because I performed poorly.
I am seriously taking @Tin Man’s recent post re: best v worst performance scatter and trying to adjust my reaction to poor performance as just inevitable reality.
In my experience, the better players always seem to get luckier than I do…
I once was told by a very smart pool person that dogging it was the fear of winning.
Scared to win he said.
Scared to win he said.
I’ve heard that before as well
Did you know Tony Cattuci?
Yes, but not well.
Good book. I discovered this fundamental truth when I was young and competed in another game. Later, I applied it to pool, it's the only way to have success.
I hung out in his pool room in Toms River,N.J. for a number of years.
Tony was a very tough but fair guy,some liked him others not so much.
He always treated me well so I was in the I like him camp.
He had a large collection of Szambotis and was friends with Gus.
Sadly he passed a number of years ago.
Being aggressive and ultra competitive is the way to go, in order to have success. A strong person can modify his behavior and be nice, and humble at the same time. A weak person cannot fake being strong.