used by the players from yesteryear? I only ask this because it seems that everytime I read about the old players from the 1920-1980s, noone really says that they sat and practiced a certain drill or another.
What were some popular drills
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Drill 1: Coke bottle stroke test
Drill 2: Bet high!
Drill 2: Bet high!
I submit your question would be more appropriately worded...."What are some popular drills?".
If & when any drill is indeed meritorious, then that drill's significance still applies & likely used today.
Say what you will about the greats of yesteryear but a lot of the records set by those guys are yet
to be matched by any contemporaneous players. So any drills the old timers used are ones I want.
I have a few primary drills I was shown back in the 60's and 70's that I've embraced and there's a few
players in my town that have adopted them. One fellow in particular has soared to the forefront of our
local pool scene as one of the strongest, most dominant players in Fresno and get this. Mark only has
vision in one eye but he's become a monster player & religiously does drills when he's not competing.
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DeWalt, Makita, Milwaukee, Black & Decker, Porter Cable, ........ Just to name a few..... lol...Half table straight in shots with center high to make cue ball follow object ball into pocket... It teaches you to hit dead center from left to right and high....
Doesn't matter.
Each players should come up with drills based on their own weaknesses.
Surely the "players from yesteryear" did this too.
Been going on for decades.
There's no one or two or a dozen drills that are the secret to "getting you there".
Here is Mosconi showing a few drills. At the 5:40 mark:
https://youtu.be/wvXkhdINjS4
Putting 6-8 balls in a semi circle near a side pocket and drawing back to get shape on each was a classic. I've seen it referenced a few times as one of the old drills.
https://youtu.be/wvXkhdINjS4
Putting 6-8 balls in a semi circle near a side pocket and drawing back to get shape on each was a classic. I've seen it referenced a few times as one of the old drills.
That or a straight line of balls and shooting them all in the same side pocket going
down the line. Apart from that, and any shot giving you trouble.... it was just straight
pool for practice... the game that teaches you almost everything you need to know, and shows you every weakness you may have.
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The L drill and Mosconi's draw drill are the first I remember seeing. They were current in the 1960s. Unfortunately there were few pool instruction books before then, with Mosconi's red book being the first in 1948. You can get a copy of that book delivered to your house for about $5 or you might find it in a used book store for less.
I think it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that multiple pool books had drills.
The "drill" or method Greenleaf learned from his father... start with just the cue ball, then add a ball at a time every few months....