What's the best advice you've ever gotten...
- Thread starter Bob Callahan
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Focus on the game your playing and pay little or no attention to anything that will distract you from doing so. When not shooting sit quietly and relax your body and mind, do not sit with a death grip on your cue, or with clenched teeth. If you do, when you return to the table you will bring this tension with you, and it will effect the fluid movement of your stroke. While waiting to shoot focus on your opponents game, and find their flaws and weakness, I don't care who we are talking about everyone has some weakness or some flaw with their game or they would never miss. While you are doing this clear your mind of negative thoughts and relax every muscle in your body, everyone has fear and everyone experiences situations that put them under pressure but how you use this energy makes all the difference.
Pressure can make you a winner or a loser it all depends whether it controls you or how you use it. Pressure can be used for strength as well as weakness, ever hear some one say fear is the mind killer well fear and pressure both can have that effect if they are left uncontrolled. However, if they are kept in check and controlled they can also keep you alert, and focused.
It all comes down to how you channel the energy, and this is done while you are quietly waiting for your next shot, this is how you prepare before you come to the table.
JIMO
Keep your head down!
"Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."___golfing great, Walter Hagen 1910
You're only here for a short visit.
So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."___golfing great, Walter Hagen 1910
Go take Stan Shuffett's course. It was Steve Lomax who told me to do so and I will be forever grateful.
Perfect advice Randy! :thumbup:
My sig about covers it. On the other end of the spectrum only those who truly want to rise to the top will rise to the top.
Eh, what did he know? ...he rarely took a hard shot
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Take 2 weeks off then quit....
Seriously though. Best advice I ever read was in a Billiards Digest article on Stevie Moore. Stevie said something like, if its not easy, then don't do it. Sure if you make that hard shot your are the champion, but if you miss it, then you lose.
So yeah, that and like Randy said. Practice how you want to play. Doing that and you will play like you practice.
Seriously though. Best advice I ever read was in a Billiards Digest article on Stevie Moore. Stevie said something like, if its not easy, then don't do it. Sure if you make that hard shot your are the champion, but if you miss it, then you lose.
So yeah, that and like Randy said. Practice how you want to play. Doing that and you will play like you practice.
"Don't worry about the hard-shots, we all miss them every now and then! If you make sure you don't miss on the easy shots, you will win!"
So true
So true
Advice
Never give up.
Never give up.