Why'd ja' miss?
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Shit ran up my neck and i straight-up dogged it. My aim was perfect btw.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I didn't fall into place in my stance. If your stance is off, you're not cueing where you want to. When your personal stance is perfect, you can shoot with your eyes closed. Even without a PSR or paying attention to stance, if you make the shot, your stance was correct. You have to aim while standing or your stance will not be correct. How can your stance be correct for THE shot if you didn't have the right aim point? If you're stance is off, when you get down, you will have to really eyeball the shot and adjust while down. You'll feel like you're cross eyed. Take your aim standing and set your intention. Do it. If it feels off, get back up because you've started second guessing your intention, or something feels off, aka you're not in the proper stance for the aim you need.
Take your aim while up and the stance happens naturally. If it doesn't feel right, it's not. You might be able to force it, but I'd wager when you miss, you had a confused cross eyed feeling and you either questioned the shot or where your CB will end up.
All aiming systems, PSR, etc are an attempt to make all shots play the same. They are a great idea, but even without them, you feel when the shot is going. If it's not feeling 100% in, you have problems. Might be mechanics, but it's probably that you fell into the wrong stance, be it from a bad aim, loss of focus/concentration
Geosnookery
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As a geophysicist I’m confident that I calculated all the variables of mass and energy... accounting for both quantum mechanics and General relativity.
So I missed either because the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or a speck of chalk on the table. I’m equally confident that I can always find an excuse that is outside of just a bonehead mistake.
So I missed either because the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or a speck of chalk on the table. I’m equally confident that I can always find an excuse that is outside of just a bonehead mistake.
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I don't personally find that "stance" is all that important for me, at least maybe not any more. After all, you need to be able to pocket balls leaning over the table in some situations. For me, having the torso turned properly and the upper part of the body in the right place is more important. Don't get me wrong, though, I do pay attention to how I set up for a shot starting with my feet. I'll do it the same way each time assuming I don't need to reach over the table. It's just that things should look a certain way and feel a certain way when I am getting ready to shoot and the position of my feet aren't all that important in that equation.
Yes, we saw video evidence that you are an expert at that in your match with that Pinoy gent!
Geosnookery
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I know it’s heresy but I agree. I’m often reaching on a Snooker table and my potting percentage isn’t any different. As long as I’m ‘stable’, I’m fine.
In fact, when ‘reaching’ as far as I can for a shot straight ahead, I sometimes amaze myself by my accuracy. I can’t put my finger on it. Over the years
I’ve wondered if there aren’t alternate ways of shooting: the way the Fosbury flop took over from the Western roll in high jump.
Damn, that's funny! And quite often true.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
It sounds like your stance works. Any stance that delivers the results is a good stance even if it doesn't look textbook. This will probably get flack, but I pay zero attention to my feet, and I could give a damn less if my stance looks like the classic pool stance. If the stance is right, the feet are right. I know they are right because they feel right. Solid, steady and balanced. I don't shoot with my feet, though they do fall into the correct place when everything feels right. If it doesn't feel right (including feet) I get back up and go down on the shot again. If you don't feel comfortable and "right" there's no use being lazy and forcing a shot while down. Get back up and do it again and you will be rewarded.
I'm not saying this is the correct way, I still have a lot to learn and incorporate into my game. Good fundamentals and practicing stance is 100% important. The better your fundamentals, the easier pool is to learn and perform. Someday when I'm at my next plateau I'll go back to stance work, but for now, it's not the bottleneck. I know when I take some time to re-evaluate the decent fundamentals I have now, I will be rewarded with better fundamentals.
There's a plethora of different shots that require a different stance. The trick is, they should all feel right, even if they aren't "normal." Our bodies/subconscious (or however you want to word it) know when we're about to shoot badly. The key is to get up and do it again til it feels better. Forcing it even with that "something's off feeling" is a bad and usually rewards you with just what you thought it would, a miss. The trouble is, there are shots we haven't shot much and weird situations that require us to modify our stance. It's tough to do on the fly, but sometimes you just have to. If you're in a game and the opponent only left you an "oddball" shot, he's not going to let you go try the shot on the practice table 10 times. You just have to do it and observe the result. Take a mental note of the shot and it should be worked into your next practice session. It's too bad we didn't already have the shot perfected, but that's the nature of the game.
The DOD is on Project Booblook II because of this rising presence.Unexplainable phenomena cuz there is no way in hell it's my fault.
This is true, and anything 'bad' can end up being 'good for you' given enough time. I don't pay attention to my feet either, but do adhere to the back leg straight. Why not the feet...?..., because I spend decades instilling the good habits so now they naturally fall where they need to be. Why the purposeful straight back leg...?..., endurance. When I see players who squat when they play, I know I can outlast them physically. I don't get tired during long sessions. I credit the traditional snooker stance for this. Let the straight leg take the weight and lay whatever I can on the table when applicable. <--This helps unload the shoulder.