Would this be a good practice routine?

hang-the-9 said:
First step, if you are trying to learn it all on your own at home, don't. Find some good players or maybe even an instructor and have them check over your stance and alignment. The worst thing I did for my game and what I see others do, is start playing and focus on making balls first before they learn how to stand and deliver the cue properly. Now I miss a ton of shots that are easy to others because my alignment is off and my stroke goes to the right, even though I spent years trying to train myself out of it. Every player I see that is stuck at a low level is there because they don't know how to stand and line up the cue not because they don't know how to aim.n Since it's not too easy to see what you are doing wrong while playing, or see what you may need to change, getting a second person to look over how you play is what you want to do. Then worry about actually making balls and playing position.
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If you really can't break yourself of this, you should retrain yourself opposite hand...the knowledge will still be there, but the muscle memory will be all brand new on that side of your game.
 
Mkindsv said:
If you really can't break yourself of this, you should retrain yourself opposite hand...the knowledge will still be there, but the muscle memory will be all brand new on that side of your game.
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I tried, at least for a bit, it was not pretty. The issue I have is that I can shoot straight better if I adjust a bit from my natural alignment, but then I lost confidence in the shot going in and start to fidget and second guess which also causes a miss or bad position LOL Basically, I if I get down a 1/2 inch more to the right than I would do if not thinking about it, I can shoot better. But even after a while of doing that, I still can't drop down into that stance naturally. Till I can figure that out, I will be stuck at a B+ level. Which not horrible but I feel my knowledge is at a A+ level, I just can't get my damn stroke to match it.

It's not my thread though, but I have seen almost every D and C player that has not improved be at their level due to just bad mechanics. There is a woman on my team in league that has been playing for at least 20 years and she can't shoot a stop shot or use draw properly. I tried to teach her, every time she shoots a cut shot with any type of spin, her cue goes up in the air and to the side 2 feet. Not going to reach past low C level doing that.
 
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Scott Lee said:
Fixed that for you. :thumbup: 95% of pro players have no experience, or no clue, in how to teach a stroke or process.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
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ok, your a master "qualified" instructor....here break this down for me.....if you can't figure out how to get your game to even B player level, why should anyone expect you to be able to do any better for them?
 
Thanks again everyone. The majority response was that if I am missing shots it is more than likely my stroke, and not so much my aiming. Find some good instruction to help with my stroke\fundamentals. Well I am doing just that. I talked to Scott Lee and am looking forward to spending a day with him in about a month from now. Really looking forward to it!
 
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