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MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO POOL

This is how most good players come up. They get around great players and then just copy everything they see them doing. Soon they are playing just like them. One day they are playing world class pool. They have no clue how they are doing it, nor can they teach you, but that does not matter. The only thing that matters, is they can do it.

Some posters on the net had these observations about pool on TV.
Just pretending to be one of the pro players on TV seems to make a noticeable
difference in my game. Imitating their slow deliberate backstrokes, their
pause and follow-through is one aspect. But beyond that, I try to adopt
their composure, and their quiet and focused faces. Anyway, it seems to
help a lot but like everything else can fade in time.



Watching good players live at a tournament does this too. I don't
think it is necessarily a matter of "pretending" or "imitating"
them, you just get a different perspective on what is achievable and
you raise the bar for your own expectations accordingly. One reason
the pros play as well as they do is that they are in that
environment day after day. They copy each other and soon most of them begin to play with
The same rhythm.





Always suggest people striving to improve pick a good pro player as
a model and then study and emulate them. There is a lot of evidence
for what you suggest also. Such as smiling when you don't feel like
it can create feelings of happiness.
Anyway, I agree 100%. I've also experienced some great, play
for me after watching a pro (like Efren!) closely and attempting to
emulate them. Its real good stuff.
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The posters are right, it does work, and it does fade away fast. You have to be watching top pros play several times a week to retain that image of how they do it. Or it will go away and you will begin to copy and play like the bums on your block. You cannot depend on pool on TV. It’s hit and miss and many of the Women’s matches are pool and slow. They are too mechanical for me.

So get on the net and find accustats and bring in a collection of match play tapes on your game by the pros you would like to copy and be like. You need to attend every semi pro tourney and big time events anywhere close to you. Spend days, just watching these guys play. Pick up what they do. Study their patterns and how they play shots. Just watching and absorbing their rhythms can turn you into a better player.

In golf all the pros including the young kid at the time, Tom Watson loved to play with Sam Sneed. They all said they played better the next day because the absorbed his timing and fluidity. Yes, you can watch your way to better play. It is true.

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