[Pin]

A few people have noticed that quite often I get down on a shot, get up again and re-set, get down and miss it.

I believe in the advice that when you get down and it feels wrong, you should get up and start over.

However, it seems that when I start over I'm not doing very well.


I think I have two possible approaches:

1) Try to change things so that I more consistently get down feeling right (so I have to get up and reset less often).

2) Cultivate the ability, after I've gotten up, to re-set myself better and complete the shot successfully.


I don't know much about the problem or the solution though.


Does anyone have experience with this kind of problem?

What kind of solutions can you suggest?

[Pelican]

Pin, on May 18 2009, 06:18 PM, said:

A few people have noticed that quite often I get down on a shot, get up again and re-set, get down and miss it.

I believe in the advice that when you get down and it feels wrong, you should get up and start over.

However, it seems that when I start over I'm not doing very well.


I think I have two possible approaches:

1) Try to change things so that I more consistently get down feeling right (so I have to get up and reset less often).

2) Cultivate the ability, after I've gotten up, to re-set myself better and complete the shot successfully.


I don't know much about the problem or the solution though.


Does anyone have experience with this kind of problem?

What kind of solutions can you suggest?

Pin, I think I do better if I want to reset by not just getting up and right back down. I step away from the table, chalk a bit, maybe walk to the other side of the shot and look at it from a different angle.

I think it is better to get back down with a clearer understanding of what you want to do and basically be starting fresh.

The only thing I refuse to do this on is bank/kick shots. I prefer to shot banks and kicks by instinct and the more I study the less likely I am to make the shot. See it - shoot it!

JMHO, Later, Pel

[headmuses]

Pin, on May 19 2009, 12:18 AM, said:

A few people have noticed that quite often I get down on a shot, get up again and re-set, get down and miss it.

I believe in the advice that when you get down and it feels wrong, you should get up and start over.

However, it seems that when I start over I'm not doing very well.


I think I have two possible approaches:

1) Try to change things so that I more consistently get down feeling right (so I have to get up and reset less often).

2) Cultivate the ability, after I've gotten up, to re-set myself better and complete the shot successfully.


I don't know much about the problem or the solution though.


Does anyone have experience with this kind of problem?

What kind of solutions can you suggest?

Well there are numerous reasons one would get up from a shot, not feeling balanced, distractions from the room, anything that might make you feel uncomfortable or uncertain about the shot. The variations and reasons are endless. I think your two approaches are correct, also perhaps remember what your thoughts were before you initially got down for the shot might reasure your mind. I think Fast Larry would say, we mostly overthink our games, I know at times I do, and that is where I start to mess up.

Cheers

Headmuses

[MitchAlsup]

I tend to agree with pelican. Start over at teh consideration of what shot to take, then go through you normal routine.

[Pin]

Thanks guys.

I'm going to give Pel's method a go, taking a longer walk. I suspect this is going to rile one of the guys I play with at the weekend. He's of the view that getting up at all is the problem. But if I start making the shots I think I'll win him over.