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Pool's Ultimate drill

Forget the 14.1 break, just rack up 15, bust them, and it does not matter of the CB hits a rail on the break, but now, you must run 15 and out, without the cue ball touching a rail. 9 or 10, no problem, but those last 3 or 4, are a bitch unless you pulled a perfect spread. When you miss, just reset it and keep shooting it until you do it right. Some balls almost on the rail, you make with a draw off of the ball into a bank shot. You will learn to innovate and become really creative.

When the rack is then hopeless, 2 or 3 are on rails, rerack and do it again.

This is the drill that made Jim Rempe number 1 in the world.

This is, the drill. Every drill is different, it makes you think and play 3 shots ahead.

When you begin it, you will hate it. It will kick your ass and make you look awful. Do it where nobody can see how back you suck dude. It is a giant reality check, to finally find out, how fookin bad you really are, how little control over the ball you have, and where you would like to go with this and what you would like to become.

I don't care if your high run at this is 4 or 5, keep doing it and make your goal, 6, then 7, do not give up on it. Even failing like a dog at this, you keep getting better and better.

My high run is 45 balls on tape. I can prove this. I put it up once, and there were so many shots that could not be seen clearly because of the bad filming, people were calling me a liar, i faked this, I did not make that one, shit like that, so I took it down, fook em.

I had 4 or 5 fifteen and outs up at one time. This was never the best run, but I left it up, because nobody on it, can say, I did not run 15 and out. Some did, but fook em. A blind man can see this 15 ball run is true.

So one day, you will too, and when you do, and only when you do, then, you are a player. Until you do, you, are just a ball banger.

Because you cannot use the rails, you have to get dead perfect on each ball with the proper line to slide to the next one. Get 1" too far, and you are triple fooked.

If you study my run you will see I kept getting off on a lot of shots. People were saying I was missing the pockets, and the pockets were giant buckets. BS, they were pro cut 4 3/4", and I was on new 860 simonis which was not in my favor, slow house cloth would have been. I was on a 9' gold crown, and the punitive points in those pockets did not help. What you see me doing is missing these shots on purpose, called cheating the pocket, to get back in line.

Shooting into the rail 6" above the pocket, but you will see, they pot, if hit slow and soft. And there is your main lesson, demonstrated, slow and soft, or as Mosconi said, soft is best, softer is better. You will see I resort to combination's, and one of them, by hitting low draw on the first ball, I turned it into follow and potted both balls, that shot was one of genius. It technically was not a perfect, or even a solid out, but the fookin point is, I got out, by guts and shooting ability. A sloppy out, is still an out and a win. Any out, is great in my book, no matter how lousy it looks. We all can't be Mike Sigel.

This was a poor break and the rack did not spread well. This was not a good spread. The lesson here was, I shot a combination, then a 14.1 style break into the cluster potting and making another combination, then a 3rd combination, making both balls. In normal 8 ball this would be UN heard of, never seen. Try and study what I did there and why. I did not like the table, so I began moving balls into better positions so I could get out, that is the lesson to study.

Be aggressive, do not try and surgically pick around balls, if you don't like how it lies, wade into the mess and move them around, you might get lucky.
The best one I saved for last, I did not hit my mark on the last balls and was burying my self. On the next to the last one I rolled past my mark. Knowing this, I jacked up to hit a draw back into line shot, and knowing I could not stop the Cue ball short, and was afraid If I slid up to take it in the side I could run long and hit the far end rail, so to be safe, I took a harder shot, I just ran into the Object ball and bumped it forward preventing the CB from taking off on me. That took guts to accept my shot was not there, and to innovate into something I was not wild about, but did pull off.

Work this drill for a year, and they will begin saying about you, what they used to say about me, I could get out, from under a rock.


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