[FASTLARRY]

TRAINING TIPS IN POOL & BILLIARDS
10-14-09, CR, all rights reserved by flepool, Fast Larry Guninger.
Random tips sometimes work. You might find one that clicks with you and it puts your game back on track.
Most of you have lost your feel of the game. To retain it, lighten up on your grip, or hold. Hold the cue 50% lighter than you are now doing. You can’t hold it, too light. Light is best, lighter is better.

Speed up, stop thinking, just flow from shot to shot, fast and loose.

So you think you need 3 or 4 drinks to loosen up to play pool well. 67% of all golfers do not drink during a round, and 22% have only 1 or 2. Relax the mind, find calm, and you do not require booze.

54% of golfers play because they like the challenge the game presents, 21% find it a great way to spend time with good friends, 9% love the feeling of a well struck shot. These should be your goals in pool also. The reasons, why you play.

When you play, concentration is your goal, turn off your cell phone, which is what your answering service is for. Call them back after you are finished playing.

When in practice, and you miss a shot you expect to make, always take a mulligan, and keep shooting it until it goes in. Erase that miss and imprint a perfect shot into your cpu.

If you want to get better, get with an advanced level teacher and spent the entire day with him on cleaning up and insuring your basics are solid. Spend a 2nd day on your stroke and position play. You can only go so far on your own, from there, you need help.

Most of you do not get better because you do not practice enough. Just chart the time you put in the last couple of weeks, and now double that. And watch your game ramp up. You need a table at home where you do all your practice now for free. You only go to a pool hall now to match up and play for small stakes, beers or the table time, and most of that should now be free as you begin to win. Play in all the local tourneys and events. You want to spend the same amount of time practicing, as you do competing. Some of you practice 14 hours a week and compete 2 hrs.

Play more than you practice. Establish a 50/50 rule, whatever time you put in competing, you match it with practice alone. Practice is to groove and erase the errors you made in competition. It is vital you have your hands on a stick every day and put in at least an hour or two, to retain the fine feel and touch of the shots.

Ignore your score, just play your best and be surprised when you win and it ends. Many of you try too hard to win; you actually shoot your own selves in your foot and cripple your performance. Just play, freewheel and have fun. If you lose, fine, if you win, fine, relax; don’t make it life or death. Most of you play too conservative. You play too many safes. You play, too tight. Become more aggressive and go after more shots. Be bold, go for the throat.

Do all of your aiming, calculating and thinking standing up right in the parade dress position? Once you see the shot angle, where the cue ball is going to go, TV and see it go down, you visualize it, open the jaws just a touch, and be sure, none of the teeth are touching. Some of you have them locked down, which creates tensions from the clenching. Just feel the teeth open, then take one very deep breath, and let it out as you plant and fall into the shot. When you hit the table, do the final line up, now rise up the neck, lift up the jaw which pushes the neck back and increased your field of vision.

[headmuses]

Hey, this tip on relaxing your jaw...I am gonna try that for sure. I will post my results after a few racks.

Thanks Larry.

[FASTLARRY]

headmuses, on Oct 16 2009, 10:12 AM, said:

Hey, this tip on relaxing your jaw...I am gonna try that for sure. I will post my results after a few racks.

Thanks Larry.

Many are clenching, and do not know it, and that tightens up everything. What can it hurt, to just open them up 1/4".

[MitchAlsup]

FASTLARRY, on Oct 14 2009, 10:28 PM, said:

Play more than you practice.

This sentance cannot be overestimated in its importance.

[headmuses]

Ok...the past two days I have been making a conscious effort to open my jaw up by at least a quarter of an inch when I go down to line up a shot. Result...I cant make a ball to save my life. All my balance and aim is off, I think I am distracted by the jaw thought, so I need some more time to resolve this...just checking in on a progress report. So far..I stink
LOL

[FASTLARRY]

headmuses, on Oct 21 2009, 10:46 PM, said:

Ok...the past two days I have been making a conscious effort to open my jaw up by at least a quarter of an inch when I go down to line up a shot. Result...I cant make a ball to save my life. All my balance and aim is off, I think I am distracted by the jaw thought, so I need some more time to resolve this...just checking in on a progress report. So far..I stink
LOL

Then stop it now. It has to be a programmed, subconscious move, done without thought. Just like when you plant, you move your chin up, and your eyes level, without thought.

[FASTLARRY]

As head muses found out, here it is, it dont get no deeper dan dis she-yit.

Dont think, just do....................

tatoot dat one, under yo eyelids.

[Dandydan]

Its hard to go train, to do drills, most of us think of this as a game, we just have fun at, but just having fun, does not get me any better.

all right, I'll work at it more, I know it will work, its worked when I did it in the past.