Having a Bad Day

[Blanchon147]

Today in practice i was playing horrible couldn't get a break over 20 and i was getting frustrated. I decided to stop playing earlier than normal because i was playing so bad. Just asking for advice what do you do when you are having a bad day?

[hotpot]

Call it a day , Tomorrow is a fresh one .

[andy carson]

beer, and plenty of it

[spike]

Agree with hotpot..

[cazmac1]

I was going to post something similar, so I hope you don't mind me giving my thoughts, I have change practice table down the club back to my old table, I found the pockets really tight and kept missing. I didn't realise how tight this table was and that I had been getting away with sloppy potting for about a year now. I was struggling to pot more than a few balls on the line up but kept trying different things until I started to find my accuracy
The point of the post is that I would have never realised how sloppy I had become if I hadn't changed table and therefore would not have found out where I was going wrong.
I think the saying that you learn from mistakes can be applied here and I thing you would be better off using this time trying different things and see if any thing helps your game. Let’s face it if you’re playing well and potting everything you’re not really learning anything.
I can remember Steve Davis saying something along these lines years back.

[nrage]

I was going to post something similar, so I hope you don't mind me giving my thoughts, I have change practice table down the club back to my old table, I found the pockets really tight and kept missing. I didn't realise how tight this table was and that I had been getting away with sloppy potting for about a year now. I was struggling to pot more than a few balls on the line up but kept trying different things until I started to find my accuracy
The point of the post is that I would have never realised how sloppy I had become if I hadn't changed table and therefore would not have found out where I was going wrong.
I think the saying that you learn from mistakes can be applied here and I thing you would be better off using this time trying different things and see if any thing helps your game. Let’s face it if you’re playing well and potting everything you’re not really learning anything.
I can remember Steve Davis saying something along these lines years back.

I recently started practicing on the Riley Aristocrat table we have where I am, it's much tighter than the other tables. If you're not accurate, and you hit it with any excess force it simply will not go in. As a consequence I do miss more in practice, but .. I get more in matches. Why .. because I have been teaching myself a more accurate/smaller target in practice, and I've gotten more accurate as a result. So, when it comes to a match, and I'm playing on a more generous table, a slight miss of the exact target I am aiming at, will often still go in. I think once you're potting has reached a certain accuracy, adding a bit more of a challenge is a good idea. Plus, when I miss in practice I can always blame the tight pockets, and it doesn't bother me so much