practise routines

[armstm]

i also enjoy just doing the pink and black routine. you have to pot pink and then black to score 1 point. top score on this is 5. i find the shot where the cue ball is parallel with the black - a near straight pot of the pink into the middle and then screwing back for the black, quite tough, quite often miss this pot or don't get the screw right. this tells me my cue action and stance is not great. that's an enjoyable one to mess around with.

[AKashyap]

i enjoy doing the long blues from the yellow and green spot. i find this teaches you a lot about how good your technique is. its resulted in a few modifications, the main one is getting the elbow behind the head, and making your sure shoulder is locked. you know as soon as you've hit it whether there's shoulder involved (a big problem with me) whereas with lineup-type practices your technique can be poor and you can still pot the ball. my lineup top break is 59 but that was done with a pretty poor cue action (a few months ago).


hendry suggests on his app doing it until you get 5 pots in each corner pocket. it can take me 25-30 attempts sometimes! i do think there is value (although it is tedious) in doing the same pot over and over again - you do start to notice little things which you wouldn't the first 2 or 3 attempts.

Hmm I haven't tried them, lemme see ... Would you give the shot some outside & bottom spin (maybe extreme to come into the baulk everytime) or play it plain ball ??

As I think, if screwback or stun doesn't give you a good shot, you would have to go to the end right rail in case of a pot to the left and come back 3 cushions in total .. maybe to the center of the table where another red lies ?? Or probably inside / near baulk for a safety .. It gotta be perfect.. I will try ..