gotta get through this

[tedisbill]

I would like to add, you are way beyond doing red routines Alabadi, do things you can't do ,not things that are easy for you, unless you stretch yourself you can't improve, the cross with no colours is just wasting your time IMO .

Spot on mate.

[Byrom]

Just going back to the long blues routine ala - can you tell me how many did you pot in a row - and how many did you miss? Did you splice the video?

[alabadi]

Just going back to the long blues routine ala - can you tell me how many did you pot in a row - and how many did you miss? Did you splice the video?

Well I played about 15 shots and potted around 10 or 11. For some reason the camera I have is not a video camera its a camera that can record, but for some reason it splits the video so it records so long then stops and starts recording again. So I have to get some software joiner to join them.
I think I potted about 5 in a row before I missed one then I potted another 3 or 4. The total video was too long so I only uploaded so much of it .

[alabadi]

Unless you are playing with a fair bit of side ,what you are doing with the White on a three quarter ball pot won't cause you to miss. You miss because you make a mistake on one of the basics. That can be anything from not being online,taking your eye off the ball, closing the grip, body ,head ,shoulder ,hip movement, cue steering,etc etc , for me if you are hitting the White up and down the centre line to get position, that doesn't cause you to miss. Just my opinion though.
I would like to add, you are way beyond doing red routines Alabadi, do things you can't do ,not things that are easy for you, unless you stretch yourself you can't improve, the cross with no colours is just wasting your time IMO .

Maybe I need to explain a few things about my vision . I had corrective surgery about 4 years ago so I have two different lenses on my eyes the left is a distance lens and the right for reading.

This can cause conflict because when I focus on objects around a meter or further away the left eye will be stronger . But when things are closer within a metre the right eye has the edge. I am not consciously switching eyes although at the beginning I did find it weird. The brain sorts it out now.
So when I am with the coach he knows this and has to make me look at the angle differently thicker or thinner depending where the pocket is in relation to the OB.
I have had to sometimes aim thicker especially on 3/4 balls that are to my right .
So that's where I'm at its trying to remember all this when I'm playing, in practice I can play slower and focus better. , in games with all what's going on nerves included I can forget to do this which causes me to miss simple shots.

[tedisbill]

This can cause conflict because when I focus on objects around a meter or further away the left eye will be stronger . But when things are closer within a metre the right eye has the edge. I am not consciously switching eyes although at the beginning I did find it weird. The brain sorts it out now. So when I am with the coach he knows this and has to make me look at the angle differently thicker or thinner depending where the pocket is in relation to the OB. I have had to sometimes aim thicker especially on 3/4 balls that are to my right .

Wow! Sounds like a nightmare.

I mean, surely the angle has to be the angle? If you start thinking "well, i think that's the angle, but not on this one because of the pocket in relation to the OB". That's just impossible.

[itsnoteasy]

Maybe I need to explain a few things about my vision . I had corrective surgery about 4 years ago so I have two different lenses on my eyes the left is a distance lens and the right for reading.

This can cause conflict because when I focus on objects around a meter or further away the left eye will be stronger . But when things are closer within a metre the right eye has the edge. I am not consciously switching eyes although at the beginning I did find it weird. The brain sorts it out now.
So when I am with the coach he knows this and has to make me look at the angle differently thicker or thinner depending where the pocket is in relation to the OB.
I have had to sometimes aim thicker especially on 3/4 balls that are to my right .
So that's where I'm at its trying to remember all this when I'm playing, in practice I can play slower and focus better. , in games with all what's going on nerves included I can forget to do this which causes me to miss simple shots.

Jeez Al, you have just found out what's holding you back, I honestly don't know the answer to that one, the games hard enough with older eyes ,never mind what you have going on.

[Byrom]

Maybe I need to explain a few things about my vision . I had corrective surgery about 4 years ago so I have two different lenses on my eyes the left is a distance lens and the right for reading.

This can cause conflict because when I focus on objects around a meter or further away the left eye will be stronger . But when things are closer within a metre the right eye has the edge. I am not consciously switching eyes although at the beginning I did find it weird. The brain sorts it out now.
So when I am with the coach he knows this and has to make me look at the angle differently thicker or thinner depending where the pocket is in relation to the OB.
I have had to sometimes aim thicker especially on 3/4 balls that are to my right .
So that's where I'm at its trying to remember all this when I'm playing, in practice I can play slower and focus better. , in games with all what's going on nerves included I can forget to do this which causes me to miss simple shots.

Wow I feel for you - don't know how you can pot a ball - in that case disregard what I said - you are doing fine - good luck

[lesedwards]

Wow I feel for you - don't know how you can pot a ball - in that case disregard what I said - you are doing fine - good luck

That's interesting, Cliff Thorburn where's contacts and he has the same thing one eye has one for close up and the other fior distance. He still has no problem potting balls. I was out with him just before Christmas, I broke he ran in a long Red and then continued to pot 7 Blacks and 2 Blues for a little 68 break. I carry my white gloves in my back pocket when we get together....LOL

[Terry Davidson]

Maybe I need to explain a few things about my vision . I had corrective surgery about 4 years ago so I have two different lenses on my eyes the left is a distance lens and the right for reading.

This can cause conflict because when I focus on objects around a meter or further away the left eye will be stronger . But when things are closer within a metre the right eye has the edge. I am not consciously switching eyes although at the beginning I did find it weird. The brain sorts it out now.
So when I am with the coach he knows this and has to make me look at the angle differently thicker or thinner depending where the pocket is in relation to the OB.
I have had to sometimes aim thicker especially on 3/4 balls that are to my right .
So that's where I'm at its trying to remember all this when I'm playing, in practice I can play slower and focus better. , in games with all what's going on nerves included I can forget to do this which causes me to miss simple shots.

I really don't understand this statement. I play with one contact after cataract lens replacement therapy in both eyes. Without my contact my left eye is 20/20 and the right is 20/40, once for distance and one for reading. Initially this was a bitch because I always had my right eye stronger and am also right eye dominant so it was great but then the surgeon went against my wishes and he did the left eye first and made it 20/20.

So now I wear a contact lens on my left eye and that makes it 20/15 or so and I use the left eye exclusively for sighting even if I'm looking at the cueball. I have not experienced any sighting problems at all with any shot of any distance, so like I say I really don't understand what the problem is and I'm certain Cliff would say the same thing as I saw him wearing glasses when playing in Montreal and I explained to him what I was doing with the contacts so it seems he may have taken my advice.

[sharkster63]

I have been practicing with prescription snooker glasses, its been over 2 months and they still bother me, its like playing with a glass bowl over your head, its getting better but its allot of work. At least I can see what i am doing. Lol Cheers and good luck, seems like nothing about this game is easy....

[alabadi]

Terry my vision is fine and my latest eye test showed that, but i have found with my right eye which was really bad for over 30 years my left eye had been compensating my vision until i started using glasses.

i didn't like glasses and only wore them for 2 years before i had the surgery, so now my right eye is possibly the strongest but i am still left eye dominant and when sighting i am using my left eye.

however when i am down on the shot i'm using my right eye more and if you notice where my cue is on the chin it is slightly right of center.
so i have to work around this and compensate to a degree because it definitely is having an effect.

every time i am down on a shot when i pause at the front my cue tip seems slightly left of center on the cueball, but in fact i am dead center and i have been told this by a coach.

so i have to get down which looks slightly left to me, because if i put the tip where i think its center white its actually putting right hand side on the cueball. i only found this out not long ago so i am having to re-program the way i approach the shot and it is feeling weird, because what i see and what is happening are two different things.

its gonna take time until it feels natural.

[tedisbill]

Have you considered playing Chess Alabadi?

[lesedwards]

Have you considered playing Chess Alabadi?

LOL That's not nice but I was thinking about it...

[tedisbill]

LOL That's not nice but I was thinking about it...

Haha! Just a little joke mate. The main thing is that we're all enjoying ourselves!

[lesedwards]

Haha! Just a little joke mate. The main thing is that we're all enjoying ourselves!

Not really...LOL The most frustrating game I have ever come across. I have some of the best players at my side but does not seem to help.,,,