Category: Mental / Theory
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Confident or Arrogant? What’s the winning attitude?
I’m always overcome with a feeling of warmth and excitement when the Minnesota cool fall weather appears. Pool season is taking off. This time of year also signals the start of the Snooker season and whenever I can, I hunker down in front of my computer to watch streaming snooker matches. This week, I’m watching…
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Aging: A Pool Player’s Gift or Curse?
Pool players can have the blind courage of youth or the wise knowledge of the aged. Time moves on and I’m stuck in the Middle Ages, old enough to know better, yet young enough not to care. Pool players can seem to grow old at a breakneck speed. Perhaps years in the pool room, on…
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Develop a Lasting Pool Stroke
Sometimes a better pool game comes from education or an experience outside of the billiard parlor. The scene takes place in a physical therapy clinic during the summer of 2002. I had injured my knee from an aggressive training plan focused on running. My knee had been so touchy that I saw an orthopedic surgeon…
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How not to miss an easy shot
As you may know, I’m nuts about watching the Snooker World Championship live from Sheffield. It seems like a good idea to try to pick up tips from the worlds best players competing for the largest prize in all of cue sports. The 32 players at the Crucible are fighting for their share of $1,700,000.…