Back to Training: Back to Basics
After about two and a half months of schlepping off, last night was my first official night of training again. The extent of my pool in the past couple months has been once a week during league and a few nights while Fast Mikie was in town. I had made a commitment a couple weeks ago that this week would be the week I get back to work.
The evening started off well. I finally got my cue back. It had been in the shop for as long as I’ve been off the wagon. I guess I’m a bit rough with it. Chris refinished it for me. There were quite a few nicks & dings in it. Oops…
I headed to Table Steaks East around 10:30p.m. after a hearty meal with my good friend.
I started with nothing but stop shots. I shot 4 sets of 10 perfect stop shots with one miss in the first and last set. I focused on nothing but dialing in on my cue tip to cue ball and the exact spot on the object ball. They felt great and it feel really nice to have my cue back in my hand.
Next, I just “piled rocks” (throwing all 15 balls on the table and shooting them off in no particular order). I missed one ball in the first three racks but then missed three balls in the next two racks. I noticed my focus slipping so I had to take action.
I switched to “keeping the cue ball off the rail” (spreading 15 balls on the table and running the rack without letting the cue ball touch a rail). After 13 racks, I had 0-2 misses in each rack. Though these results are not impressive to me, my stroke felt great! Most of my misses were tough shots from overstroking a ball and getting out of line. I was very happy with the way I was hitting the ball.
Three and a half hours later, I stretched and went home.
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