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Thank you Nathan, I hope you try the routines out and your game benefits.

Ed Lewis cheers on my way to a pool league now in Surrey gonna try them out in practice before I start 😊

They are a band I recorded years ago called Who Saw Who, unfortunately they have long since split up.

Thank you. The table is 7' x 4', standard UK 8 ball size.

@@TornadoTed thanks!

No problem at all, I hope your game benefits from it.

UK 8 ball pool balls a re much smaller than USA 8 ball pool balls. Most players in the UK play with a tip between 7-9mm. I have an 8.5mm tip now, back when I did this video with my old cue it was about 8mm.

What about european 8 ball, i live in belgium? maby i should switch to a 9mm

It really depends what type of balls you are using. UK 8 ball are 1 7/8" and US pool balls are 2 1/4". I'm not sure which are more common in Belgium but would guess at US size, 2 1/4"

@@TornadoTed what size is the table shown in the video?

Standard UK size 7' x 4'

I do take this approach sometimes if I'm bored of other practice, I play a best of 9 or 19 depending on how much time I have, if I dish or reverse dish I win the frame, if I don't I lose the frame. I find the problem with it though is that a decent percentage of the time I wouldn't even consider going for a dish in a match with how the balls spread from the break. Personally I find going for a dish anyway when they are 'not there' pretty unproductive and frustrating.

Thanks Ed, good point.

Just a habit, I don't do it all the time, usually only when concentrating hard. A snooker player called Tony Meo used to do it all the time!

Being aware of your limitations is a good thing for a pool player to have, I see too many players over complicating the game all the time. One of the best pool players I know has a poor cue action and more often than not misses if he has to hit anything hard, he just makes sure that he rarely has to! With screw back shots you really have to get the cue through the white ball even on soft screw shots, so many players jab at that type of shot and don't follow through enough. A good trick is to set up a straight pot with say a foot between white and object ball, imagine the white isn't there and and instead imagine hitting the object ball with your tip, of course you don't hit the object ball with your tip but that really helps to make sure you get the cue through the white ball properly. Hard to explain but it does work.

I'm glad they are helping you. Yeah the cross is by far the hardest of the routines. I actually had a go at this the other night for the first time in over a year (baby distraction) and I got maximum score on all the routine including the cross but messed up and only got 2 on the circle for a respectable but disappointing 67.

Still pretty good, I'd be more than happy with that! I know the feeling, I'll be half way through a routine and my daughter will come along and shove all the balls across the table!!

I really hope they help you, good positional play makes everything easier particularly when the pressure is on. Pool at the highest level is about consistency in every aspect of your game, position, cueing, potting and concentration. I played for Wales for 7 years, gave up in 2009. I can still play as well as I did then on a good day but I get one of those 4-5 days out of 10 now, it was 7-8 days out of 10 back then when I was practicing regularly.

I don't know if you maybe do this already but when I practice, I play as if I am playing an imaginery opponent, so if i pot on the break, I shoot that group until I miss, then switch to the other group, this is a great help for practicing positional play, but you can also practice safeties and snooker, and how to escape them. They must work at least for me, as usually when I play on the table at my local social club, I maybe usually win one or two games max, but with all the practice I had been doing, the other week, I managed to win four in a row, practicing this way, to me is more natural, I still do drills if there is something I need to work on though.

My brain must be really screwy because I know a lot of people who practice like that but I just can't. I end up rooting for one of the imaginary me's and hoping the other one misses!!! That's why I like these practice routines and 14 to 1 and just trying to get the highest score possible. I do play best of 19 also where I win the frame if I clear from the break or from the 1st visit on a dry break and lose the frame if I don't. It is harder than it sounds to clear the table first visit 10 times out of 19.

I don't like to just run racks either. I never felt like I learn as much as I do doing drills as they allow you to fine-tune your skills in a methodical manner. If I'm gonna run racks then it'll be nine-ball as it's a game where there aren't loads of balls everywhere and you're just focusing on playing position on a specific ball and learning patterns, and even then I don't just try to break and run but rather lay the balls out myself so that the balls are laid out in a position where I can actually run out. If I screw up a shot then I'll set it up again and again until I can make the pot and position 5x in a row, then I'll move on. Always best to hit shots you struggle with over and over again until you can play them consistently, I find, of course making a mental note of what you did wrong in each shot and adjusting accordingly. If it's the sort of shot that comes up quite often in a match then it's one you want get into the memory bank.

If for example I miss the 8th ball I stop, score 7 and go to the next routine. It is harsh because one miss on your 2ns ball can lose you 14 points! The maximum score is 77. I used to play it 5 times as week and then take an average. I would generally average around 60 when I was playing well. Of course you can play it however you like and if you feel setting up the missed ball again and retrying would benefit you then that's fine.

I haven't practiced for 2 years now due to work and a young family and my game is probably at 50% of what it was back when this vid was made. There aren't many naturals I know who don't need any practice at all.

I think those are the people that just want to have fun and aren't competitive

It's more fun when you're better though. Although I guess they probably don't know that.

Or they could just continue having fun it's their money not everybody who goes to a pool hall wants to play for county

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I can't remember to be honest, it was a long time ago. You just need to measure cushion to cushion and divide by 16.

If you have a 7' table you can use the triangle. Start at 6" from one end and place a ball outside the triangle adjacent to one corner. The triangle is positioned with a flat side parallel to the length of the table. Position 2 more balls on the triangle sides, one central and one in the opposite corner to the first, so you have started a line up the length of the table. Move the triangle up the table so the last ball you placed is adjacent to the corner and place two more balls in line. When you have finished you will find a similar space between the cushions at either end and the outermost balls. You can then place your cue on the bed next to the line of balls and gently push the balls into a perfect line.

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That's the one! Knew my eyes weren't playing tricks :D

There is an amputee in our local league, he uses the head of a rest instead of his bridging hand and is really good, the only problem you might experience is if you have to bridge over other balls however I'm sure you could use a similar device but with something under it to make it higher

does it fckin matter how slow or fast the table is ...the point of the video is to show people practice routines to improve their games ....:/ and I 100% guarantee this guy would destroy you at pool

Oliver Daw It's been covered loads of times, there is a link to the songs on Soundcloud somewhere in the comments.

+Gordon Kropp It is a matter of cue ball control and setting up follow up shots.... They are hardly ducks in the center of the table.....