Re: Maintaining Quality Practice



Thyme3421 wrote:
When you say you play against your ghost, what exactly do you mean? Can
you explain this to me a little better?
Thanks

That's complicated. I make up a variety of games against the ghost to simulate various game conditions I need to work on.

Fer instance...last year before the playoffs I would rack all 7 solids, the 8 ball and 2 stripes into a pyramid and break. Taking the cue ball where it lay I would then have to win from the solids position..safeties allowed. The idea is that many players in my league are prone for ego reasons to attempt tough runnouts and they often fail. By just ensuring you win all of these games (often harder than you might think) you should win 60-70% of your games (this includes other types of wins too). The biggest fail point is mental laziness. Not planning the rack because it's too easy. You run a few and don't notice that you have a possible fail point till it's too late.

Right now I'm just running 8 ball or 9 ball ghost straight off the break for fun.

Or did you mean you don't know what the ghost is? Basically if I fail at whatever I set out to do the ghost wins a game and if I succeed I win. Race to whatever. (I like to do 10 racks for a nice round statistical number)

Ed
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