May 11, 2008
The Monk in Florida
I spent five days working with Steve Rubin and his son Willie. They both graduated with a Monk Masters Degree.Steve owns Grovers Pool Hall in West Palm Beach Florida. He and his son will be offering lessons on The Monk 101 program at his location. You can log on to the web site www.groverspoolhall.com and find out more information.
We also had a workshop at Grovers on Saturday. Mike and Joe came down from New York, Randy and Phill, from Boston and a fine group for the West Palm Beach area. This was a very special group. I set a record for getting through two days of material in one day. They really caught on fast. In all my travels I have never reached that level in one day.
I also attended a Pool Teams of America conference in Florida. Wow, what a great time. Willie and the boys signed up six host locations in West Palm beach. League Operators from around the country attended. Wow is all I can say
Log on to www.poolteamsofamerica.com for more information on how you can become a league operator and get in on the ground floor.
Check out my new site
My new web site. While you are on this site, click on the link to go to www.poolteamsofamerica.com and find out more about this grand chance to get in on the ground floor.Workshop in San Diego
Please join us for a great workshop at a special price.
This is the last workshop on the west coast.
Thanks for loving this great game,
The Monk
Success or failure with a shot comes from past experience. Have you ever leaned into your shot and out of the blue, you knew you were going to miss? We have missed it before and that experience suddenly comes back into our mind. We operate in the mind set that has been established during our development. If we miss a certain shot more than once, our mind simply logs in the report that this is a shot we miss.
When you are confronted with past experience stop right there and go through your pre shot routine. Break the mold. Do not shoot the shot if you are infected with thoughts of missing.
If you think of a shot as being the “right shot” and this is considered truth, you must then measure it to past experience. If past experience tells you it is a miss able shot, then you must take that fact and measure it to your intuition to go for the shot. In order to master the one shot at a time routine, you must develop your intuitive skills.
You must be able to eliminate the right or wrong of an action based upon past experience. You must take the intellectual evaluation out of it. Our past experience operates in the intellectual mind. So you must move to the intuitive mind. See the shot, know the stroke, and shoot the shot.
I came across something I thought might interest you. C A S S. Your pre shot routine. I was having a bad time until a found out I needed more TIME on my PSR. I developed CASS: Choose-Aim-Stance-Stroke. It made me slow down my tempo and rhythm to SEARCH & CLASSIFY my shots before I shoot!>>>>....No one is rushing you on the table. Just You. CASS.