May 11, 2006
take your game higher
Please take a moment to consider my Chicago Maine Event workshop. This is the only stop I am going to do in the States this year.http://www.themonkmasterstour.com/public/poster_web.html
Teach others, achieve prosperity
Also, consider my MONK MASTERS teacher program.
If you ever thought about being a teacher in this game, click here.
http://www.themonkmasterstour.com/chicago/mmub_int.htm
I would like to meet you
I would love to meet you in person. Talk to your room owner about the
Monk Master Tour THERE IS NO COST TO YOUR ROOM OWNER. Check details here.
http://www.themonkmasterstour.com/newsletter/newslet2/newslet2.htm
The Pre Shot Routine is vital to your game
You are interested in delivering a good break shot. (See nine ball break www.themonk.com) You splatter the rack in all directions. A couple of balls drop. You see a trouble ball you can take care of right away. You are keenly interested in taking care of this trouble ball. Once it is gone, you now see you can make your way to another key ball that only has one pocket. That key ball fills your mind with concern. But you are a professional player. There is work to be done first. You are interested in doing your job. So you focus on the next shot, and the next shot and the next shot, one at a time, and finally you end up with a nice shot on that key ball. You know your run is in hand now.
When you break open a rack you must first deal with the shot that gives you the run out. This will be you primary point of interest. Our interest captures our ability to concentrate. In other words, you will always focus on what interest you most. Once you fulfill this point of interest, you with then have to create new interest in another shot so you will be able to tap your concentration skills.
If you are concerned about a cluster of balls, make the decision that will attend to that concern. Do not let this concern plague you while you are trying to make other shots. When we are concerned, without a plan, we experience conflict.
The next shot of focus is the one you will deal with. If you are not interested in it, stand in front of it until you are. Do not shoot any shot you are not totally interested in making. Each shot is a winning shot. We attend to that which we are interested in.
All open racks offers’ you a key shot. You make this key shot and you are well on your way to running the table. Your interest level in the shot is keen, thus you concentration powers are at peak. You make the shot and the rest of the layout is a so-called road map to victory. You satisfied your focus of interest. Here is where you may be tempted to lose that intensity. You are not faced with a key shot. The rest is easy. You lose your ability to concentrate because you are not interested enough in each shot and you miss position or worse, miss the shot and the run is over. You failed because you were not interested enough. You think you have won, but you still have three more shots left.
When the final three balls challenge you in one difficult shot we sometimes allow our interest skills to be overshadowed by our preoccupation with results. We fear bad position, or pushing the shot to produce a “hanger”. We lose our interest in delivering the stroke because of our fear of failure. Cancel your fear and see this as an opportunity to win. No one is going to take it away from us. We must relax and be totally interested in pocketing the ball we are facing.
The only thing that will stop you from this run is not skill, not knowledge, not ability, not nerves, but concentration.
As long as you can keep your concentration, you will make the key ball and run the remaining balls. That is the only way to run a table. It all comes down to interest and concentration.
