[Video] Let’s play pool #4

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Here we go again: My fourth Let’s play… pool! is ready to watch on Youtube. This episode is special in two ways: (more…)

Why expectations at the pool table mess up your game

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“Hold your wrist straight!” “Follow through!” “Now get your s**t together, will ya!” Do you know these instructions, probably from the inside of your head? I recently read the book “The Inner Game of Golf” by Tim Gallwey. Gallwey first came to public attention in the 1970s, when he explained his concept of the inner game in his bestseller “The Inner Game of Tennis”. He was a tennis coach at that time and quickly noticed that tennis lessons with a lot of verbal instructions and technical corrections just didn’t work and stressed out his students. Especially he noticed that his students criticized themselves very harshly. (more…)

7 pool tips to look better at the pool table against your buddies

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If you’d like to become a really good pool player, you can’t get around practicing a lot. But what if you don’t have huge ambitions? You just don’t want to look completely dumb against your buddies on Friday night? These pool tips are for you. (more…)

About losing and winning during a set (and why it’s dumb)

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You can see matches every day where one player looks very good in the beginning, has a comfortable lead, and loses the match. And I’m sure you’ve experienced this situation from both perspectives. Comfortably leading and then losing or being behind and winning the match. “Why does this happen to me over and over again?”, a reader recently asked me. Here’s my answer.

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