Work to be a PLAYER

Most students of the game aspire to become a PLAYER.

Walking into a room and being referred to as a PLAYER is a level that means you have arrived. There’s a difference between being a PLAYER and just someone that plays.

One of the major ways to become a real player is to have developed an efficiency that fosters an ease of repeatable play: visually, physically, and mentally.

An important way to hone efficiency is by playing long sessions of about 8 hours or so, competing as if your pool life is on the line. When doing so, as you get past the first few hours of fierce competition, you will begin to peel away those aspects of your game that are unnecessary. That is when the BEST YOU as a player can begin to emerge. (You can never realize the kind of efficiency that I’m referring to if you can’t get your mind 110% on what’s transpiring. Please know this. If attending to your I-Phone or talking to bystanders must be a part a of your play, EFFICIENCY will never occur and the PLAYER that you think you want to become will forever be an elusive ghost of a figure.