Billiards Practice Drills
Groundwork For The Master
Billiards Practice Drills can be deadly in their repetitiveness if you have no idea where you are going and how you will get there.
What would you like to do to improve your billiards skills this year?
Have you got a goal you want to master in the coming year?
We are not looking for simple goals like sinking more long shots or running a rack. These are well within the capabilities of a graduate of the Masters of Art in Pocket Billiards but true masters are looking for more:
• Run 100 balls, in any order, without a miss when throwing balls on the table
• Run 100 balls without a miss and without allowing the cue ball to touch a rail
• Run 3 consecutive sets of the 13 Ball Exercise without a miss
• Run 3 consecutive sets of the 12 Ball Exercise without a miss
• Run 1 set of the 14 Ball Exercise without a miss
• Score a 16 or higher in the 8-Ball Mid-Term Exam
• Score a 16 or higher in the 9-Ball Mid-Term Exam
• Shoot at least 100 stop shots, 3-4 diamonds apart, into the corner pocket without a miss
• Deliver 20 successful stun shots without a miss
• Successfully deliver 15 consecutive 2-7-2's, connecting the diamonds, and stopping the cue ball within a CD diameter of the center of the table.
• Deliver 5 sets of the 2-7-2+5 without a miss, stopping the cue ball within a CD diameter of the center of the table.
• Shoot every single lesson from The Lesson in order with five or less misses
• Break and run at least 3 racks in a ten-rack set of both 8-ball and 9-ball (Doing this five sets in a row, your grand B&R average is 30%!)
• Shoot 25 sets of the 4 Ball Exercise without a miss
There are 14 performance elements of a true Master of Pocket Billiards. How many do you own?