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before the first shot

Before the First Shot

Posture and Overlearning

In this chapter I will only outline a few basic principles of cor-rect posture! You should also look at the tips given in Chapter 2.2 „Straightness“ on one-handed play and your personal anatomically correct standing position!

The exercises described there are the most important, but each aspect is gone into in more detail in the relevant chapter (for example, shot straightness).

If you are a genuine beginner, then try to put this advice on posture and cue handling into practice. If you have any prob-lems, ask your club trainer to help you. If you have already been playing for some time, then just check your posture. Look at yourself in a mirror or maybe even film yourself. This way you can see what you are doing right and where there is room for improvement. If you‘re doing everything right, that‘s great. But what if you discover some little mistake that you have been making for years that maybe prevents you from making any more progress? Well, there are two possibilities. Either you stick with your mistake and try at least to stabilize your level of performance with the help of the exercises in this program, or you take the time to iron out the mistake that has crept into your game! In sports that require a high level of precision and skill (to which pool billiards belongs), this means some ten to fifteen thousand repetitions before the mistake has been cor-rected, depending on your age and the number of years you have been making the mistake! If you are a real beginner, then you‘ll have to get used to overlearning! Overlearning is the term used in sport to describe the notion of repeating a movement