Have you ever been too serious about improving?

[mchpddl1]

Hi, have you ever been too serious about improving? or you placed too much demand on yourself, which makes snooker in return not an enjoyable game? I got really serious about practising for 6 months about 5 times a week, 2-3 hours each. I thought if i am more serious to practising i would do better in match play. Nope. I played worse, lost more matches, i tried to remember my techinques, causing confusions and frustrations during match play. Oevrall it seems my game is getting worse than before.

It is now happening to me, i stopped playing now and i feel so much more relaxed in life and much more time to do something else.

Has anyone experience before?

[cheebai]

yeah,I GOT THE SAME PROBLEM TOO.i had been stopped playing for almost 8 weeks and when i started to play yesterday and consider it as fun,i could make more than 30 breaks.well..i think u have to enjoy,relax but serious.bring some girls to ur club to motivate u or whatever it is.

[Shud]

bring some girls to ur club to motivate u or whatever it is.

I like it Probably not a good idea though :P

I think this is fairly common to a certain extent. If you're confident you're practicing the right things, and feel like you're improving during your practice sessions, then this will eventually transfer to your matchplay. Just remember that practice is the time to worry about your cueing etc, and even then only really focus on it if you are doing routines to specifically work on it. Matchplay is where it all comes together. Don't focus on your technique or think about your practice. Just commit to the shot knowing that your foundations are solid. Let the work you've done during practice automatically have its effect.

Also remember that judging your own improvement is very difficult, as its a relative thing. And improving always involves slumps. But when you break through the slump, you'll be a better and stronger player than you were before.

[matoski]

Last year i was playing every day exept Sunday, for 3-4 hours. I must say that i improved my game a lot. That's because i played with one of the best players in my country. The sparing partner is also very important to improve. A couple of years ago i played a lot with my friend who was not very tallented, and i felt that he is draging me down.

[bongo]

I have not really every been too serious about improving, but if you have a coach to help you, then it makes it so much easier and you have somebody by your side, on your own all the time, unless you have reached a very good standard, you can end up getting faults that you go not know about, if you and a knowledeable coach can work together, then you have your two minds put together. I hope you know where I am coming from.

bongo