Kicking Butt and Taking Names...

This has been an intense pool league week. Besides my usual Tuesday and Thursday leagues, I sub'ed for Storm's Wednesday 8-ball league and also on Wednesday, we had a make-up 9-ball match from around Christmas time, both going on at the same time.

After my very poor performances of late, chronicled herein, I started practicing and studying with some new books and videos which have really helped my game. I have learned a number of new shots, that I was not aware how to make, in my 40 years of experience, from the new books and videos. I have also stated doing a lot more yoga and meditation which has taken my focus and concentration to a new level and directly augmented the technical developments I have been doing. I am playing very well and impressing the locals. I am in the top 4 players in all the leagues I play in, even after the month or so of very poor play.

The end result is that I am playing much better that I have in a many years, if ever, and I only see it getting better and better as time goes on. This week out of a total of 21 games I played in all the leagues, I won 18 of them - and the ones I lost were not my fault. I also did table runs twice and had both 8 and 9 ball on the break games, winning them.

I have learned that I cannot shoot 'play around' or 'not serious' shots, where I am not concentrating and 'in game'. When I do play in that mode, my skills reduce to that level. This is a fact I have not been aware of in the past. I just would go through cycles of going to hell and really not knowing why. When you really think about it, that logic works in any technical/skill area you really are trying to develop skill in.

I am back on the path of working towards being as good as I can be - Again, Once and for all...

The weather has been as it has been for months. Snow to rain to freezing cold and then do it all again.

Pam is going well at Dell and in general. She is making some killer pasta dishes with her new pasta maker and we have been making some great dinners for ourselves and friends. Live is good here in DaHo...