10 RACKS IN A ROW 10BALL VS THE GHOST REGULAR RACK! - PLAYER REVIEW

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Hi pool players, this is The Terminator.
Welcome back to another episode of Terminator Tips.
In this lesson, I have something special for you.
10 racks in a row of 10 ball versus the ghost
with a regular rack.
Let's hop onto my pro star table,
do this player review,
show you all the cue ball diagrams
and my thinking so you can become a better player.
All right, here we go.
Rack number one.
So I did this session,
like I always do playing the ghost
without the magic rack.
My table breaks pretty tough.
I'm never too concerned about getting super tight racks.
I always find it challenging and interesting
to get maybe a tough situation here or there,
some clusters or some cluttered balls,
not necessarily clusters,
but just a little challenging and interesting situations,
not just wide open balls and tap them out.
So here my theory of coming into the line of position
on that two,
I could have opted to go and not hit the rail,
but I believe that with that shot,
I can take the risk of a skid out.
I can let my stroke out a bit more
and I'm playing for a three seven combo here.
Depending on the angle,
I wanted to try and land in such a way
that the three now just rolls forward a touch like that.
Now I have some options to go to the four
and I choose to go to the three rails here.
Why?
Again, because I'm coming into the line of position.
I will post a link here in the top
for the most important position lesson ever,
playing into the line of position.
And you saw that I'm coming towards the four.
Had I drawn that ball
or would I have opted for a draw shot there
that could have been a risk of a scratch or under hitting it.
I had a bit too much angle on the four.
So now I'm opting to go one rail down
with a tip of inside
just to take away the risk of getting behind the eight.
Like that, you could see the reverse spin take place there.
Take effect, I should say.
Again, I'm just a bit funky as you can see from my face.
If I draw this ball, I might hit the eight.
So I'd rather just stun it over a touch like that.
And now I did that on purpose.
Now go off the side rail with not full draw
because then I'm drawing towards the 10.
A stun shot's not gonna get me there.
I need stun draw.
Again, I've spoken about that many times.
I'll post a link also in the description
and here on the top, stun draw is your friend.
This is low left.
Two cushions.
Off the second cushion,
I'm coming into the line of position.
Boom, can't go wrong.
That's the first rack on the board.
Continue to rack number two.
I'm proving that this is an uncut version.
I could skip out the racking
but then you're all gonna think like,
hey, nice recording.
You took the nicest racks you had.
But this is uncut.
And like I said,
I did this session for my Patreon page.
So for my students,
I wanted to do a lesson on patterns
and ball in hand choices also.
So I wanted to see if I could do 10 ahead
and I thought it would take,
if I would be on fire,
it would hopefully take me an hour, hour 15.
But I don't believe in highlight reel
so I'll just tell you the real fact.
I wanna bring into the world how it really works.
I started but I messed up the first two games.
Then I ran a game,
then I messed up another rack
and I felt a little bit time pressured.
So I thought, man, I'm on minus one
and I've been going at it for 20 minutes.
So I'm gonna take one swing at it and start over
and that is this block of racks.
So I'm not gonna say that I'm super human,
that I put my cue together and ran 10 racks.
This is the second attempt.
And this is the first time I did this on camera,
10 ahead, 10 ball.
So it's not like I've tried this over and over,
but that's just the true story of the whole shabam.
Here's an interesting one.
I could go one reel and play for a combo,
but I'm playing this three reels
and trying to get to the third diamond there by my,
it was my, by the chalk, just lower of the chalk.
Check this out.
A lot of spin, go deep on that reel
towards that third diamond, a bit too low.
I wanted to hit it slightly higher,
but that was the shot I played.
See for the two on the side,
still a lot of work to be done here.
The five doesn't pass the seven.
The four, 10 I have to play.
In this session, I play with the rule.
If I make the winning ball, it stays down
and I keep shooting.
You can also opt to put the ball back.
That's up to you.
I try to stay fairly close to this reel.
Why?
Because I need an angle to go off this bottom cushion now
and in between the six and eight.
If I would have hit that harder,
I might've been hampered by the nine.
I would have been too straight on the three
where I had to draw it.
With this angle here, I can still roll it.
One tip of right and all speed control.
There, I actually hit that ball about as good as I could.
And now it's all about what is the four gonna do?
I can make this combo.
However, I need the four to get some action
and go towards the eight, but lay under the eight.
So the speed on this four is critical.
I have to slightly stun it there.
Again, I was extremely happy with that result.
I have an angle and I got the four in the open.
I was afraid it was gonna go too soft
and it would be blocked by the eight to go in that corner.
But I'm not out of the woods yet.
Again, I gotta hit this with low right,
go two rails and pass the nine.
So the spin there has to do the work
and now it has to slow down.
Again, I was very happy with that one.
I executed like four shots already up to my level,
I would say.
I was happy.
This is two rails going into the line of position,
but I just have a slight angle
as I walk back to it a second time to go towards the side.
So I have to, now I see that,
I have to just cheat this pocket slightly there.
I have to just cheat it slightly.
I can't hit it too hard
because then the draw is gonna take effect even later.
And I was afraid I could scratch.
So therefore, I don't get low enough as I would like
to go short rail, side rail into the other side rail.
Now I'm higher.
I have to go with low left and go towards that rail.
That's where all the open space is.
So I felt personally,
this was one of the really cool racks
in this whole block already in rack two.
Just have an off angle.
Again, I have to draw out with the spin,
just make the maximum out of the minimum there.
I had the wrong angle.
And I personally don't like to roll these.
I rather stun them with a tip of left spin,
some helping English, let the stroke out
and play that shot with a bit more authority.
So we got two racks under the belt.
We're going to rack number three.
I'm just trying to get a good session going in my mind.
I'm not thinking at all about 10 in a row.
That's for later on when I get to seven and eight
and I start thinking about it a bit more.
That was also the great experience of this workout.
I really felt the pressure in the end
because I don't think I've ever done 10 in a row.
I've done, usually when I play Ghost now,
I do with 15 balls.
And I do it where I play 10 racks
and I get ball in hand every time.
But if I mess up the rack,
I get another ball in hand.
And then I score my amount of innings for 10 racks.
That usually takes me about an hour to an hour 15,
and I've done four or five innings.
That was my record.
And if I do 10 ball, then I do pyramid style
where I do 10, then 11, then 12, 13,
or maybe climb to 14, 15,
but I've not done just 10 ball for a long, long time.
Here, I want to just play this with a high ball.
I can't really come into the line of position,
but I could really nicely glide over for the two.
Sometimes when all these balls are over the pocket,
you gotta, it looks easy,
but you have to be mindful
because I need an angle on this five
to go down table for the six.
So I need to clear the seven in order to get that angle.
So it looks super easy, but I have to be respectful
and I would rather play this four
kind of from where the cue ball is now
with low left and go side rail, side rail under the chalk.
That's why I'm playing this that way
instead of straight in
because now I can go to all the open space.
Low left, put enough left on this.
We've all scratched in the side on this one.
Play it with added left.
There you go.
See, now I'm passed straight in, in the open area.
I totally cleared the seven.
However, I remember this shot, check it out.
I get too high on this six.
I walk over and I'm like, I got a funky angle here
because my plan was to just go around the eight two rails,
a short rail and then the right side rail,
but I can't do that.
So I'm going to play this just one rail out,
play for the seven in the corner
and just play a stop shot on the eight
because like Buddy Hall, the legendary Buddy Hall said,
if you have position, don't play position.
Right now, I have position on the eight
when I just stopped the seven.
I don't have to do anything
because I can beautifully swing this cue ball around
three rails now with stun and left, maybe stun draw.
Stun would bring me slightly too high.
I might scratch.
See, I'm doing a stun draw
just to stay away from the corner scratch,
the low right corner that is.
Roll this guy in for rack number three.
So that's just a nice example
of when those balls are over the pockets,
don't just take it for granted
because one bad angle can totally mess up the layout.
And actually when that ball is over the pocket,
remember the video, it's not a hanger.
You have to play good angles on those shots
because otherwise you have to just draw them all the time
and that's when you get in trouble.
So we got three racks under our belt.
Let's see.
I'm not too worried about breaking perfect.
I just want to get a lot of action.
It's a hand rack.
I'm not spending minutes and minutes to get a perfect rack.
See, that one didn't really open up that well,
but I sometimes just like that challenge.
That's just me personally.
I feel I become a better player when I get funkier layouts
than when everything's just wide open,
which it actually is now, but you get the point.
So again, what are we going to do with this five?
One, two, three, four are pretty much connected.
I could have actually looking at it,
played one, three combo.
Why?
Because if then I would have played a stop shot on the two,
I would have had the perfect angle on the four already.
Now I have to play from the three to the four
and get the angle.
So looking back on that, I learned something there
because I want to play the five in the side
and I want to do that from the right side of the table
where I can go side rail, side rail.
And actually from the two,
I would have had the perfect angle on that four
because now I have to draw back really well.
See what I mean?
I'm going to that side of the table.
I just got enough angle.
I can't go two rails really anymore.
The angle's not sufficient.
So with a stun draw on left, now I'm going one rail.
See, if I would have gone two rails there,
I probably would have ended up frozen on the rail.
This one, you want to just draw back about a ball
because you need an angle again, right?
Now we can go, I call it the Z shot
or side rail, side rail, whatever.
My plan here is to go under the seven
and then go to the side of the table where the six is now.
So the left side.
But look what happens.
I end up too straight.
This is trouble.
And here's my thought process.
First, I'm looking, can I still get down there
with left and stun draw?
I'm afraid of the side pocket.
I'm afraid of the corner.
Can I draw it out with low right?
Let the spin carry me over to the 10.
Then I'm thinking, can I do it with a high ball?
Look, I'm going to land with a high ball.
I want to go two rails,
but I'm afraid that the ball is going to break.
When you give a lot of top spin,
the speed of the ball can actually reduce
because of all the top spin.
So I'm going back to my plan A.
Look what happens here, guys.
The spin's going to grab
and this is what I was afraid of.
Check this out.
I get hooked behind the 10.
Now, I could get out of my jump cue,
but I was lazy.
I didn't have my jump cue out.
I came back from team league in Holland.
My jumper was still in my case
and I wanted to save time for the video.
I said, you know what?
I can kick this ball in.
A lot of spin.
Check out the shot.
You got to aim it shorter,
but let the spin do the work.
How nice is that?
Recovery there.
And this one with low right,
I'm not rolling these balls.
I want to hit these low left.
With low left,
I want to go off the side rail
and let the spin,
just a tip of spin,
help me out.
Boom.
And I'm back in action.
So I forgot that I actually had to kick in one ball.
And here we go.
Let's make this one.
We're on four.
So we're keeping it going.
If you kick those balls,
I think I've done a video.
If I have, I'll look it up
and post the link here in the top.
With those kicks,
if you just hit them with a little bit of spin,
then you're going to come too much
from underneath the eight ball.
Your aiming point is going to be too low.
And then you're not going to be able to make that ball.
It's much better to aim shorter on that eight,
if that makes sense,
and let the spin bring you to the eight.
And then your zone of hitting the eight
and making it becomes larger.
Try to experiment with that a little bit.
That's a huge tip.
I learned that from Alex Lely,
who is one of the better kickers in Europe.
Oh man, check out this rack also.
Woo, here we go.
I have to open up some balls.
This is a nice rack.
I remember this.
I don't believe in highlight reels.
I want to show the real stuff,
but I'm pretty proud of this little session here, guys.
And this is a nice rack again.
I want to get an angle on the two
where I can either hit the seven or the five.
So I'm going to go play this with a roll.
Remember my roll.
If possible, remember my rule.
If possible with ball man, try to roll it.
Can't always do it.
I want to roll it past, straight in.
And I just have enough angle to hit the seven.
Now I can just hit the seven,
but then I'm going to have a real tough shot on the four.
So I want to hit the left side of the seven
with left spin on the cue ball.
So when it does hit the side reel,
it's going to spin back out towards the four a little bit
for a better shot.
So that's what I'm trying to do.
Here's the left.
See, but I hit it actually a little too thin.
And now I'm like, oh boy.
But I can go two reels.
I can go two reels.
Don't hit the seven, but off the second reel, hit the six.
That will give me a shot on the five
and it's going to open up the six,
but I got to hit it perfect.
Two reels, boink.
All right, that's nice.
Do I have an angle either to draw into the six
or underneath the six?
I want to draw underneath the six
and play the six in the same pocket as the five,
but I just don't get into that ball good enough.
Now I'm stuck over the seven
and the trap here is to play this too sweet,
to play it too roly-roly.
It's better to just go off the side reel
and put your best stroke into this guy there.
These are four-inch pockets.
It's no joke.
Again, if I go with low left here,
I'm coming into the line of position.
So don't go off the side reel
and play the eight in the opposite corner.
See that?
I'm coming into the line all day long.
Think a high ball with a tip of left,
but see that?
There's no left on that.
So I get actually, I get the wrong angle.
Not too pleased with that one.
Looking back on the screen now,
I could draw it over and play the 10 in the same corner,
but I want to get a little bit more aggressive
and play it this way.
Personal preference.
I felt there was more room there.
Rack number five.
Nice little out there.
See, with a regular rack,
I mean, you're gonna get racks that are just tough.
So this is a great challenge,
especially when you're recording it.
You know what the toughest thing is for me,
at least when I'm doing the recording
for like students or YouTube like this,
and I want to do a review later,
I start doing the review in my head
when I'm shooting the shots.
And that's what the main distraction is
when I got going here.
You start thinking,
you're kind of doing the analyzing already
when you're playing,
and that's not a good place to be in in your head.
You need to be on performance mode,
and that is all like practice and analyzing mode.
So I had to switch my mind off
and really warm up and play a little bit faster
so my intuition would kick in more.
And that kind of helped me to get going.
See, I get different layouts, reactions all the time.
Look at this three, six now.
And the four, five.
Hallelujah.
How are we gonna run this rack, guys?
We're gonna go off the side rail,
the left side rail,
come into the line of position for the two.
We need a healthy angle,
and then we're gonna try and go bottom rail,
left side rail,
and go into the three, six
with about stun with some right spin.
That's hopefully gonna give us a shot on the three,
and then we still have to play position on the four.
So here we go.
First, we're going off the side rail.
There.
Stun is not gonna do it with this angle.
That's gonna bring us towards the eight.
Draw is gonna bring us towards
like the third diamond on the right side.
Check out the rock around the clock video.
That's really what I felt on this shot
because it's almost the same setup.
I need stun draw with right spin,
and I have to neglect the eight.
The eight feels big.
Check that out.
Nice little shot there.
Of course, you need a little bit of luck.
You never know exactly what's gonna happen there.
I wanna go not a half.
Enough angle to go one rail with some right spin
because the table got a bit more bouncy.
So I felt there the one rail.
I'm gonna play it into the corner anyway.
I hit it slightly too soft.
In hindsight, I might've been able to go two rails forward.
And you can draw this, but then you have to hit it harder.
You can also opt for a middle ball
with a real smooth stroke
and just push the five somewhat.
Check it out.
Then you don't have to blast it so much.
There.
See, that's just a crisp stroke.
Here's another interesting one.
I opt to draw all the way to the rail
because I need an angle to go to the other side
of the table for the seven anyway.
And if I wanna hit this like too nice,
I was afraid to be behind the eight.
See, so I'd rather do this.
And now I have a healthy angle anyway.
I think that was a smarter play.
And now with low left, I can go off the rail.
And of course, look what happens.
I get exactly the funkiest angle.
I get the funkiest angle where if I draw it,
I'm gonna land frozen on the rail.
So how am I gonna get to the nine
when I'm frozen on the rail on that eight?
So I'm thinking that's not gonna work too good.
I gotta figure out if I can hit this off the rail,
firm, and try to get an angle where I could draw it down,
which I did not.
So now here's my thought process.
I felt if I would stun this ball off the rail,
the scratch in the side was big.
And I was thinking if I can land somewhere
where the cue ball is now, that is good enough.
But I don't wanna go two rails
because hitting this with a high ball
and some spin with speed,
I felt the shot would be harder.
I would get too much deflection.
So just going one rail there
makes the pocketing of that ball better.
And I have really all that I need here.
I can go two rails here.
This is a big tip.
Don't play this one rail because you can miss it.
Hang it up.
I see too many people playing this one rail.
Let the stroke out.
Check it out.
It's going towards the 10.
And that is just smarter position
and accuracy on that ball.
So another funky rack on the scoreboard, six now.
And of course, there's gonna come a point
where you're gonna start thinking,
hey, I can just run this entire setup.
Normally playing in a headset,
for those who don't know that,
is you gotta get in front of the ghost.
So if you would run the first three
and then miss the next one, you're back on two.
So you need to get 10 ahead.
So you can practice six ahead, eight ahead, 10 ahead.
You can also just do a race, race to 10.
That's just regular, right?
But this is really, the headsets are for stamina.
That's putting in the hours of play
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I got a slight funky angle on this three
and I got that nine there.
So I'm thinking, okay, if I can just clear this nine
with a tip of left, then I'm back in business.
I didn't wanna go off the bottom rail anywhere.
I just wanted to keep it tight
because this is a nice open rack.
And then you wanna take advantage of that.
I have too much angle still.
So I'm just taking what I have.
No need to go off the rail.
It's kind of like a yo-yo drill shot here.
Remember the yo-yo drill?
Low left.
Just clear the nine.
Get towards the middle of the table.
Slight angle would be very useful to go one rail and up.
Do I have that?
Looks on the screen like I have an angle to go one rail,
but I didn't feel, it looks maybe straighter.
So I'm gonna draw it.
Yeah, that was straighter than it looked.
So good execution on that one.
Decision time.
Where are you gonna make the nine?
I felt I wanted to make the nine in the top right corner.
So I'm going off the rail like this.
And now I can go two cushions with stun draw.
That was my plan to go off the second rail
to get closer to the nine.
But I actually hit this ball too soft
and I end up going one rail.
That's not what I wanted.
I wanted to go two.
The angle's good,
but I'm further away from the nine than I wanted.
Not a big deal because the 10's right there.
We gotta keep it sharp.
When it's open and you think these are laying nice,
keep it sharp.
Big tip, don't get lackadaisical
and take things for granted.
That's when it really goes south.
Just a nice stop shot.
I don't roll these.
I wanna get my stroke out.
Hit him with authority.
Boom, that's seven.
Still on a run.
See what's gonna happen.
Still not really thinking about the 10 here.
I'm just trying to break decent.
I'm satisfied with my execution to this point.
So I just wanna keep the train rolling really.
I already had the 20 minutes before this session,
so I'm hitting an hour now of playing the ghost.
That's usually when you're gonna start feeling it
a little bit.
It's like playing straight pool.
If you're gonna run 100 and then from 100 to 200 maybe
or 150 and out.
It's also stamina.
You're gonna make more balls.
Your brain's gonna do a bit more work.
Eight ball perhaps.
Nope.
So the four, check the four.
Check the two to the three.
There is again nothing easy about this
because how are we gonna get to the four?
It looks like because of that seven,
it looks like you wanna play the four in the right corner
where I'm standing.
However, there's no accessible route
to that side of the table from the three.
The accessible route is actually
to that right corner pocket, but with the cue ball.
So you wanna make the four in the other left corner.
I'm picking my spot on the table.
Again, I'm using follow.
I'm just picking a spot now where I can roll the two in
and go towards the middle of the table.
From the middle of the table,
I want to hit the three, about three to four cushions
and land under that seven.
I'm afraid if I go bottom rail and go close to the 10.
Ooh, see how close that was?
And if I go close to the 10 now here,
I don't wanna hit the 10.
So that's where I'm gonna stun it with spin
and I have to pass the nine.
I gotta pass the nine right there
and land on the short rail.
So this is one, two, three, and perhaps a fourth rail.
Again, rock around the clock.
Same shot as before.
This is a tricky shot.
I have to hit it with some speed.
And I put a little bit, I get too much bounce.
Check it out.
Oh man, this is really the only one
where it could have really gone south there
and also the kick on the eight.
That got a little bit too much bounce off that second rail
because of the humidity.
But I land just, just good enough on this four
where I can make it.
But check this out.
This is also interesting.
Don't hit that guy too soft
because you're gonna be frozen on the rail
and you don't wanna be straight in on that five.
If you're straight in on the five now,
you have a big problem.
You have to slow roll it.
And I wanted to make sure that I had an angle on the five.
Now, look at this versus being straight in.
I have somewhat of an angle and I can do the following.
There.
I can come off the rail and create an angle now
to go side rail, side rail to the seven, right?
I wanna go into the line of position.
Don't play this one rail.
Side rail, side rail all day long.
You'll never not have a shot on the seven.
If you go one rail and you hit it too soft,
you got no shot on the seven.
So this is a bit of low left.
Get to the left side of the table.
I over amp that.
And I think this is where I started to feel it a little bit
like the stamina part and a little bit of,
I wouldn't say anxiety,
just, you know, doing a recorded 10 in a row,
I started feeling like, hey, this could be really cool.
See, I over amp that one.
I wanted to land more towards the middle of the table
and with some low right,
come off the rail into the line of the 10.
Now I have to hit this with a high ball
and play the 10 in the opposite corner.
High ball with a bit of right.
Don't hit it too hard.
Take what the table's giving you.
Here we go.
See, just accept what's there.
Decent, it's not great.
Could have hit that with a bit more spin,
but I didn't want to take a chance of missing the ball.
I just accepted what was there.
See, and again, I'm not going to roll these balls.
If I have half ball shots of that nature,
I'm always going out of the corner
because I don't get a skid.
I don't have to roll it.
That's just my personal taste.
I don't want to roll those final shots,
but other players do.
There's nothing wrong with that.
It's your personal style.
Are you a below center ball player
or an above center ball player?
And that's just your style of play.
I'm going to do a video about that also in the near future.
We're on eight.
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Check this layout out.
See, the work's not over, pool players.
I mean, I've had at least four racks
where I've had to work my butt off.
And this one, again, how am I going to get to the three
to even make a three-seven combo?
I have to land in between the four and five.
I can hardly make the one.
I have to put an angle on the one like that to cut it
and then go off the rail.
See what I'm doing with my Q-tip?
I'm keeping that spot fresh in my brain
and I'm letting my subconscious brain
feel the angle that I need.
Also keep in mind, when you're playing this with follow,
you're going to get a little delay before the follow grabs
and that can affect your angle.
If you give yourself too much angle,
you're going to be hooked behind the four.
I've known that from grabbing the hot stove over the years.
You have to put it straighter than you think.
I just got there.
That was a tough shot.
I remember that.
I really didn't like that shot.
And now I have to play T-seven here.
I believe I'm going to play this with a drag stroke,
drag shot, to beat the roll of any table.
Let's see.
It should start drawing and then rolling.
Yeah, that was kind of a drag shot.
I'm going to put the link here in the top.
That's so powerful.
That was the video from two weeks ago.
I'm going to go one rail in front of the,
could have gone around the 10 there,
but I was a bit nervous that I could catch
the side of the 10.
So I felt the one railer was a bit better.
Still have a slight angle on this four,
funkier angle than I would have liked.
I'm going to draw out softly.
Keep it sharp.
Balls are open, but keep it sharp.
Yeah, and I'm starting to feel it a little bit here
in a positive way.
I'm getting excited.
I'm getting a bit nervous.
Draw to the middle of the table.
And I just want to go,
this one is a high ball with one tip of left.
And I almost missed this ball.
I remember this.
I was really disappointed how I hit this.
Check it out.
I hit that way too thin.
Look at the cue ball.
It's going too fast.
See, I'm angry at myself.
I'm not keeping it sharp.
That's why I'm angry,
but mentally controlled anger sometimes at yourself,
some controlled anger where it gets you pumped up
and you don't pick a fight with anybody,
but just with yourself, like,
come on now or whatever, right?
That can help you to break free.
So that got me going.
It gets me fired up sometimes.
So that's controlled anger.
I mean, anger sounds like a really bad thing,
but I mean, that's just like two seconds.
So we're on nine.
Good correction.
Felt the one, two, the three,
and then the three, seven combo
were the highlights of that rack.
Now I'm on nine.
Of course I'm nervous.
And I'm getting distracted in my mind again.
I'm like, okay,
what am I gonna do in this workout,
recorded workout if I mess up this rack?
Am I gonna still try and finish or stop the recording?
So I'm getting distracted.
So mentally for you inspired mental athletes
from the Mental Edge for Competitive Pool Players course,
the big flagship course, focus.
Mentally, it's about regrouping.
Take a breath, focus on the moment,
and get back to controlling the controllables, right?
That's also from the attitude lesson.
What can I actually control?
I can control a good hit on my break.
I got no guarantees.
Scratch doesn't matter.
Just get ball in hand anyway.
Now I can control my cue ball.
I can control my breathing,
shot selection.
This one's funky.
Because there's three options here.
I can go one rail towards the two.
There's a risk of getting behind the five.
I can go three rails under the 10,
side rail, bottom rail, side rail.
Or I can go stun at two rails, side rail, side rail.
I felt with the stun,
I was a bit afraid of coming too low on the two.
The three railer, I felt the three was just in a way
of getting the right angle with ball in hand,
like the setup.
So I'm opting to go one rail,
but I'm slightly nervous.
And the table's getting bouncier by the rack.
So check this out.
I'm like, what is going on with that shot?
I didn't like that at all.
Bouncy table, that happens.
Try to make the correction every shot.
Try to keep it a little bit better with every inning.
So with low left here,
I can come off the side rail
and try to get either straight in on the three
or a bit harder where I can roll it in the side.
Stay down on this ball, low left.
Nothing easy about this one.
Hit that crisp.
See the bounce?
Hit it real good.
And I just want to lag this in and get to the bottom rail.
That way I can go towards the middle of the table
with a bit of spin on the four.
But see the bounce there?
The table changed on me midway the session.
Can't really remember if I still roll this ball
or if I had to just stomp draw it out with some spin.
I want to go to the center of the table.
See, I'm still going with just spin.
This is about 10 o'clock.
Spin.
And I hit it too soft.
Here's a shot from the crossover drill.
Now, slightly worried about this one
because I felt some anxiety for the position on the six.
I was like, do I want to get straight in?
I don't want to hit it too hard.
Then I might end up on top of the eight,
but I don't want to get just on the side rail.
That's going to give me too much of a cut.
So I have to hit it crisp like that.
That was a nice stroke.
I was happy with that one.
The seven did go.
I checked that before.
I'm just double checking because it's very tight
and I have a small angle on the six the wrong way.
So I opt to go for a top spin shot
with the slightest of left spin.
Otherwise I'm frozen on the rail.
Like that.
That wasn't too bad.
That was pretty nice.
However, I still have to jack up on this ball.
Plus I'm shooting it into a very tight aiming angle
because that 10 is the size of a watermelon
in your view on this ball.
I have to hit it past the 10.
It goes and I want to just stun off the rail
towards the eight.
Got to really stay down on this guy.
I'm feeling it.
Not embarrassed to admit that.
I'm feeling the heat here.
See, again, I'm a bit short.
Yeah, that would be great.
If I can end up under that nine,
then I can go two rails towards the 10.
Breathe.
That's your assignment in these situations.
Breathe.
And if you need to, just walk back to your table,
take a sip of water,
wipe the cue down with your towel
just for like five seconds.
I just have enough angle to do that two railer again.
And two more shots, pool players,
for a nice 10 pack versus the ghost in 10 ball
into the line of position.
See that?
Under the gun, little celebration into the line.
There you go.
Boom.
There you go, pool fans.
I'm sure you enjoyed that one
and picked up a thing or two along the way.
If you're interested in another player review like this
for straight pool with 100 and out,
there's a link here on the side.
And also for eight ball where I give you a masterclass
with a bunch of racks, live, uncut,
and especially for you to make you a better player.
I'll see you in the next episode.
