How to Achieve Consistency Every Time You Play Pool

If you are a pool player, whether amateur, pro, or leisure, you have probably realized that shooters have their good days and their bad days. The key to increasing your skill level is consistency. So, how do you achieve this consistency? Well, first you need to understand the reason why you have those good days and other times you can't make a single shot.

I am by no means a professional player that you see on ESPN. However, I have been a captain to many amateur teams and in that time I have coached dozens of shooters ranging in every skill level. Though, my coaching skills have proved better than my actual shooting skills, it has given me the opportunity to observe and understand the average shooter's tendencies as well as my own mistakes.

One important factor to playing pool is having confidence. This is really only going to come from practice. You can read articles all day, and I do encourage you continue to read, but you must apply your reading through experience and practice. Since there are so many factors to playing pool, building your knowledge will make your arms take a proper smooth stroke.

The key to having confidence is not worrying about missing shots or losing. As I said before, practice will help build your confidence since you are less likely to look at a shot and have absolutely no idea how to execute it. Do not worry about whether or not you can make a shot. If the shot is physically possible, you must be able to tell yourself that you can do it. When you take a shot that you are not confident with means that you have pretty much condemned yourself before even taking the shot. Also, even when you are miss a shot from "over-confidence" it will only help you learn shots and angles that you may not have realized were possible.