Help required urgently
John ? Sickpotter? Randam? anyone?
Just lost 3-0 in the snooker league following on from a 7-3 trouncing to a mate on Saturday. These results were 2 of my worst performances ever and coming off the back of a spell in the last month to 6 weeks where i havent played well at all.
Confidence is at an all time low, im barely able to string more than 2 or 3 pots together now. Bizarrely the easier the pot the harder it is for me now. Im still knocking in longer and harder pots frequently but the amount of straightish medium to close pots im missing is becoming a mental block for me. Negative thoughts are continually entering my head and im cueing across the cueball and missing these by an alarming distance.
My other achillies heel which has struck lately is in so many frames ive let decent leads slip, its like im pressing the self destruct button. Tonight yet again i was 25 up with the colours on, instead of playing a simple safety which was on, i took on a virtually impossible long yellow and it ended up being stuck up leaving my opponent in to clear the colours.
After this i basically did a Hann or Ding and just gave up, lost morale, belief and interest and just slogged my way through the rest of the match playing all or nothing pots or just getting straight down and hitting my shot with no thought etc.
I was once again just glad for the match to be done and get out of there. A shocking attitude as im normally mix up an attacking approach with an element of grinding but always give every shot 100% focus. Its hard to know what to do to arrest this slump in form and poor attitude.
Just lost 3-0 in the snooker league following on from a 7-3 trouncing to a mate on Saturday. These results were 2 of my worst performances ever and coming off the back of a spell in the last month to 6 weeks where i havent played well at all.
Confidence is at an all time low, im barely able to string more than 2 or 3 pots together now. Bizarrely the easier the pot the harder it is for me now. Im still knocking in longer and harder pots frequently but the amount of straightish medium to close pots im missing is becoming a mental block for me. Negative thoughts are continually entering my head and im cueing across the cueball and missing these by an alarming distance.
My other achillies heel which has struck lately is in so many frames ive let decent leads slip, its like im pressing the self destruct button. Tonight yet again i was 25 up with the colours on, instead of playing a simple safety which was on, i took on a virtually impossible long yellow and it ended up being stuck up leaving my opponent in to clear the colours.
After this i basically did a Hann or Ding and just gave up, lost morale, belief and interest and just slogged my way through the rest of the match playing all or nothing pots or just getting straight down and hitting my shot with no thought etc.
I was once again just glad for the match to be done and get out of there. A shocking attitude as im normally mix up an attacking approach with an element of grinding but always give every shot 100% focus. Its hard to know what to do to arrest this slump in form and poor attitude.
- Witz78
- Posts: 15036
- Joined: 02 February 2010