Pool Player's Edge

by Gerry Kanov and Shari Stauch

Book Overview

Great pool players know that competing successfully in tournament competition requires more than technical shotmaking skills. You also need to be able to execute them under pressure, read the table, anticipate your opponents' shots, and maintain your focus throughout the match. This advanced insight into the game is what Pool Player's Edge is all about. First, you'll learn the high-level skills and top-shelf shots: -Stop, stun, and drag shots -Frozen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736047077
• ISBN13: 9780736047074
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This is a great book fot the beginner and average player, it has a lot of techniques that will help build a game or develop and improve that of an average player.

The Pool Doctor Is Making House Calls

I really enjoyed Precision Pool, but I loved The Pool Player's Edge! While the first book gave its readers gems and tips in acquiring fundamentals and advanced skills, Kanov and Stauch provide an opportunity to troubleshoot and apply those skills in their latest book. The first section gives the reader tools to diagnose and fix problems in fundamentals, which everybody needs. I don't care who you are, when you are having trouble with your game, chances are it's your fundamentals that need tweaking. The "Quick Fixes" work great to get you back on track. But the real joy of this book is in the last two sections on 8-ball and 9-ball. The sections break each game into Phases - Opening Game, Middle Game and End Game that provide the reader with winning strategies and key shots to employ those strategies.The book is filled with great diagrams, as usual, and further uses some great action photos of real pros to illustrate the concepts provided in the text. It is a real thinking-man's book and I enjoyed it thoroughly.