Seconditis

crabbcatjohn said:

I had a friend once who spent a bunch of time in Nam and that area of the world. He got picked to be on the TV game Scrabble. He stopped drinking for a month and ate tons of Chinese/Asian food. He swore it would help with memory and stress. He won 25K...which was a lot for that show.
My mother is a genius, 83 now and reads 6 books a week plus word games on the computer etc. She is very lucid and still triple smart. Gotta work that mind so it doesn't set up. Unfortunately none of that was passed down to me.

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jrhendy said:

I have played quite a bit lately tuning up for the tourney in SoCal at James & Stephanie Boch's home. I played in three local tounaments the last three weeks. 38 players at Hard Times Sacramento, 20 players at CA Billiards Fremont and an 8 man round robin yesterday again at CA Billiards.

I placed second in all three, which is nice, but I actually felt I should have won at least two of them. With me it is mental fatigue at the end of the tournament. These are all races to two so there is quite a bit of concentration needed to make it as far as I do. I just go brain dead at the end. Is this getting to be a bad habit?

I have tried drinking coffee and even tried some Cheqio pills that are supposedly being used by quite few of the pros in pool and other sports to sharpen your concentration. My physical skills are pretty much still there, but where can I find the fountain of youth for my brain. It's not like I used it too much in 77 years.

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jrhendy said:

I have played quite a bit lately tuning up for the tourney in SoCal at James & Stephanie Boch's home. I played in three local tounaments the last three weeks. 38 players at Hard Times Sacramento, 20 players at CA Billiards Fremont and an 8 man round robin yesterday again at CA Billiards.

I placed second in all three, which is nice, but I actually felt I should have won at least two of them. With me it is mental fatigue at the end of the tournament. These are all races to two so there is quite a bit of concentration needed to make it as far as I do. I just go brain dead at the end. Is this getting to be a bad habit?

I have tried drinking coffee and even tried some Cheqio pills that are supposedly being used by quite few of the pros in pool and other sports to sharpen your concentration. My physical skills are pretty much still there, but where can I find the fountain of youth for my brain. It's not like I used it too much in 77 years.

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vapros said:

In the world of bowling, when I was finally through with it, I had the nagging feeling that I should have done better in several singles events in which I had made the finals and then suffered a letdown and failed to win a title. Looking back, (which is much too late), I think it showed a lack of the necessary drive at the end. It is too easy to decide you have already had a good tourney, when the truth is you haven't had shit if you don't finish it. A finals match is a whole new event, and should be regarded that way. Both satisfaction and fatigue must be put aside for later. That's what I decided, anyway. In doubles and team competition, my approach just seemed to be much better and more successful. It's like sex, if you will. Subconsciously you save up enough strength to see you through those last nine strokes.

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Scrzbill said:

Of all the iticies you could catch, I think second itis isnt so bad. You could be at the doctors with some unknown iticies, with this clearly designated second itis, they is no worry. Do you think you catch it from sitting on the hot seat so long? The next tournament is only three players and you have dominated them for years, and they are So-Cal boys. No chance against NOR-CAL:heh:heh

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jrhendy said:

I have played quite a bit lately tuning up for the tourney in SoCal at James & Stephanie Boch's home. I played in three local tounaments the last three weeks. 38 players at Hard Times Sacramento, 20 players at CA Billiards Fremont and an 8 man round robin yesterday again at CA Billiards.

I placed second in all three, which is nice, but I actually felt I should have won at least two of them. With me it is mental fatigue at the end of the tournament. These are all races to two so there is quite a bit of concentration needed to make it as far as I do. I just go brain dead at the end. Is this getting to be a bad habit?

I have tried drinking coffee and even tried some Cheqio pills that are supposedly being used by quite few of the pros in pool and other sports to sharpen your concentration. My physical skills are pretty much still there, but where can I find the fountain of youth for my brain. It's not like I used it too much in 77 years.

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jrhendy said:

I have played quite a bit lately tuning up for the tourney in SoCal at James & Stephanie Boch's home. I played in three local tounaments the last three weeks. 38 players at Hard Times Sacramento, 20 players at CA Billiards Fremont and an 8 man round robin yesterday again at CA Billiards.

I placed second in all three, which is nice, but I actually felt I should have won at least two of them. With me it is mental fatigue at the end of the tournament. These are all races to two so there is quite a bit of concentration needed to make it as far as I do. I just go brain dead at the end. Is this getting to be a bad habit?

I have tried drinking coffee and even tried some Cheqio pills that are supposedly being used by quite few of the pros in pool and other sports to sharpen your concentration. My physical skills are pretty much still there, but where can I find the fountain of youth for my brain. It's not like I used it too much in 77 years.

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Jeff sparks said:

Potassium. Eat a banana. Sugar. Eat a snickers. One Alcapulco turnaround might do the trick also, of course you'd have to have some action lined up for after the tournament.... You probably don't remember those, do you? They were sometimes called black mollies... Take one and you could drive from LA to Alcapulco, turnaround and drive back to LA.. and play for a day or two...

Pretty good shootin there old man...

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