Some food for thought

Your dice set is never the problem. The dice don’t and never will know how you have set them. The dice only react to the forces that you have exerted on them. Will a perfect shot always give you the desired result? Sadly no, there are too many forces that are out of your control to expect this. A perfect shot tossed enough times will give you enough edge to beat the game. The more perfect shots that you produce the higher your edge will be.

You are always close, since you are always one quarter turn from success. If you could turn one die on every seven out one quarter turn you would be able to get a six or eight.

Occasionally I will lament that one of my seven outs looked great, but I have been doing this long enough to know that what I see isn’t always what I get. The view that you get while shooting is far from optimal. You can have many problems that are hard to see from behind. You might have a lead or lag which you can’t see. Poor finger position sometimes will produce this condition, and it’s also hard to see the dice wobble unless you are in perfect shooting position. Most aren’t of a body type that can get that far out and behind the dice to look straight behind them.

When I have a problem that I can’t solve I go to my shootin partner "5". He knows my shot and can fix it in a jiffy.

I have found that many shooters aren’t qualified to critique their shots. Most haven’t seen enough really good shots to know what to look for. It takes a long time to know what to look for and even longer to know what to do about something when you do see it. There have been too many times that someone has said to me that they thought that some shot was a very good one and my eyes have told me that the result should have been expected.

It ain’t easy.

Replies:

No replies were posted for this topic.