\nHi All<\/p>\n
\tWell we are in Atlantic City having our Seminar and yesterday I played. I was down. My dice looked great in the air, but something was wrong.<\/p>\n
\tUp comes Daryl to the table, I get the dice – set a point – throw again – third throw 7 out – LINE AWAY!<\/p>\n
\tDaryl comes over to me and says your dice are cocked. "What" I say, I have never had that problem. Sometimes on my backswing I will go in and out, but cocked\/angled dice! But that is Daryl telling me so it must be true. I get the dice again and make sure I am not cocking them. Low and behold, I have a great roll, 4 or 5 points and I win everything back, plus a profit! Daryl is smiling and I am pointing to him. <\/p>\n
\tWe all have little problems that take someone else to see. That is really the reason and how GTC started. We all played together and really wanted a reason to get together to look at each other’s throw. <\/p>\n
\tWe still have one seat open for a primer and 1 seat open for a refresher, and 2 seas open for Blackjack for any of you that are interested. Give me a call. And if not and you want to stop by for the open house, that is between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n
\tThank you Daryl and thank you Golden Touch!<\/p>\n
\tDom<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Wirenut on April 19, 2018, 11:33 am<\/p>\n \tShould be a lot of fun.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> JawBones on April 19, 2018, 12:04 pm<\/p>\n \tSorry I can’t be in AC but hope to catch with everyone very soon.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on April 19, 2018, 2:34 pm<\/p>\n \tRose and Doc have been running a possible post like Dom’s through out heads for sometime. We have been in a bit of a "funk" as our throw was off and has been for awhile. So we have gone back to the basics just like we teach the primers during their first hour or so in class. At the beginning of our first practice session for the day:<\/p>\n \t1. We check our stance–feet shoulder length apart, stomach against the table. \tWe go through all of these steps each morning at the beginning of our practice each day. We always use the gripper for our first turn with the dice to insure we have the proper grip—when we grip the dice this is the only time we have 100% control of the dice. Once released the laws of nature take over. <\/p>\n \tWe may not practice long in a given session (15 to 20 minutes), but we try to have 2 to 4 sessions per day. <\/p>\n \tThe results over the past several weeks. Each day we have several rolls in the teens that make a small profit, the occasional 20, 30 or 40 roll and of course a few very short rolls maybe a point 7 out or 2 as they will happen to the best. But overall making money. <\/p>\n \tGuys and gals–from time to time you have to get back to basics at our sport of choice. Never forget the very best pro golfers, pro football quarterbacks. etc. practice every day and often under the watchful eyes of their respective coaches. We are pros and need to do the same thing. <\/p>\n \tDom, thank you for starting this post since it allowed us to share what we have been doing—just as you did.<\/p>\n \tRose and Doc are lucky that we live with coaches as do Jaw Bones and his lovely wife.<\/p>\n \tWe are really sorry to be missing AC this time but are looking forward to seeing many of you at the next class! Have fun!!<\/p>\n \tRose and Doc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> HardNine on April 19, 2018, 4:01 pm<\/p>\n \tHave a great weekend, folks,<\/p>\n \tDon<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> BucksterK on April 19, 2018, 5:27 pm<\/p>\n Hi All Well we are in Atlantic City having our Seminar and yesterday I played. I was down. My dice looked great in the air, but something was wrong. Up comes Daryl to the table, I get the dice –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t2. Get the gripper and practice the grip—fingers straight across the front, middle finger centered on both dice (feel the seam), and thumb centered on the back of the dice.
\n\t3. At set up we make sure the dice are square to all surfaces of the table.
\n\t4. Next we do what we call the "no field five" drill—by not targeting (for this drill only) keeping our eyes down so that we can see the dice are square, the back swing is about 3 to 4 inches and straight back and the forward swing straight down the runway with our eyes still looking down not releasing the dice to get the feel of the dice being level when we swing forward–we need to "feel" this in our mind. Then and only then we check to see the dice are level at release. We also are able to now see if we in fact went straight forward. <\/p>\n
\n\tAfter reading Dom’s post and Rose & Doc’s reply, I just have to chime in.
\n\tRob & I do exactly the same things to prepare for a big weekend like this one or for just a short night out at a local casino here in Delaware.
\n\tWe, too, have been in slumps but we are fortunate to have eachother to critique our shots, take videos of our swings in slo-mo, and keep our grip loose.
\n\tAs The Goddess taught us, everything must be straight and square….body, arm, dice and release.
\n\tWe also use her technique of checking to see if our grip is too tight. Can you easily pop those dice out of your fingers?
\n\tSometimes casinos have very poor lighting around a table and you can’t see your dice are ‘cocked’. Sometimes I need my eyes examined!!! \ud83d\ude06
\n\tWe use Doc’s tool of shooting dice into a bucket or target. When we just can’t get it right, we pull out the bucket and take target practice.
\n\tAnd when we feel the shot going wonky right off the fingers, we invoke Mr. Finesse’s "GET LUCKY" call. He always stressed that it was "All About That Grip!"
\n\tSo we’re looking forward to seeing you all & HAPPY ROLLING !!!!
\n\tKay & Rob<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"