Fedor Gorst

Well, it's the most, I think, and Jeremy Jones and I were talking about this, I think it's the most mental game because there's this moment of pulling the trigger, this moment where you're making sure that everything aligns and you just kind of keep your mind on task and keep focused on the object ball.

Do you look at the cue ball before you strike or the object ball?

It's interesting because it is a preference thing.

There's a guy named Joel Turner who is, I don't know if I talked to you about this guy.

He used to be – well, he was a sniper for rescue missions with the police where someone had a hostage and he would have to execute shots under extreme pressure.

Yeah.

He was also a bow hunter and he realized that there were certain mistakes that he was making and a lot of people are making bow hunting that had to do with anticipating the shot and anxiety before you pull the trigger.

And that the way to work around that is to have a pre-shot routine in your mind where you're talking to yourself loudly in your head.

And you develop this pre-shot routine with very specific things that you say to yourself.

You say, like, here I go.

Like, you know, whatever different things.

He's got a bunch of different steps that he said where he's talking to himself, like center your peep sight.

There's like a bunch of things.

Yeah.

If you think you're going to miss, you will miss.

What I was getting at is I found a giant crossover between that and archery in that it's the same thing.

If you think you're going to miss in archery, you're going to miss.

And if you think you're going to miss in pool, you're going to miss.

Right.

Yeah.