The Advanced Pro Book: Strategies and Training Techniques for the Serious Pool Player - Softcover

Henning, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887956247 ISBN 13: 9781887956246

Publisher: Bebob Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

The Pro Book was widely considered the most advanced training resource in pool until this came out. It is a free standing book and the first book is not required, but being familiar with it or the The Pro Book DVD Series would be an advantage. The Advanced Pro Book is intended for the serious pool player and contains advanced strategies and training techniques. It addresses the five major areas of strategy and training: Honing Your Technique, Mastering the Shot Routine, Mastering Advanced Tools, Getting Your Game Out, and Advanced Match Strategy. You can use this book to: Train to execute advanced shots, position play, defensive play, banks and kicks. Learn to get your best game out when you need it and how to keep your focus under pressure. Discover and master advanced strategies for the front, mid, and end games and learn how to take and maintain control. Hone your technique to a master’s edge and increase your consistency by incorporating personal alignment, stroke and rhythm. Use the kicking and banking maps to become a strong and confident player.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Henning is an accomplished pool player and has played on the Pro Tour. He is the author of The Pro Book, an advanced training resource for competitive players, the Pro Book Video Series and The Pro Book DVD Series. In addition, he has authored Cornbread Red, a biography of the colorful Billy "Cornbread Red" Burge. He writes a monthly column for Inside Pool Magazine titled "Pro Pool Work-Out."

Review

About the highest praise you can offer a pool instructional book is that it makes you feel like playing. Henning, one of America s better-known teachers (his first effort, The Pro Book, is in its sixth printing, and has been translated into two languages), has created a piece wherein any given page can do that. Of his book s 338 pages, Henning devotes the first 109 to an advanced look at fundamentals, and while pool s basics have been covered and covered and covered elsewhere, you ll appreciate his insights into them; almost all of them are new. (He even has an entire chapter on staying down.) My favorite sections of The Advanced Pro Book, however, are sections 4 and 5, which deal almost exclusively with the mental game. How many players have gone from intermediate to advanced when some savvy teacher told them, Let your stroke out ? Are you familiar with that phrase? Henning offers an entire chapter on it. His four pages on focus are sheer genius. Henning s diagrammed shots are also superb, including the advice he offers within them. The Advanced Pro Book is highly, highly recommended. --Billiard Digest (2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: Bebob Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1887956247
• ISBN 13: 9781887956246
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344