{"id":3785,"date":"2012-01-02T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2012-01-02T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T03:31:29","slug":"appearance-counts-look-and-feel-good-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2012\/01\/02\/appearance-counts-look-and-feel-good-for-success","title":{"rendered":"Appearance Counts: Look and Feel Good for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tip #2\/31 for January, 2012.<\/h3>\n<p>The data has been crunched and verified. First impressions matter. Humans make subconscious decisions within seconds of meeting a new person. Your appearance and the way you carry yourself will affect your opponent. Arriving for an important match looking and feeling like a winner makes a difference. Small things like this can add up to cause an opponent to doubt their chances of winning against you. Your air and attitude portrays a confident and prepared persona. Professionalism. Think Ralf Souquet. Every time he removes his tip protectors, he&#8217;s unsheathing his doomsday machine. &#8220;Der Pool Queue des Schicksals.&#8221; Opponents and spectators know he means to be victorious.<\/p>\n<p>In order to win, you must believe you can win. On some level, telling yourself you can do it pushes the mind in the direction of kinda believing that you can. &#8220;Fake it till you make it!&#8221; One of the thinks that helps me is belief in my equipment. I feel more confident in my abilities when I have confidence and pride in my pool cue. The new tip you&#8217;ve seen me shape in yesterday&#8217;s post is for my old Samsara Cue. Last month after running the 13th Annual Northern Lights Shootout, I returned home with this beauty which was getting a new wrap and refinish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3786\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ebony-Ivory-Silver-Full-Cue-Composite-Small-Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3786 \" title=\"Ebony-Ivory-Silver-Full-Cue-Composite-Small-Watermarked\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ebony-Ivory-Silver-Full-Cue-Composite-Small-Watermarked-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"My Samsara Pool Cue\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ebony-Ivory-Silver-Full-Cue-Composite-Small-Watermarked-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ebony-Ivory-Silver-Full-Cue-Composite-Small-Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Clip, clip here, Clip, clip there, We give the roughest claws. That certain air of savoir faire, In the Merry Old Land of Oz!&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, getting this baby back last week was more emotional than I care to admit. I bought it five years ago and played with it for a couple of years. Then, I decided flying with it was too stressful. It sat at MSP unattended in the bottom of my duffel for a few hours when I didn&#8217;t make my connection in ATL. Well, my year of flipping through cues and shafts had taken a toll on my confidence and thus my performance. Now it is refinished, sporting a new wrap, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip #2\/31 for January, 2012. The data has been crunched and verified. First impressions matter. Humans make subconscious decisions within seconds of meeting a new person. Your appearance and the way you carry yourself will affect your opponent. Arriving for an important match looking and feeling like a winner makes a difference. 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