The 290 page Pro Book revolutionized the coaching and development of pool players. Designed for the competitive player, it has four major training sections. The Physical Game: fundamentals, reference training for position shots, safeties, kicks, kick safeties and banks, and performance conditioning and nutrition. The Mental Game: mental training, concentration and the secrets of focus, rituals and routines, playing different game styles, match dynamics, controlling momentum and more. The Emotional Game: motivation, creating and using powerful goals, using the elements of peak performance, scouting and accessing your best game. Putting It Together: how to let go, training vs. performance, designing a 30-day training program, making and using pre-match and competition plans and match reviews. RETAIL - $49.95 - BEBOB SPECIAL - $39.95
This 4-DVD set is based on the reference training section of the Pro Book and is a complete training system for developing and maintaining advanced table skills. The Sweet Sixteen: build and strengthen your skill and open up your “A” game by mastering the 16 root shots and the 14 primary extended shots. The Outer Limits: discover the limits of each shot and pick the right one for each task. Eliminate shot selection doubt by mastering the boundary and extended boundary shots. It's Hammer Time: learn the principles of safety play. Practice the 16 root safeties and kick safeties and win more matches. The Great Escape: learn the strategic kicking zones and stop giving up ball-in-hand, learn the strategic bank shots and the “hard to judge” banks. Get out more often. RETAIL - $134.95 - BEBOB SPECIAL - $107.95
The Advanced Pro Book is intended for the serious pool player and contains advanced strategies and training techniques. It addresses the five major areas: Honing Your Technique, Mastering the Shot Routine, Mastering Advanced Tools, Getting Your Game Out, and Advanced Match Strategy. 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 stay focused under pressure. Learn advanced strategies for the front, mid, and end games and how to take and keep control. Hone your technique to a master’s edge. RETAIL - $49.95 - BEBOB SPECIAL - $39.95
This 4-DVD set is based on the on-the-table training section of The Advanced Pro Book. All shots are demonstrated and explained. Pro Shots: covers aggressive reference training shots. Becoming skilled with these is crucial and understanding the principles behind them will help you lock them into memory. Advanced Safety Play: addresses the important concepts that make for powerful safeties. Pro level safeties and front game situations are demonstrated. Advanced Kicking: is absolutely vital for winning at higher levels and working with the APB kicking maps will bring certainty to your game that is beyond systems. Advanced Banking: working with the APB banking maps will will add powerful tools to your ability to run out and to play safe. RETAIL - $134.95 - BEBOB SPECIAL - $107.95
ONLY FOUR FULL SETS LEFT! This group contains all three of the International Pool Ability DVDs. Level One is designed for beginners and players up through the regional league level and for pool players whose progress has stagnated and who want professional help to eliminate weaknesses. You will learn aiming technique, quality of your stroke, big position playing and more with exercises explained by Huber and Eckert and demonstrated by World Champion, Thorsten Hohmann. They teach an integral way to quickly learn the game and improve your pool skills technically. Posture, Stroke, Speed Drill, Straight Drill, Follow Drill, Draw Drill, Ghost Ball, Small Position Drill 1 & 2, Kiss Shot Tangent, Big Position Drill 1 & 2, Frozen Balls, Frozen Rail Drill 1 & 2, Endless Position Drill, Standard Balls, 9-Ball Situation, and Additional Exercises. 145 Minutes. The Level Two DVD is for intermediate to advanced players and offers a challenging training program to bring your skills to a higher level. It includes advanced drills, exercises and workouts explained by Huber and Eckert and played by Hohmann. They demonstrate an integral way to quickly improve your ability. Speed Drill, Straight Drill, Follow Drill, Draw Drill, Small Position Drills 3 & 4, Big Position Drill 3 & 4, English Part 1, 2, 3 & 4, Frozen Rail Drill 3 & 4, Endless Position Drill, Standard Position Balls, 9-Ball Situation, and more. 160 minutes. Level Three is for expert players and anyone interested in the fine details of world-class technique and comes with a BONUS Audio CD, The Psychology of Pool, and an interview with Thorsten Hohmann. This DVD has advanced drills, exercises, and high-level training games, which you can use to compare your skill levels with others. Each drill is explained by Huber and Eckert and played by Hohmann to show the scores a world champion can produce. It includes: Stroke Straightness, Draw Shot Drill, Small Area Position 5 & 6, Large Area Position 5 & 6, Angle Shot Drill 1, Angle Shot Drill 2, Long Shot Drill 1, Long Shot Drill 2, 9-Ball Situation 3 & 4, Bank Shot Drill, Standard Position Shot Drill, Frozen Rail Drill 5, Frozen Rail Drill 6, Break, Safeties. All Three DVDs contain the prep work and the IPAT test for the corresponding level. ONLY FOUR FULL SETS LEFT!
Once you get past the over-the-top title, you'll see this is a good, all-around book with a lot of good information for pool players. Written by Ron Schneider, it has 227 pages divided into fourteen chapters: The Stroke Builders, The Practice Shots, Safety Play, The Kicking Game, Banking, Combinations, Caroms, The Nine-Ball Break, The Masse Shot, The Jump Shot, Position Play, Specialty Shots, Deflection, Squirt, Cling, Throw and Skid. It includes a CD-ROM e-book that plays in computers and a laminated wallet card with the 10 Winning Rules for Nine-Ball. $34.95 (BDP)
In this DVD, which was formerly entitled Position Play; Buddy shows what he considers to be the most important position shots in pool. He demonstrates each one and shows exactly how to cue and stroke it. He teaches you what can go wrong and how to use each shot consistently. Buddy wraps up this 60 minute video by running three unedited racks, explaining his decisions and emphasizing the key balls to each run out. A very good Accu-Stats production.
ORDER NOW! ONLY TWO LEFT! This is the third video of Bert Kinister’s fantastic 4-disk set. The Star Patterns are a set of drills that will bring your run out rate way up if you do the work. This DVD expands on Using the 6 Pointed Star and needs to be worked successfully before you attempt the material in the final DVD ORDER NOW! ONLY TWO LEFT!
ONLY FIVE LEFT! This DVD is for intermediate to advanced players and offers a challenging training program to bring your basic skills to a higher level. It includes advanced drills, exercises and workouts. All are explained by Huber and Eckert and played by World Champion, Thorsten Hohmann. Based on the training program, they demonstrate an integral way to quickly improve your ability. Speed Drill, Straight Drill, Follow Drill, Draw Drill, Small Position Drills 3 & 4, Big Position Drill 3 & 4, English Part 1, 2, 3 & 4, Frozen Rail Drill 3 & 4, Endless Position Drill, Standard Position Balls, 9-Ball Situation, and more. At 160 minutes. ONLY FIVE LEFT!
This 77 page ring-bound book is written by Ralph Eckert, Jorgen Sandman, and Andreas Huber. As a training workbook, it is used and recommended by The European Pocket Billiard Federation and The World Pool-Billiard Association. It includes the official WPA International Playing Ability Test for advanced to world class players and is far more advanced than the Pool Billiard Workout Level One (IPAT) and considerably more advanced than the Level two. Besides the IPAT Level Three preparation and test, there are sections devoted to Technique Training and Advanced Training Games.
Robert Byrne's Power Pool Workout: Volume 5 – Practice Drills and Training Secrets for the Serious Player. This was the fifth DVD in the Byrne’s series and by far the most powerful! A definite work-out video for your pool game and includes: improving your stroke; shot making secrets; power position play; the winning attitude; precision bank shots; cut shot control; and charting your progress. If you are willing to work at it, this video will improve your game by leaps and bounds! Limited supply. RETAIL $19.95 -BEBOB SPECIAL - $16.95
ONLY A FEW SETS AVAILABLE! In this 3-DVD set, professional player Max Eberle opens up his treasure chest of hard-earned knowledge, including precise body mechanics, timing, and the training that is required to play pool with both consistency and results. There is one thing all great pool players have in common and that is excellent fundamentals. Max's focus throughout this DVD set remains on the Seven Primary Skills and he takes them, and you, to a world class level. Super solid stance, Feet set-up, Body direction, Arm alignment, Distance from cue ball, Stroke freedom, Super stroke, Center ball skill, Pure stroke, Eagle eye aim, Power spot, Mosconi method, Deflection correction, Sudden stop, Fantastic follow, Eye/stroke timing, Motivation and more.
This 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic volume by 3-time World Champion Ray Martin and Rosser Reeves has impacted the games of a lot of pool players. It is one of the best selling instructional pool books and people are still talking about shots that were first revealed in it. Part of this 220 page book is specific to straight pool, but most of it applies to all pool games. This edition is totally revamped with up-to-date photos, a full color cover and over 200 photographs and illustrations.
With almost 750 shots, this 5-DVD set features useful information to get out of trouble, be more creative, and win more games. Basic Shot Making and Position: cut shots, stun shots, follow shots, draw shots, cue ball control, avoiding a scratch, and combination shots. English and Position Control: english effects and aim correction, rail cut shots, cue ball path control and position play shots. Safety Play and Strategy: defensive and offensive safeties, safety replies, ball-in-hand options, rail-first shots and break-out shots. Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots: one-rail kick shots, multiple-rail kick shots, frozen-ball shots, frozen-rail shots and double-kiss shots. Skill and Specialty Shots: power shots, jump shots, masse shots, break shots and pocket point shots.